Sentence examples for patterns of masonry from inspiring English sources

It has lost its original windows, rich cornice and, recently, its intricate lobby doors — each disappearance a little tragedy — but its recessed brick joints and hypnotic patterns of masonry and terra-cotta decoration still make it one of the great apartment buildings of the West Side.

The results show that the classical yield-line modes dominate failure patterns of masonry walls subjected to vented gas explosions and the dynamic responses of masonry walls are determined by the peak value of overpressure.

The accuracy and robustness of the micromechanical model were assessed by simulating nonlinear response and crack patterns of masonry in different geometrical, boundary and loading conditions related to axial and diagonal compression tests.

Eurocode 6: Design of masonry structures – Part 1 – Common rules for reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures.

Extinction really does seem to take an age in this film, its running time distended to a lumbering 144 minutes by Bay's love of check-out-my-shot slow-motion, so we catch the exact angle with which the Transformers pirouette through the air, and the exact number of inches by which they fail to miss an overhead bridge, and the precise scatter-pattern of cratering masonry that results.

The numerical model was validated with the test data and intensive numerical simulations were conducted to explore the influences of boundary condition, bonding pattern and thickness of masonry walls on their performances against vented gas explosions.

The fundamental idea creates its own specific technical skills; nowhere is there more artful use of irrigation for plants, of jets of water to cool the air, of orchards for shade, of colour to break up the sun's glare, or of the use of masonry patterns than in these Islamic gardens.

The FE model reproduced key behaviours observed in the experiments, including the shear strength, the deformation and the crack patterns of the unconfined and confined masonry panels.

It is found that boundary condition and wall thickness have great influence on the performance of masonry walls, while bonding pattern has relatively limited influence on its performance.

Note the lively dot-dash-dot pattern of Flemish bond masonry: short brick ends (headers) alternating with longer brick sides (stretchers).

Figure 1 Remedial action options for cases of masonry deterioration.