Sentence examples for at the serviceability from inspiring English sources

The behavior at the serviceability stage was significantly improved by the prestressed Fe-SMA bars.

The paper presents a methodology for the probabilistic assessment of masonry arches at the serviceability and Ultimate Limit States.

The concrete steel bond dictates the behaviour of reinforced concrete at the serviceability and ultimate limit states.

This paper presents a simplified beam design method for semi-rigid composite frames with vertical loading at the serviceability limit state.

The study focuses on the design, manufacturing, structural improvements and behavior of the floor systems during loading at the serviceability and ultimate limit states.

Analytical prediction methods for axial stresses and deflections at the serviceability limit state and for ultimate failure loads are proposed for hybrid bridge girders consisting of FRP bridge decks adhesively bonded to steel girders.

However, previous studies showed that seat-type abutments can reduce effectively the seismic actions of bridges, especially when the openings at the expansion joints accommodate only the serviceability movements of the deck.

The unified factor can be applied to achieve the ultimate limit state requirement, and at the same time it automatically achieves the serviceability requirement.

Therefore, the serviceability ratio, R sv, should be at least 0.75 (Eq. 5).

The serviceability limit state is usually defined at a concrete compression strain of 0.004 or steel tension strain of 0.015 (whichever occurs first) as suggested by Priestley et al. (2007).

The predicted wall deformation at the allowable bearing pressure of 200 kPa was within the serviceability level demonstrating an excellent load carrying capacity of the GR-SRW.