Sentence examples for firm soil from inspiring English sources

The foundation should therefore be constructed on firm soil to maintain a structure that settles uniformly under vertical loading.

Stuck between river and swamp, where firm soil was rare, they tried building with cotton, too, but it caught fire easily and had to be dug out again.

These methods include mini-pile application proceeding as far as the firm soil (rock) in order to prevent the soil displacement.

In total 300 different earthquake motions recorded on firm soil condition with magnitudes greater than 5 and peak ground acceleration (PGA) values greater than 0.08 g were selected.

In practice, however, the incompressible layer such as bedrock or a firm soil layer is often inclined with a dip and a strike.

The battle between these two shaping forces between the axman assaulting the old growth and the still firm soil and deep roots that support the tree of liberty will now shape the future of us all.

Unidirectional and bidirectional actions of selected ground motions typical of firm soils of the Mexican Pacific Coast were used in the study.

The dynamic response of a series of base isolated systems subjected to ground motions that were recorded in firm soils of the Mexican Pacific Coast was estimated in order to evaluate the influence of the structural properties of these systems in their floor acceleration demands.

Far-field ground motions of 6.1 7.5 magnitudes at distances 50 115 km from the site and recorded on soft or firm soils are the first group of records.

The second group involves near-field ground motions of 6.6 and 7.6 magnitude recorded at distances 0.24 11 km from the site and on soft or firm soils.

Others dig shells from the firmer soil near Rhizophora roots.