Reinforced
concrete
Reinforced
concrete, is Portland Cement concrete
in which steel reinforcement bars ... Behavior of
reinforced
concrete Materials ...
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Concrete
(section
Reinforced
concrete structures)
Concrete is a construction material
composed of cement (commonly Portland cement ...
Reinforced
concrete structures: Reinforced
concrete ...
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Ferrocement
other steel mesh, and if needed reinforced
with steel wire or steel bars. ... com/flyingconcrete/ Flying
Concrete Steve Kornher's light weight
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Fiber reinforced
concrete
Fiber reinforced
concrete (FRC) is
concrete containing fibrous material
which increases its structural integrity. It contains short ...
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Reinforced-Concrete Highway Bridges in
Minnesota MPS
Reinforced-Concrete Highway Bridges in
Minnesota MPS is a Multiple Property Submission of bridges listed on the
National Register of ...
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Precast concrete
(redirect from
Reinforced
concrete box)
Precast concrete is a form of
construction, where concrete is cast in
a reusable ... Reinforced
concrete box: Image:Down the tunnel.
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Glass fiber reinforced
concrete
Glass Fiber Reinforced
Concrete (GFRC) is a type of fiber
reinforced
concrete . Glass fiber concretes
are mainly used in exterior building ...
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Pipe (material) (redirect from
Reinforced
Concrete Pipe)
(CPVC), fibre reinforced plastic (FRP,
reinforced polymer mortar ...
Reinforced
concrete can be used for large diameter
concrete pipes. ...
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Arch bridge (redirect from
Reinforced
concrete arch)
It is also possible to construct a reinforced
concrete arch from precast
concrete , where the arch is built in
two halves which are then ...
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Rebar
(redirect from
Concrete reinforcing bar)
A rebar, or reinforcing bar, is a
common steel bar, and is commonly used in
reinforced concrete and
reinforced masonry structures. ...
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Steel
Even those with a concrete structure
will employ steel for reinforcing.
... Long steel: As supports in reinforced
concrete Railroad tracks ...
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Glass
laboratory equipment , thermal insulator (glass wool ), reinforcement
fiber (glass-reinforced plastic , glass
fiber reinforced
concrete ), and art . ...
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Beam (structure)
In contemporary construction , beams are typically made of steel ,
reinforced
concrete , or wood . One of the most common types of steel ...
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BT Tower (disambiguation)
Of these, twelve are reinforced
concrete towers. The rest are of steel
lattice construction. Seven of the twelve are of similar design, ...
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Concrete cover
Concrete cover in
reinforced
concrete, the least distance between the surface of embedded
reinforcement and the outer surface of the ...
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Column
A reinforced
concrete column is extended by having the steel
reinforcing bars protrude a few inches
or feet above the top of the concrete
...
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Monocoque
Frameless glass fibre reinforced or
moulded plastic kayak s and canoe s and
reinforced concrete yacht hulls
are monocoques, larger ships ...
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François Hennebique
and self-educated builder who patented his pioneering
reinforced-concrete construction system
in 1892 , integrating separate elements of ...
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Concrete pylon
A concrete pylon, or
concrete pole, is an electricity pylon
made from reinforced
concrete .
Concrete pylons are manufactured at the ...
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Chiswick Bridge
Chiswick Bridge is a reinforced
concrete deck arch bridge over the
River Thames in West London . One of three bridges opened in 1933 as
...
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Robert Street Bridge
The Robert Street Bridge is a reinforced
concrete multiple-arch bridge that
spans the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul , Minnesota. ...
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Houghton Highway
The Houghton Highway is a 2.74 | abbr yes | precision 2
reinforced
concrete viaduct , shortening the road distance between the
cities of ...
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Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf
The Stuttgarter Fernmeldeturm (Stuttgart Telecommunication Tower)is a
reinforced
concrete tower for radio relay , FM and TV transmitting ...
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Alvord Lake Bridge
The Alvord Lake Bridge was the first
reinforced concrete bridge built
in America. an innovator in reinforced
concrete design, mixing ...
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Pye Green BT Tower
Pye Green BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of
reinforced
concrete at Pye Green , Staffordshire , England (SJ987142).
...
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Kuwait Towers
The Kuwait Towers are three towers of
reinforced concrete in Kuwait
City . The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaurant
...
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Krk
Bridge
Krk Bridge (Krčki most) is a 1430 m long
reinforced concrete arch bridge
connecting the Croatia n island of Krk to the mainland and ...
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Zagreb TV Tower
Zagreb TV Tower is a 169 metre (563 feet) tall TV tower built of
reinforced
concrete on the 1035 metre (3450 feet) tall mount Sljeme near
...
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Voided biaxial slab (section
Prestressed concrete)
Voided biaxial slabs are reinforced
concrete slabs in which voids reduce
the amount of concrete. the use of
reinforced
concrete is a ...
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Bremer wall
A Bremer wall is a twelve-foot-high (3.7 m) portable, steel-reinforced
concrete wall of the type used for
blast protection throughout Iraq ...
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Bixby Creek Arch Bridge
Bixby Creek Bridge is a reinforced
concrete open- spandrel arch bridge in
Big Sur , California . It is located 120 | mi | km south of ...
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Sutton Common BT Tower
Sutton Common BT Tower is a radio tower built of
reinforced
concrete at Macclesfield , Cheshire , England . built of
reinforced
concrete. ...
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Kingsgate Bridge
Kingsgate Bridge is a striking, modern
reinforced concrete construction
footbridge across the River Wear , in Durham , England . ...
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Queen Avenue Bridge
The Queen Avenue Bridge is a reinforced
concrete single-span barrel arch bridge
in Minneapolis, Minnesota that spans the tracks used by ...
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Heaton Park BT Tower
Heaton Park BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of
reinforced
concrete at Heaton Park , Manchester , England .
reinforced
concrete ...
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Veterans Memorial Bridge (Massachusetts)
The Veterans Memorial Bridge is a reinforced
concrete bridge under construction over
the Taunton River connecting Somerset, Massachusetts ...
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Constant slope barrier
A constant slope barrier is a traffic barrier made of
reinforced
concrete and designed with a single slope that is used to
separate lanes ...
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Ingalls Building
The Ingalls Building, built in 1903 in Cincinnati, Ohio , was the
world's first reinforced
concrete skyscraper . The 15 story
building ...
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Friedrich Clemens Gerke Tower
Friedrich Clemens Gerke Tower is a 230 metre tall telecommunication
tower of reinforced
concrete at Cuxhaven in Germany .
...
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TVP Katowice (tower)
TVP Katowice Tower is a 90 meter high
reinforced concrete
telecommunication tower in Katowice , Poland . It is the property of TP
...
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Tolsford Hill BT Tower
Tolsford Hill BT Tower is a telecommunication tower built of
reinforced
concrete at Tolsford Hill on the North Downs near Folkestone , UK
...
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Phoenix breakwaters
The Phoenix breakwater s were a set of
reinforced concrete caisson s
constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of ...
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Labworth Café
The Labworth Café is a pioneering modernist International style
reinforced
concrete building overlooking the Thames estuary at Labworth
...
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American Legion Memorial Bridge (Michigan)
The American Legion Memorial Bridge is a
reinforced concrete arch bridge
in Traverse City, Michigan . It was completed in 1930. ...
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Los Peñasquitos Creek Arch Bridge
It is a reinforced
concrete open-spandrel arch-bridge with
an overall length of 434 | ft | m, and an arch span of 220 | ft | m.
...
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Solar Observatory Tower Meudon
Solar Observatory Tower Meudon is a 36.47 metre tall tower built of
reinforced
concrete on the area of Meudon Observatory in Meudon , ...
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Belvedere water tower
The Water Tower Belvedere is a water tower of
reinforced concrete construction
in Aachen , Germany , located on the Lousberg hill. ...
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Ruckenkreuz
The Ruckenkreuz (Rucken Cross) is an 8.4 metre tall, 2.80 metre wide
memorial cross of reinforced
concrete . It stands on a rocky ...
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Schwandbach Bridge
The Schwandbach Bridge is a deck-stiffened
reinforced concrete arch bridge
near Berne in Switzerland , designed by Robert Maillart and ...
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Lilac Road Bridge
The Lilac Road Bridge is a reinforced
concrete arch bridge in San Diego,
California , built in 1978 . It was designed by Caltrans ...
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Rocky Creek Bridge (California)
Rocky Creek Bridge is a reinforced
concrete open- spandrel arch bridge in
California , built in 1932. It is located in Monterey County ...
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Nozema Zendstation, The Hague
Nozema Zendstation The Hague is a 133 metre high tower of
reinforced
concrete at The Hague, Netherlands. Nozema Zendstation The Hague
was ...
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Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower
Jakobsberg Telecommunication Tower is a 142 metre tall TV tower built of
reinforced
concrete on the 238 metre high elevated Jakobsberg ...
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Moores Creek Bridge
Moores Creek Bridge is an historic single span
reinforced concrete bridge
located on North 2nd Street between Avenues B and C in Fort ...
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140 William Street
Structure | Reinforced
concrete | Location | Melbourne ,
Victoria , Australia | 140 William Street in the CBD | Height | ...
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Dobrich TV Tower
Dobrich TV Tower is a 146 metres tall TV tower built of
reinforced
concrete near Dobrich in Bulgaria. Dobrich TV Tower, which was
designed ...
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Dollarton Bridge
The Dollarton Bridge comprises a pair of two-lane
reinforced
concrete spans over the Seymour River in North Vancouver ,
British Columbia ...
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Active Voice Building
The Active Voice Building in Seattle , Washington is a
reinforced
concrete and steel-frame office building with solar bronze
exterior ...
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Fremersberg Tower
Fremersberg Tower (German: Fremersbergturm) is an 83 metre tall
telecommunication tower built of reinforced
concrete with an observation ...
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Missile silo
The third was somewhat better protected, stored horizontally in a
concrete building known as "coffins",
then raised to the vertical ...
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Concrete slab
A Concrete slab is a common structural
element of modern buildings. Horizontal slabs of steel
reinforced
concrete , typically between 10 ...
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Corrosion
It is one of the most common failure modes of
reinforced concrete bridge s.
Corrosion in nonmetals: Most ceramic materials are almost ...
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Central Plaza, Hong Kong (section
Steel structure vs reinforced
concrete)
Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced
concrete building in the world, until
it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza , Guangzhou . ...
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List of largest domes in the world (section
Reinforced
concrete)
Reinforced
concrete: Held record Diameter Name Location Builder Comment |
Hall | Breslau , Poland | Deutsches Reich |
Reinforced concrete dome. ...
