Little encyclopedia too Wind load

• Wind engineering (redirect from Wind load)
  Wind engineering analyses effects of wind in the natural and the built environment ... Wind loads on buildings: account for wind loads, and these ...
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• Curtain wall (section Loads)
  The wall transfers horizontal wind loads that are incident upon it to the main building structure through connections at floors or columns ...
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• Wind turbine
  A wind turbine is a rotating machine that converts the kinetic energy of wind ... The stress in each blade due to wind loading changes sign ...
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• Kishor C. Mehta
  Mehta has chaired the American Society of Civil Engineers ' task committee on wind loads and organized the 11th International Conference ...
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• Specified load
  In civil engineering , specified loads are the best estimate of the actual loads a ... redesign or renovation) and wind load, as described below. ...
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• Mullion
  A mullion acts as a structural member, and it carries the dead load of the weight above the opening and the wind load acting on the window ...
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• Spontaneous glass breakage
  All glass is engineered to withstand expected wind loads at the site. and the thickness selected is inadequate, wind loads can cause breakage. ...
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• Awning (section Wind Tolerance and Construction)
  These aluminum awnings are often used when a fabric awning is not a practical application where snow load as well as wind loads may be a ...
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• Wind power
  Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as ... load shedding , or storage solutions or system ...
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• List of tallest structures in the United States
  Prices generally vary depending on tower capacity and wind loading specifications. A common misperception is that landmarks such as the ...
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• Shukhov Tower
  Due to its lattice structure , the steel shell of the Shukhov Tower experiences minimum wind load (the main hazard for high-rising ...
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• Structural dynamics (redirect from Wind loading)
  structural analysis which covers the behaviour of structure s subjected to dynamic loading. Dynamic loads include people, wind, waves, ...
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• Republic Plaza, Singapore
  The tower tapers as it rises, forming some triangular elements, to reduce buffeting due to strong wind s and improve wind loading. ...
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• Osaka Maritime Museum
  The requirement of the dome to resist seismic, wave, and wind loads and its successful completion, led to the building winning a ...
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• Rainscreen cladding
  an outer layer to keep out the rain and an inner layer to provide thermal insulation, prevent excessive air leakage and carry wind loading. ...
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• Copper cladding
  When selecting size of a cladding element, take wind-loadings into account, and also consider the standard sizes available of the sheet (or ...
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• DIB-200
  The gaps between the modules are designed to reduce wind loading on the structure. The design has been criticized for looking as if it owes ...
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• Hurricane-proof building (section Wind loading considerations)
  Tornadoes , cyclones , and other strong winds damage or destroy many buildings. ... Wind loading considerations The foundation : Image:100 0587. ...
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• Bundle conductor
  As a disadvantage, the bundle conductors have higher wind loading. Previously, bundle conductors were thought to be useful only for very ...
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• SunTrust Financial Centre
  It was designed to take a 110 mph wind load. See also : List of tallest buildings in Tampa References : Florida. Category:Skyscrapers in Tampa, ...
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• Metal Building Manufacturers Association
  In 1974, MBMA began sponsoring wind load research that would help to resolve differences in various standards and codes. The then-current ...
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• T. V. S. R. Appa Rao
  Manjuprasad, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., and Appa Rao, T.V.S.R., 'Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of RC Cooling Tower Shell Subjected to Wind Load ...
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• Tay Bridge disaster
  Bouch claimed to have received faulty information regarding wind loading, but his later statements indicated that he may have made no ...
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• Wind turbine design
  Wind turbine designs are utilized to create wind turbine s that exploit wind energy ... to survive much higher wind loads (such as gusts of wind ...
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• Skyscraper design and construction
  The buildings must support their weight, resist wind and earthquakes ... buildings, the loads associated with wind are larger than dead or live loads. ...
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• Structural load
  Structural loads are force s applied to a component of a structure or to the ... equivalent loads for dynamic loads caused by wind, traffic or earthquake. ...
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• Fernmeldeturm Berlin
  Because of these aerials, the Fernmeldeturm Berlin had to be designed to withstand triple the wind loading of the comparably sized TV ...
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• Construction of the World Trade Center (section Wind effects)
  The perimeter columns were designed to provide support for virtually all lateral loads (such as wind loads) and to share the gravity loads ...
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• Gartow-Höhbeck transmitter
  to withstand great wind forces, as such antennas cause high wind loads, both masts are of a very strong design and anchored by double guys. ...
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• Dead and live loads
  In mechanical and structural engineering , live loads and dead loads are two kinds ... (or the wind speed increasing, snowfall or any other ...
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• World Trade Center
  strong, rigid wall structure, supporting virtually all lateral loads such as wind loads, and sharing the gravity load with the core columns. ...
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• HurriQuake
  after taking a research assistantship program at the Clemson Wind Load Test Facility , which had received funding through a grant from FEMA . ...
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• Structural failure
  Structural failure refers to loss of the load -carrying capacity of a component or ... designer Thomas Bouch to consider wind loading on the bridge. ...
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• Intermittent energy source (section Wind energy)
  such as wind and solar , (but not to geothermal generated electricity or ... back up, fast acting load management , diesel generator s(see ...
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• Staggered truss system
  Additional benefits discovered were high resistance to wind loads and versatility of floor layout with large column-free areas. ...
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• 590 Madison Avenue
  After wind tunnel tests, original structural system was revised because of the wind load. The frames around the elevator shafts are kept ...
