How to replace brake pads. Experts say itâs hard to determine how often brake pads should be replaced, because they can wear out faster or slower based on how you drive the car, the weight of the vehicle, road conditions and driving frequency, Gregory says. He recommends having them checked at every oil change.
buttress (plural buttresses) ( 1 architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it. 2  Anything that serves to support something; a prop. ( 3 botany) A buttress-root. ( 4 climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
Buttresses and an arch of the Roselend Dam in France. A buttress dam or hollow dam is a dam with a solid, water-tight upstream side that is supported at intervals on the downstream side by a series of buttresses or supports.The dam wall may be straight or curved. Most buttress dams are made of reinforced concrete and are heavy, pushing the dam into the ground.ater pushes against the dam, but the buttresses are inflexible and prevent the dam from falling over. Buttress or hollow gravity dams were originally built to retain water for irrigation or mining in areas of scarce or expensive resources but cheap labour.