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Prestressed concrete
in tension It can be used to produce beam s, floor s or bridge s with a
longer span than is practical with ordinary
reinforced concrete . ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Rice | reinforced
concrete arch | Bridge No. 90980 | 1899
| 1997-01-09 Forest City 45 | 12 | 8 | N | 94 | 22 | 44 | W | name
Bridge No. ...
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Earthquake engineering (section
Reinforced
concrete structures)
Prestressed concrete is a kind of
reinforced
concrete used for overcoming concrete's
natural weakness in tension. ordinary
reinforced concrete. ...
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Radio masts and towers (section
Reinforced
concrete)
Reinforced
concrete ... In Germany and the Netherlands most towers
constructed for point-to-point microwave links are built of
reinforced ...
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Seismic retrofit (section
Reinforced
concrete column burst)
fiber-reinforced polymers, FRP, fiber
reinforced
concrete and high strength steel. Retrofit strategies are
different from retrofit ...
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Edward Giles Stone (section
Early Designs in Reinforced
Concrete)
was an Australia n engineer prominent in many innovative, often daringly
and spectacular, aspects of early reinforced
concrete ...
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François Coignet
He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and
reinforced
concrete Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced
...
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Robert Maillart (section
Development and use of reinforced
concrete)
Robert Maillart (February 6, 1872 - April 5, 1940) was a Swiss civil
engineer who revolutionized reinforced
concrete with such designs ...
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Grain elevator
Grain elevator bins, tanks and silos are now usually constructed of
steel or reinforced
concrete. Bucket elevator s are used to
lift grain ...
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Fiberglass (section
Glass-reinforced plastic)
properly known as fiber-reinforced
polymer (FRP) or glass- ... As with many other composite
materials (such as reinforced
concrete ), the two ...
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C.A.P. Turner
using reinforced
concrete , although this patent was
invalidated in 1915 and 1916 in favor of similar patents filed by
American engineer ...
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Big Creek Bridge (Oregon)
The bridge has a total length of 180 | ft | m | abbr on and contains one
120 | ft | m | abbr on reinforced
concrete tied arch, identical in ...
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List of longest masonry arch bridge spans
Arches with a core of reinforced
concrete covered by facade stone for
decoration are not to be included in this list, the load bearing ...
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Jaroslav Joseph Polivka
office in Prague and developed his skills in stress analysis of
reinforced
concrete , pre-stressed reinforced
concrete and steel structures. ...
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B Bond Warehouse
It is made from reinforced
concrete , with the ground floor in
black brick with a low plinth and patent red bricks, blue engineering
...
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Box girder bridge (redirect from
Concrete box girder bridge)
The box girder normally comprises either prestressed
concrete , structural steel , or a
composite of steel and reinforced
concrete . ...
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Port of Liverpool Building
It was constructed between 1904 and 1907, with a
reinforced
concrete frame that is clad in Portland Stone . The building
acted as the ...
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List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors
(section
Reinforced
concrete)
Reinforced
concrete: Rico, is an inventor who developed a modular system of
permanent forms for casting reinforced
concrete buildings on site. ...
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High-rise
The materials used for the structural system of high-rise buildings are
reinforced
concrete and steel . usually constructed out of
concrete. ...
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Beam bridge
descendant of the log bridge , now more commonly made from shallow steel
'I' beams , box girders , reinforced
concrete , or post-tensioned
concrete . ...
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Dolphin (structure)
The piles can be pressure treated wood poles, or steel or
reinforced
concrete beams, blocks or tubes. using a
reinforced
concrete capping ...
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Advance Concrete
aided design (CAD) software application developed by GRAITEC and used
for modeling and detailing reinforced
concrete structures in AutoCAD . ...
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Jamie L. Whitten Building
The east and west wings were the first Federal office buildings to be
built of reinforced
concrete The Whitten Building was
listed on the ...
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Pier Luigi Nervi
He is renowned for his brilliance as a structural engineer and an
architect , and for his novel use of
reinforced concrete. ...
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Seawall
Seawalls may be constructed from a variety of materials: most commonly,
reinforced
concrete , boulders, steel, or gabion s. Additional ...
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R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. Calumet Plant
The building was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw to be a fireproof
design of poured reinforced
concrete columns and an open-shell
...
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Properties of concrete
Concrete has relatively high
compressive strength , but significantly lower tensile strength , and as
such is usually reinforced with ...
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Joseph Monier
iron-reinforced cement panels for
building façades (1869); bridges made of iron-reinforced
cement (1873); reinforced
concrete beams (1878). ...
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T. V. S. R. Appa Rao
resistant Design of Structures and Development of High Performance
Concretes. ... Collapse loads of
reinforced
concrete cylindrical water ...
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Protection of exposed concrete
Protection of exposed concrete is
necessary to prolong its life. ... The design service life of
reinforced
concrete structures often is not ...
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GRAITEC
(section
Advance Concrete)
Advance Concrete is a
reinforced
concrete modeling and detailing software in AutoCAD, with
automated creation of reinforcement and ...
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Walter Burley Griffin
He has also been credited with the development of the L-shaped floor
plan, the carport and the first use of
reinforced concrete . ...
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London Bridge (Lake Havasu City)
The Arizona bridge is a reinforced
concrete structure clad in the original
masonry of the 1830s bridge, which was bought by Robert P. ...
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Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence)
The stadium is built entirely of reinforced
concrete with a 70 meter (230 ft) tower
that bears the stadium's flagstaff. The tower is ...
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His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
It is also thought to be the first reinforced
concrete building constructed in Perth.
Over its life, the theatre has hosted large-scale ...
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Wellington Cathedral of Saint Paul
It was constructed in reinforced
concrete due to the effects of the 1931
Napier earthquake , making other choices impractical. ...
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Through arch bridge
is a bridge made from materials such as steel or
reinforced
concrete in which an arch rises above the deck so it passes
through the arch. ...
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Dorchester Hotel
In the new edifice, the use of reinforced
concrete allowed the creation of large
internal spaces without support pillars. The ...
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S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium
Wooden tribunes were replaced with reinforced
concrete structures and placed in a
half circle. After Lithuania regained independence , in ...
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University Bridge (Saskatoon)
Instead, a new design was used and Saskatoon saw the start of its first
reinforced
concrete arch bridge in 1913. with its
concrete, and ...
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Grafton Bridge
Built of reinforced
concrete in 1910, it connects the
Auckland CBD with the Grafton suburb. Grafton Bridge spans about 97.6
metres (320 ...
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Albertus L. Meyers Bridge
The Albertus L. Meyers Bridge (also known as the Eighth Street Bridge
and unsigned as SR 2055) is a reinforced
concrete open- spandrel ...
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John Loudon McAdam
More recently, oil -based asphalt laid on
reinforced concrete has become a
major road surface, but its use of granite or limestone ...
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Paulinskill Viaduct
Built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and completed in
1910, it was the largest reinforced
concrete structure in the ...
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John S. Eastwood
John S. Eastwood (1857, Minnesota 1924, California ) was an American
engineer who built the world's first
reinforced concrete ...
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IS 456
(redirect from
Indian Concrete Code)
Plain and Reinforced
Concrete - Code of Practice is an
Indian Standard code of practice for general structural use of plain and
reinforced ...
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Concrete-Central Elevator
Concrete-Central Elevator is a historic
grain elevator located on the Buffalo ... When completed, it was
the largest reinforced
concrete ...
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Żerków
In 1962 a telecommunication tower of
reinforced concrete similar to
that at Piatkowo was built. People : Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz ...
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Wright's Ferry Bridge
It is constructed of reinforced
concrete and steel and has 46 equal
sections on 45 piers. U.S. Route 30 crosses it as a divided two-lane
...
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Shear strength
component (e.g. beams , plates , or bolts ) In a
reinforced
concrete beam, the main purpose of stirrups is to increase the
shear strength. ...
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Masjid Negara
Originally built in 1965, it is a bold and modern approach in
reinforced
concrete, symbolic of the aspirations of a then newly-independent
...
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ANZAC Bridge
The reinforced
concrete pylons are 120 metres
(393.7 ft) high and support the deck by two planes of stay cables.
Initially the stay cables ...
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Rialto Towers
The Rialto Towers (often The Rialto) is the second-tallest
reinforced
concrete building and the tallest office building in the Southern
...
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Vilnius TV Tower
The structure is composed of a concrete
base, a 190 | m | ft | 0 | abbr on long hollow
reinforced concrete pipe, a
reinforced
concrete ...
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Bernard Corrigan House
example of the Prairie Style , and it was one of the earliest
residential structures in Kansas City to make extensive use of
reinforced
concrete. ...
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The
Center
The Center is one of the few skyscrapers in Hong Kong that is entirely
steel-structured with no reinforced
concrete core. It is located on ...
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Oregon State Penitentiary
In 1866 it was moved to a 26 | acre | m2 | sing on site in Salem and
enclosed by a reinforced
concrete wall averaging 25 | ft | m in
...
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Sherwood Forest Bridge
The bridge is one of the few earth filled
reinforced concrete bridges
still in use within the province and is therefore considered to have
...
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Snow
shed
Depending on the threat level and size of area to be protected, they are
built of wood or reinforced
concrete See also : Avalanche dam
...
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Douglas Dam
Douglas Dam is a straight reinforced
concrete gravity-type dam 1705 feet
(520 m) long and 202 feet (62 m) high, impounding the 28420 | ...
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Arch-gravity dam
Arch-gravity dams are massive dams of
reinforced concrete that resist
the thrust of water by their weight pushing down using the force of
...
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West Kirby railway station
The canopy over the platform was renewed in
reinforced concrete at the time
of the 1938 electrification, but the station building across ...
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Bridgeport Lamp Chimney Company Bowstring Concrete
Arch Bridge
designed by Frank McEnteer This elegant bowstring
reinforced
concrete arch bridge represents a traditional bridge type which
was readily ...
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MLC
Centre
It is one of the world's tallest reinforced
concrete buildings and was the tallest
building in the world outside North America at the ...
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Fountain of Time
Part of a larger beautification plan for the Midway Plaisance, Time was
constructed from a new type of molded, steel-reinforced
concrete ...
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Franklin Avenue Bridge
The reinforced-concrete open-spandrel
arch ed structure was completed in 1923. The bridge's overall length is
1054.7 feet (321.47 m), ...
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Fairmont Palliser Hotel
was built by P. Lyall and Sons Construction Company with materials such
as stone, steel, reinforced
concrete and brick at a cost of
$1,500,000. ...
