Sentence examples for drift angle from inspiring English sources

The amount by which the ship heads inside the instantaneous direction of motion is the drift angle.

This is because a large part of the inward hydrodynamic force is generated by the drift angle on the fairwater.

Such positioning causes the ship to turn with a smaller drift angle and hence a larger turning radius.

The maximum story drift angle and response of the top floor displacement are discussed.

Stable behavior was observed up to a story drift angle of 1/10.

However, severe instability and damage were observed up to the maximum storey drift angle.

This may also cause movement to the base rotation and stacking up drift angles.

Structural behavior is evaluated from story drift angles obtained through nonlinear time history analyses.

All the specimens showed satisfactory deformability and ductility, developing storey drift angles of > 0.07 rad before initial fractures.

A set of systematic computations with varying water depths and drift angles are then carried out to study the viscous flow around the model drifting in shallow water.

The maximum interstory drift angles against seismic motions of three levels are considered as hard targets that should be strictly constrained in the optimization problem.