Sentence examples for lifeline facilities from inspiring English sources
Refrigerated liquefied gas (RLG) terminals that are part of lifeline facilities must be able to withstand extreme earthquakes.
A critical review of past earthquakes reveals damage/failure of important lifeline facilities like elevated water tanks in recurrence, leading to serious hazards even after the event.
Many of these buildings remain in service as part of critical lifeline facilities, but engineers are unable to evaluate their seismic performance by modern evaluation methods.
Earthquakes, landslides, heavy traffic areas all of these conditions have effects on bridges, buildings, tunnels, buried pipelines, and other critical lifeline facilities.
Campaigners fighting to reopen what they claim are lifeline sports facilities have told council bosses: "We're very much alive - and we don't want our community stripping of its services".
But by Friday morning, the firm had apparently suffered enough damage that it announced that it had sought a financial lifeline: credit facilities from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York via JPMorgan Chase.
Stewart currently is the Director of Civil Infrastructure Laboratories at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Large Scale Lifelines Testing Facility, part of the Georege E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEESS).
Lifelines are the facilities that deliver the resources and services critical for modern communities.
Of particular interest to geotechnical engineers is the phenomenon of soil liquefaction that caused significant damage to buildings, lifelines and harbor facilities.
FEMALE NARRATOR: Welcome to the NSF/NEES Large Displacement Facility for Lifeline Systems and part of the Harry E. Bovay, Jr., Civil Infrastructure Laboratory Complex, operated by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University.
These testing basins then are used to bury underground facilities, underground lifelines pipelines, telecommunication systems, things of that nature and we test them to evaluate their response to earthquake loads.