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• Chenab Bridge
  Computation of wind load effects as per Wind tunnel tests. Site specific seismic spectra developed by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ...
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• Radome
  environment (e.g., wind , rain , ice , sand , ultraviolet rays, etc.) ... radome greatly reduces wind load in both normal and iced conditions. ...
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• Solar thermal energy
  Furthermore, if a material is chosen that has some flexibility, then a less rigid frame is required to withstand wind load. MicroCSP ...
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• Tent peg
  the size of the tent, and hence the weight of material to be kept in shape, and the wind load. primarily affecting the wind load on the tent ...
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• Aerodynamics
  empirical approximation and wind tunnel experimentation form the ... aeroelasticity , to calculate wind loads in the design of large buildings and bridge s. ...
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• Ocean House, Rhode Island
  required installation of interior structural sheer walls to bring the Ocean House up to current code for hurricane and wind loads date July 2009. ...
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• Geodesic dome
  During 1975, a dome was constructed at the South Pole , where its resistance to snow and wind loads is important. Residential geodesic domes ...
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• Wind power grid integration
  Large-scale use of wind power raises many questions in integration into the ... provisions must be made to supply load during days with low wind. ...
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• Wind gradient
  In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient or wind ... The design of buildings must account for wind loads, and ...
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• Civil engineering
  The loads can be self weight of the structures, other dead load, live loads, moving (wheel) load, wind load, earthquake load, load from ...
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• Diaphragm (structural system)
  lateral loads to shear wall s or frame s primarily through in- plane shear stress . These lateral loads are usually wind and earthquake ...
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• Shear wall
  effects of lateral load acting on a structure. Wind and earthquake loads are the most common loads braced wall lines are designed to counteract. ...
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• Alan Garnett Davenport
  He analyzed the wind's effect on a significant portion of the worlds ... His thesis of "The Treatment of Wind Loads on Tall Towers and Long ...
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• Chairlift (section Load testing)
  Depending on carrier size and loading efficiency, a passenger ropeway ... The rope must be tensioned to compensate for sag caused by wind load ...
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• Structural engineering theory (section Load cases)
  Structural engineering depends upon a detailed knowledge of loads , physics and ... 1.2 x Dead Load + 1.2 x Live Load + 1.2 x Wind Load ...
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• Jacobs Wind
  Jacobs Wind Electric Co. ... It has been designing consumer wind systems sized to the changing distributed electric loads of their periods ...
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• Steel design (section Load combination equations)
  roof live load,S snow load,R nominal load due to initial rainwater or ice, exclusive of the ponding contribution,W wind load,E earthquake load. ...
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• Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
  The instability in winds inspired the nickname Galloping Gertie. ... Austrian engineer Josef Melan to horizontal bending under static wind load. ...
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• FRP tanks and vessels
  or vacuum , hydrostatic loads, seismic loads (including fluid sloshing), wind loads, regeneration hydrostatic loads, and even snow loads. ...
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• Cyclone Larry
  However, the report does note that these structures should have resisted Cyclone Larry's wind loads as the winds impacting the buildings ...
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• Crown Fountain
  absorb weight with about 150 "outriggers", or "tiebacks", inserted through the video wall to support the glass blocks and absorb wind loads. ...
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• Central Plaza, Hong Kong
  Wind loading is another major design criterion in Hong Kong as it is situated in an area influenced by typhoons. resist the loads generally ...
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• Grand Canyon Skywalk
  Fine-tuning of the project occurred after a wind loading and pedestrian induced vibration analysis. Two tuned mass dampers were installed ...
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• Bridge Software Institute
  ATLAS handles the wind loading in a realistic manner. It allows the user to specify the wind speed as well as the areas of the signal ...
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• Millennium Bridge (London)
  Resonant vibrational modes due to vertical loads (such as trains, traffic, pedestrians) and wind loads are well understood in bridge ...
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• Garabit viaduct
  This method both simplified calculations and improved resistance to wind loads. When it opened with a single track in November 1885, the ...
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• Robert H. Scanlan
  recognized as a leader in the analysis of wind effects on large structures Scanlan ... aeroelasticity of bridges under wind loading, advances ...
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• Tension member
  Where P is the magnitude of the load and A is the cross-sectional ... Designing a tension member : W… is the wind load. the central problem of ...
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• Collapse of Can Tho Bridge
  uk, the number 0.5 and 2.5 is the coefficient for the wind loading http://www. nce. co. uk/collapsed-can-tho-bridge-engineers-knew- ...
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• Hip roof
  In areas like Northern Australia , or the Gulf Coast of the Southeastern United States, that are subject to high wind loading s and ...
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• Applied Science International
  throughout all stages of loading including static loads and dynamic loads such as those generated by blasts, seismic events, impacts and wind loads. ...
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• Shanghai Tower
  The design of the glass façade is described to be able to reduce wind loads on the building by 24%, meaning less construction materials ...
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• Second Severn Crossing
  The sides of the bridge are fitted with special railings to reduce lateral wind loads coming from the Severn estuary onto the traffic and ...
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• Papercrete
  Lateral load involves sideways force - the wind load on the entire area of an outside wall for example. Because papercrete walls are ...
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• Accelerometer
  Building and structural monitoring: Wind loads and wind gusts. Air blast pressure. Loss of support because of ground failure. Earthquake. ...
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• Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
  He appeared as an expert witness at the Tay Bridge disaster , where he gave evidence about the effects of wind loads on the bridge. ...
