Sentence examples for tensioning from inspiring English sources

A preload can be applied to the rock surface by tensioning the bolt with an attached hanger or face plate, which are designed to distribute the load uniformly onto the surrounding rock.

But a design flaw makes it uncomfortable (one end sags) as a piece of "tensioning" material anchored into the base keeps coming out.

But controllers noticed that one of the two thin blankets of solar cells making up the panel was not stretched out as tightly as expected, which was later believed to be caused by a pair of tensioning cables coming off their pulleys during the deployment.

By the 16th century, screws were placed around the circumference of copper shells to control tensioning and tuning of the calfskin heads.

Membrane tensioning is by screws that act independently on each head, by metal rods, or, now chiefly in military bands, by rope lacings.

The drum changed most drastically in the 19th century, becoming shallow, and often gaining a brass shell and rod or screw tensioning.

Back in Hollywood, meanwhile, Marlon Brando put his unlikely passion for conga drumming to good use by inventing a device for tensioning drumheads (a sort of drum tuner), which he patented in 2002.

The wound is not likely to kill the tree, but arborists have bridged the cut with metal tensioning rods mounted in heavy steel brackets to keep Luna from being felled by high winds.

"We want to understand the tensioning issues before we deploy the second wing," William Reeves, a mission director, said at a news conference.

The slab is reinforced by internal steel tendons, which were stretched, like piano strings, after the concrete had set, to create a permanent compressive force along the slab's ends, in a technique called post-tensioning.

Post-tensioning is not commonly used as a repair but is now frequently found in new construction of steel-reinforced concrete.