Sentence examples for support displacements from inspiring English sources

Masonry vaults can be particularly vulnerable against unsymmetrical service loads, support displacements and seismic actions.

The calculation determines the crack pattern induced in the bridge by support displacements and loads.

The effects of stochastic cable support displacements, with abrupt and gradual transients, are studied.

The effects of sinusoidal cable support displacements, with abrupt and gradual transients, are studied.

Comparisons in terms of failure modes and maximum allowable support displacements just before the collapse are presented.

The generic deformed configuration depends on the value of the support displacements and on the hinge locations, supposed to be always in the joints.

Furthermore, the magnitude of the so-called threshold support displacement and the magnitude of the support displacement at first failure is also analysed.

In the case of large deviation from the semi-circle or at large support displacement level shear failures can appear in gothic masonry barrel and cross vaults, which could decrease the magnitude of feasible horizontal support displacement.

Anyway, for each value of the support displacement u, the hinge position has to be checked since a different mechanism can occur.

If this geometric condition takes place, the related support displacement is the collapse one and the mechanism of Fig. 7 can be never reached.

Open image in new window Fig. 5 Mechanism and line of pressure for the movement of the hinges for a fixed support displacement.