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• List of bridge failures
  collapsed because of structural deterioration and wind load exceeding estimate | 75 60 known dead | Bridge unusable, girders partly ...
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• Bridge to Russky Island
  The span structure has an aerodynamic cross-section to assume squally wind loads. The shape of the span cross-section has been ...
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• Taipei 101
  These prevent damage to the structure due to strong wind loads. Taipei 101's characteristic blue-green glass curtain walls are double paned ...
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• Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The height of the building and its relative proximity to the river also increased wind loads at its base, which prevented people from ...
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• STS-26
  issued for the wind conditions after officials determined there was a sufficient safety margin for wind loads on the orbiter wing leading edges. ...
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• Discone antenna
  This simplifies construction and reduces wind loading. The spokes may be made of stiff wire, brazing rods or even coat hanger wire . ...
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• Bjarni Tryggvason
  He designed and led the aerodynamics tests, which established the wind loads acting on the rig. Between 1982 and 1992, he was also a part- ...
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• 3333 Broadway
  the live loads of the people and things that may be brought into the building, and the wind loads that occur at the exterior of the building. ...
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• John Hancock Tower
  to Robert Campbell, it was discovered that—despite the mass damper—the building could have fallen over under a certain kind of wind loading. ...
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• Urban seismic risk
  highrises are, for the most part, firmly situated on bedrock (for settlement reasons), and are designed for hurricane wind loads date May 2008. ...
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• Wil Tower
  The traffic and wind loads are carried by more than three X shaped props. A X consists of two upper and two lower round timbers, which are ...
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• Tilting three wheeler
  Other tilters use the third wheel to resist wind loads and force a faster lean to set up for a fast corner or emergency lane change. ...
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• KTXT-FM
  or realization that the tower was too light and too damaged to carry the additional weight and wind load of the bigger FM station antenna. ...
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• Soyuz (rocket family)
  Launch pad: The launch system trusses bear the wind loads. Resistance to high wind is an important feature of the launch system, as the ...
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• Miami Dolphins Training Facility
  Internal air pressure is increased to "stiffen" the structure to withstand wind loading. The Bubble is currently owned by Jerome Harriott ...
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• The Solar Project
  Rigidity of the structure was a major concern in terms of wind load resistance and durability, but shading of the mirrors by support ...
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• Daegu Stadium
  Wind tunnel studies were carried out by BMT Limited to assess the wind loading on the roof. 2002 FIFA World Cup: The stadium was one of the ...
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• Gothic architecture
  further adding to the downward weight, and counteracting the outward thrust of the vault and buttress arch as well as stress from wind loading. ...
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• QV.1
  The tower has a reinforced concrete core, measuring 21.5 | m | ft on each side, which bears lateral forces including wind loading The ...
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• Alpine skiing
  by direct sunlight, and by wind loading which packs down the upper layers of the snowpack but leaves lower layers more or less unaffected. ...
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• Caribana Festival (Canada)
  In many cases small circular holes will be carefully punched through the King and Queen's costumes so as to cut down on wind-load while ...
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• Solar tracker
  not significantly exposed to wind loads. Through the employment of a ... viscous dampers to prevent excessive motion in response to wind gusts. ...
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• Vector Foiltec
  The cushions are inflated with low-pressure air to provide insulation and to resist wind loads. A Texlon ETFE cushion typically comprises at ...
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• Washington Square (Bellevue, WA)
  Each tower is 24-stories to ensure slab thicknesses and columns spacing at efficiencies that match the seismic and wind loading in the ...
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• Shuttle Training Aircraft
  37000 | ft | m | 2, the main landing gear is lowered (the nose gear stays retracted due to wind load constraints) and engine thrust is reversed. ...
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• Ingalls Building
  community believed that a concrete tower as tall as the plan for the Ingalls Building would collapse under wind loads or even its own weight. ...
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• S.R. Crown Hall
  The glazing was completely replaced with panes and stops that meet current wind load requirements. True sandblasted glass, original to ...
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• Sapphire of Istanbul
  Ruscheweyh Consult GmbH (wind loads on buildings and structures, Germany, http://www. ruscheweyh. de company web site), and other Turkish and ...
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• Bourges Cathedral
  contemporary structure) as the steep angle channels the thrust from the nave vaults and from wind loading more directly to the outer buttress piers. ...
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• Parabolic antenna
  Solid antennas have more ideal characteristics but are troublesome because of weight and high wind load. Mesh and wire types weigh less, ...
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• Wachovia Financial Center
  The core is A braced steel frame, designed to laterally resist wind loads. The construction of one typical floor was completed every five ...
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• Brindleyplace
  By utilizing a 9 | in | cm | 0 outer leaf it was possible to carry, wind loads between floors (3.9 m) and tie the brickwork laterally to ...
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• House
  computers and finite element analysis to design prefabricated steel-framed homes with known resistance to high wind-loads and seismic forces. ...
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• Bailey House – Case Study House
  and base of each columns provided additional strength in the North-South direction for sufficient resistance to seismic forces and wind loads. ...
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• James Webb Space Telescope
  like the Keck which continually adjust their mirror segments using active optics to overcome the effects of gravitational and wind loading. ...
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• Curtis W. Fentress
  You have to think wind loads - many sorts of stress – structural, seismic and personal. All the while you must stay aware of the human ...
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• Space-based solar power
  They do not require the structural support required for terrestrial use, where the considerable gravity and wind loading imposes ...
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• Statue of Liberty
  This allows the Statue to move rather than break in high wind load conditions. | url http://www. nps. gov/archive/stli/prod02. htm#Statue%20of ...
