The concept of equivalent basic wind speed is used to conduct the fragility analysis of transmission tower subjected to wind and rain loads which avoid the complex formula of rain load and the choice of different combinations of basic wind speed and rain intensity, and then the concept of critical collapse curve is proposed to evaluate the collapse status of transmission tower.
In this study, it can be seen that the use of equivalent basic wind speed make it possible to conduct the fragility analysis under wind and rain loads and the proposed concept of critical collapse curve is very convenient to evaluate the collapse status for structures subjected to wind and rain loads.
In this paper, the fragility analysis and concept of critical collapse curve for transmission tower subjected to wind and rain loads are presented to acquire the collapse equivalent basic wind speed and most unfavorable combinations of wind and rain loads corresponding to collapse status.
Like many social phenomena in Japan, the collapsing status of the corporate warrior has generated its own vocabulary.
Conscious of his collapsing status in a world that values only youth, money and beauty, Lenny's death-haunted anxieties are beautifully drawn, with the wit of Woody Allen on a very good day: Did you know that each peaceful, natural death at age 81 is a tragedy without compare?
ANNES, England — After nearly three years of dishonor and melodrama — a stunning collapse of status, popularity and earning power; a turn as a tabloid luminary; a stint in rehabilitation; a glassy-eyed public apology; leg operations; a divorce; a swing change; and the firing of his coach and his caddie — Tiger Woods can again be the world's top golfer with a victory at this week's British Open.
The Draconian draft legislation is a sign of the deep sense of threat felt by King Abdullah and the Saudi royal family because of the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement, the emergence of a Shia Iraq in the aftermath of the US invasion, and the collapse of the status quo across the Arab world.
This guarded irreverence, declaring the collapse of the status quo, runs through each of the adaptations of Mr. Ellis's books, "Less Than Zero," "American Psycho," "The Rules of Attraction" and "The Informers" — a series of films that, though they have different screenwriters and directors, form a genre unto themselves.
In the short run, though, the collapse of the status quo is going to produce some angry quarrels.When these endanger genuine western interests—a free market in oil, safe traffic in the air and on the sea, the security of decent allies the West must be ready to defend those interests.
Worst decade: The Republican Party, from Karl Rove's pronouncement of a "permanent majority" to total collapse and minority status.
When they arrived in Brent, the Desais' social status collapsed.
