horizontal curve in a sentence
Examples
- James Roberts laid out the bridge on a horizontal curve with a 1, 200 foot radius curve to meet the requests of the highway engineers.
- With its raised roof canopy tilted toward the sky above the terminal's concave facade, the design deftly merges the highway's horizontal curve with an airplane's upward angle of takeoff.
- The bridge is located in a horizontal curve comprising radius and a vertical convex curve of radius, as it crosses the river at a 76 degree angle relative to the riverbed.
- The most successful of these is a large " Collapsed Podium, " its truncated base intersecting with the horizontal curve of the fallen lectern : a modern-day Ozymandias, as in Shelley's poem.
- However, high-speed trains are sufficiently high-powered that steep slopes are preferable to the reduced speed necessary to navigate horizontal curves around obstacles, or the higher construction costs necessary to tunnel through or bridge over them.
- In 1998, while a visitor centre was being constructed, builders discovered that there was an additional passageway, about 2 metres higher and starting from the horizontal curved tunnel, that skirted the 14 metre vertical shaft, and continued to a pool much nearer the Gihon spring.
- The study area, consisting of CR 11 and CR 14 in Mercer County, and CR 16 / 6 and CR 16 / 2 in Wyoming County, features extensive no-passing zones, narrow roadway widths, non-existent shoulders, sharp horizontal curves, steep vertical grades, and substandard pavement materials for a heavy traffic load.