Sentence examples for caused collapse from inspiring English sources

But determining the force and energy of impact is the starting point for any effort to understand what failures within the buildings eventually caused collapse, said Dr. Shyam Sunder, chief of the structures division at the building and fire research lab of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Originating in Sikkim Nepal border with an intensity of VI+ in MSK scale, this earthquake caused collapse of both unreinforced masonry buildings, heritage structures and framed structures followed by landslides and mud slides at various places of Sikkim.

In November 1991, a submarine landslide occurred during the preliminary pile sinking process of the 200,000 ton-scale crude oil terminal project of China Sinopec at Aoshan, Xingzhong, having caused collapse of many pile foundations and generated a 2-3 m tsunami (Hu and Ye [2006]).

This supernova source may also have caused collapse of the solar gas cloud.

Because a conscious observer was required to complete the measurement, Bohr and colleagues proposed that consciousness caused collapse of the quantum wave function.

The fortunes of Kokomo are linked to the fate of manufacturing and the automotive industry, so the Wall Street caused collapse of 2008 brutalized the local economy, so much so that Forbes featured it as one of "America's Fastest-Dying Towns".

Aftershocks have the potential to cause collapse of a structure that has been already damaged by the preceding main shock.

The venom of the black mamba is highly toxic; potentially causing collapse in humans within 45 minutes, or less.

The bite of a black mamba can potentially cause collapse in humans within 45 minutes, or less.

Increased temperatures of up to 4°C did not cause collapse of respiratory performance in damselfish at either location (Figs. 3 4).

High FiO2 will more easily cause collapse (atelectasis) of the low V ˙ A / Q ˙ regions.