structural stability
Load-bearing capacity
Structural stability is the capacity of a building, bridge, or other structure to maintain its form and resist collapse under expected loads and stresses.
Engineers assess structural stability to ensure constructions can withstand weight, wind, earthquakes, and other forces without buckling or failing.
The term extends to any system's ability to hold together under pressure: The reorganization threatened the structural stability of the department.
- load-bearingSustaining structural mass
- dead loadPermanent structural weight
- live loadTemporary weight on structure
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- bifurcationDivision into two branches
base · post · wall · stress analysis · eigenvalues · equilibrium · support · girder · buttress · tensile strength · truss · statics · safety factor · building code · beam · redundancy · frame · anchor
- stabilitystable, steady, firmness, unstable, equilibrium
- timber framingtimber frame, exposed beams, timber framing, wooden beams, timber joints
- dynamical systemsattractors, attractor, chaos theory, equilibria, fixed points
- stability theoryinstability, equilibrium, Lyapunov exponent, attractor, attractors
- masonrymason, brick, bricks, stone, mortar
- vibrationsvibration, oscillation, resonance, mechanical vibrations, tremor
structural stabilitystructural failure
Loss of load-bearing capacity
structural collapse · structural instability · buckling · structural weakness · collapse
structural stabilityoscillation
Repeated back-and-forth movement
flutter · resonance · vibration · sway · harmonic motion
structural stabilityfragility
Ease of breaking
instability · precariousness · flimsiness · shakiness · vulnerability