Building structural integrity

Reactor building Structural integrity, stabUity Damage to the reactor, and status and control system... 

Control building Structural integrity, stability Inability to monitor and control safety activities... 

In a few, special situations, a building may need to be evaluated for the combined effects of explosion and toxic release. For example, in the event of an explosion, a building may retain sufficient structural integrity to protect the building occupants from the blast, yet suffer damage to the point that it can no longer offer sufficient protection from a toxic release occurring in conjunction with the explosion. 

High Response Building/component has lost structural integrity and may collapse due to environmental conditions (i.e. wind, snow, rain). Total cost of repairs approach replacement cost of building. 

If a terrorist attack occurs near an occupied home or office building, the building can provide some level of protection from weapons of mass destruction, assuming its structural integrity is still intact and no imminent danger of fire is present. However, the purity of the air within the building must be maintained. This can be accomplished by ... 

Recommendation 17. Throughout closure operations, the sequence and extent of building demolition should be planned to ensure continuous separation of contaminated waste from uncontaminated waste. Professional engineers should review the proposed sequence and extent of demolition actions. The effects of demolition on structural integrity in the event of a contingency condition (such as a typhoon) should be considered. A system of work permits and controls should be established for operation of heavy equipment... 

Limitations on the use of sulphur concrete are imposed by its high temperature and fire susceptibility. Although it will not sustain combustion, under applied flame the sulphur will burn to produce SO2. At temperatures above the melting point of sulphur, the product loses structural integrity. Thus sulphur concrete is best suited for outdoor and underground use as well as indoor construction applications where fire hazard is not a concern and building codes are not applied. 

Resource identification is an essential feature of disaster planning. A community s capacity to withstand a disaster is directly related to the type and scope of resources available, the presence of adequate communication systems, the structural integrity of its buildings and utilities (e.g., water, electricity), and the size and sophistication of its health care system (Cuny, 1998 ... 

Several radioisotopes are used to ensure safety in industry and transportation. For example, iridium-192 is used to verify the structural integrity of aircraft, ships, bridges, and other structures, for weld inspection, and other purposes. Califomium-252 is used to gauge the moisture content of soil in road construction and the building industries. 

Thus, the condition of keeping the structure dry in water becomes a requirement to preserve the structural integrity of soluble proteins and imposes a severe building constraint (and thereby an evolutionary pressure) on such proteins. It is expected that the optimization of the structures resulting from this type of evolutionary constraint would be uneven over a range of soluble proteins, resulting in marked differences in aggregation propensity. 

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