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• Poughkeepsie Bridge
  project engineers and managers, has stated in writing that the wind loads were carefully examined for the replacement, solid-concrete ...
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• Open web steel joist
  points, joist spacing, slope, live loads , dead loads , collateral loads, wind uplift, deflection criteria and maximum joist depth allowed. ...
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• Renewable energy (section Wind power)
  wind , rain , tides , and geothermal heat , which are renewable (naturally ... for variability of weather and load, but these have been shown ...
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• Yaw bearing
  intensive component of a yaw system found on modern horizontal axis wind turbine s. enormous static and dynamic loads and moments during ...
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• Liberty Wind Turbine
  2.5 MW Liberty Wind Turbine is the largest wind turbine manufactured in the United ... turbine distributes torque loads four times more ...
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• Tower testing station
  individual cases, with loading condition such as reduced wind and ice. ... From individual load point application of individual load ...
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• Al Sharq Tower
  The central tube serves to take the gravity load that the strong winds produce, along with housing the main elevators that service the ...
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• Electric power transmission (section Load balancing)
  nuclear or coal fired but now also wind, solar, geothermal and other forms of ... generators needed to be near their loads, it seemed at the ...
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• Tube (structure)
  In structural engineering , the tube is the name given to the systems where in order to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, etc.) ...
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• Avalanche
  Top-loading occurs when wind deposits snow perpendicular to the fall-line on a slope; cross-loading occurs when wind deposits snow ...
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• Unconventional wind turbines
  As of 2010 , the most common type of wind turbine is the three-bladed horizontal- ... strong enough to handle the loads of a wind turbine would ...
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• X-bracing
  This concept reduces the lateral load on the building by ... the spine that helps the building stand upright during wind and earthquake loads). ...
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• Grid energy storage (section Load Levelling)
  sources such as photovoltaics and wind turbines can benefit from ... production from intermittent energy sources (see load following power plant ). ...
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• Wind farm
  A wind farm is a group of wind turbine s in the same location used for production ... handle large loads more easily than trucks/lorries or trains. ...
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• Wind power in the United Kingdom
  As of January 2010, the installed capacity of wind power in the United Kingdom was ... In 2007, UK wind farms achieved "load factors on an ...
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• Crown snow-load
  Crown snow-load is snow and hard rime accumulating on tree crowns and structures ... (wind-facing) side of tree branches, buildings, or any ...
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• Wind energy software
  Several specialized wind energy software applications have been developed to aid in ... calculation of wind turbine loads for design and certification. ...
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• Wind power in New Zealand
  Wind power in New Zealand generates a small but rapidly growing proportion of the ... whilst wind power handles a higher share of the grid load. ...
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• Girt
  Girts resist lateral loads from wind and support wall cladding materials. Girts are supported by the columns and typically pass outside ...
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• Air-supported structure
  external pressure being applied to the structure (i.e wind pressure). ... The main loads acting on the air-supported envelope are the internal ...
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• Australian Gas Light Company
  of the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme , the Wattle Point Wind Farm , and a peak load gas-powered power station near Hallett in South Australia ...
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• Whike
  It is advised to ride a Whike only with a helmet, with a load of at least 65 kg, to use a smaller sail at wind speeds over 5 bft and not ...
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• Sudestada
  The phenomenon consists of a sudden rotation of cold southern winds ... This change, while moderating the cold temperatures, loads the air ...
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• List of Ice Road Truckers episodes
  who as stated above hauls the first load as a "good-luck charm") begin ... Snow and wind slow Tim and George for a while, but they deliver ...
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• Yaw system
  The yaw system of wind turbines is the component responsible for the orientation ... a yaw movement, in order to avoid high gyroscopic loads. ...
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• Wind power in Australia
  Wind power in Australia is a proven and reliable technology that can be and is ... In substituting for base-load (mostly coal power) in ...
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• P-Delta Effect
  The lateral displacements can be caused by wind or seismically ... In some sense, the P-Delta effect is similar to the buckling load of an ...
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• Tension fabric building
  CAD (computer-aided design ) software for the customization of the building and to ensure it will meet local wind and snow load requirements. ...
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• European super grid
  to pool load variability and power station unreliability, reducing ... based around wind energy, although this may change as prices for CSP change. ...
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• Coastal Strand
  winds, battering salt spray, and extreme high temperatures in the summer. with extremely low nutrient loads, and low water holding capacity. ...
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• Free surface effect
  loading of the mass, or the craft's center of mass as it rolls from side to side (in strong winds, heavy seas, or on sharp motions or turns). ...
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• Hengchun Airport
  airport often experiences strong Katabatic wind and is forced to close. Because of this, the load factor of the flights rarely exceeds ...
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• Low voltage ride through
  especially wind generator , may be required to be capable of when the voltage in the grid is temporarily reduced due to a fault or load ...
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• Cremona diagram
  going clockwise; V A (going up) load at A (going down), force in ... Wind force may introduce larger forces in the individual truss members ...
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• Floating wind turbine
  A floating wind turbine is a wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that ... offshore winds and close proximity to large load centers (e.g. ...
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• Dome Fire
  High fuel loading, low fuel moisture, and wind contributed to the extremely rapid spread of the fire, with flame lengths of hundreds of ...
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• The Load Of Sugar-Cane
  The Load Of Sugar-Cane is a poem from Wallace Stevens 's first book of poetry, ... While the wind still whistles As kildeer do,  When they rise ...
