Spread foundations may be either of the spread footing (made with wide bases placed directly beneath the load-bearing beams or walls), mat (consisting of slabs, usually of reinforced concrete, which underlie the entire area of a building), or floating types.
When I asked for a different size in a heavy wool, burgundy-flecked sweater ($380) that looked like muesli, the clerk brought me the right size, in the wrong gender, deducible only after careful inspection in the makeshift dressing room, consisting of slabs of plywood thrown together at the back of the store, under the lofted office space, with the back wall missing.
And many neighborhoods consist of slab-like concrete apartment blocks, where the predominant language is often Turkish or Russian.
The design gravity loads on each floor consist of slab self-weight plus 1.44 kN/m2 superimposed dead load and 2.39 kN/m2 live load.
The model structure consists of two slabs in contact: one of Si with a diamond structure, and one of Ag.
The modeled section consists of three slabs with a transverse joint width of 6.4 mm (0.25 in) supported by a 254 cm (100 in) thick subgrade layer as shown in Fig. 8.
The structure consists of tobermorite slabs that have staggered silicate chains, no interlayer Ca atoms, and a layer spacing of 13.3 Å.
The building consists of a slab-shaped tower, which contains the firm's offices, atop a much bulkier base, which contains six trading floors, each big enough to house nearly a thousand employees.
The hybrid phononic crystal consists of rubber slab with periodic holes and plumbum stubs.
