Sentence examples for reinforcement of structures from inspiring English sources
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, "lacks a reasonable building code" that could have required reinforcement of structures to resist shaking.
The reinforcement of structure has a different procedure for reviewing bending, shearing, and sagging compared to that of soil or ground, so it requires a different model.
Due to the non-uniform in-plane stress distribution, variable-stiffness panel with curvilinear fiber paths is a promising structural concept for cutout reinforcement of composite structures under axial compression, due to the more diverse tailorability opportunities than simply choosing the best straight stacking sequence.
Polypropylene (Mesbah and Buyle-Bodin 2008), polyethylene (Zoorob and Suparma 2000) and nylon (Song et al. 2005), besides other materials (Sivakumar and Santhanam 1995; Ogi et al. 2005) are examples of polymeric additions to concrete, mainly in the fiber shape, providing the reinforcement of concrete structures, known as "fiber-reinforced concrete".
Reinforcing bars made of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (GFRPs) are more and more common as internal reinforcement of concrete structures and infrastructures.
Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) is a practical alternative construction material that has been extensively adopted in the reinforcement of concrete structures.
The potential of Fiber Reinforced Polymer FRP in the reinforcement of concrete structures has been shown in many studies and practical applications.
Bonding between the adherents represents a key point when dealing with the reinforcement of concrete structures by using FRPs.
Bonding between the adherents represents another problem point when dealing with the FRP reinforcement of steel structures.
Debonding is, in fact, one of the dominant failure modes in the reinforcement of masonry structures by means of FRP materials.
The manuscript deals with the main characteristics of those adhesives normally used for the reinforcement of timber structures, achieved through site-applied bonding.
