Sentence examples for impermeable materials from inspiring English sources

Under this design approach, buildings are made as watertight as possible through the use of impermeable materials and flood barriers.

The rain run-off flow pattern over some main facade design features of impermeable materials was investigated by conducting simulations over them.

In actual accretionary zones, pore pressure and pore pressure ratios λ ≡ Pp/σV are influenced by sedimentation and compaction rates and the presence of impermeable materials such as clay-rich sediments; hence, they generally deviate from hydrostatic trends.

To give one example, Duvigneaud, in his study of the "Écosystème Urbs" (Duvigneaud and Denaeyer-De Smet 1977) in Brussels, shows how the large quantity of rainwater runoff pouring into sewers is due to "the predominance of stone or other hard and impermeable materials, as against soft and water-permeable soil".1.1

Low drainage density (1.28) of the Jamrar subwatershed is favored of resistant lithology or highly permeable subsoil materials, under dense vegetations while high drainage density (1.49) of the Onri and Sainam subwatershed is favored in regions of weak or impermeable materials with sparse vegetation cover (Strahler 1964).

Earthen canals can be lined with impermeable materials to prevent excessive seepage and growth of weeds (Fig. 78).

Each complete ring consists of eight curving segments bolted together and packed with impermeable material at their seams.

At intervals in the fill, heating and drainage pipes and sensors are laid out, and the filled capsule is capped with impermeable material and soil.

According to general considerations about fluid movements in the magmatic-epithermal environment42, the low-attenuation anomaly could correspond to a self-sealed zone of relatively impermeable material.

In fact, unless impermeable material intervenes, the water table will drop to, rise to, or lie level with a lake surface.

Then, he put on a body suit made of an impermeable material, two pairs of gloves, a face mask, an impermeable hood that covered his neck and -- finally -- goggles.