The Bridge Stress Committee was appointed in 1923 by the UK Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under Sir Alfred Ewing, to investigate stresses...
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was also invited to serve on the Government Bridge Stress Committee investigating stresses in railway-bridges, especially as regards the effects of moving...
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Kingdom, the Government Bridge Stress Committee investigated the impact of hammer blow in the creation of stresses in railway bridges and of the need to balance...
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Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, sometimes hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder generally occurring in response to complex...
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with the widely known (but as yet unpublished) findings of the Bridge Stress Committee, which gave engineers a better scientific understanding of the...
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Ashtabula River railroad disaster (redirect from Ashtabula bridge disaster)
shear stress. Nevertheless, the bridge did not sag this time. Upon completion, the bridge was tested by having three locomotives run over the bridge at speed...
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2009). "Maximum dynamic stress on bridges traversed by moving loads". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Bridge Engineering. 162 (2): 75–85...
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straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. There are several types of truss bridges, including some...
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floating bridge (set up cost ₹2,140,000, annual maintenance cost ₹200,000) An arched bridge The committee eventually decided on a floating bridge. It extended...
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Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German (redirect from Bridge Guy)
Indiana, United States. Their bodies were discovered near the Monon High Bridge Trail, part of the Delphi Historic Trails, after the girls had disappeared...
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Charles Inglis (engineer) (redirect from Inglis Bridge)
appointed to a sub-committee of the British government's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bridge Stress Committee by Ewing, who was chairman...
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scheduled "stress testing" of the bridge following installation and has no knowledge or confirmation from FIU's design build team of "stress testing" occurring...
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Emily Warren Roebling (category American bridge engineers)
to him the progress of work on the bridge. She developed an extensive knowledge of strength of materials, stress analysis, cable construction, and calculating...
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Structural integrity and failure (section Dee bridge)
the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when a material is stressed beyond its strength limit, causing fracture or excessive deformations;...
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carriageway of the suspension bridge, as bridges of this type were unsuited to locomotive use. By 1840, a Treasury committee decided broadly in favour of...
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The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn...
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photoelasticity) between the stress diffusion in an elastic body (on the left) and a model of masonry (on the right). A highly localized stress percolation is visible...
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Second Severn Crossing (redirect from Second Severn Bridge)
are two high twin-leg, reinforced and pre-stressed concrete pylons carrying 240 cables which support the bridge deck, rising to a height of 149 metres (489 ft)...
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The unique design of the Churchill Memorial Bridge, which was supported by two cantilevers of pre-stressed plywood and covered with a thin canvas membrane...
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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part...
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Ruby Bridges is a 1998 television film, written by Toni Ann Johnson, directed by Euzhan Palcy and based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, one of the first...
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A pioneer in using pre-stressed concrete in bridge construction, Freyssinet's contribution to the design of Gladesville Bridge was among the last works...
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2007). "Too much stress on I-35W bridge?". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved August 7, 2007. Davey, Monica (August 3, 2007). "At Bridge Site, Search of...
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The West Gate Bridge is a steel, box girder, cable-stayed bridge in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, spanning the Yarra River just north of its mouth into...
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Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel (redirect from Brooklyn-Battery Bridge)
their opposition to the bridge plans, 17 civic groups formed a committee, and the Municipal Art Society criticized the proposed bridge as an act of "vandalism"...
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Activists and founded the Committee of Progress and Union (CPU, Osmanlı Terakki ve İttihat Cemiyeti). This unsuccessful attempt to bridge the divide amongst...
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Bridge KML is from Wikidata The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (RFK Bridge; also known by its previous name, the Triborough Bridge) is a complex of bridges...
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imposed a limit of 77.22 N/mm2 (5 LTf/in2) for the maximum design stress in railway bridges; this was revised as technology progressed. The original design...
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edges of the deck, this causes torsional stresses every time a train crossed the bridge. As built, the bridge sagged by as much as 3 feet (0.91 m) when...
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The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over the Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland...
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