Sentence examples for solid and rigid from inspiring English sources

A gel may be notably elastic and jellylike (as gelatin or fruit jelly), or quite solid and rigid (as silica gel, a material that looks like coarse white sand and is used as a dehumidifier).

It has been hypothesized that no degradation could have taken place because of the structure of the plates, since they are solid and rigid, and pores are lacking.

It's true, Switzapore has attracted foreign investors with its solid currency and rigid cleanliness and lured tourists to its high-tech attractions like the 55-story Marina Bay Sands Sky Parkk and splashy Sentosa Island.

Here we extend a multiscale mean-field model to the lubricated contact between a soft (e.g. rubber) elastic solid and a rigid countersurface.

Such solids are hard and rigid and have high melting points because the crystal is like one enormous molecule.

The usual hydrodynamic assumptions -Newtonian, incompressible liquid, no-slip condition and rigid solid- give rise to a complicting singularity at the contact line (where the solid and the fluid-fluid interface meet) that prevents the use of the dynamic contact angle to determine the shape of the dynamic meniscus.

The results of the two experiments are compared to determine the differences between the ice responses and solid (rigid) body responses on the steel plate.

The method works for both deformable and rigid solids and for arbitrary equations of state.

We are interested in rigid and deformable solids modelling some particulate flows in the case of rigid solid and the swimming of slender, neutrally buoyant fish, for the deformable structure (see [1]).

The rest was the rhythm section, steady and solid and loud, new-wave rigid drumming and rugged, rumbling bass.

(a) In an absolutely rigid solid and (b) in an elastic solid skeleton with the elasticity coefficient (lambda=15).