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Portsmouth Naval Prison
Erected near the site of former Fort Sullivan, the
reinforced
concrete naval prison was occupied from 1908 until 1974. Fort
Sullivan & Camp ...
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Governor Phillip Tower
Structure | Reinforced
concrete | Façade | Granite, Glass |
Architectural Style Modernist | Statistics | Roof | GPT: 227 m (745 ft)
| ...
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Spandrel
filled in usually with stone until the advent of steel and
reinforced
concrete in the 19th and 20th centuries. Open-spandrel bridges
...
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Nordic Ware
State Highway 7 The grain elevator was the first
reinforced
concrete circular grain elevator in the United States, and
possibly in the world ...
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Secunda CTL
consists of a 292 | m | ft | abbr on high windshield and four
reinforced
concrete flues which make it the tallest structure in South
Africa ...
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Tegart fort
Tens of the reinforced
concrete block structures were built to
the same basic plan, both along the so-called "Tegart's wall " of the
...
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Lake McClure
It is a rock-fill dam with a reinforced
concrete face and was completed in
1967. It is owned by the Merced Irrigation District, which ...
3 KB (412 words) - 16:47, 2 October 2009
Link River
The dam, a reinforced
concrete slab structure, regulates the
water levels in Klamath Lake, the principal supply of irrigation water
to the ...
2 KB (234 words) - 08:06, 31 January 2010
Russian neoclassical revival
It is characterized by merger of new technologies (steel frame and
reinforced
concrete ) with moderate application of classical order ...
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Fernmeldeturm Berlin
The Fernmeldeturm Berlin is 212 | m | ft | 0 tall, and its steel-reinforced
concrete shaft extends to a height of
187 | m | ft | 0. ...
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Gravity base structure
GBSs intended for offshore oil platforms are constructed of steel
reinforced
concrete , often with tanks or cells which can be used to ...
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Namihaya Dome
firm Kawaguchi & Engineers The dome is composed largely of
reinforced
concrete and steel frames and covers an area of approximately 25
000 m 2. ...
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AEGON Center
Currently the tallest building in the state of Kentucky , the building
is constructed of reinforced
concrete, as opposed to the steel
...
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Dzerzhinsky (town)
The town's industry comprises Heat and Power Central 22 (ru | ТЭЦ-22,
CHP-22), a reinforced
concrete constructions factory, and
military ...
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Chixoy hydroelectric dam
The Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam (Spanish: Planta Hidroeléctrica Chixoy) is
a reinforced
concrete dam and power plant spanning the Chixoy ...
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Tallinn TV Tower
The tower body was constructed of reinforced
concrete rings 50 cm thick that weigh a
total of 17,000 metric tons , and the total tower ...
4 KB (559 words) - 04:18, 17 December 2009
Thompson Arena
The barrel-vaulted, reinforced
concrete arena was designed by renowned
architect Pier Luigi Nervi . It was named for Rupert C. Thompson '
...
2 KB (242 words) - 06:18, 15 January 2010
Klarabergsviadukten
from the former monastery and present church of st St Clare ) is a
reinforced
concrete bridge and a viaduct in central Stockholm , Sweden .
...
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Al-Shaheed Monument
constructed of a galvanized steel frame with glazed turquoise ceramic
tile cladding which was pre-cast in carbon fiber
reinforced
concrete . ...
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James McHugh Construction Co
including Marina City , Water Tower Place and Trump Tower , all of which
were the worlds tallest reinforced
concrete structures at the time. ...
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Utility vault
Utility vaults are commonly constructed out of
reinforced concrete box es,
poured cement or brick. Small ones are usually entered through ...
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Siuslaw River Bridge
The bascule section is flanked by two 154 | ft | m | adj on
reinforced
concrete tied arches, identical to those used in the original
Alsea ...
2 KB (274 words) - 03:39, 26 April 2009
Jetěd Tower
Jetěd Tower is a reinforced
concrete construction with a shape
called hyperboloid , built between 1963 and 1968. Its architect was
Karel ...
2 KB (247 words) - 12:47, 22 December 2009
Manhattan Building (Muskogee, Oklahoma)
It was built in 1911 with a reinforced
concrete frame and gray brick cladding.
It was built in Sullivanesque architectural style, with ...
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Holt Fleet Bridge
The road deck was rebuilt in reinforced
concrete and widened at the same time.
Semicircular arches at each end, built in red sandstone , ...
2 KB (293 words) - 09:19, 13 January 2010
Frederick de Jersey Clere
pamphlet on building wooden churches), his best known design is St Mary
of the Angels (Catholic, 1922) of reinforced
concrete, in Wellington. ...
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Huntington Beach Pier
The most recent reincarnation of the pier is designed of
reinforced
concrete to withstand 31 | ft | m | sing on waves or a 7.0
magnitude ...
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Dōjunkai
the 1923 Kantō earthquake to provide
reinforced concrete (and thus
earthquake- and fire-resistant) collective housing in the Tokyo area.
...
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Ore
dock
They are commonly constructed from wood, steel,
reinforced
concrete , or combinations of these materials. They are commonly
used for loading ...
12 KB (1,474 words) - 14:46, 17 September 2009
Antoni Wiwulski
The latter building was started in 1913 and was the first example of
usage of reinforced
concrete in former Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth ...
4 KB (515 words) - 16:34, 11 December 2009
Bank of America Tower (Jacksonville)
The 42 floor structure was designed by German-American architect Helmut
Jahn , and is constructed of reinforced
concrete . See also ...
3 KB (277 words) - 02:56, 2 February 2010
Cape Creek Bridge
Opened in 1932, it was designed by noted bridge engineer Conde
McCullough and built of reinforced
concrete by John K. Holt The total
...
3 KB (384 words) - 06:00, 19 June 2009
Soesdyke-Linden Highway
The superstructures of the bridges, which were of greenheart, were
reconstructed with reinforced
concrete to a higher standard of live
...
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Hammersmith Flyover
It was one of the first examples of an elevated road employing
reinforced
concrete balanced cantilever beam supports with a single central
...
2 KB (278 words) - 11:33, 23 December 2009
Oscar Faber
deflection tests, which enabled him to develop his theory of Plastic
yield in concrete , and to calculate
shear in reinforced
concrete beams . ...
2 KB (220 words) - 10:23, 23 December 2009
Sunshine Building
Trost, a pioneer of reinforced-concrete
construction, used it on the Sunshine Building in combination with
yellow brick facing. ...
2 KB (317 words) - 14:24, 20 August 2009
Émile Aillaud
(principally heavy construction employing prefabricated
reinforced-concrete panels) by adopting
more individualizing urban planning strategies. ...
1 KB (160 words) - 01:06, 28 November 2009
1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
incorporates a number of innovative and elegant construction and modern
architectural design elements in its
reinforced concrete
construction. ...
5 KB (670 words) - 21:42, 29 November 2009
Centre City Building
Its tower portion was completed in 1927, making it one of the tallest
reinforced
concrete buildings in the world at that time. ...
3 KB (315 words) - 20:37, 15 January 2010
Oaşa
Dam
The project was started and finished in the 1980s and it was made up by
the construction of a reinforced
concrete facing rockfilled dam ...
1 KB (127 words) - 04:54, 22 October 2009
Zendstation Smilde
Its base is an 80 metre high reinforced
concrete tower, on which a guyed mast
is mounted. At construction the height of the tower of ...
1 KB (190 words) - 15:25, 27 December 2009
St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
It is built of reinforced
concrete and brick with a timber roof
supported by concrete arches with steel
tie rods. Notes: 2 41 | 17 | 19.57 | S ...
3 KB (286 words) - 04:10, 21 December 2009
Irōzaki Lighthouse
This structure was destroyed during a wind storm on November 14, 1932
and was replaced with the current reinforced
concrete structure on ...
3 KB (334 words) - 15:00, 1 August 2009
Prai River Bridge
Two 40m high, reinforced
concrete (grade 80N/mm2) cable stay
pylons. Each pylon accommodating 14 pairs of stay cables.- A 185m glued
...
2 KB (319 words) - 20:40, 24 November 2009
Joseph-Louis Lambot
died August 2, 1887 in Brignoles), is the inventor of ferro-cement ,
which led to the development of what is now known as
reinforced
concrete . ...
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Saint Croix Vanceboro Bridge
The bridge consists of three reinforced
concrete slab spans for a total length
of 37.82 metres, which carries a two lane roadway across ...
1 KB (142 words) - 12:22, 16 December 2009
Hilda Tablet
Dame Hilda is the inventor of musique concrète
renforcée (literally, "reinforced
concrete music"), and the composer of
the all-female ...
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History of structural engineering
Again taking reinforced
concrete design forwards, from 1892
onwards François Hennebique 's firm used his patented
reinforced
concrete ...
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Perkins Building
It was the tallest reinforced
concrete building in the Northwest and
the first building on West Coast to have a basement parking garage
...
2 KB (284 words) - 21:03, 31 January 2010
Bridge of Regeringsgatan
The bridge is a combined arch and beam bridge made of three
reinforced
concrete beams vaulted underneath and resting on two supports.
...
2 KB (323 words) - 17:00, 3 January 2010
List of bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks
naturally refrigerated, are constructed of
reinforced concrete and piped
with ammonia refrigeration to cool the track down prior to its run.
...
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Judenplatz
Created by British artist Rachel Whiteread , the memorial is a
reinforced
concrete cube resembling a library with its volumes turned ...
18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:27, 10 January 2010
GRAITEC Advance
Advance Concrete : a software
application integrated into AutoCAD for modeling and detailing of
reinforced
concrete structures. ...
3 KB (376 words) - 06:54, 12 October 2009
Millennium Bridge (Dublin)
80 km from Dublin - in Carlow - as a portal frame structure made up of a
slender steel truss and resting on reinforced
concrete haunches ...
2 KB (219 words) - 18:28, 5 June 2009
Fallturm Bremen
The entire tower, formed out of a reinforced
concrete shank, is 146 meters high.
free-standing within the concrete
shell, in order to ...
1 KB (204 words) - 11:15, 14 January 2010
Bell Aliant Tower
Aliant Tower and older still, the NBTel Tower, is a 127 metre high tower
of reinforced
concrete located in Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada . ...
4 KB (657 words) - 21:56, 24 January 2010
Lorrimore Square
The church and centre are housed in a
reinforced concrete building,
with a steep folded plate timber roof, which is covered in green ...
