Sentence examples for thrust blocks from inspiring English sources

With references to the relevant standards, sections address structural design of rigid, semi-rigid and flexible pipes, longitudinal stress, steel pipe wall thickness, resistance to internal forces, pipe restraint and thrust blocks.

Thrust blocks within the centre of the range expose basement schists and mylonitic granite suggesting that the greatest uplift and crustal exhumation has occurred within the core of the restraining bend, although much of the exhumation is likely to be due to older Palaeozoic structural events.

PC relates the effective power with the power measured at the thrust block.

Xiazijie area is part of the Xiazijie anticline of the frontal zone of bruchfalten of the Xiahong thrust block.

This is suggested to imply upstream erosion of sedimentary rock and incorporation of thrusted blocks into the moraine, forming a composite ridge locally.

The bold design of dynamic thrusting blocks was watered down, following guidance that it was "not traditional enough" yet also "not bold enough" – deemed too radical by some local residents, too unadventurous by others.

These processes led to the development of a large thrust-block moraine complex which is buried beneath a thin sequence of Holocene sediments.

The more complex folding and thrusting within the more ice-proximal parts of the thrust-block moraines record the accretion of thrust slices of highly deformed sediment as the ice repeatedly reoccupied this ice marginal position.

It was high-grade attrition from the first game, which took Murray nine minutes to win, to the final thrusts and blocks and screams of delight and anguish of the fifth set.

When the mountains were thrust up, blocking their westward course to the ancient sea that once covered the American Midwest, these old rivers cut out their own routes, creating those spectacular canyons, gorges, and "narrows" that are part of Appalachian scenery.

Normal faults have the hanging block moving downward whereas the reverse faults have the hanging block thrust upward.