Sentence examples for prescriptive specification from inspiring English sources

Both safety factor and probabilistic approaches were used to estimate the service life periods of each composition being compared to the target periods defined in the prescriptive specification.

Significant distress in airport asphalt surfaces, compliant with the traditional prescriptive specification, has increased interest in a performance-based airport asphalt specification.

Durability of concrete exposed to these environments is still based on prescriptive specifications.

Designers of CFSSP-Walls are typically provided little prescriptive guidance by design specifications and must instead rely, to a large extent, on findings from the recent research literature to ascertain that designs will perform as intended.

The performance-based approach directly models the actual possible behaviors of an artifact (in this case, wheelchair motion) that are related to the functional intent of the designed system (a building) and (hopefully) to the specification of a prescriptive building code.

Therefore, hybrids of both, prescriptive and performance-based technical specifications were put together to ensure that service-life requirements would be fulfilled.

In order to change from prescriptive requirements to performance based specifications for durability, through the equivalent performance concept, it is necessary to find relevant performance tests and indicators.

It also includes results of a separate, benchmark, column specimen with identical specifications, tested in fire using the traditional prescriptive fire resistance test method.

The method integrates policy specification into the software development process, ensures consistency across software artifacts, and provides prescriptive guidance for how to specify ACPs.

The specification provides guidance for the width of gaps permissible for each Class of system and details of prescriptive and performance tests that must be performed to qualify the products for use in construction.

And some pre-school owners in Northwest say the broader regulations - which include specifications about how children can play at water tables or safely ride a tricycle - are overly prescriptive and seem out of touch to people who have built careers in the field.