Sentence examples for upright columns from inspiring English sources

Examples include species of peyote (Lophophora) and low clumps of prickly pear cactus, upright columns of barrel cacti (Ferocactus and Echinocactus), and the imposing saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea).

This combined with their perforated upright columns, and non-standard beam-upright and base connections make it even more difficult to estimate their complex global seismic performance.

Examples include species of Lophophora (peyote, or mescal-button) and low clumps of prickly pear cactus to upright columns of barrel cacti (Ferocactus and Echinocactus) and the imposing saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea, also known as Cereus giganteus).

However, the global behavior of storage racks under seismic actions is much less predictable than the behavior of steel buildings made of standard steel profiles and connections, mainly due to the perforations in their thin walled upright columns, and their semi-rigid beam-column and base plate joints.

These tests investigate the base plate thickness and dimensions, and the upright (column) cross section.

Studying trout in an experimental setup in which water flowed past an upright column, creating small whirlpools, or vortexes, on either side, the researchers discovered that in fact the fish use relatively little muscle power to maintain a position behind the column.

The upright (column) frames act as vertical load carrying element; the horizontal beams get support from column frames, which are perpendicular to planes of the column.

In service conditions, longitudinal (down-aisle) stability of the racks is provided by the flexural stiffness of the demountable beam-upright column connections and base joints.

But the upright wood columns on the third floor had to he covered because they had been kicked away at the bottom by the former tenants the horses.

It is known that such films have a preferential orientation with the c-axis parallel to the substrate plane, consistent with the upright hexagonal columns, as shown in the bird's eye view of pure ZnO in the SEM image in Figure 2c.

The simplest illustration of load and support in construction is the post-and-lintel system, in which two upright members (posts, columns, piers) hold up a third member (lintel, beam, girder, rafter) laid horizontally across their top surfaces.