Sentences with phrase «shear wall»

About an hour and a half away, Turneffe Islands offer a wide variety of slopes and shear wall dives.
This oceanic island is surrounded by shear walls of soft coral home to myriad of marine life and attracting large pelagic creatures such as green sea - turtles and immense schools of barracudas.
After 64 cycles, enough welds have cracked, enough concrete has spalled, enough shear walls have come unstuck that some towers begin to pancake.
The structural details of FFTT as a «strong column — weak beam» balloon - frame approach using large format Mass Timber Panels as vertical structure, lateral shear walls and floor slabs.
Katerra has designed a new kind of seismic shear wall system, with an odd looking connector, full of long slots instead of being a solid plate connector.
Skills relevant to this position and found on sample resumes include lifting steel bars from the stockyard to the building foundation; lifting various construction materials from the ground level to the top of the building; and concreting shear walls, columns and core walls through the use of a bucket.
While Chileans initially responded to the 1960 earthquake there, which hit 9.5, by tightening construction codes and reinforcing concrete frames with numerous reinforced concrete walls, called shear walls, their vigilance soon wore off in the face of cost - saving.
Longer shear walls and more braces were required, and the code definition of building «drift» was modified to guard against the possible pounding of one building against another and the loss of cladding as a building shakes.
Most of the buildings that failed were new, and had fewer shear walls, even though they were essentially stronger than many buildings on the West Coast.
But the result is that Pacific Northwest cities are full of buildings with slender structural frames and fewer and smaller shear walls.
About 1.5 hours away, Turneffe Islands offer a wide variety of slops and shear wall dives.
or the billions that have been spent fixing reinforced concrete buildings and the failures of flat slab and shear wall or column and slab buildings.
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