3 KB (417 words) - 18:37, 16 September 2009
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Designed by Nihon Sekkei (日本設計事務所), it is of
reinforced concrete
construction, with one basement floor and three floors above ground, and
...
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Bank of Mauritius Headquarters (Port Louis)
The 16,834m² reinforced
concrete structure which dominates the
city's skyline reached its final height in May 2006. The 22 storeyed
...
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El Vernona Apartments-Broadway Apartments
The reinforced
concrete and hollow-tile construction
complex was built by Ricketts and Haworth, owned by the Burns Realty
Company and ...
4 KB (579 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2009
311 South Wacker Drive
It was once the second tallest reinforced
concrete building in the world (after
Two Prudential Plaza , also in Chicago). date September ...
5 KB (684 words) - 00:52, 31 December 2009
Eladio Dieste
These forms were cheaper than reinforced
concrete, and didn't require ribs and
beams. In developing this approach, even in comparison with ...
4 KB (568 words) - 10:14, 29 January 2010
Snezhanka Tower
Snezhanka Tower (кула Снежанка) is a 156-metre-high television tower
built of reinforced
concrete with an observation deck near
...
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C. Brewer Building
Built of reinforced
concrete in a Mediterranean Revival
style , with cut sandstone and stucco and plaster finish, a walled
garden, and ...
3 KB (421 words) - 22:58, 8 November 2009
Diaolou
watchtowers) are fortified multi-storey towers, generally made of
reinforced
concrete . These towers are located mainly in Kaiping County
...
5 KB (627 words) - 19:39, 4 December 2009
The Bathtub
The Bathtub encompasses a large, roughly rectangular excavation down to
bedrock surrounded by reinforced
concrete walls, intended to ...
2 KB (350 words) - 05:07, 26 December 2009
American Institute of Pharmacy Building
Structure is steel and brick with reinforced
concrete floor and roof. The building
is faced with Vermont marble and faces a wide terrace ...
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List of tallest buildings in Fort Wayne
It is also the tallest reinforced
concrete building in Indiana The
second-tallest skyscraper in the city is National City Center, which
...
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Stiltsville
The structures stand on wood or reinforced
concrete pilings , generally ten feet
above the shallow water which varies from one to three ...
16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:06, 12 October 2009
Whitetopping
covering of an existing asphalt pavement with a layer of Portland cement
concrete . ... airport s. Fiber
reinforced
concrete is used in some ...
2 KB (351 words) - 07:46, 24 October 2009
Église Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre
exhibits features of Art Nouveau design while exploiting the superior
structural qualities of reinforced
concrete with lightness and
transparency. ...
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Earth sheltering
replace the cement within concrete
(such as fly ash ), as well as alternatives to
reinforced concrete (see more
under Materials: Structural). ...
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Negril Lighthouse
water to keep the 20 | m | ft (27 | m | ft according to Rowlett)
reinforced
concrete tower balanced and secured in the event of an
earthquake. ...
3 KB (399 words) - 23:45, 28 September 2009
Structural material (section
Reinforced
concrete)
method for overcoming the concrete 's
natural weakness in tension It ... span than is practical with
ordinary reinforced
concrete . ...
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Malmskillnadsbron
The bridge is a reinforced
concrete three- hinge d arch bridge
dressed in granite slabs. sides by concrete
walls perpendicular to Kungsgatan. ...
2 KB (269 words) - 16:16, 22 April 2009
Bridge Pavilion
Hadid chose fibre glass reinforced
concrete from the Austrian company
Rieder to envelope the bridge: she covered the outer skin of the ...
2 KB (250 words) - 10:45, 18 August 2009
Eight-Foot High Speed Tunnel
Instead of steel construction, it was built from
reinforced
concrete with walls up to 1 ft (0.3 m) thick. This resulted in an
"igloo - ...
5 KB (786 words) - 06:20, 2 July 2009
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse
The nine story reinforced
concrete structure is now a mix of
residential rental units and a storage facility. See also: National
Register of ...
3 KB (337 words) - 16:22, 16 October 2009
Rousse TV Tower
The Rousse TV Tower is a 204-meter high TV tower built of
reinforced
concrete at Rousse , Bulgaria . Originally, the structure was
...
2 KB (323 words) - 13:26, 27 December 2009
Dixie Terminal
The Dixie Terminal, located at Fourth and Walnut Streets, was
constructed of reinforced
concrete and finished in gray brick,
Bedford ...
3 KB (386 words) - 01:00, 12 January 2010
East Charity Shoal Light
56 feet tall; property includes a rectangular,
reinforced concrete pier built
on a wooden crib foundation with protective riprap; and a ...
5 KB (652 words) - 16:58, 13 January 2010
Royal Tweed Bridge
The design is of reinforced
concrete and consists of four unequal
arch es. The bridge altogether spans a distance just short of 430 ...
2 KB (290 words) - 01:29, 4 May 2009
Europe 1 Transmitter Building
In front of the building, there is a telecommunication tower of
reinforced
concrete, which should be used for transmitting the programme
...
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Generals' Highway Stone Bridges
The bridges are typically reinforced
concrete barrel arches with uncoursed
stone facing on the sides. The concrete
is not visible to ...
3 KB (436 words) - 01:57, 13 January 2010
Dragon Bridge
It is the first bridge in Slovenia paved with asphalt , the first
reinforced
concrete bridge in Ljubljana , and one of Europe's earliest
...
6 KB (752 words) - 09:34, 11 December 2009
Kulpenburg TV tower
This tower built of reinforced
concrete was built between 1959 and
1964 and has an observation deck and a restaurant in a height of 76
...
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A Tale of Two Cities (1946 film)
damage done to military industrial targets, as well as noting which
edifices sustained less damage, like those built with
reinforced
concrete. ...
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Bicaz-Stejaru Hydro Power Plant
The project was started and finished in the 1950s and it was made up by
the construction of a reinforced
concrete dam 127 m high, which ...
1 KB (169 words) - 15:04, 26 May 2009
Ebene Cyber Tower
The reinforced
concrete tower which was completed in a
period of only 18 months is a fully air-conditioned building with a
surface area of ...
2 KB (308 words) - 09:50, 16 October 2009
Los Quiroga Dam
Los Quiroga is both a level-keeping and a diversionary dam, consisting
of a reinforced
concrete wall that is 390 m long and 7
m tall, ...
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Roof
deck
plywood or OSB sheathing, wood tongue and groove, corrugated metal,
grancrete encapsulated polystyrene ,
reinforced concrete, and double
tee. ...
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Purdy Bridge
Hadley At the time it was built, Purdy Bridge was the first bridge in
the United States to utilize a
reinforced-concrete box girder design ...
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Tegelberg Cable Car
The cableway has a 38 metre high support pillar, made of
reinforced
concrete. Image:Tegelbergbahn Lower Station. jpg | View of the
lower ...
1 KB (155 words) - 18:56, 27 December 2009
Summit Square
One Summit Square is the tallest office building in Fort Wayne, Indiana
, United States , as well as the tallest
reinforced concrete ...
2 KB (278 words) - 17:26, 3 January 2010
Las Vegas High School Academic Building and Gymnasium
The stucco -covered reinforced
concrete buildings are decorated with a
variety of polychrome medallions and friezes depicting animals ...
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M. Wile and Company Factory Building
The four story building erected in 1924, is constructed of
reinforced
concrete and features curtain walls of metal sash windows. ...
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Röchling shell
The shells ware able to penetrate an impressive (for its caliber) 14
feet of reinforced
concrete, but had low muzzle velocity,
and as such ...
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Lysefjord Bridge
The supporting towers are 102 meters tall, and are made of
reinforced
concrete . External links : http://en. structurae.
de/files/photos/1510/ ...
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Magic
Box
Magic Box, is the term used for pre-cast
Reinforced concrete box es in
India.
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Harold Gourley
lecture to the Salford Technical and Engineering Association on
reinforced
concrete construction He also submitted a paper for publication
...
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Boulder Bridge and Ross Drive Bridge
The reinforced
concrete arch bridge was designed by
architect W. J. Douglas and was built at a cost of $17,636 Ross Drive
Bridge was ...
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Petschek Palace
Despite its historicizing look, the building was then a very modern one,
being made of reinforced
concrete and being fully air- ...
2 KB (317 words) - 08:27, 4 January 2010
XYZ
Line
were expensive systems of fortifications and bunkers made of
reinforced
concrete, the XYZ Line was a simpler system of defenses in depth
...
4 KB (499 words) - 19:49, 30 January 2010
Van Antwerp Building
It is regarded as the first reinforced
concrete skyscraper in Alabama and the
Southeastern United States . The 120 | ft | m | adj on ...
3 KB (299 words) - 21:01, 30 January 2010
Wythenshawe Bus Garage
It was the second large reinforced
concrete shell roof structure to be
constructed in England. its concrete
arches have a span of 165ft ...
2 KB (257 words) - 03:59, 26 December 2009
Stockwell Garage
However, at Stockwell the opportunity was taken to create a bravura
piece of reinforced
concrete design. The 393 | ft | m |
abbr on long ...
2 KB (334 words) - 00:25, 26 March 2009
Balclutha Road Bridge
The bridge is built from reinforced
concrete, with six parabolic curved
spans, each of 36.6 metres in length, and a total bridge length of
...
2 KB (334 words) - 09:40, 8 December 2009
M150 Penetration Augmented Munition (PAM)
building of a boiling water reactor (BWR), or to the prestressed
reinforced-concrete containment vessel
of a pressurized water reactor (PWR). ...
2 KB (353 words) - 05:00, 9 July 2009
John Eastwood
John S. Eastwood (18571924), American engineer who built the world's
first reinforced
concrete multiple arch dam John
Eastwood (politician ...
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Qaisery Gate (Rail Bazar)
The entrance itself is made of reinforced
concrete and painted pale yellow and
light brown to give it a Mughal look. The gate original ...
1 KB (168 words) - 07:17, 17 December 2009
Langen Foundation
has double-skin volume and two half-buried temporary exhibition wings;
The structure mainly consists of reinforced
concrete , glass and steel. ...
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Toker
Dam
The dam is a reinforced
concrete core dam. The dam is 67 metres
tall and was constructed for the Ministry of Construction. The dam can
...
1 KB (151 words) - 19:13, 26 January 2010
KENI Radio Building
The reinforced
concrete two story building was owned
by Cap Lathrop , who had worked with Porreca on Lathrop's Fourth Avenue
Theatre . ...
