Sentence examples for collapse damage from inspiring English sources

The maximum increase in the structure's fragility appeared in the CP and Collapse damage modes.

The fragilities for the unrepaired and repaired bridge largely deviate from each other under the extensive and collapse damage states.

The obtained results indicate higher vulnerability for far-fault AS under collapse damage state for severe MS-severe AS.

However, for collapse damage state, the fragilities under far-fault ground motions were slightly higher than those of the near-fault records (e.g. Fig. 13d vs. h).

The drift limits considered for the bridge columns were 0.005, 0.007, 0.015, 0.025 and 0.05 for no damage, minor, moderate, extensive and collapse damage states, respectively.

Open image in new window Fig. 14 Fragility curves for the unrepaired and repaired bridge under severe MS-moderate AS sequence: ensemble 1 records a minor, b moderate, c extensive, and d collapse damage state; ensemble 2 records e minor, f moderate, g extensive, and h collapse damage state.

"It was an old structure with some rot and the collapse damaged part of the roof," Chief DePolo said.

The tower's operation was not required for safe shutdown, but pictures of the collapse damaged Vermont Yankee's image.

Sterling's 2008 collapse damaged growth prospects for its euro zone competitors yet did little to rebalance the UK economy: for all the talk of an export-led recovery, the UK appears now to be embracing yet again a housing led recovery.

Under extensive and collapse damages states far-fault aftershocks appeared more significant compared to near-fault aftershocks for severe MS-severe AS sequence.

The city centre is dominated by old brick buildings, many of which collapsed: damage is conservatively estimated at around NZ$2 billion ($1.4 billion).