Sentence examples for weak brick from inspiring English sources

However, I feel that Mercedes have built a group of people who create an incredibly solid fortress, which does not even have a weak brick.

Although the shear span/depth ratio for ESB specimen is more than 2.5 which indicates that for a typical reinforced concrete beam it would fail in flexural mode, the provided shear strength by the web reinforcement together with the weak brick core was not enough to reach the flexural capacity of the specimen.

Any more and you can have a weak brick that won't hold the structure.

I wouldn't be dramatic and say there's nothing we can do, but I would say it's like trying to build a huge dinosaur using weak bricks.

This large percentage of increase in the ultimate load for this type of core material is due to the fact that specimen (ESB) failed due shear as X8 expanded steel mesh was insufficient for providing the shear strength together with the weak lightweight brick while specimen (WSB) reached its ultimate flexural strength.

The shear bond behaviour, which is crucial for the effectiveness of most applications, was then investigated on strong and weak concrete, tuff, clay brick and brick masonry substrates, providing information on bond strength, failure mode, load-slip response and effective transfer length.

Due to the fact that the mortar joint is weaker than the brick itself, it is expected that the crack will go through the mortar joint rather than the brick itself.

Moreover, the effect of discontinuity represented by the presence of weak mortar layers between bricks (inside prisms) was discussed and clarified.

Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said: "These figures echo the month's poor retail sales figures, which saw weak growth, particularly in bricks-and-mortar stores.

Brick or stone, weak in tensile strength (inelastic and brittle), can provide only a short lintel; steel can be used for long lintels.

A group of scientists that evaluated the damage considered the unreinforced brick construction as weak, because the performance of homes constructed in that style did not fare much better than the timber/bamboo variety.