Sentence examples for measures of ground from inspiring English sources

Fragility curves are developed as functions of different measures of ground motion intensity including peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity, spectral acceleration, spectral velocity and spectral intensity.

Visual targeting has been cited as a confounding factor for gait analysis in which measures of ground reaction force and plantar pressure are obtained.

Local- and landscape-scale measures of ground, vegetation, and land cover were collected in and around each garden, while climate loggers recorded temperatures in each garden in 30 min increments.

Also, since users of a hazard map are not necessarily going to be engineers, consideration should be given to the provision of maps expressed in parameters other than physical measures of ground motion.

Knowledge of whether subjective measures accurately reflect objective measures of ground hardness is needed.

The DNL of S H/V showed a positive correlation with the measures of ground motion intensity, such as PGA and PGV, particularly PGV.

The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs.

Response quantities such as maximum inter-story drift ratio, base shear, foundation displacement and rotation are monitored and related to the intensity measure of ground motions (i.e. the inelastic spectral displacement Sdi) for the cases with and without considering the SSI effects.

Arias intensity, I α, is a comprehensive measure of ground shaking intensity developed by Arias (1970), Jibson (1993).

The leaching potential, a measure of ground and surface water contamination, has been evaluated in terms of groundwater ubiquity score (GUS) and the value obtained is in the range 0.87 to 0.97, classifying it as non-leaching pesticide.

Void ratio measures compactness of ground soil in geotechnical engineering.