Sentence examples for whose seismic from inspiring English sources
However, attention should be given in bridges with tall piers, whose seismic forces can be increased under certain design conditions.
But it held sway in the halls of power in the early days of the talent revolution — a decade whose seismic shift is still sending out aftershocks.
Recent earthquakes have demonstrated the high vulnerability of cultural heritage buildings, whose seismic assessment and rehabilitation constitute an important issue in seismic regions around the world.
The problem is tackled of the allocation of the resources assigned for upgrading an ensemble of buildings or other constructed facilities, whose seismic reliability is not considered sufficient.
It is shown, in particular, that this design strategy may prove inadequate in bridges whose seismic behaviour is governed by pier dynamics and, specifically, in the case of tall piers.
In order to alleviate this near-fault isolation problem, this paper investigates the possible use of a fuzzy-controlled semi-active isolation system, called a piezoelectric seismic isolation system (PSIS), whose seismic response is attenuated by a variable friction damper driven by an embedded piezoelectric actuator.
This issue becomes more challenging when one is interested in asymmetric RCTF buildings whose past seismic performance is generally unknown.
These women and a fourth, Inge Lehmann (1888-1993), a Danish earth scientist whose study of seismic waves led her to propose that the earth had a solid core, are the focus of the show.
At its bottom, walkers aiming to get to the waterfront must venture under the Alaskan Way Viaduct, a double-decker highway built in the 1950's whose powers of seismic resistance are questionable.
Connors beat Barazzutti but lost the final in spectacular fashion to Guillermo Vilas of Argentina, whose muscular frame and seismic topspin made him something of an early-model Rafael Nadal.
Analytical, closed-form solutions are derived for the computation of equivalent constant rates of limit-state exceedance for structures under seismic loads whose capacity is degrading with time.
