Plating

The police vehicle's armor plating saved the lives of its occupants.

Ratliff is experimenting with new modeling techniques such as copper plating, which has always been a problem in the museum community since the copper plates fall off as time passes.

The chefs prepared the feast, plating dishes meticulously in the busy kitchen.

Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.

The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!