Sentence examples for platform of concrete from inspiring English sources

Members of the Bates family still claim dynastic dominion over what they call the Principality of Sealand, a rudimentary platform of concrete and steel rising out of the water seven miles southeast of the main British island.

Michael Bates grew up seven nautical miles off the coast of England, on a platform made of concrete and metal.

Secondly, a DTS-based test platform of soil-concrete joint, which can simulate the structural feature and service environment of dike engineering, is designed and constructed.

To reduce the risk of fire, the station platforms were built of concrete and iron and the sleepers were made from the fireproof Australian wood Eucalyptus marginata or jarrah.

Teams of coal miners working in shifts tunneled underneath the smoldering reactor and built a platform of steel and concrete, cooled by water piped in from outside the plant's perimeter.

At a parliamentary briefing in July, John Krebs, director of the Natural Environment Research Council, said the platform contained 68,000 metric tons of concrete ballast chemically similar to rust, 100 tons of bituminous sludge, 30 tons of low-level radioactive scale, and small amounts of heavy metals and polychlorinated biphenyls, which would pose a negligible threat to marine life.

Eight months since we reported that an initiative to promote the production of concrete sanitation platforms (sanplats) was stalling because of poor sales, it appears there is still very little progress being made.

The latest incarnation of the idea is in plans for huge floating platforms that could be used as aircraft carriers, airports, or simply as additional land in overcrowded coastal cities.Float, an engineering company based in San Diego, has been testing floating platforms, to be made out of concrete cylinders, for the American defence department.

To accurately simulate the constitutive behavior of concrete in ABAQUS platform, concrete damage plasticity (CDP) model proposed by Jason et al. (2004) is used in this study, in which compressive crushing and tensile cracking of concrete are considered as the main failure modes.

Funeral barrows and mounds were among the first marks made by man on the northern European landscape, and Brian Tolle, the designer of the memorial, had the inspired idea of creating an urban tumulus — in this case, a cantilevered platform of verdure supported by a concrete base.

Nearly 1,250 tons of steel and 450 tons of concrete are in the two platforms and the intermediate tower; the lateral loads on the upper platform range from 500,000 to 800,000 pounds (2.2 million to 3.6 million newtons) of force.