Sentence examples for stiffness against from inspiring English sources

And the concrete core not only shares the task of holding up the building's weight with those columns but also provides about half the stiffness against the wind.

But below Tg, in the glass phase, it is a bona fide solid (exhibiting such properties as elastic stiffness against shear).

The permanent weight of these bridges is very high and, together with the mechanical characteristics of the structure, results in very high strength and stiffness against moving loads.

The elastic material for these joints needs to have a low stiffness against bending and torsion and a high stiffness in the axial direction.

These systems are known to provide relatively high ductility, strength, and stiffness against seismic loads and to offer architectural flexibility by giving large openings.

The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill system uses a type of engineered wood called glued laminated timber, or glulam, for the building columns, and cross-laminated timber slabs for the central core, floors and shear walls, which provide stiffness against wind loads.

Comparisons indicated that geofoam panels of low stiffness installed against the retaining wall model affect displacement and dynamic lateral pressure profile along the wall height.

The results clearly show the advantage of quasi-zero-stiffness isolators against linear isolators.

And as moon and mother collide, there is something biblical about the "unto" in the last line that gives the confession a stiffness that insures against sentimentality.

Predictions of the elastic bending stiffness are compared against experimental data, showing a strong correlation between the analytical model and the experimental results.

When constructing off-shore land reclamations, one aims to ensure that the final soil mass fulfills certain minimal criteria related to shear strength, stiffness and resistance against liquefaction.