Sentence examples for cause settlement from inspiring English sources

Plug flow has the advantage of discouraging the excessive growth of filamentous organisms which can cause settlement problems in the secondary settlement tank (EPA 1997).

In this condition the liquefaction may cause settlement in the ground, deformation in the tunnel shield, buoyancy in the underground buildings, reduction in bearing capacity and increases in lateral spread and pore pressures.

The higher daily heave is attributed to the relative ease of downward seepage compared to the more energy intensive evaporation process causing settlement (van de Griend and Owe [1994]).

Climate deterioration at around the time of the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition has for long been argued to have resulted in upland abandonment in northern and western Britain, and recent research has provided evidence that a major climate downturn from 850 cal BC caused settlement abandonment in western Europe and potentially worldwide.

In preparing to build a multi-agency transit center for rail and bus, the tower builders maintain, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority has lowered the underground water table beneath the tower, causing settlement.

In preparing to build a multiagency transit center for rail and bus, the tower builders maintain, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority has lowered the underground water table beneath the tower, causing settlement.

The amplified shaking may cause intensive settlement at the infill and cause non-homogeneous deformation at the foundation.

But in the process of conventional gas drilling, it tends to cause cutting settlement, borehole collapse, sticking and other safety hazards because gas circulation has to be interrupted.

The soil is easier to reach the failure state due to the additional shear force and the generation of the excess pore water pressure triggered by the earthquake excitation and cause large settlement and deformation.

The design of overhead line tower or substation gantry structure foundations must be such that it safely sustains and transmits to the ground the combined dead load, imposed load, and wind load in such a manner as not to cause any settlement or movement which would impair the stability of the structure or cause damage.

The design of overhead line tower or substation gantry structure foundations must be such as to safely sustain and transmit to the ground the combined dead load, imposed load, and wind load in such a manner as not to cause any settlement or movement, which would impair the stability of the structure or cause damage.