Sentence examples for lateral drift from inspiring English sources

The radar tracks also demonstrated that most of the recruits compensated accurately for lateral drift caused by the wind, even though they were flying to destinations that they had never visited.

Finally, in places where the tide range is of consequence, special mooring arrangements are necessary to restrain excessive lateral drift of the dock as the mooring chains become slack on low water.

This lateral drift enables charge sharing independent of the incident position of the traversing particle.

The as-built joints experienced shear failure within the joint core at early lateral drift.

The results demonstrate that unbonded post-tensioned precast walls can be designed to undergo significant nonlinear lateral drift without significant damage, and to retain their ability to self-center, thereby eliminating residual lateral drift.

The lateral drift reductions are, however, function of the characteristics of earthquake ground motions, especially frequency content.

Furthermore, after experiencing severe lateral drift, the passive control design has small residual displacements compared to ordinary reinforced concrete frames.

The DC-SCBF subassembly specimen showed beam and column yielding at 1% lateral drift, beam local buckling at 1.5% lateral drift and no damage in the brace at 2% lateral drift; the residual drift that was caused by beam yielding or local buckling was 0.3 0.5% after multiple tests.

The results indicate that shear bolts increase lateral drift capacity and ductility of the slab column connections.

The numerical analysis predicted web crushing of diagonal element D at lateral drift ratios −1.80%% (W1) and −1.70 % (W2) (see grey diamond remarks in Fig. 7).

Open image in new window Fig. 17 Maximum strength of the specimens (kN) Open image in new window Fig. 18 Maximum lateral drift ratio.