Sentence examples for force of the dam from inspiring English sources

Two forces acting on a dam during an earthquake are the seismic inertial force of the dam itself and water pressure.

Sediment's damming-of-the-dam potential means most dams have finite life spans.

In these, the impulsive force was balanced by the friction force of the Sabo dam and the opposite force of the load cell behind the dam as it was hit by the debris flow.

U.S. air support there last month helped Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces retake control of the dam, which is still under attack.

The force of the rain burst dams on Seneca and Tomahawk Lakes, both of which drained into mud flats.

U.S. air support there last month helped Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces take back control of the dam, which is still under attack.

Once the first of these are forced shut, the dam will break and the American fleet of 104 licensed reactors will rapidly shrink, along with others around the world.

The completion of the dam forced more than 1.2 million people out of their home, triggered 3,400 earthquakes and many landslides.

For an occupying force, the dam, twenty-five miles north of Mosul, was an appealing target: it regulates the flow of water to the city, and to millions of Iraqis who live along the Tigris.

This tool allowed a set of hydrographs to be obtained as an approximation for the hydrological forcing of a dam and the characterisation of the response of the dam to this forcing.

Boosted by Monday's recapture of the dam, Iraqi forces launched an assault on Tikrit, 80 miles (130km) north of Baghdad, with helicopter gunships and mortar and artillery fire.