2 KB (241 words) - 16:51, 21 May 2009
Mount Vernon Mill No. 1
1881); and a later, reinforced-concrete
warehouse (1918). It served as headquarters for Mount Vernon-Woodberry
Mills, one of the worlds ...
2 KB (298 words) - 18:12, 14 June 2009
Stańczyki
Built of reinforced
concrete, each of the bridges has five
arches of 15 metres of length each. The northern viaduct was constructed
...
2 KB (276 words) - 09:17, 18 November 2009
P.C. Cobb Stadium
The 22,000 seat stadium was built of
reinforced concrete under the
Works Progress Administration program in 1939 and was used for high
...
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Thegon Bridge
The clearance is 51 feet wide and four feet high and the
reinforced
concrete bridge can withstand 60 tons of load. References : Burma
...
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Current River Greenway
Part of the trail system incorporates the Black Bay Bridge, North
America's first single spandrel , reinforced
concrete bridge, which was ...
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Packard Motor Car Showroom and Storage Facility
It is a three story, reinforced
concrete frame structure with
restrained Neo-classical detailing. It was designed by Albert Kahn in
about ...
2 KB (307 words) - 06:18, 12 January 2010
List of French loanwords in Persian
béton armé | بتون ارمه | bétonārmé |
reinforced concrete | bifteck |
بیفتک | biftek | steak | bigoudi | بیگودی | bigudi | hair curler |
...
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Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology
development of the theory of structures,
reinforced-concrete, prestressed-concrete
steel and timber structures, framework building, ...
3 KB (414 words) - 15:33, 7 August 2009
Rahimtulla Tower
The tower is a reinforced
concrete structure, and clad with
blue-tinted glass and white louvre tiles. The tower has 22 storeys,
including ...
1 KB (188 words) - 07:50, 27 March 2009
Museum Hotel de Wheels
Weighing an estimated 3500 tonnes, this
reinforced concrete building was
moved from its original site, now the location of the Museum of ...
2 KB (362 words) - 06:53, 3 May 2009
Stadio di Corso Marsiglia
The first Italian sportive stadium with artificial light and built in
reinforced
concrete has been home to Italian giants Juventus F.C. ...
2 KB (192 words) - 00:49, 25 August 2009
Ashgabat Independence Monument
These elements include a 91-meter reinforced
concrete tower with a 27-meter high
golden gilt steel construction on top of the tower, along ...
1 KB (173 words) - 22:23, 21 August 2009
Mizpah Hotel
The reinforced
concrete hotel was faced with stone on
the front and brick on the sides and rear. The neighboring three-story
Brougher- ...
4 KB (569 words) - 19:24, 21 December 2009
Frank Baron
the use of reinforced
concrete for pavement and dam s, and
Hardy Cross, an undisputed authority on contemporary structural frame
analysis. ...
4 KB (568 words) - 14:47, 22 December 2009
Bellingham National Bank Building
It was constructed in a utilitarian commercial style with
reinforced
concrete. Even though this particular style was common for cities
in ...
2 KB (191 words) - 21:23, 31 December 2009
Jewish Young Men's and Women's Association
The buildings are of steel frame and
reinforced concrete construction
with exterior walls of brick veneer. The buildings feature Colonial
...
2 KB (293 words) - 05:56, 12 January 2010
Rundel Memorial Library
It is a monumental, three story plus basement building framed in
reinforced
concrete and faced in smooth Indiana limestone . ...
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Monier
Joseph Monier (1823-1906), one of the principal inventors of
reinforced
concrete. Louis Monier (born 1956), founder of Internet search
...
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Solnabron
The viaduct is 230 metres long and 27 metres wide; the roadway is made
of a reinforced
concrete floor resting on welded iron
girder s ...
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PL Peace Tower
PL Peace Tower is a 180 metres tall observation tower built in 1970 in
Tondabayashi, Japan, which consists of
reinforced concrete. ...
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Exchange Building (Seattle, Washington)
At the time of its completion, the Exchange Building was the
second-tallest reinforced
concrete skyscraper in the United
States . ...
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Berkeley Apartments (Buffalo, New York)
It was constructed between 1894 and 1897, and is one of the earliest
examples of a large multistory building built of
reinforced
concrete ...
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Trico Plant No. 1
The building is constructed of reinforced
concrete and features curtain walls of
metal sash windows and brick spandrels. It was home to ...
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Attaran Bridge
The bridge is suspended by steel cable with a
reinforced concrete foundation.
It is 1,420 feet long and 24 feet wide and was reported to ...
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Edward Stone
0), Australian engineer working with
reinforced concrete and
manufacturing cement. Edward James Stone (18311897), British
astronomer, ...
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RebarBID
RebarBID is for use in the Estimator phase of the
Reinforced
Concrete process. RebarBID is a material take-off software
application ...
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Cloncurry Courthouse
A block at the rear of the building contains toilets and a
reinforced
concrete strong room. History: The present courthouse is the
second on ...
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Bank of New Zealand building, Wellington
The building, designed by William Turner (son of Thomas Turner ), is one
of Wellington's earliest reinforced
concrete and steel structures ...
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Poliforum Benito Juarez
The arena was built of reinforced
concrete in order to withstand
hurricanes that may come through the Mayan peninsula . It can also serve
...
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Twickenham Bridge
The final design of the bridge was of three
reinforced-concrete arches supported on
concrete piers with Art Deco embellishments. ...
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Luangwa Bridge
The First Luangwa Bridge was built in Zambia's colonial era in 1932 as a
narrow 300 m long wide steel and reinforced
concrete deck on ...
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Boiling water reactor
the Mark I containment, consisting of a rectangular steel-reinforced
concrete building, along with an
additional layer of steel- ...
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Steel plate shear wall
plate walls have become a very attractive alternative to other steel
systems, or to replace reinforced
concrete elevator cores and shear
walls. ...
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Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer or
carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP
or CRP), ... Applied to reinforced
concrete structures for flexure, ...
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Czeslaw Brzozowicz
whose heady expansion plans - typical for the time - called for several
reinforced
concrete structures in Toronto, Waterloo, Windsor and ...
4 KB (666 words) - 19:44, 18 December 2009
Textile reinforced materials
with negligible elongation properties are
reinforced with woven or nonwoven fabrics. ... kevlar or
jute reinforced
concretes to withstand ...
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Huntington Harbor Light
The foundation is cast reinforced
concrete crib and the lighthouse is
made out of cast reinforced
concrete. The tower is square "castle"
...
4 KB (529 words) - 03:31, 27 January 2010
Redondo Beach pier
The pier's modern reinforced
concrete version was completed in 1995,
and has brought back the appeal to Redondo Beach's business ...
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Structural steel (section
Steel vs. concrete)
Steel on its own, without composite or
reinforced concrete floors, is
likewise not a preferred building method. and
Reinforced concrete ...
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Landslide mitigation
structural wells, piles or reinforced
ground) to contrast the ... elements are large diameter full
section or ring section reinforced
concrete wells. ...
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British hardened field defences of World War II
prefabricated variant, the shuttering both inside and out was
provided by precast concrete slabs
slotted into reinforced
concrete posts. ...
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Carbon grid
Carbon Grid FRP Structures for use in
reinforcing concrete ...
for the steel to begin to share the load in the steel
reinforced
concrete composite. ...
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Hankley Common
Nearby are other obstacles such as dragon's teeth , huge
reinforced
concrete blocks and lengths of railway track set in
concrete and wire ...
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Ove
Arup
University and in 1918 enrolled for an engineering degree at the
Polyteknisk Lĉreanstalt , Copenhagen, specialising in
reinforced
concrete. ...
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Wilson River Bridge
The success of the Marsh version of the
reinforced-concrete tied-arch, using angle steel and
concrete, may have influenced C.B.
McCullough ...
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Amyas Connell
in the middle of a building boom remarkable for the early use of
reinforced
concrete to construct dairy factories and commercial buildings.
...
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Project Riese
These projects required 328,000 cubic yards of
reinforced concrete (including
small quantities of masonry), 277,000 cubic yards of ...
27 KB (3,698 words) - 00:40, 12 January 2010
National Register of Historic Places listings in Ramsey County, Minnesota
93 | 5 | 14.6 | W | name Robert Street Bridge Saint Paul | a
reinforced
concrete multiple-arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River in
...
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Pacific Coast Borax Company
The first reinforced
concrete building constructed in the
United States was the Pacific Coast Borax Company's refinery in Alameda,
...
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Interlachen Bridge
The Interlachen Bridge is a reinforced
concrete arch bridge on William Berry
Parkway between Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet in ...
4 KB (544 words) - 22:45, 22 December 2009
Road surface (section
Concrete)
In jointed reinforced
concrete pavements, designers increase
the joint spacing purposely, and include
reinforcing steel to hold together ...
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ColumbiaWrightsville Bridge
Constructed of reinforced
concrete, the 5183 | ft | m | sing on
long bridge (7,374 feet including spans over land) has 27 river piers,
22 ...
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Steel plate construction
Steel plate construction is a rapid method of constructing heavy
reinforced
concrete items. It was developed in Korea in 2004. ...
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10th Avenue Bridge
It has an open spandrel arch design, and it is constructed of
reinforced
concrete . Higher and longer than any preceding bridge in the
...
5 KB (761 words) - 22:21, 12 November 2009
Geodesic dome
Some concrete domes have been
constructed from prefabricated, prestressed, steel-reinforced
concrete panels that can be bolted into
place. ...
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Marine Midland Building
about a foot, blew out all the windows on that side of the building and
opened a 5 | ft | m | sing on hole in the
reinforced concrete floor.
...
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Craigellachie Bridge
function was replaced by a reinforced
concrete bridge built by Sir William
Arrol & Co. which opened in 1970 and carries the A941 road today. ...
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George Grenfell Baines
In 1935, he was awarded the Heywood prize for the design of
reinforced
concrete flats. The following year he was awarded the third prize
...
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Harrison Albright
He was an early proponent of reinforced
concrete construction. John L. Wright ,
son of Frank Lloyd Wright was employed in the Albright ...
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John Coode (engineer)
He designed the lighthouse at La Corbière in Jersey which was the first
lighthouse in the British Isles to be built of
reinforced concrete. ...
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FRC
Fiber reinforced
concrete , a
concrete with fibers as reinforcements. Field-Reversed
Configuration , a type of magnetic fusion energy device ...
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Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
were supported by steel-concrete
composite columns, floors 5 through 29 by
concrete sheer walls and 29 to 51 by
reinforced concrete columns.
...
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Morris Park (IRT Dyre Avenue Line)
The headhouse is notable for its graceful Spanish Mission style
architecture and robust reinforced
concrete construction. The handsome
...
