• Rankine's method or tangential angle method is an angular technique for laying out circular curves by a combination of chaining and angles at circumference...
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    Commission. During his pupilage he developed a technique, later known as Rankine's method, for laying out railway curves, fully exploiting the theodolite and...
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  • (disambiguation) Rankine (crater) Rankine power station Rankine theory Rankine vortex Rankine's method Rankine–Hugoniot equation Trouton–Rankine experiment...
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    Cinetheodolite Dumpy level Inclinometer LIDAR Macrometer Plane table Rankine's method Survey camp Temporary adjustments of theodolite Manufacturers Leica...
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  • The Wood method, also known as the Merchant–Rankine–Wood method, is a structural analysis method which was developed to determine estimates for the effective...
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  • The Rankine lecture is an annual lecture organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after William John Macquorn Rankine, an early contributor...
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  • to the shock-fitting method, where shock waves are explicitly introduced in the solution using appropriate shock relations (Rankine–Hugoniot relations)...
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    2022). "Review: Joining Rankine's American Conversation". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved December 6, 2023. "Claudia Rankine's Just Us Is A Conversation...
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    open-ended vacuum tube with a gas jet seal that allows particles to exit, a method of charging slugs of tungsten or mercury to millions of volts, and directing...
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    mechanically adds power back to the drive-line, utilizing a Rankine engine as the energy conversion method. The WFHRS is designed for a variety of different applications...
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  • Marcus's method is a structural analysis used in the design of reinforced concrete slabs. The method was developed by Henri Marcus and described in 1938...
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    alphabet at the time. A lesser known method, more popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, is the Chaldean method; in this context, "Chaldean" is...
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  • Sarma method is a method used primarily to assess the stability of soil slopes under seismic conditions. Using appropriate assumptions the method can also...
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  • Omega Method is a comprehensive approach developed for assessing the remaining life of components operating in the creep range. Unlike other methods such...
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    mid ‘70s where a practical method of harnessing it using selectively permeable membranes by Loeb was outlined. The method of generating power by pressure...
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  • to take a more objective tone. An example of this is found in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric, which the book's publisher classifies as both...
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  • obtained from solving models numerically (Rayleigh–Ritz method) and finally from the finite element method (FEM), which is another approach for modelling and...
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    geophysical methods are also used to obtain data, which include measurement of seismic waves (pressure, shear, and Rayleigh waves), surface-wave methods and downhole...
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    Daniel Hendle Rankine (born 24 May 1983), known professionally as Trials, is an Ngarrindjeri rapper, songwriter, and record producer hailing from Adelaide...
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    considered a soil mass bounded by a single failure surface. Originally, Rankine's theory considered the case of only cohesionless soils, with Bell subsequently...
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  • Biron, Lauren (3 January 2023). "Berkeley Lab Scientists Develop a Cool New Method of Refrigeration". News Center. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved...
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    thinner than the smaller.[citation needed] The long and short quoining method instead places long stone blocks with their lengths oriented vertically...
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    Regenerative cooling is a method of cooling gases in which compressed gas is cooled by allowing it to expand and thereby take heat from the surroundings...
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  • Hayy, if read to represent אֲבַגְ/יְתַץ and שְׁקוּ/צִית. Skinner and Rankine's explanation (in Rudd 2007, pp. 71–73) of how the triliterals are produced...
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    A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right...
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  • coefficient of variation using a non-central t-distribution to give an exact method for the construction of the CI. Standardized moments are similar ratios...
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    William Rankine, Peter Tait, and William Thomson. By the 1870s, the term had acquired a use of its own. In his 1873 paper "Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics...
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  • Varying Weather Conditions for a Dynamic Simulation of the Solar Organic Rankine Cycle". Energies. 8 (7): 7058–7069. doi:10.3390/en8077058. ISSN 1996-1073...
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    explanation. The derailment had been the result of a broken locomotive axle. Rankine's investigation of broken axles in Britain highlighted the importance of...
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    The ideal thermodynamic cycle used to analyze this process is called the Rankine cycle. In general usage, the term steam engine can refer to either complete...
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