Sentences with phrase «fragility curves»

While studying reliability analysis in one of her courses, William came up with the idea to use a seemingly unrelated mathematical concept called fragility curves to confront this problem.

«Green infrastructure has a lot more variability, but that is what makes fragility curves ideal for capturing and defining the sort of dynamics involved.»

William and Stillwell chose to study green roofs over other forms of green infrastructure for a very simple reason: There was one on campus fitted with the instrumentation needed to measure soil moisture, rainfall amount, temperature, humidity and many other variables that are plugged into their fragility curve model.

Not exact matches

Always learning on the job as she creates curves, fragility and avoids explaining her art from within, this latest show is titled «Learning Artist».

In other words, spiritual as its message may be, LOVE also indicates that precarity, fragility, break up are almost inevitably part of the story...» (J. Pissarro, Robert Indiana, 2006, New York, p. 72) The angled O pulls the otherwise stabilized structure off kilter while the contrasting colors define the precise curves of each letter.