Sentence examples for ground failure from inspiring English sources
noun
An effect of seismic activity, such as an earthquake, where the ground becomes very soft, due to the shaking, and acts like a liquid, causing landslides, spreading, and settling.
Although challenging to estimate, ground failure indices and experience can be used to estimate roughly ejecta-induced building settlement.
What is the term that describes ground failure or loss of soil strength that causes solid soil to behave like a liquid?
The tunnel industry has considered that tunnels, especially tunnels in rock, are naturally resistant to earthquake action, including faulting, shaking, deflection and ground failure.
The geologic structures documented in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah coal mines were commonly associated with major instances of ground failure.
Woodward is reported as saying that speeds as high as those planned by HS2 could cause "rapid deterioration of the track, ballast and sub-ballast, including possible derailment and ground failure".
In this paper, a disastrous ground failure of such kind occurred during the Beijing subway Line 10 construction is presented, in which a sinkhole about 20 m long, 14 m wide and 12 m deep formed.
On the other hand, the burial depth ratio (H/D) and pipe diameter influence peak pipe strain, and in some cases, the ground soil failure pattern.
Liquefaction induced ground failures during seismic events have been of major concern to the engineering community.
Soil liquefaction and associated ground failures have been a major source of damage during the past earthquakes.
Since the limited number of liquefaction-induced ground failures occurred in rural areas, they did not cause any structural damage.
Although the earthquake caused rock falls and several landslides, and limited number of liquefaction-induced ground failures, no evident surface rupture occurred.
