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.
The flying buttress may be the most well-known, but throughout the history of architecture, builders have designed different engineering methods to buttress a masonry wall. The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture sites these types: angle buttresses. clasping buttress.