Sentence examples for collapse and damage from inspiring English sources

Most injuries and loss of life were due to building collapse and damage.

However, lots of life was lost because of the collapse and damage of the buildings.

The same procedure can be used as the basis of a statistical extrapolation aimed at evaluating the probability distributions of collapse and damage among monumental buildings that are similar with regard to both the macroelement typologies and the logical diagram.

The field investigations, observations, and analyses indicated that large number of casualties and tremendous economic losses were caused not only by collapse and damage of houses with poor seismic performance, landslides, liquefaction and seismic subsidence, but also amplification effects of thickness and topography of loess deposit on seismic ground motion.

This paper accepts these simplifying assumptions, and shows how assuming appropriate probabilistic properties of the relevant quantities and a "logical diagram" describing the relation between collapse of macroelements and whole building the probability of collapse and damage of each macroelement and of the whole building under given horizontal loads can be assessed.

Through the investigation, we summarized the reasons of the building collapse and damages in Fig. 29.

Fig. 29 Three main patterns caused the building collapse and damages in 2015.4.25 Gorkha earthquake.

The application of the proposed method, compared with the real cases examined, leads to accurate fatigue life prediction; moreover, it gives a complete picture of the stress state and damage of the structures, furnishing useful information on the structural behavior and a key for the interpretation of collapses and damage causes.

The results highlight that land-use decisions, in particular urban planning and management that occurred in the 1960s and 1980s, along with design flaws in the flood defence infrastructure, in particular the rip-rap and reins built after the 1993 event, were responsible for the many collapses and damage suffered during the flood of 2000.

Evidence of mechanical resistance loss in this sample can also be observed in Figure 9b, where the cell walls appear collapsed and damaged.

The three kinases are activated by different kinds of DNA damage, with ATR and CHEK1 responding primarily to single-stranded breaks, replication fork collapse and ultraviolet damage, and CHEK2 responding primarily to double-stranded breaks (34).