Sentences with phrase «than our engineered structures»

Housing that consists of unreinforced masonry, particularly bricks, and any other heavy materials are more damage prone than engineered structures.

Not exact matches

One man, at least, was able to impose himself on this formidable and politicized structure: Ferdinand Piëch, a brilliant engineer and a ruthless, terrifying manager who dominated VW for more than two decades.

SAFTs are particularly useful for investing in products like the Orchid protocol, which ultimately could become an open - source project supported by a community of engineers rather than a structured team.

Hoffmeyer suggests there are many use cases for blockchain in treasury functions and capital structures, where companies can move secure tokens instead of using real funds.IBM, now the world's biggest employer of blockchain engineers, says more than 400 of its customers — including blue - chip names Walmart, Nestlé, Kroger, JD.com, Unilever, Maersk, DuPont and Dow Chemical — are currently running blockchain - based projects.

The findings could serve as a warning sign that engineers need to design stronger structures, especially as glide avalanches may become more frequent: Warmer winters in the future may cause snowpacks to become, on average, wetter and denser than those seen in winters of recent decades.

Now, using 3D printing, a group of engineers has created star - shaped structures (pictured) on a millimeter scale that are able to heat more uniformly than other materials have in the past.

The Vancouver building, assembled from composite wooden components engineered to be stronger and more fire - resistant than ordinary wood, is unlikely to remain the tallest wooden structure for long.

«Examining viruses within the complex three - dimensional structure of engineered skin is exciting, because virus replication in such a system is likely much closer to reality than traditional laboratory techniques,» Work said.

There was, however, one aspect of the engineered tissue that was inferior to the real tissue: The engineered tissue had a fiber structure that was less complex than the typical fiber structure of normal adult tissue.

Their results could be used by engineers to design concrete structures that incorporate varying amounts of recycled concrete aggregates that have less environmental impact than concrete structures made with natural aggregates.

Living systems build structures in fundamentally different ways than do materials engineers.

Occasionally, Altman tested himself by adhering to a genre closely without detonating it, embracing convention as a way of reverse engineering his usually «free» style, which, like jazz or improvisational comedy, requires more preparation and structure than is generally understood.

Because the C7's aluminum structure is 20 percent stiffer than the C6's, chief engineer Tadge Juechter says.

Not only is the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1's underlying structure lighter and more rigid than the outgoing car's, it proved easier for engineers to work with, modify, and improve.

Yet, using a new engineering method, the ultra-lightweight carbon fiber structure is more rigid than the previous 650S, but, it weighs 40 pounds less.

Engineers are apparently looking into solutions that will allow the Conti's unibody structure to accept the Audi S - tronic transmission, which is sized differently than the ZF automatic used in the W12 car.

The stiffened body structure allowed the engineers to further refine of the GT - R NISMO's shock absorbers, springs and stabilizers, all of which, when combined with the car's added downforce, result in a better handling car than the previous model.

The end result, the company claims, is a structure that is twice as strong in static torsional rigidity and three times stiffer in dynamic tests than the «next highest competing vehicle evaluated by Honda's engineers».

The ’17 is larger all the way around than its predecessor, yet Mercedes engineers have managed to shave 50 kilograms (110 pounds) from its structure, which means the C 300 is plenty quick: zero - to - 100 km / h in just six seconds.

As well as supporting front - wheel drive, the new FAAR platform has been engineered to offer four - wheel drive with a lower weight penalty than that of the existing 1 Series» rear - wheel - drive - based structure.

Engineers say the hope is that the device, far smaller than the ineffective white metal structure installed over one gushing leak earlier in the month, can catch the escaping oil without clogging with the methane slush that thwarted that earlier attempt.

In fact, the engineers actually design it into the structure, making the wood members larger than they need to be, so that after the char layer forms, there is still enough wood do its job structurally.

But aside from their aesthetic appeal — and incredible engineering — new research in Science finds that these structures, which can stand taller than five meters (17 feet) above ground, do something remarkable for the ecosystem: they hold back the desert.

His big project right now is trying to incorporate Uber into the calculations — a far bigger factor in New York City transit in 2017 than in 2014 — which involved reverse - engineering its fare structure using customer receipts.

Waugh Thistleton notes that «this high performance engineered hardwood permits beams and columns to have smaller cross sections than softwood glulam, thereby offering greater elegance to the timber structure.»

However, onstage Thursday at Gigaom Structure Data in New York City, AnnaLee Saxenian, professor and Dean of University of California, Berkeley's School of Information Science, said that the educational aspects of data science are not only broadly incorporating social sciences into the curriculum, but they'll also be valuable for more than just engineers.

Career paths in charity work are less structured than in professions such as accountancy or engineering, and your route to progression may be less clear.

Beth Tubbs, senior staff engineer at the ICC, says the code was created to «facilitate the reuse of buildings, rather than tearing down and building new,» but its application often depends on how much you're changing the structure.

- ft. structure was constructed chiefly at NRB's plant in Grimsby, Ontario — 250 miles from the site — and the entire construction time from engineering through occupancy took less than one year.