Across
- 2. a load with a certain heaviness, a specific force of gravity
- 4. loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component within a structure
- 7. hold up or serve as a foundation
- 9. always changing
- 10. large, man-made objects permanently fixed to Earth's surface
- 12. permanent structures
- 13. the action of being stretched to stiffness
Down
- 1. being stiff and resisting bending
- 3. greatest stress a substance can bear without tearing apart
- 5. cause physical change
- 6. being pressed or squeezed
- 8. place or part at which two or more things are joined
- 11. weights that are forced onto an object