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Bunker buster
The bombs had strong casings because they needed to travel through rock
rather than reinforced
concrete, though they could perform
equally ...
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Connaught Tunnel
The tunnel was later lined with reinforced
concrete and equipped with a better
ventilation system. Originally double track ed, it was ...
3 KB (421 words) - 05:55, 25 January 2010
Lackawanna Cut-Off
The Cut-Off pioneered the use of reinforced
concrete on a grand scale, as well as
the use of massive cutting and filling. Between 1908 ...
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Nakagin Capsule Tower
The cores are rigid-frame, made of a steel frame and
reinforced
concrete. From the basement to the second floor, ordinary
concrete was ...
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Montford Bridge
The bridge cost £5,800 to build It was widened in 1963 by adding a
reinforced
concrete slab. Regarding the bridge, Telford wrote: ...
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Eastcote tube station
brick and glass ticket hall capped with a flat
reinforced concrete roof and
geometrical forms typical of the new stations built in this period.
...
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Stalin Monument (Prague)
The largest group sculpture in Europe during its existence,the monument
had a reinforced-concrete structure
faced with 235 granite ...
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Weston Favell
Made reinforced
concrete it is almost 'a cathedral to
consumer worship'. A new annex built in the new millennium also features
simple ...
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Tokyo Japan Temple
The exterior of the temple is reinforced
concrete covered with 289 pre-made
panels of stone, which look like light gray granite. ...
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Formwork (redirect from
Concrete forms)
temporary or permanent moulds into which
concrete or similar materials are poured. ... invention of
Portland cement and reinforced
concrete . ...
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Belenski most
It was reconstructed between 1922 and 1923 with
reinforced
concrete props and arches, but its initial appearance was
altered. ...
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Bristol Harbour Railway
The reinforced
concrete goods shed on Canon's Marsh is
now a listed building and houses At-Bristol . Little else of the railway
on the ...
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Fourth Avenue Theatre (Anchorage, Alaska)
The building's structure is reinforced
concrete with travertine on the
exterior street level. As the Lathrop Building, the complex included
...
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PAST
The building was one of the first reinforced
concrete constructions of this
magnitude in Europe. The Cedergren license expired in 1922 and ...
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National City Center (Cleveland)
The tower itself was not built with steel, instead it became Cleveland's
tallest reinforced
concrete structure. A floor was poured
and ...
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No. 3 Fighter Sector RAAF
The main operations building was made of 30 | cm | in | 0 | adj on thick
reinforced
concrete designed to withstand a direct bomb hit. ...
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Burnham Beeches (Australia)
The exterior of the house was reinforced
concrete, painted white and decorated
with Australian motifs of koala s and possums in moulded ...
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James Salmon (18731924)
In 1904-5 Salmon was responsible for the Lion Chambers on Hope Street,
an early example of reinforced
concrete construction. ...
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High Sensitivity GPS
to 30 dB more sensitive, this is sufficient to track through 3 layers of
dry bricks, or up to 20 cm of steel reinforced
concrete for example. ...
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Desamparados station
In the process of its construction modern materials and techniques were
used such as reinforced
concrete and expanded metal One of the
...
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Puchezh
Town's industries now include a plant producing
reinforced
concrete works, a woodworking industry , and their cultural
pride: Istoki ...
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Melbourne Turkish consulate bombing
blasted a crater in the reinforced
concrete wall and caused an intense
fireball to strike nearby buildings, damaging about 20 buildings ...
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Warsaw Trade Tower
The central element of the building is
reinforced concrete core in the
interior are quick lift, reach the speed of 25.2 kilometers per ...
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Merced Theatre
Company in Los Angeles to construct the Reid Brothers design for the
multi-level, white stucco coated steel framed
reinforced concrete building.
...
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Mangue de Setes Ribeiras
a small fraction uses steel reinforced
concrete. The living standards are
around the low to middle range as well as its income, one time, ...
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Brickdam Cathedral
Construction took 10 years (1921-1931), using
reinforced concrete . Granite
stone came from the Dalli and Wolga quarries on the Essequibo ...
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Hawthorn Bridge
widened by the Railways Construction Branch, using in-situ electric arc
welding ; the timber deck was also replaced with
reinforced
concrete . ...
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Joseph Chaley
It was replaced in 1923 by a reinforced
concrete arch bridge . Chaley's other
suspension bridges include the 227m Pont du Gottéron (1840); ...
2 KB (349 words) - 00:34, 23 December 2009
Arlington Pumping Station
underground coal pocket 33 feet long by 27 feet wide by 10 feet high,
covered by a reinforced
concrete roof over which the side track
is carried. ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho
Valley | Reinforced
concrete arch | Owsley Bridge | 1921 |
1998-09-18 Hagerman 42 | 45 | 52 | N | 114 | 53 | 21 | W | name Owsley
Bridge ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Sedgwick | Rainbow reinforced
concrete | Marmaton Bridge | 1878,
1879, 1974 | 1982-05-11 Fort Scott 37 | 51 | 33 | N | 94 | 40 | 14 | W |
...
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Shallow foundation
Slab-on-grade foundation : Fiber reinforced
concrete Precast
concrete Prestressed
concrete Structural engineering Tie rod
Rebar ...
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Air-raid shelter
The walls of the towers had a minimum thickness for
reinforced
concrete of 0.8m and 1.5 meters for ordinary
concrete. The towers' were ...
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Skyscraper
Today, however, many of the tallest skyscrapers are built almost
entirely with reinforced
concrete Pump s and storage tank s
maintain ...
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Félix Candela
Candelas major contribution to structural engineering was the
development of thin shells made out of
reinforced concrete . ...
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Cinderella Castle
frame construction, and a ten inch thick
reinforced concrete wall
encircles the structure to the full height of the outermost "stone"
walls. ...
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In East Berlin
pyramids of middle-range and lower-register notes cascade from his hands
in bursts in the opening section of the lengthy "Reinforced
Concrete." ...
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Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House
The Hoist House contains the largest steam hoisting engine in the world,
which sits on the the largest reinforced
concrete engine ...
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Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
The design proposed was a simple elevated viaduct consisting of
reinforced
concrete vertical pylons and post-stressed precast
concrete ...
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Canton Viaduct
Reinforced
concrete (roadway portal and deck arches) Deck -
Reinforced
concrete (new deck and cross ties ) Waterproof cement (on coping
stones ...
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Los Angeles Harbor Light
However, the plans were changed and the Los Angeles Light was firmly
anchored to the concrete block and
built of steel reinforced
concrete ...
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Kier Group
such as contiguous cylindrical reinforced
concrete grain silos and cement silos,
using continuously sliding formwork; commencing with ...
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Blast shelter
The most common purpose-built structure is a steel-reinforced
concrete vault or arch buried or
located in the basement of a house. ...
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Svinesund Bridge
The total length of the bridge is 704 metres (2,310 ft ) and consists of
a substructure in ordinary reinforced
concrete together with a ...
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Jardinette Apartments
Neutra chose reinforced
concrete for Jardinette, with long
spans of reinforced
concrete allowing for unbroken window
strips. ...
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International Textbook Company
(1924, 1928, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1936): Plain- And
Reinforced-
Concrete Construction Volume 318 (1905, 1906, 1917, 1930 & 1931):
Geometry and ...
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Bathhouse Row
The building is a two-story reinforced
concrete structure finished with stucco
on the exterior. A one-story enclosed sun porch spans ...
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List of European medium wave transmitters
711 | Bad Mergentheim | 3 | Long wire antenna on tower of
reinforced
concrete, dismantled | SWR-cont. ra | shut-down | 711 | Rennes
France ...
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Snowhill
sets of reinforced
concrete columns supporting the viaduct
which consists of reinforced
concrete beams and a
reinforced
concrete parapet . ...
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Burj Khalifa
as is typical with reinforced
concrete construction, each batch of
concrete used was tested to ensure it
could withstand certain pressures. ...
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Wollongong Lighthouses
constructed of reinforced
concrete to withstand the strong winds
and splashing waves where it stands on the eastern side of Flagstaff
Point. ...
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Centre Street Bridge (Calgary)
The upper deck, a reinforced
concrete arch structure, spans 178 and
is 15 wide. The lower deck, an "I" girders structure, runs for 150 and
...
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Metro Expo Line (LACMTA)
Then approximately 3-ft-diameter holes were drilled in the trenches, and
reinforced-concrete columns were cast
in these holes, forming ...
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Sizewell nuclear power stations
The foundations for the reactors and associated boilers are provided by
a reinforced
concrete raft 8 feet (2.4 metres) thick, founded on ...
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John Monash
in introducing reinforced
concrete to Australian engineering
practice. ... John Gibson to form the
Reinforced Concrete & Monier
Pipe ...
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Engineered cementitious composite (redirect
from
Bendable concrete)
Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC), also called bendable
concrete, is an easily molded mortar
-based composite reinforced with ...
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Construction worker
reinforcing bar s and mesh used to
reinforce
concrete on construction projects ...
jSkm5bcM3A8H0l3AOrxU7XgD-TI title Reinforced
Concrete Design ...
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Basilica of Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc (Paris)
A design by Auguste Perret created a sensation with a 200 meter bell
tower of reinforced
concrete and stained glass. The Perret
design ...
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Arbogast & Bastian
more modern facility It was the first
reinforced concrete meat packing
plant in the United States The Arbogast & Bastian plant, which ...
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Mountain Dell Dam
Multiple arch reinforced
concrete dam of the Eastwood design.
After consideration, the multiple arch type was chosen. One of the
factors ...
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Bandai Bridge
The current bridge contains six arches and is made of
reinforced
concrete with granite siding. It is 306.9 meters long, 21.9
meters wide ...
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Alperton tube station
The new station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern Europe an
style using brick, reinforced
concrete and glass. Like the stations
...
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Church Street Bridge
The current bridge was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear and opened in
1923, having three reinforced
concrete arches supported by piled
...
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Kingspan Off-Site
Established in 2001, Fibrecon manufactures insulating wall panels
consisting of a lightweight reinforced
concrete face. This business has ...
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William Kelly Wallace
Wallace devised an innovative method of constructing
reinforced
concrete bridges using T-section pre-cast
concrete beams carried on ...
4 KB (522 words) - 11:15, 18 December 2009
Jörg Schlaich
the developer of the solar tower (or solar chimney) and is largely
credited with inventing the strut and tie model for
reinforced
concrete ...
