The soil should crumble easily during digging and firm enough to resist collapse.

"The engineer wants to design to resist collapse," said Dr. Mlakar, the team leader.

Although they resisted collapse immediately after the planes' first impact, the hundreds of steel columns spaced around the outer facing of each tower eventually failed.

However, Chandrasekhar (1931) showed that the degeneracy pressure is inadequate to resist collapse if the core mass exceeds 1.4,.

During collapse, an electron-degenerate gas forms in the core, providing sufficient degeneracy pressure as it is compressed to resist further collapse.

Such pits resist collapse, but do not have much storage capacity because their interior volume is mostly filled by stone.

When the ground shakes, the columns are meant to stand firm and resist collapse.

This skeletal structure is strong enough to resist gravitational collapse.

When the earthquake hit on the morning of December 7, 1988, the houses and apartments least able to resist collapse were those built during the Brezhnev years.

Most fundamentally, however, analysts here say, the Tokyo market resists collapse because a few small groups can exercise enormous influence over the direction of the market.