Sentence examples for floating roof from inspiring English sources

But the overall shape retains the clamshell hood and floating roof, created by darkened pillars, that makes the vehicle seem even longer.

They are connected by the glazed living area, with glass walls on two sides, which has a floating roof with deep overhangs and sun-shading devices.

The building, for which Kutnicki Bernstein is the production architect, integrates iron-spot brick and stainless steel mesh with limestone and features such contemporary design details as a floating roof plane.

The basic characteristics of full surface fires of large scale floating roof tanks are briefed.

Of particular note is the floating roof effect, achieved by blacking out the pillars that connect the roof structure to the body sides.

Recently, Ruiz et al. (2016) proposed a tuned liquid damper with floating roof (TLD-FR) having a relatively simple, easy-to-model behaviour with high effectiveness in reducing the structural vibrations by introducing a floating roof in it, which prevents the water breaking.

Tanks with floating roofs reduce the evaporative losses in storage of gasolines and other volatile products, including crude oils.

According to Cory Buckner, an architect who owns two of the houses and is helping to organize the tour, only about 30 retain their original elements: glass walls, open floor plans and low, "floating" roofs, above left.

The formulations of loads and deformations are derived according to the equilibrium analysis of floating roofs.

Gases at or near atmospheric pressure are stored in gas holders with floating roofs and are sealed with a liquid in a double wall built onto the holder.

This paper proposes a load-modifying method for the stress and deflection analyses of floating roofs used in cylindrical oil storage tanks.