Sentence examples for stiff foundation from inspiring English sources

The SSI analysis is significant in this study due to the length of the bridge, the massive and stiff foundation, and the relatively soft deep soil of the site.

The buckling strength of the perfect tank placed on an extremely soft foundation and a stiff foundation increases by up to 1.6%and5.6%6%, respectively, compared with that of the perfect shell.

Two base cases of JPCP types were utilized: (1) new construction on granular base (new JPCP case), and (2) both new construction/reconstruction on stabilized foundations or rehabilitation on underlying asphalt/concrete layers (JPCP over stiff foundation case).

In particular, the displacement response of the equivalent bilaminate plates can provide an accurate estimate for prediction of the dynamic response of the corresponding FGM plates, especially for thick plates resting on a stiff foundation.

The MS vibration isolation system consists of an engine modelled by a solid mass, excited by a vertical force and mounted upon four MS isolators being connected to a relatively stiff foundation characterised by its driving-point and transfer inertances at and between the connection points.

The foundation is found to act as a low frequency band-stop filter for flexural modes, and a stiffer foundation leads to wider widths of these stop bands.

The purpose of the study is to find how stiff the foundation should be relative to the soil so that the rigid foundation assumption in soil-structure interaction models is valid.

A simple model based on analytical modeling of rigid foundation is adopted, in which the effective seismic motion is obtained starting from the free-field motion by an approximate analytical solution (Harada et al. 1981; Ganev et al. 1995) for embedded foundation with its base resting on a stiffer layer.

The railway tracks on stiff soil foundation running the train and the asphalt pavement on soft soil foundation moving the vehicle are treated as examples.

This decrease started at the lower load level (0.65 0.8 from ultimate load) for weaker rocks and at the load level of 0.9 and more for stiff rock foundation.

Soil-structure interactions are implemented into the finite element models by using a series of elastic springs representing a stiff soil foundation.