Sentence examples for ground loads from inspiring English sources

Unsurprisingly, short boreholes and unbalanced yearly ground loads lead to stronger axial effects.

Alternatively, it is possible to place concrete-lined service and cable trenches in this material, sometimes conveniently by the use of precast sections, because the ground loads imposed are seldom sufficient to give rise to serious settlement problems.

This work was conducted to provide an understanding of the leakage behavior of gasketed segmental tunnel linings subjected to static ground loads and earthquake shaking of the recommended design of the Los Angeles (LA) Metro.

Among the topics discussed are: wind tunnel testing, structural analyses of the boom, metallurgy of failed parts from a critical king-pin assembly, and soils engineering work related to ground loads and displacements during the lift.

The study is devoted to the comparison between the predicted fluid temperature values by the DST and MLAA models, with special attention to the influence of the BHE geometry (matrix like vs in line configurations) and to the shape of the yearly hourly load profiles (balanced vs unbalanced ground loads).

But in actual case combined action of vertical and horizontal ground loads can occur in many situations for a pile.

As the ground load increases, the maximum stress increases, and the high stress area extends.

Under most conditions, tunneling causes a transfer of the ground load by arching to sides of the opening, termed the ground-arch effect (Figure 1, top).

At the station, Rooz found wounded officers lying on the ground, loaded them into his car and took off for the provincial hospital.

Peatland is boggy, waterlogged ground, loaded with layers of decomposing plants that can't get enough oxygen to support the microorganisms that would normally break them down.

Current design practice in North America and Europe is to calculate the roof snow load as the product of a ground load and a dimensionless ground-to-roof conversion factor.