Sentence examples for collapse situation from inspiring English sources

Removed middle column represents column removal scenario, which in turn indicates progressive collapse situation.

It is convenient to consider the classical axial collapse situation (noted as free-ends) as a comparison reference.

To this purpose, a performance based approach is followed considering several limit states such as IO (Immediate Occupancy based on a limitation of the interstorey drifts), LS (Life Safety with yielding of the link, restoration possibilities of the links and limitation of the damages in the RC wall) and CP (near collapse situation with possible significant damages in the RC wall).

In this study, three different 1/3rd scaled precast specimens with different wet connections are constructed and tested to study the behavior of wet connection during progressive collapse situations.

Ihaddadene and Djeraba [34] detect collapsing situations in a crowd scene based on a measure describing the degree of organization or cluttering of the optical flow vectors in the frame.

Had Bank of America canceled the deal, Merrill would have collapsed, a situation the government was eager to avoid after the collapse of Lehman Brothers roiled the markets and led to the most severe banking crisis in decades.

Barry Knapp,   chief United States equity strategist at Barclays and a 19-year veteran of Lehman who was there the weekend before the collapse, added, the situation "is not yet on the order of magnitude of Lehman.

"It was a collapse but the situation was morally very clear, really quite black and white.

Progressive collapse is a situation where local failure of a primary structural component leads to the collapse of adjoining members, which in turn leads to spread of collapse.

The results from the transport model showed the future collapse by overflowed situation on the street network and found the way to start with preparing the new Carrying System of Integrated Public Transport using the multi-modality of rail tracks in the agglomeration of Bratislava.

"We're close to collapsing if this situation continues.