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• Wheelbarrow
  two handles to the rear or a sail may be used to guide the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. It is designed to distribute the weight of its load ...
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• Wind-Diesel Hybrid Power Systems
  Wind-diesel Hybrid Power Systems combine diesel generators and wind turbines usually ... demand such as the heating load (e.g. Mawson ),storing ...
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• Wind power in Denmark
  Wind power provided 19.7 percent of electricity production and 24.1% of capacity in ... install additional peak-load plant to balance its wind power. ...
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• Relative cost of electricity generated by different sources
  In the case of wind energy, whilst there are additional costs ... interconnection to allow for diversity of weather and load, these have been shown in the ...
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• Ting Kau Bridge
  both sides of the 3 towers contributes to the slender appearance of the bridge while acting favourably under heavy wind and typhoon loads. ...
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• Wind power in South Australia
  Wind power in South Australia is a significant energy source for the state and ... The load factor (or capacity factor ) for South Australian ...
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• City of Bangor
  With a relatively light load of 248 new Chrysler s, compared with the heavier load of ore, she was riding high through rough winds and seas ...
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• Energy development (section Wind power)
  Wind power: date April 2008 Image:Wind 2006andprediction en. ... This makes wind power unsuitable for base load generation. date April 2008 ...
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• Crane (machine)
  A crane is a lifting machine, generally equipped with a winder (also called a wire ... thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a human. ...
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• Vehicle-to-grid (section Peak load leveling)
  such as wind power , for example, by storing excess energy produced during windy periods and providing it back to the grid during high load ...
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• Capacity factor (section Load following power plants)
  Base load plants have the lowest costs per unit of electricity ... Wind farm s are highly intermittent, due to the natural variability of the ...
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• Hybrid renewable energy system (section Photovoltaic-wind)
  Examples Biomass-wind-fuel cell ... If the load is alternating current (AC), then an inverter is used to convert the direct current (DC) ...
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• Great Storms of the North American Great Lakes
  noon and were able to pull into an inlet out of the wind and make camp. ... The last of the season shipping was trying for one last load. ...
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• Building science
  The static ones are tied to the structure’s dead loads added to the ... (earthquake and wind ) the structure can sustain during its life cycle . ...
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• Virtual power plant
  installations (such as microCHP , wind-turbines , small hydro , back-up gensets etc.) ... benefit as to deliver peak load electricity or load ...
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• Environmental effects of wind power
  traditional energy sources, the environmental effects of wind power are relatively minor. ... electrical load imbalance, vibration, and other problems. ...
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• Cargo (section Load Securing)
  equipment such as generators and wind turbine s, military equipment ... Load Securing : Image:Stabilizing_capabilities_Cordstrap_dunnage_bags. ...
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• Band saw
  The saw may be powered by wind, water, steam, electrical motor or ... result of an evenly distributed tooth load Band saws are used for ...
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• Canon VT
  The tripod socket was moved to mount a trigger wind grip. They added a swing-open back making the camera easier to load than previous ...
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• Glossary of wildfire terms
  wind shift, heavier fuel load, etc). ... Longline: Helicopter arrangement for lowering external loads (or removing loads) into areas not ...
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• Gyro monorail (section Side loads)
  cross-wind or laterally offset load), the gimbal would exhibit a ... Side loads : If constant side forces were resisted by gyroscopic action ...
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• Sail-plan
  Over most of the Earth, most of the time, the wind force is Force 1 ... balance the wind force on each sail plan against a range of loads and ballast. ...
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• Magnetosphere of Jupiter (section Influence of the solar wind)
  The magnetosphere of Jupiter is the cavity created in the solar wind by the ... The torus in turn loads the magnetic field with plasma , in ...
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• Pickens Plan (section Wind power status and potential)
  approximately US$1 trillion in new wind turbine farms for power ... being used to store energy and level loads from wind generation projects. ...
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• Flight planning
  height, and speed, and by loading the minimum necessary fuel on board. the fuel consumption effects of head or tail winds and air temperature. ...
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• Alpha Ventus Offshore Wind Farm
  alpha ventus is Germany 's first offshore wind farm and was completed on November ... Research : measurement of wind and wave load ...
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• McCulloch J-2
  After a very brief take-off run (typically 25 to 200 feet, depending upon load and winds) adequate flight airspeed would be attained, ...
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• Renewable energy in New Zealand (section Wind power)
  decades while load growth has been met primarily by natural gas -fired power station s. with wind energy to make up much of that increase ...
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• Pre-engineered building
  loads, dead loads, collateral loads, wind uplift, deflection criteria, internal crane system and maximum practical size of fabricated members. ...
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• History of the single-lens reflex camera
  supply and take-up spools Drop-in loading 126 film was introduced in ... (auto-load/wind/rewind) arrived with the Canon T70 (Japan) in 1984 ...
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• Dispatchable generation
  contrasted with certain types of base load generation capacity, such as ... intermittent power sources such as wind power which cannot be ...
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• History of wind power
  Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind. ... was reported to have an annual load factor of 32 per cent not ...
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• Wind power in Spain
  Spain is the world's fourth biggest producer of wind power , after the United ... Overview: Load factor | 2000 | 2 198 | 4.3 | 22.3% | ...
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• Erosion (section Wind)
  It usually occurs due to transport by wind, water, or ice; by down- ... Superimposed on these interactive processes, the sediment load, or ...
