By investigating the sensitivity of various response parameters to variations in bridge geometry and ground motion characteristics, it is shown that bridges with larger abutment skew angles bear a higher probability of collapse due to excessive rotations, and that the shear keys can play a major role in reducing deck rotations and thus the probability of collapse.
If the proposal of Lin and Chiu et al. [ 13] is applied, the standoff is the critical factor for generating the differences between decks C and A, and participant preferences should be similar between decks A and C. Restated, the difference should be reduced because deck C had identical gain-loss frequency to deck A (5 gains and 5 losses) in this investigation.
Outside, the volleyball courts are lined with washed sand from the San Jacinto River, and the pool sports a bubbler machine and an adjacent heat-reducing deck that keeps cool under the beating sun.
An innovative alternative to reduce the deck inadmissible oscillations that may appear in short simply supported structures in resonant conditions is proposed, based on artificially increasing the superstructure damping by retrofitting the deck with fluid viscous dampers.
The longitudinal arresting gear proved unpopular in service and it was ordered removed in 1927 after tests aboard Furious in 1926 had shown that deck-edge palisades were effective in reducing cross-deck gusts that could blow aircraft over the side.
Gloires wooden hull was modelled on that of a steam ship of the line, reduced to one deck, sheathed in iron plates 4.5 inches (110 mm) thick.
Although it was possible to fit all these aircraft into the hangars, eight or nine were usually stored on the flight deck to reduce crowding below decks.
This had several advantages because it allowed greater freeboard since the narrow upper decks reduced the structural weight of the vessel's hull, it increased the field of fire of guns mounted on the sides, and it reduced the ship's roll in heavy seas.
Their barbettes had 230 mm armor above the deck that reduced to 180 mm between the forecastle and upper decks and 130 millimeters below the upper deck.
Their barbettes also had 230-millimeter armor above the forecastle deck that reduced to 180 mm between the forecastle and upper decks and 130 millimeters below the upper deck.
