The phrase "a function of ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to physics, engineering, or environmental science, where it refers to the role or purpose of the ground in a specific situation or system.
Example: "The stability of the structure is a function of ground conditions, which must be thoroughly assessed before construction begins."
Alternatives: "a role of the ground" or "a purpose of the ground".
Fragility curves are useful tools for showing the probability of structural damage due to earthquakes as a function of ground motion indices.
Simple expressions are derived to calculate global temperature change as a function of ground reflectance and conversion efficiency for various types of fossil fuelled and renewable energy power plants.
Inundation frequency and water table salinity are both largely a function of ground surface elevation, and the dependence of water table salinity on the ground surface elevation can be quantified with an exponential function.
In the paper, limit analysis was employed to derive a semi-analytical method for uniform c−ϕ slopes that provides the amount of reinforcement needed as a function of ground cohesion, tensile strength, angle of shearing resistance and of the slope inclination.
The procedure is applied to two-story, single-family residential structures to estimate losses as a function of ground motion intensity and building design, and the results are discussed to illustrate how they can be used to help: (1) characterize estimated losses, (2) define performance objectives, and (3) guide design to meet those performance objectives.
This assumption requires good platform motion compensation and good control of the PRF as a function of ground speed.
Furthermore, the fraction of atrazine plus DEA that was present as DEA did not increase as a function of ground-water age.
Spatial allocation of fishing intensity is a function of ground-specific variations in the: (a) quasi-rent, (b) risk of fishing, and (c) distances from different ports.
Growth is partitioned above- and below-ground as a function of soil fertility and to a lesser extent, soil water deficit (Landsberg and Waring [1997]).
The fragility curves in this study are represented by lognormal distribution functions with two parameters and developed as a function of peak ground acceleration (PGA), spectral acceleration (Sa), spectral displacement (Sd).
The number of upper story impacts for the fixed base and the base isolated structure configurations and the effect of friction varying base isolation on the number of building impacts is shown through example to be a function of earthquake ground motion specifics.
