Sentence examples for concrete capable from inspiring English sources

The garden is made possible by thick highway slabs of reinforced concrete, capable of supporting three feet of soil.

It is the only concrete capable of sustaining a structure with such sweeping curves and tight angles.

The effective use of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers in engineered cementitious composites (ECC) enables one to design a durable concrete capable of withstanding large deformations from heavy loading and temperature variations such as freezing and thawing.

Tailoring a new generation of concretes, capable of maintaining acceptable mechanical properties with a reduced ecological impact, is therefore the big challenge that construction industry has to face.

Strangely, and comically, a concrete bunker capable of withstanding a direct hit from anything the Germans could throw at it was built for Churchill's use, and that of his wartime government.

Moreover, EPS foamed concrete is capable of retaining the load after ultimate stress and has a high energy absorption capacity under compressive load.

With the support of the experimental program, cohesion and friction angle for GFRP concrete interfaces were found leading to different envelope failure laws, based on the Mohr Coulomb failure criterion for each concrete class, capable of predicting GFRP debonding.

The technology of cement composites modified with anionic bitumen emulsion was successfully tested under real operating conditions with the creation of a concrete pavement capable of bearing high mechanical pressure in a corrosive environment.

This study considered the case of urban-use pesticides, and demonstrated for the first time that surfaces such as concrete were capable of converting pesticides to other biologically active intermediates.

Thus, while "The most concrete fact capable of separate discrimination is the event" (1920, 189), for Whitehead objects, unlike events, "do not pass" (1920, 143).

The coal storage area was a large concrete box capable of holding 75,000 tonnes of coal.