Many engineering structures may have structural defects such as cracks due to long-term service.
Skew fibre reinforced composite laminates are important structural elements in modern engineering structures, particularly in the aerospace industry.
The use of flexible adhesives in engineering structures allows displacement between joints and can avoid structural failure.
Structural uncertainties greatly influence the dynamic responses of engineering structures.
The noughties were also underpinned by a revival of engineering structures, many of which involved architects.
Engineering structures tend to appear unexpectedly, because incongruously, in gardens and landscapes.
Of particular concern in engineering structures is the prevention of sudden, complete failure, as in the fracture of a brittle material.
Structural integrants of garden and landscape include structures closely related to the earth, enclosure structures, shelter structures, engineering structures, and special buildings.
Metals are used in engineering structures (e.g., automobiles, bridges, pressure vessels) because, in contrast to glass or ceramic, they can undergo appreciable plastic deformation before breaking.
Even with relatively simple systems such as engineering structures, it is all too easy to overlook the possibility of symmetry breaking leading to calamitous failure.
Shelter structures, engineering structures, and special buildings are important in garden and landscape because they introduce precise geometric forms intermediate in scale between main buildings and landscape.
