Sentence examples for pier design from inspiring English sources

Rectangular columns are often used in bridge pier design, and they make up the majority of building columns.

Nicholas et al. [12] compared the reinforcing requirements of the strength design approach for flexure and shear and the strut-and-tie model method in their application to hammerhead pier design.

School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design.

For highway bridges, the worst load positioning for the superstructure design usually does not produce the worst force effects for the pier design.

In the pier design references, the traditional approach used in the design of fixed piers is extended to floating piers, ignoring distinctive response of these piers to berthing impact.

In addition, the variation of the flaring gate pier design parameters affects little the discharge capacity of the surface spillway, these parameters including the contraction ratio β, the contraction angle α and the spillway chute angle θ.

Even Deal has a new architectural jewel: a cafe at the end of its pier designed by Niall McLaughlin Associates.

In the late 1970s, pier designs at Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta's Hartsfield successfully handled in excess of 45 million mainly domestic passengers per year.

Two different types of RC columns characterized by different hoop spacing were tested, representing a one-third scaled model of a reinforced circular bridge pier, designed with obsolete design practice with particular reference to non-seismic areas.

The pier, designed by A. Dowson, was completed in 1885 and was one of the earliest public buildings in St Anne's, a 19th-century planned town.

Hence, it was decided to further study the response of the two pier designs under an alternative earthquake sequence in order to generalize the previously made observations.