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• Smart grid (section Load adjustment)
  integrating alternative sources of electricity such as solar and wind. ... incentive-based load reduction signals, or emergency load reduction signals. ...
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• Darrieus wind turbine
  The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to ... vertically are the compression load due to the blades ...
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• Shear
  Shear strength (soil), the shear strength of soil under loading ... Wind shear , a difference in wind speed or direction between two wind ...
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• Tensile structure (section Cable with central point load)
  html the fabric gains sufficient stiffness to withstand the loads it is subjected to (for example wind and snow loads). In order to ...
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• Éolienne Bollée
  Éolienne Bollée is an unusual wind turbine , unique for having a stator and a ... mph wind, but could start under load in a wind of only 7mph. ...
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• Slewing bearing
  turning or slow-oscillating load, often a horizontal platform such as a conventional crane , a swing yarder , or the wind-facing platform of ...
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• Marine loading arm
  marine loading arm, also known as a mechanical loading arm, loading arm, or MLA is ... wind conditions, and earthquake tolerance can also ...
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• Limit state design (redirect from Load and Resistance Factor Design)
  variable loads like earthquake, wind, or live (occupancy) loads (1.6). ... where φ Resistance Factor ψ Load Combination Factor γ Importance ...
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• Mountaineering
  and where the climbers carry all their loads with them at all times. ... One of the downsides to tenting is that high winds and snow loads can ...
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• Arsenal O.101
  pressures and loads throughout the aircraft, and was given dimensions such that the entire aircraft could be placed inside the wind tunnel ...
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• Autorotation (helicopter)
  airspeed for autorotations is established for each type of helicopter on the basis of average weather and wind conditions and normal loading. ...
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• Ontario electricity policy (section Wind)
  Added to this base load, the peak load raises Ontario's maximum ... Generating electricity from wind energy is considered cost-effective in ...
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• Kitesurfing (section Wind direction)
  Kitesurfing or kiteboarding is a surface water sport that uses the wind to pull a ... order to handle the dynamic load in unpredictable wind ...
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• Wave loading
  Wave loading is most commonly the application of a pulsed or wavelike load to a ... structures which experience wind, water, or seismic disturbances . ...
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• Dynamic soaring
  Such zones of high wind gradient are generally found close to ... loads imparted at the boundary between the prevailing wind and the stagnant air. ...
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• A4008 road
  There is a pub, the Load of Hay on the western side and then a small ... The road swings eastwards and winds through the village of Oxhey , now ...
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• Eldia (Vessel)
  After delivery of its load of Colombian sugar in St. John, New Brunswick 2 the Eldia was hit by a storm delivering 80mph winds. ...
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• Hurricane clip
  structural load transfer path from the top of a building to its foundation, helping to protect buildings from damage resulting from high wind. ...
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• Steel Winds
  Steel Winds (or Steel Winds I) is a wind energy project located on the coast of ... are designed to mitigate loads to components found in many ...
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• Beam (structure)
  A beam is a structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by ... Overview: loads due to an earthquake or wind). ...
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• Green River (Utah)
  The Green River is 730 | mi | km long, beginning in the Wind River ... Colorado when the two rivers merge, but typically carries a larger load of silt. ...
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• Fazlur Khan
  Horizontal loads, for example from wind and earthquake, are ... This concept reduced the lateral load on the building by transferring the load ...
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• Rainflow-counting algorithm
  to assess the fatigue life of a structure subject to complex loading. ... Laboratories LIFE2 code for the fatigue analysis of wind turbine components. ...
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• Cold formed steel
  vertical direction due to live load, or in the horizontal direction due to wind or seismic loads, or both vertical and horizontal directions. ...
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• Wind power in the European Union
  In 2008, according to EWEA wind association, there were 5,000 wind turbines, with ... on windy days with light loads, over 100% of the load in ...
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• Zords in Power Rangers: Turbo
  Was capable of releasing a load of iron balls. ... The Thunder Loader, Star Racer, and Wind Rescue Rescuezords could also combine with the Red ...
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• Microgeneration (section Wind turbine specific)
  A major issue with off-grid solar and wind systems is that the power ... shutoff and/or dummy-load devices for use in high wind when power ...
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• Nylint
  In the late-1940s and early-1950s, Nylint remained committed to these wind-up toys and soon produced a front-end loader wind-up, which ...
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• Big Dig
  The Power-Fast Epoxy Adhesive used in the installation was designed for short-term loading, such as wind or earthquake loads, not long- ...
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• Shear and moment diagram (section Relationships between load, shear, and moment diagrams)
  A loading diagram shows all loads applied to the beam which includes ... dead, live, roof live, snow, wind, earthquake, and other types of loads. ...
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• Demand response (redirect from Load shed)
  loads in response to a request by a utility or market price conditions. ... types may produce at negligible marginal cost (such as wind and solar). ...
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• Magnetosphere of Saturn
  The magnetosphere of Saturn is the cavity created in the flow of the solar wind ... This loads the field with as much as 100 kg of water ...
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• Caesar II (analysis program)
  (fiber reinforced plastic ); buried piping; wind, wave, and earthquake loading; expansion joints, valves , flanges and pressure vessel ...
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• NASA World Wind
  World Wind is a free and open source (released under the NOSA license) virtual ... Model features - XML used to load 3D textured meshes ...
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• Flow battery
  These are for load levelling, where the battery is used to ... storing energy from renewable sources such as wind or solar for discharge during ...
