The appropriate formulas for single-layer and laminated cylindrical shells on the Pasternak type elastic foundation made of orthotropic and isotropic materials are found as special cases.
The "original family home was in Chailpuri, in the narrow lanes of the Old City," its foundation made of "sturdy stones 'borrowed' from the walls of Ferozshah Kotla, the 14th-century fortress and palace of a 14th-century emperor in a 14th-century Delhi".
Her house was very large, and, like virtually all the houses closest to the ocean, it stood on what looked like a grove of buried telephone poles: a foundation made of wooden piles, whose purpose is to allow storm surges to pass under the habitable spaces.
In one case, the soil is like pudding - and can't support the building without the addition of an expensive stabilizing foundation made of "helical screws". I know: the owner, staring at the unexpected invoice, thinks the building is not the only one getting helically screwed.
Religious foundations made extensive use of the narrative scroll format to honour sect anniversaries or histories and to document the biographies of founders and other major personalities.
The difference its foundation made to the lives of working people was phenomenal.
Two family foundations made a joint gift of $2,500,000 to name and endow the chair in the Department of Biostatistics.
Jed Emerson, one of the long-time advocates and thought-leaders of the movement towards Mission-Related Investing (MRI), notes that less than 15% of foundations use social or other screens on their investments, and "an even smaller number of foundations make use of program related investments or other strategies in attempts to leverage the long-term value of their philanthropic capital".
