Sentence examples for pavement opening from inspiring English sources

For real-life examples, this lesson offers a wealth of useful contextual information and some jaw-dropping footage, including a Chinese pavement opening up and swallowing a woman and a sinkhole forming in Louisiana and making trees disappear – get students to discuss which they found most shocking, and why.

The estimated 0.5 value may increase over the years once the concrete pavement opens to traffic and tires start to wear the surface where later the glass beeds may dominate the surface.

He raced like a demon, using every square inch of the pavement, and opening up the throttle as far as it would go as soon as he had a couple of feet of straightaway to work with.

However, if the pavement is opened to traffic too early, cracking may occur that may compromise the service life of the pavement.

This study suggests that, if the pavement is opened to traffic and the strength development and stability of BOF slag asphalt concrete are simultaneously considered, the pavement should first be compacted by vibratory rolling approximately 3 4 rounds, followed by static rolling to complete the construction of the pavement.

Performance of asphalt pavement degrades after opening to traffic.

This automatically bans the Segway from pavements but opens the door to a challenge – given mechanical improvements – to the current position that they fail legal requirements for "a motor vehicle for use on the highway".

It is anticipated that this type of opening criteria can help the decision makers in two ways: (1) it can open pavement sections earlier thereby reducing construction time and (2) it may help to minimize the use of materials with overly accelerated strength gain that are suspected to be more susceptible to develop damage at early ages than materials that gain strength more slowly.

The risk of cracking in a concrete pavement that is opened to traffic at early ages is related to the maximum tensile stress σI, that develops in the pavement and its relationship to the measured, age dependent, flexural strength of a beam, fr.

They are melancholy and menacing-feeling places — the weeds have started advancing, cracks and holes are opening in the pavement.

The first days of spring are right around the corner, hopefully melting snow and ice covered pavement and trails, and finally opening up the way for you to run out your winter cabin fever blues.