Sentence examples for soft impact from inspiring English sources

Rammed earth, an ancient building material, sounds violent, but has a relatively soft impact on the planet.

The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is confirmed numerically for the case of a periodically excited, soft impact oscillator.

Unlike the study on HSC that used soft impact only, this study on NSC used both soft and hard impact.

The film thickness only had an influence when the film was tested separately (without glass substrate) or in case of a soft impact of glass.

Results from the tests and simulations showed the existence of a size effect in NSC cylinders under both, hard and soft, impact loading.

Meanwhile, for soft/hard and hard/soft cases, the specific aspect of shear instability, which has a very high heat-up rate, is always observed on the relatively soft impact counterpart where a thin molten layer is expected as well.

Soft impacting mechanical systems where the impacting surface is cushioned with a spring damper support are common in engineering.

Based on an energy balance, it aims to predict a perforation limit for different targets under soft impacts.

In this paper, the aim is to improve design by determining deformation and damage mechanisms of laminated glass windows when subjected to high velocity soft impacts.

At the start, one man plops his right hand on to his left wrist, swings it up on to his shoulder, then lobs it on to his head – the soft impacts are all audible in the silence.

This article provides an overview of the literature dealing with three types of soft impacts of concern for the aerospace applications, namely impacts of rain drops, hailstones and birds against aircraft.