Sentence examples for stiff rail from inspiring English sources

These parameters are for half the railway structure and correspond to a track with concrete sleepers and moderately stiff rail pads.

Three track types are compared using the vibro-acoustic model: an existing slab track with embedded UIC54 rails, a newly designed, acoustically optimized slab track with a less stiff rail embedded in a stiffer elastomere, and, as a reference, a ballasted track.

The stiff rails can puncture cars or small S.U.V.'s, which are constructed more like steel egg cartons.

Liberal friends demand: How can you conservative stiffs rail about family values when some of your own leaders, piously proclaiming their moral superiority, are fooling around like modern Elmer Gantrys?

Ford has not lowered the hood of its Explorer, choosing instead to mount lower in the vehicle the long, stiff "frame rails" that form the vehicle's skeleton.

The stiff steel rails of a pickup-truck underbody remain, but Ford lowered them considerably when it exchanged the Explorer's primitive suspension for a sophisticated car-like one, a change that also improved the braking to car quality.

Ford also made the front ends of the new Explorer's frame rails less stiff, by drilling holes in them so that the rails will crumple slightly during high-speed crashes, absorbing some of the force of an impact.

In another project, Mena has set out to identify the optimal cooling process for making stiff and malleable pieces of rail out of steel.

Noise radiated from the floating slab is significant if the rails were attached with stiff fixation; otherwise, the train noise dominates.

High roughness growth on the rail occurs in situations with stiff vertical structural dynamics of the track.

Many engineering structures ranging from aircrafts, spacecrafts and submarines to civil structures, automobiles, trucks and rail vehicles, require less weight and more stiff and strong materials.