Sentence examples for set under tension from inspiring English sources

Finally, prestressed concrete provides bearing members into which reinforcement is set under tension to produce a live force to resist a particular load.

This was done by modeling the cell cluster as a thin, homogeneous, and elastic plate that is set under tension by the traction stress at the cell substrate interface.

Tables were set under a long tent.

Type and magnitude of such effects depend on certain parameters, e.g. choice and order of exercise, intensity, number and length of sets, time under tension and rest length period [ 20, 21].

Set the thread tension low.

In one picture frame test the fabric is deliberately misaligned with respect to the sides of the frame so that, during subsequent deformation, one set of tows is under tension, while the other is compressed.

They set up contrasts, tensions, paradoxes.

Listen to Under My Thumb from 1966, for example, and hear how Watts's terse beats set up the tensions behind Jagger's cruel lyrics.

That was more and more a set of contradictions and set of political tensions".

After the incubation (control or DMSO), tissue strips were then isolated and set up under 1 g resting tension in organ baths containing Krebs-bicarbonate solution at 37°C to allow for the examination of tissue responses.

To investigate the effects of DMSO on nerve mediated responses, detrusor strips denuded of urothelium and lamina propria (tissues (ii)) were set up under 1 g resting tension in organ baths and electrically field stimulated via silver electrodes placed either side of the tissue.