Sentence examples for stiffness assumptions from inspiring English sources

The same architectural layout of a typical European 5-storey RC housing unit is designed as WBF and DBF according to Eurocode 8, adopting different stiffness assumptions, and according to the Spanish seismic code NCSE-02.

Currently, low-rise metal buildings are designed based on a zero rotational stiffness (pinned connection) assumption at the column-bases.

However, there is a lack of data in the literature to guide the designer to select adequate assumptions for stiffness and damping.

Utilising results from a detailed "pushover" experiment of a three-legged model jack-up on dense sand, the paper compares the experimental pushover loads and displacements on the hull and spudcans to numerical simulations using different assumptions of spudcan stiffness.

The configuration of crane load path, assumptions of column stiffness effects and errors in designing and construction of joint support configuration contributed to an increment in deflection, internal member forces and bending/rotation on members near to support joints.

For this purpose, the formation of induced delamination has been analyzed based on generalized plane strain assumptions and new stiffness matrix for constructed damage state is obtained for damaged laminate.

The ability of ABVS to image large benign and malignant lesions automatically and UE to determine lesions stiffness effectively led to the assumption that the combination of these two methods is capable of detecting clinically occult benignancy and malignancy.

Current theoretical bearing models differ in their stiffness estimates because of different model assumptions.

Procedures are now available to extract complex modes with the usual assumptions that the mass, stiffness and damping matrices are symmetric.

The method is based on the assumption that the crack stiffness does not depend on the frequency of vibration.

However, this assumption undesirably affects the longitudinal stiffness in the web shear element, specifically resulted by large bending moments.