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• Structural engineer
  enough and stable enough to resist all appropriate structural load s (e.g., gravity, wind, snow, rain, seismic (earthquake ), earth ...
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• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  A heavy emphasis is placed on using and controlling wind with a ... mask loading times by accessing data while the player is approaching an island. ...
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• Zuytdorp
  (now Jakarta , Indonesia ) bearing a load of freshly minted silver coins. the strong Roaring Forties winds to carry them across the Indian ...
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• Super Adobe
  showed that under static load testing conditions simulating seismic, wind, and snow loads, the Super Adobe system exceeded by 200 percent ...
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• Edithburgh, South Australia
  was once used to load grain and unload supplies for the town, but is ... The town is now overshadowed by the 55 wind turbines of the Wattle ...
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• Rolleiflex
  The mechanical wind mechanism was robust and clever, making film loading semi-automatic and quick. A wide range of accessories made this ...
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• Adaptive Compliant Wing
  at a rate of 30° per second, which is ideal for gust load alleviation. ... Initially, the wing was tested in a wind tunnel , and then a 50-inch ...
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• Sediment transport (section Bed Load)
  This occurs in river s, glacier s, wind , ocean current s, tide s, ... Rouse numbers for transport as bed load , suspended load , and wash load |! ...
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• Manitoba Hydro (section Wind development)
  The City utility also implemented load management on electric water ... Wind development: Starting in 2005, a wind farm was built near St. ...
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• Longboat
  its use in steep waves such as surf or wind against tide where need be. ... stern for such load-carrying work as laying out an anchor and cable. ...
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• Yardang
  A yardang is a wind-abraded ridge found in a desert environment. ... prevailing winds are strong, unidirectional and carry an abrasive sediment load. ...
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• Active structure
  bridge s and dome s to minimize vibrations under wind and earthquake loads. ... subjected to gravity or dead loads, during takeoff they are ...
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• Doriot Climatic Chambers (section Tropic Wind Tunnel)
  highly specialized wind tunnels located at the US Army’s Soldier Systems Center ... Tropic Wind Tunnel -: Solar loading capability ...
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• SAMCEF
  S4WT (SAMCEF For Wind Turbines): dedicated to basic and advanced design and load computations inside Wind Turbines. effects of wind, frost ...
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• Pontoon effect
  the entire vessel (including its load) is above the center of buoyancy. ... If sufficient lateral force arises (such as wind or shifting load ...
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• Jibe
  the wind, such that the wind direction changes from one side of the boat to the other. ... dangers of passing the boom across the boat under load. ...
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• Solar power
  Wind power and solar power can be complementary, in locations that ... provide load-following power around the clock, entirely from renewable sources ...
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• Brownout (aviation)
  wind ... The high proprotor disk loading creates a high-velocity downwash, which stirs up the dust cloud from a much higher altitude. ...
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• Spinja
  The objective of the game, similar to Beyblades , is to load your chosen character into the ratcheting launcher and each player would ...
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• Keelmen
  and load with coal from the place where the coal reached the riverside. ... The oars were used to row when the wind was not favourable. ...
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• Sailing (redirect from Sailing against the Wind)
  The air flowing at the sail surface is not the true wind Sailing ... Hull trim is the adjustment of a boat's loading so as to change its fore- ...
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• Hybrid power source
  The power sources are a wind turbine , diesel engine generator, and ... use by classifying loads, and protects the battery from service extremes. ...
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• Load profile
  In electrical engineering , a load profile is a graph of the variation in the ... htm Planet Ark : E.ON UK Plans Giant Battery to Store Wind ...
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• Fossil fuel power station
  for diversity of weather and load,back up and load management costs ... low, showing that overall for example wind energy costs about the same as ...
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• Slip (aerodynamic)
  pointing directly into the relative wind (in the side-to-side sense). ... touchdown to avoid excessive side loading on the landing gear, and if ...
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• Syberia II
  With helpful instructions (but no real physical help) from Hans' automaton train engineer Oscar, Kate is able to wind and load the train ...
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• Economics of new nuclear power plants (section Load following capability)
  Load following capability ... When carbon tax was added (up to £0.025) coal came close to onshore wind (including back-up power) at £0.054/kW· ...
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• Renewable energy in Africa (section Wind power)
  Currently, many nations already have small-scale solar, wind, and ... The also allows for dynamic and incremental scaling as load demands ...
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• Triangle control frame
  homebuilders sometimes mount the TCF on a car or truck along with he hang glider or ultralight wing and run wind and loading tests on the wing. ...
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• Broad gauge (section Wind)
  Wind ... railways in North American and elsewhere must use special double-stack cars to lower the center of gravity and reduce the loading gauge . ...
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• Canon T70
  the drive was nonetheless faster than most people could manually wind. To load the camera, the photographer simply had to pull the film ...
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• Hannskarl Bandel
  While working on the design Bandel also factored in the loads upon the 630 foot arch caused by the wind and worked out that if he added ...
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• Quad antenna
  The E-Z-O variation: Less Wind/Ice Loading. Easier to Install and Maintain. Esthetically Pleasing. The magnitude of the dielectric effect on the ...
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• Meplat
  This makes the round more susceptible to wind drift. ... The meplat plays an important role in the loading of a weapon whose ammunition is ...
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• SIMPACK
  SIMPACK is primarily used within the automotive , railway , engine , wind turbine , ... ground disturbances and aerodynamic loading. History ...
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• Hot air ballooning
  Since the balloon moves with the wind, the passengers feel ... instead of drifting with the wind away from the event with just one load of passengers. ...
