"I spent the first half or more of my career in the ivory tower writing technical philosophy, but I recognised very early that academic philosophy is a very narrow part of the field.
Therefore, the aim of the work is to study the effect of the geometry on the seismic behaviour of such towers by assuming as mechanical properties for masonry the ones provided by the technical literature for existing towers in the coastal Po Valley.
5.10pm: Rob Smyth's going to take the reins on this clockwatch after technical gremlins at Guardian Towers have disconnected the wires to ESPN.
However, we know that many places in the UK have high-rise social housing estates and 'a high proportion of these have technical or social problems' (Towers, 2000, p. 208, see also Crawford and Walsh, 2010).
It therefore avoids having the "functional technical equipment" that disqualifies Willis Tower's protrusions from being "architectural".
State television has said that there was no explosion or fire on the plane, and that its pilots had reported a technical failure to the control tower before attempting to land.
But for my money, the technical achivement is just as towering as Gravity's.
It took a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain them from the national standards institute, which provided the official, technical analysis of why the towers fell.
I suspect that Academy voters will prefer to stick to technical awards for The Two Towers, and wait until next year, when the entire trilogy has come out, before deciding on a best film prize.
In this study, the history, location, architectural and building properties of fortifications of Diyarbakir were explained and technical dimensioning typology studies on towers and city walls were submitted.
