Sentence examples for masonry piers from inspiring English sources

The steel structure rises 103 metres (342 feet) above the masonry piers.

One of the predominant failure modes that occurs in URM buildings is diagonal shear cracking of masonry piers.

However, they offer a more accurate simulation of the nonlinear response of the masonry piers and spandrels, particularly in the pre-peak regime.

A substantial amount of experimental and theoretical work has been carried out to investigate the in-plane seismic response of masonry piers.

This paper presents a summary review of these studies, with special attention given to the ultimate deformation capacity of masonry piers.

Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) confinement represents an effective tool for retrofitting masonry piers or columns enhancing their structural performance.

The procedure consists of a separate inter-storey shear-displacement curve for each storey, in which each masonry pier is typically modelled by a linear elastic, perfectly plastic shear spring of limited ductility.

Finally, the accuracy and the computational efficiency of the proposed formulation are evaluated by a comparison with the results of a full scale experimental sub-assemblage of a masonry pier-spandrel system.

It is mounted on a rectangular cast-iron column of two-tons weight that rests on the masonry pier.

He soon died, leaving no indication of how he intended to transition from the copper skin to his proposed masonry pier.

He had originally expected to assemble the skin on-site as the masonry pier was built; instead he decided to build the statue in France and have it disassembled and transported to the United States for reassembly in place on Bedloe's Island.