Sentence examples for rigid to support from inspiring English sources

The Veyron's four turbochargers and intercoolers were enlarged and the chassis made more rigid to support the power bump over the rather pedestrian 1,001-horsepower 1,001-horsepower

At the microscopic scale, the scaffold must be sufficiently rigid to support cell adhesion, spreading, and normal extracellular matrix deposition.

This structure should be flexible to absorb thermal shrink of the magnet and should also be rigid to support the magnet weight and the plasma disruption load.

The shaft has two competing design constraints; it must be rigid to support the joint, whilst being flexible enough to allow a sufficient range of motion to achieve efficient locomotion [49].

Although there have been some reports of hard palate mucosal grafts for reconstruction of the posterior lamella, the graft is not sufficiently rigid to support the reconstructed eyelid without the aid of supporting materials such as cartilage grafts.

The seismic behavior of the TB is affected by the large dimensions of the building, the concrete basemat thickness that has to be sufficiently rigid to support the weight of the Tokamak, the presence of anti-seismic bearing (ASB) under the basemat, and the distribution of heavy equipment at higher levels.

Most noticeable are the concrete-clad steel trusses, massive and rigid enough to support more than 42,000 tons, taking shape on the 22nd and 23rd floors of the south tower (starting 314 feet above the street) and the 17th floor of the north tower (starting 248 feet above the street).

Early attempts at a surgical approach involved the placement of rigid devices to support the natural process of erection formation.

The hard palate mucoperiosteal graft seems to be rigid enough to support the reconstructed eyelid without the use of cartilage or other supporting materials.

First, antibodies with their robust immunoglobulin domain architecture provide a rigid scaffold to support six hypervariable loops, capable of forming highly diverse binding sites.

Various writers appeal to rigid designation to support views about the essences not only of kinds from chemistry or biology but also kinds from philosophical subdisciplines apparently far removed from empirical science: ethics and aesthetics, for example (see, e.g., Carney 1982; Gampel 1997; Leddy 1987).