Sentence examples for stiffening to from inspiring English sources

Amundsen wrote, "As the weather was still very hazy and the gale was stiffening to a hurricane, we sought shelter in the lee of some ground ice close by, and made fast to it".

The initial setting time is the interval between the mixing of the cement with water and the time when the mix has lost plasticity, stiffening to a certain degree.

Bischoff and Paixao (2004) and Bischoff (2005, 2007) used the concept of tension stiffening to determine the effective moment of inertia of concrete sections.

Namely, a decrease in protein content drastically affected the mechanical response of the networks to compression by shifting the onset of stiffening to higher degrees of compression.

These guidelines can be applied to other types of mechanically unstable structures in need of stiffening to increase their resistance to deformation and improve critical performance characteristics.

The experimental section shows that the compressive response of tensegrity prisms switches from stiffening to softening under large displacements, in dependence on the current values of suitable geometric and prestress variables.

The Super Sport's suspension has also been fortified and stiffened to handle the additional power.

(One might be made of ice cream; another stiffens to marzipan).

Suddenly a stir ran through the hall, and all stiffened to immobility.

Minutes later, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani arrived and the lines stiffened to attention.

After Green Bay drove the length of the field, the Vikings stiffened to force a field goal.