Sentence examples for failed pillars from inspiring English sources

Pillars were found to have been successful in providing support to the overburden, but a small number of individual failed pillars were observed.

In this research, the reliability of case histories from stable and failed pillars of South Africa presented by Merwe and Mathey is examed.

A method of estimating the pillar strength and selecting a safety factor for design was developed based on observations of stable and failed pillars, supplemented by numerical models.

It is concluded that stable pillar cases have a reliability value greater than 0.83 while the reliability value of failed pillar cases are slightly larger than 0.50.

The reliability analysis also confirms that M-M strength formula has a better distinction between the stable and failed pillar cases.

With the narrow pillar, the openings show the less stability and the pillars fail much severer than the wide pillar case.

Compared with Fig. 10, the narrow pillar in Fig. 12 shows less stability and the pillars fail much more severely in square openings.

Brahma flew to the skies to try to find the top of the pillar, but failed.

At around 06:00 the last operational medium bomber, a Fokker T. V, dropped two bombs on the bridge; one hit a bridge pillar but failed to explode; the bomber was shot down.

However, Sir Mervyn of course was one pillar of the failed Tripartite system of overseeing the banks and the City in the run-up to 2008.

Japan's tsunami seems to have succeeded — where years of boycotts, protests and high-seas chases by Western environmentalists had failed — in knocking out a pillar of the nation's whaling industry.