Sentence examples for system of rigid from inspiring English sources

Stops, keys and foot pedals use an ingenious system of rigid oak and limewood strips, called "trackers," connected at right angles to hand-forged iron joints.

I.B.M. had a system of rigid yearly performance reviews, which Mr. Backus deemed ill-suited for his programmers, so he ignored it.

Coarse-grained models of molecular structures are constructed by combining groups of atoms into a system of rigid bodies connected by joints.

New Zealand has dismantled the system of rigid hierarchies and pay-grades that spawned the likes of the phlegmatic Sir Humphrey in the BBC comedy "Yes Minister".

The student, who requested anonymity, said he worries that many people on the mainland are too unruly for an immediate transition to Taiwan-style democracy, but he still thinks that the current system of rigid one-party rule has to change.

Utilizing a factorial structural system of rigid frames and being informed by the urban regulating lines, the design slowly adapts to lines traced by the banks of the creek and cliffs of the gorge, also letting the creek's water come into the building.

We study plane problems on the interaction of surface nonuniformageing viscoelastic bases with regular finite systems of rigid flat punches.

In this formulation, the system consists of rigid blocks whose lengths and locations are fixed by the structure within each macromolecule.

The design was "printed as a single, multi-functional material system, composed of rigid materials combined with nano-enhanced, elastomeric structures".

The FRW is modeled as a simplified system of three rigid bodies: a rotary base with two flapping wings.

This paper deals with the non-linear dynamics of an articulated system of two rigid cylinders interconnected by rotational springs, within a pipe conveying fluid, with fluid flowing downward in the relatively narrow annular space.