Sentence examples for core of a shaft from inspiring English sources

The results of the lab tests showed that void flaws that penetrate the concrete core of a shaft are more critical than those that are located within the concrete cover.

Inside, a modern floor plan divides the higher levels, with stairs winding around the core of a glass elevator shaft to allow more light to filter through from a large skylight and to create a window-walled three-floor-high living room.

"Once we made these openings for the windows," Mr. Cook said, "we needed to replace the structural integrity that the exterior wall provided by developing a new central core -- a shaft of concrete walls around new elevators and stairs in the center of the building to provide new structural wind resistance".

The octagonal wood-frame tower, perched over a 120-foot underground shaft, was the core of a generating system designed to use the earth and the upper reaches of the atmosphere as conductors of electrical impulses that would reach around the globe.

Mac OS X users have always gotten a bit of a shaft on decent Bit Torrent clients.

The co-axial tensioner shaft has a dual structure made up of a core shaft which passes through the center of the input axis pulley, and an outer shaft which covers the lower half.

This roller consists of a core shaft, outer rings and piezo-magnetic sensors.

On the right side of the door is a shaft of light.

Three subtrochanteric oblique fractures occurred from the core to the shaft as a result of a fall.

A shaft of moonlight crossed the hood of the car.

The MIU consists of a main shaft 6.5 m in diameter and a ventilation shaft 4.5 m in diameter.