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BP Pedestrian Bridge
The bridge, which uses steel girder s,
reinforced concrete abutment s
and deck slabs , hardwood deck, and a stainless steel veneer , cost
...
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Francis Acea
Solo exhibitions : Reinforced
Concrete. Center for the Development of
the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba. 1997. 1996 Sugar-water and the ...
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Blackstone Hotel (Ft. Worth, Texas)
The structure was built with reinforced
concrete , and the exterior boasted
buff color brick with terra cotta ornament throughout. ...
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S-8
rocket
S-8B | Penetrating | 1.5 m | 15.2 kg | 7.41 kg (0.6 kg of explosive) |
1.2 to 2.2 km | 800 mm versus reinforced
concrete. |
reinforced ...
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Carrington Power Station
Approximately 7,850 piles were made, all of
reinforced concrete
construction, with an average length of 30 | ft and with a load of 50 |
t ...
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Massive Ordnance Penetrator
Specifications : reinforced
concrete 26 | ft | m | 1 | abbr on of.
10000 | psi | MPa | 0 | abbr on reinforced
concrete 130 | ft | m | 0 | abbr on
...
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Union Mill Complex
The original timber framing has been replaced by
reinforced
concrete on the lower stories. The east tower has a clock face in
one dormer ...
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Water Tower Place
The tower section is a 74-story 859 foot (262 m)
reinforced
concrete slab, faced with gray marble, and is the eighth tallest
building in ...
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Milutin Milanković
He built dam s, bridge s, viaduct s, aqueduct s and other structures in
reinforced
concrete throughout the Austria-Hungary of the time. ...
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Centre Georges Pompidou
Steel superstructure with reinforced
concrete floors | location Paris ...
Construction: Reinforced
concrete | 50,000 m 3 | Metal framework
| 15, ...
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Hershel W. Williams
vainly to open a lane for the infantry through a network of
reinforced
concrete pillboxes, buried mines, and black volcanic sands, Cpl
...
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Tie rod
The rebar used in reinforced
concrete is not referred to as a "tie
rod", but it essentially performs some of the same tension-force- ...
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Fanipol
In 1965 the first factory in Fanipol opened, producing
reinforced
concrete bridge components, the only factory in Belarus which
produces ...
5 KB (622 words) - 23:04, 18 November 2009
Lorient
Between February 1941 and January 1942 three gigantic
reinforced
concrete structures were built on the Keroman peninsula. They are
called ...
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Como Park, Zoo, and Conservatory
It is significant for being one of the oldest examples of a
reinforced
concrete bridge. http://www. mnhs. org/places/nationalregister/
...
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Kamakura Museum of National Treasures
The main building is a two-story reinforced
concrete construction with tile-roofing
and a building area of about 800㎡. There is no ...
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Marina City
When finished, the two towers were both the tallest residential
buildings and the tallest reinforced
concrete structures in the world.
...
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Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals
in two sections: a two-story steel and wood frame section built in
1920-21, and a six-story reinforced
concrete portion built in 1930-1931.
...
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CyberBunker
One level is above ground and the other levels are underground protected
by up to 5 meters of reinforced
concrete outer walls. ...
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Stockton landmarks
interior brick walls covered with reinforced
concrete or metal lath and plaster,
roof and balcony of reinforced
concrete, floors of white ...
37 KB (6,064 words) - 04:35, 19 December 2009
Permanent way: historical development
Some experiments were made before 1945 with
reinforced concrete sleepers, in
most cases with bullhead chairs mounted on them. ...
36 KB (5,752 words) - 09:46, 31 January 2010
Yorba Linda Water District
The aging 4.6-million-gallon reservoir will be replaced with a 6
million-gallon underground reinforced
concrete reservoir that will bring
...
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City Architect of Birmingham
The use of reinforced
concrete, cedar boards and aluminium
frames for windows and the lack of brickwork showed how much influence
S. T. ...
17 KB (2,627 words) - 23:02, 17 December 2009
Housing in Japan
secure gate, with centralised postboxes; they are usually more sturdily
built than apaato, normally of reinforced
concrete (RC) construction. ...
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List of Japanese World War II navy bombs
Capable of penetrating 400 mm of reinforced
concrete. | No.80 | Land Bomb | 1,760
lb | 842 lb | Picric acid or Type 98 explosive | ...
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Oskar Sosnowski
Sosnowski's projects were based on traditional historical forms, but he
used new materials as reinforced
concrete . He also developed ...
18 KB (2,548 words) - 10:35, 23 December 2009
J.A. Jones Construction
Jones built many of the regions textile mills, office buildings and
built the first reinforced
concrete building in the area. ...
18 KB (2,965 words) - 18:18, 22 January 2010
History of the Jacksonville Jaguars
The Gator Bowl stadium was built out of steel trusses and was frequently
built onto, with the final addition of the
reinforced-concrete ...
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Montgomery Ward
In most cases, these reinforced
concrete structures were the largest
industrial structures in their respective locations. The Baltimore
...
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Bad
Dürkheim
The Fernmeldeturm, a 130 m-tall steel-reinforced
concrete mast, stands on the
Weilerskopf and is used by Deutsche Telekom . This Typenturm ...
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National Palace (Haiti)
Made of white-painted reinforced
concrete, the two-story National Palace
had a central section featuring a domed entrance pavilion whose ...
17 KB (2,525 words) - 20:31, 27 January 2010
Churches in Bohol
The date of the construction of the church is uncertain, although, the
generous use of reinforced
concrete for the façade and the bell
...
48 KB (7,875 words) - 14:55, 29 November 2009
Imperial War Museum Duxford
tail 16 | m | abbr on high The roof was constructed as a double-layered
concrete shell , built in 924 precast
reinforced
concrete sections. ...
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Vesnin brothers
The Vesnin brothers easily won the contest with a Brutalist , simple
design emphasizing the structural grid of
reinforced concrete and ...
44 KB (5,974 words) - 21:53, 23 December 2009
BVZ Zermatt-Bahn
avalanche in 1947 was reerected as a steel bridge) were replaced by
reinforced
concrete structures, which enabled an increase in axle loadings .
...
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Hochtief
project using reinforced
concrete Philipp Helfmann died in the
same year, with his son-in-law, Hans Weidmann , taking over as Chief
Executive ...
31 KB (4,158 words) - 22:09, 18 September 2009
Freedom Monument
whole monument is built around a frame of
reinforced concrete and was
originally fastened together with lead , bronze cables and lime mortar .
...
30 KB (4,386 words) - 19:38, 9 January 2010
Drax Power Station
The station's boiler house is 76 | m | abbr on high, and the turbine
hall is 400 | m | abbr on long The reinforced
concrete chimney ...
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Channel Tunnel
On the French side, neoprene and grout sealed bolted linings made of
cast iron or high-strength reinforced
concrete were used. ...
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Battle of Verdun
Moulainville ) had been thoroughly hardened during the early 1900s with
very thick steel-reinforced
concrete tops resting on a sand
cushion. ...
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Stella power stations
North station's four 73 | m | abbr on cooling towers were made from
reinforced
concrete and were of the typically, hyperbolic , http://commons.
...
52 KB (6,882 words) - 02:33, 5 December 2009
Jacksonville Jaguars
during the Great Depression and was frequently built onto, with the
final addition of the reinforced-concrete
west upper deck coming in 1982. ...
51 KB (7,439 words) - 21:37, 1 February 2010
Josef Melan
Josef Melan (1854-1941) was an Austrian engineer He is regarded as one
of the most important pioneers of reinforced
concrete bridge- ...
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Concrete shell
A concrete shell, also commonly called
thin shell concrete structure, is a
... made from thin steel reinforced
concrete, and in many cases ...
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Railroad tie (section
Concrete)
Traditionally, ties have been made of wood , but
concrete is now ... Corridor by
installing steel-reinforced
concrete ties, updating some of ...
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Salginatobel Bridge
Salginatobel Bridge is a reinforced
concrete arch bridge designed by
renowned Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart . It was ...
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Masonry
(section
Concrete block)
granite , travertine , limestone ; concrete
block, glass block, and tile . ... is that a CMU wall can be
reinforced by filling the block ...
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Composite material (redirect from
Quartz-fiber reinforced plastic)
steel and aggregate reinforced portland
cement or asphalt concrete . ...
Fibre -reinforced composite materials
can be divided into two main ...
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Deep foundation (section
Prestressed concrete piles)
Deep foundations can be made out of timber , steel ,
reinforced
concrete and pre-tensioned concrete
. it with concrete, mass or
reinforced. ...
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Bunker
The most common purpose-built structure is a buried, steel
reinforced
concrete vault or arch . Most expedient (makeshift) blast
shelters ...
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Dolos
(redirect from
Concrete jack)
A dolos (plural dolosse) is an unusually-shaped
concrete block weighing up to 20 ...
Dolosse are normally made from un-reinforced
concrete, ...
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Electricity pylon
Yangtze River Crossing Nanjing | 1992 | China | Nanjing | 257 m |
Tallest pylons in the world, built of
reinforced concrete | ...
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Home Place, Kelling
innovative technologies, such as the use of
reinforced concrete, extensive
external decoration, a distinct building philosophy involving ...
15 KB (2,407 words) - 20:28, 3 September 2009
Canning Bridge
In 1997, the reinforced
concrete overlay on the bridge decks
was replaced, and was expected to help lengthen the lifespan of the
structure ...
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Bison concrete armoured lorries
This Thornycroft Bison was one of a number of
concrete armoured lorries, built in ... Despite un-reinforced
concrete's poor performance as ...
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Foundation (engineering)
Historically, piles were wood , later steel ,
reinforced concrete , and
pre-tensioned concrete . date September
2009 Base-isolating ...
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Wadsworth Mansion At Long Hill
Had the Colonel not used reinforced
concrete the structure would not have
survived. In 1994 the City of Middletown purchased the Estate and ...
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Battle of Corregidor
the water line and used the island as a foundation to build a
reinforced
concrete "battleship", 350 feet (107 m) long and 144 feet (44 m)
...
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History of Cincinnati
1902 - First reinforced
concrete skyscraper - the Ingalls
Building . http://www. gccc. com/pdf/living/firsts. pdf. 1905 - Daniel
Carter Beard ...
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Thermoset polymer matrices
including glassreinforced polyester
radar domes on aircraft and graphite - ... Epoxy-reinforced
concrete and glass-reinforced
and carbon- ...
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Albert C. Martin, Sr.
He is also credited with developing a system of
reinforced
concrete construction, along with
reinforced brick masonry. Early career ...
