Sentence examples for a rocking block from inspiring English sources

Open image in new window Fig. 1 General behavior of a rocking block under lateral loadings (Housner 1963).

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees threw a "rocking block party" on Monday at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., the National Journal reports.

A rocking block resting on a horizontal rigid foundation and excited by a periodic excitation can topple if the excitation amplitude is sufficiently high.

This chapter discusses the development of a rock block identification algorithm using infinitely large fractures.

The diffusion anisotropy of sedimentary rocks has been evaluated mainly from laboratory diffusion experiments, in which the directional diffusivities are separately estimated by through-diffusion experiments using different rock samples, or concurrently by in-diffusion experiments in which only the tracer profile in a rock block is measured.

a If a rock block is located above a heat source, and the block can be freely deformed, the bottom half of the block will expand due to heating.

Based on DFM, the control function of the shape and distribution characteristics of a rock block on SRM deformation failure was explored by FLAC3D, and the relationship between elastic modulus and rock content was presented (You 2002).

Trees seem to come out of nowhere, and every time a rock blocks the path I bounce painfully over it.

Finally, a parametric analysis of a trapezoidal rocking block has been carried out by changing its geometrical shape.

The proposed probability model is capable of accurately predicting the maximum rotation of a symmetric rocking block given the displacement design spectra, peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, and arias intensity of an earthquake.

We demonstrate that the equation of motion for the entire, planar, post-tensioned frame is equivalent to the dynamics of a single tied rocking block on an elastic foundation.