gravity load

The walls don't carry gravity loads, and they can be anything that resists the wind stress.

By the dozens, crew on each vessel broke into black cubes and sand as the gravity load reached four hundred percent Earth normal.

The concept of suction technology was developed for projects where gravity loading is not sufficient for pressing foundation skirts into the ground.

The bridge had to hold its own gravity load, the live loads of the horses and the carriages, and any wind loads.

The vertical contact transfers the gravity load from the beam into the masonry panel, increasing its flexural and shear strength.

In electromagnetic equipment like motors, electromagnetic forces can counteract gravity loads, causing the journal to take up unusual positions.

The structural system of a high-rise building is designed to cope with the vertical gravity loads and lateral loads caused by wind or seismic activity.

With this contact, the wall is subject to story shears, gravity loads, as well as overturning moments much like a continuous shear wall.

It's officially called the gravity loading countermeasures suit (GLCS presumably).

These platforms were founded on a system of cylindrical skirts that were penetrated into the ground under combined gravity load and underpressure.

The gravity load is easily supported by the arch alone, and the combination of the arch and truss give exceptional stiffness for the live loads.

The four tubes closest to the outer corners of the plates were designed to resist a 400 year earthquake, while the others resist the vertical gravity loads.

Engineers generally talk about gravity load, which is the weight of a building, and wind load, which is the force of wind on a building's surface.

Sometimes, additional external structural loads are applied, like gravity loads from the self weight of the parts, or added loads from external masses.

Width is primarily limited by the capability of the roof panel to support the applied gravity loads (e.g. self-weight, snow) and wind uplift loads.

This was accomplished using numerous closely spaced perimeter columns to provide much of the strength to the structure, along with gravity load shared with the core columns.

The perimeter columns were designed to provide support for virtually all lateral loads (such as wind loads) and to share the gravity loads with the core columns.

Setbacks were used by ancient builders to increase the height of masonry structures by distributing gravity loads produced by the building material such as clay, stone or brick.

This exterior framing is designed sufficiently strong to resist all lateral loads on the building, thereby allowing the interior of the building to be simply framed for gravity loads.

The diaphragm of a structure often does double duty as the floor system or roof system in a building, or the deck of a bridge, which simultaneously supports gravity loads.

The hole in the plate for the through-bolt is slotted so that gravity loads are not transmitted to the masonry panel; the vertical loads travel solely through the steel frame.

In manual rigging, a line set's lift lines support weights opposite their connections to the batten in order to balance the gravity load of the batten and whatever it carries.

Peter Ridley, Peter Corke, "Calculation of Dragline bucket pose under gravity loading", Mechanism and machine theory, Vol.

The continued popularity of the Pratt truss is probably due to the fact that the configuration of the members means that longer diagonal members are only in tension for gravity load effects.

This maximizes the effectiveness of the perimeter tube by transferring some of the gravity loads within the structure to it and increases its ability to resist overturning due to lateral loads.