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Unity Temple
Because of its consolidation of aesthetic intent and structure through
use of a single material, reinforced
concrete , Unity Temple is ...
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Rail tracks
There are a number of proprietary systems, and variations include
continuous in situ placing of a reinforced
concrete slab, or ...
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New Safe Confinement
The west wall is constructed of large concrete
sections reinforced by buttresses. The
complexity of the segments of the west wall ...
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Cotter Bridge
The Cotter Bridge, also known as the R.M. Ruthven Bridge and the White
River Concrete Arch Bridge, carries
... See also: Reinforced
concrete Arch ...
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Sixth Street Viaduct
The viaduct is composed of three independent structures: the
reinforced
concrete west segment, the central steel arch segment over the
...
4 KB (454 words) - 05:36, 6 January 2010
Terence Patrick O'Sullivan
He specialised initially in steel and
reinforced concrete structures.
Later he founded a firm of consulting engineers, T. P. OSullivan ...
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Church of the Light
The one element carried through Tadao Ando's structures is his
idolization of the reinforced
concrete wall. The importance given to
walls ...
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List of Aar bridges in Bern
150px | Lorrainebrücke | Lorrainebrücke : First
reinforced
concrete high level bridge, built in the then-popular Heimatstil
to resemble ...
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EN 1992
(section
EN 1992-2: Reinforced and prestressed
concrete bridges)
EN 1992, also known as Eurocode 2: Design of
concrete structures, is the European ... EN 1992-2:
Reinforced and prestressed
concrete bridges ...
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Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory
Although the structure is generally weather-tight, due to both solid
construction and a copper roof, the reinforced
concrete tower is ...
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RAF Greenham Common
Below was a massive titanium plate, 3 m of sand and a
reinforced
concrete plate. The shelters were completely covered with tons of
clay. ...
34 KB (5,431 words) - 21:59, 15 January 2010
Non-line-of-sight propagation
They may be mixed: for example, many NLOS paths result from the LOS path
being obstructed by reinforced
concrete buildings constructed ...
28 KB (4,214 words) - 18:20, 24 July 2009
Lake Burley Griffin
On the southern side of the Central Basin, low
reinforced concrete retaining
walls were used, while on the eastern side, grouted rock wall ...
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Ground granulated blast furnace slag
Instances of chloride attack occur in
reinforced concrete in marine
environments and in road bridges where the
concrete is exposed to ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
Pedro | Lighthouse firmly anchored to the
concrete block and built of steel
reinforced concrete; only
lighthouse ever built to this design | ...
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Steel frame
stone , reinforced
concrete , architectural glass , sheet
metal and simply paint have been used to cover the frame to protect the
steel ...
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Air entrainment (section
Air entrainment in concrete)
The failure of reinforced
concrete is most often due to this
cycle, which is accelerated by moisture reaching the
reinforcing steel. ...
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Oscar Niemeyer
He was a pioneer in exploring the formal possibilities of
reinforced
concrete solely for their aesthetic impact. His buildings are
often ...
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Sampoong Department Store collapse
building was constructed with a substandard
concrete mix of cement and sea water and poorly
reinforced
concrete on the ceilings and walls. ...
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Fallingwater
Wrights design reviewed by a firm of consulting engineers as he doubted
whether Wright had sufficient experience with using
reinforced
concrete . ...
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St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath
The present reinforced
concrete and brick structure replaced a
temporary building which was a daughter church to Haywards Heath's
parish ...
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British anti-invasion preparations of World War II
Only reinforced
concrete structures such as pillboxes
are common, and until recently, even these have been unappreciated as
historical ...
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Wood
Wood is also commonly used as shuttering material to form the mould into
which concrete is poured during
reinforced
concrete construction ...
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National Fertilisers Limited
IS 456-200: Code of practice for plain and
reinforced concrete also allows
use of fly ash based PPC in reinforced
concrete works. ...
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Campbell Park, Australia
staggered back on tall concrete pillars
to match and blend with the ... where short lengths of
reinforcing steel still points in the
direction ...
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Reservoir
Reservoirs are often created by building a
reinforced dam , usually out of
concrete , earth , rock , or a mixture across a river or ...
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Shakespeare Bridge
As part of the seismic retrofit , the deck, sidewalks, and railings were
removed and reconstructed using reinforced
concrete. ...
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a
concrete barrier built by ... 000 separate sections of
reinforced
concrete, each 3.6 | m | ft high and ...
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Slip forming
is a concrete construction technology
that enables cast-in-place "flawless" (i.e. ... thick made of
steel reinforced
concrete formed in one ...
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La Vicaria Arch Bridge
Each arch is embedded at the ends in a
reinforced concrete block (the
smallest being 6 m long, 7 m high and 5 m wide) connected by means of
...
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Green Island (Egypt)
It was built on a bed of stable corals and made out of
reinforced
concrete and consisted of a one-story building with a large
courtyard. ...
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Materials science
Applications range from structural elements such as steel-reinforced
concrete, to the thermally insulative
tiles which play a key and ...
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Stadthaus: tallest timber tower in the world
org/wiki/Concrete
concrete and http://en. ... It
is estimated that the building would, if built in
reinforced
concrete, require about 120 ...
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List of tallest towers in the world
The basement can be made of reinforced
concrete or of lattice steel. All of
the below are over 100 metres. |! Tower! Year! Country! ...
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Planning for the Battle of Iwo Jima
Pillboxes near the beaches north of Mount Suribachi were constructed of
reinforced
concrete, many of them with walls four feet thick. ...
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O'Kane Building
It was the first building in Bend to be built using
reinforced
concrete as the primary building material and it housed the first
county ...
10 KB (1,540 words) - 07:27, 1 February 2010
Mannerheim Line (section
Unreinforced concrete bunkers in 19191924)
saving the cost of expensive reinforced
concrete , the roof was protected by
two to three metres of soil and one to three metres of stone rubble.
...
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Lui Seng Chun
The structural system for Lui Seng Chun consists of
reinforced
concrete shallow pad foundations supporting granite columns with
...
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Gustav Lindenthal
The materials being considered by engineers like Lindenthal were
reinforced
concrete, cable, and steel. Steel and
reinforced concrete were ...
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Melbourne Causeway
Transportation | id 700174 - Westbound 700181 - Eastbound | design
reinforced
concrete | mainspan 790.0 meters ( 2592.50 feet / 0.491 miles
...
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Small Diameter Bomb
During demonstrations, the SDB has successfully penetrated more than 8
ft (2.4 m) thick reinforced
concrete date February 2009. ...
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Pont de Bercy
Although identical in all respects to the original, the new addition is
built of reinforced
concrete and covered with a stone
dressing. ...
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Maryland Route 195
a triple span reinforced
concrete, open spandrel arch bridge
completed in 1932 The state highway heads through a moderate S-curve in
which ...
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E. Ross Adair Federal Building and United States Courthouse
The building has a structural system of
reinforced concrete and was one
of the first large federal buildings to use this method rather than
...
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Building implosion
, dynamite , or other explosives are used to shatter
reinforced
concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel
supports. ...
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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria)
church building was pulled down as it was old and another, larger
building was built with reinforced
concrete after the basilique style.
...
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Seagram Building
This method of construction using an interior
reinforced concrete shell to
support a larger non-structural edifice has since become ...
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Efflorescence
A very common example of where secondary efflorescence occurs is steel-reinforced
concrete bridges as well as parking
garages. ...
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CRV7
incendiary (SAPHEI/HEIAP) warhead designed specifically for use against
reinforced
concrete buildings, specifically hardened aircraft shelters.
...
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Bandra-Worli Sea Link
cable-stayed bridge with pre-stressed concrete
viaduct approaches, which links ... The tower is cast in-situ
reinforced
concrete using the ...
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Brandywine Shoal Light
This light, completed in 1914, featured a
reinforced concrete
superstructure on a cast iron and concrete
caisson, resting upon wooden and ...
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Jamuna Bridge
The pier stems are founded on concrete
pilecaps , whose shells were precast and infilled with in-situ
reinforced
concrete . ...
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
The foyer is at first floor level and the foyer building is supported on
octagonal reinforced
concrete columns, with an undercroft
below, ...
10 KB (1,599 words) - 10:47, 1 October 2009
Walter L. Dodge House
"Tiz," used to treat tired feet It was made out of
reinforced
concrete and blends Spanish mission and Modern architectural
styles The house ...
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Barwon River (Victoria)
Of reinforced
concrete construction, is a structure of extraordinary design and
listed on the Victorian National Estate Register. ...
15 KB (2,154 words) - 02:43, 28 December 2009
Calderwood Dam
The valve house is built of steel-reinforced
concrete, and is equipped with three
Francis turbine s. The powerhouse, a larger brick ...
9 KB (1,340 words) - 20:30, 31 January 2010
Torre Altus
The s building materials used in the tower were
reinforced
concrete in most of the structure, glass and aluminum in a
quarter of all the ...
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Marcus Hook Range Rear Light
Marcus Hook Range Rear Lighthouse was built in 1918 and was composed of
nine sections of reinforced
concrete. In 1925, the Marcus Hook
...
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Dodd Ford Bridge
The Commission advocated a 16-foot minimum roadway, steel stringers, and
preferred a reinforced-concrete deck.
Status : The Dodd Ford Bridge ...
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Twaron
paper , asbestos replacement, hot air filtration , sail cloth , speaker
woofers, boat hull material, fiber reinforced
concrete , drum heads ...
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Rammed earth
In modern variations of the method, rammed earth walls are constructed
on top of conventional footings or a
reinforced concrete base, ...
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BankWest Tower
Instead, reinforced
concrete panels were prefabricated
elsewhere and subsequently attached to the structure. conventional
reinforced
concrete ...
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Christian Menn
His extensive research and use of pre-stressed
concrete and reinforced
concrete has changed the way bridges
are built to day. ...
5 KB (777 words) - 10:16, 19 December 2009
Robert C. Weaver Federal Building
Building facts : Primary Materials: Reinforced
concrete. Prominent Features: Sweeping
form; load-bearing, precast wall units plaza redesigned ...
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Domodedovo International Airport
467 | r2-length-m 3,800 | r2-surface
Reinforced Concrete | r3-number
14R/32L | r3-length-f 11,483 | r3-length-m 3,500 | r3-surface ...
15 KB (1,880 words) - 03:35, 31 January 2010
Petronas Twin Towers
constructed on a cheaper radical design of super high-strength
reinforced
concrete High-strength concrete
is a material familiar to Asian ...
25 KB (3,530 words) - 23:35, 1 February 2010