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• Structural health monitoring (redirect from Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System)
  After extreme events, such as earthquakes or blast loading, SHM is ... Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System for Bridges in Hong Kong ...
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• Strength of ships (section Loads on ship hulls)
  Wind blows against the hull, and waves run into it. ... Secondary loads, strength, and bending are calculated similarly to primary loads: you ...
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• ICON Quote System
  design pressures, edge strip zones, extension loads, wind pressure and suction follows the exact formulas as prescribed by the current ...
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• Boa knot
  well when the constricted object was cut close to the winds of the knot. ... The boa knot is best used for securing objects in cylindrical loads. ...
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• Comet tail
  more strongly affected by the solar wind than is dust, following ... congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such ...
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• John Osborne (broadcaster)
  Craig David, Jim Kerr, Robin Gibb and loads more, he presented various shows including The Wind Down Zone and finally the 1-5pm afternoon ...
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• Electricity sector of the United States
  provide base load and thus are running longer hours than natural gas and petroleum plants which typically provide peak load , or than wind ...
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• Harmonic drive
  inertial loads, high torque capability, and coaxial input and output shafts. ... Disadvantages include a tendency for 'wind-up', ie a ...
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• Box girder
  Having multiple vertical webs, it can also carry more load than an I ... Dynamic forces (moving loads, wind) may also require both faces to be ...
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• High altitude wind power
  High altitude wind power (HAWP) has been imagined as a source of useful energy since ... the big worker to make electricity for significant loads. ...
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• The Crypt (Kings Island)
  "The Crypt" utilizes a simple howling wind track during the load sequence, and a light, drum-driven "jungle" sounding score for the ride ...
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• Solar energy
  secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power , ... provide load-following power around the clock, entirely from renewable sources ...
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• Info-gap decision theory
  Another example is the structural design of a building subject to uncertain loads such as from wind or earthquakes. distribution of the loads. ...
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• Crib pier
  additional stability in the event of high winds if the crib is very tall. ... Since there are few load-bearing fasteners in the lower levels, ...
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• Kiewa River
  Mount Bogong , and wind their way north-west about 100 kilometres, ... of the Scheme, which provides peak load to the Victorian electricity grid. ...
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• Flutter (electronics and communication)
  antenna movements in a high wind , or interaction with other signals. ... caused by the action of telegraph direct currents on the loading coils. ...
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• Wind power forecasting
  A wind power forecast corresponds to an estimate of the expected production of one ... Load profiles are usually given by load forecasts which ...
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• Solyndra
  Solyndra claims that wind and snow loads are negligible and that its panels are lighter in weight per area. The company claims the cells ...
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• Electricity sector in New Zealand (section Wind)
  energy sources such as hydropower , geothermal power and increasingly wind energy . ... In fact, the 'load building' programmes were so ...
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• Margaret Mitchell (section Writing Gone with the Wind)
  American author , who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind . ... the novel Tote The Weary Load or Tomorrow Is ...
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• Conductor gallop
  oscillation of overhead power line s due to the wind The swings in the wires occur ... significantly to the loading stress on insulators and ...
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• Masonry veneer
  Because the masonry veneer is non-structural, it must be tied back to the building structure to prevent movement under wind and earthquake loads. ...
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• Helictite (section Wind)
  existing structures and deposit their calcite load almost anywhere thereon. ... Wind: Another theory names the wind in the cave as main reason ...
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• Rio–Antirrio bridge
  and on the ground to characterize wind movements and seismic tremors. Strain gages and load cells on the stay cables and their gussets ...
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• Golden Gate Bridge (section Wind)
  aesthetics, and safety (the load from a poorly designed barrier could significantly affect the bridge's structural ... Wind: File:As ggb. ...
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• Hurricane preparedness
  roofs, exterior cladding), and indirectly test entire small buildings with structural loading to simulate wind pressures. direct wind ...
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• San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
  vibration from bridge traffic and wind gusts of up to 55 mph causing ... accommodate the increased passenger load during the bridge closure The ...
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• John Hancock Center
  climb to record heights (the tubular system is essentially the spine that helps the building stand upright during wind and earthquake loads). ...
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• Stress analysis (section Load transfer)
  subjected to static or dynamic force s or loads (see statics and dynamics ... In this case special equipment, such as a wind tunnel , or ...
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• VERTREP
  The load is placed in position on the deck of the receiving ship by ... Lift capabilities of helicopters are reduced by adverse wind conditions ...
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• Green roof
  Jörg Breuning reflects the wind and fire loads of green roofs and ... weight load of the substrate and vegetation exceeds permitted static loading. ...
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• Sodium-sulfur battery
  contact, through the electrical load and back to the sulfur container. ... Japan Wind Development has opened a 51 MW wind farm that ...
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• Rangekeeper
  gun azimuth , gun elevation , wind speed and direction, air ... 20 servomechanisms, mostly position servos, to minimize torque load on the ...
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• Citroën Acadiane
  chassis and a rear-brake limiter whose action was dependent on the load. ... The Acadiane was also fitted with wind-down windows in the ...
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• Blueprint for Disaster (TV series)
  Milwaukee, killing three workers and causing damage to the stadium; the crane contractor had not calculated the effect of side winds on the load. | ...
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• AN/APS-2F
  reflector, a rack-mounted PPI and A-scope, and a fiberglass radome to protect the antenna and allow operation without wind and ice loading. ...
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• Steel frame
  due to the inherent strength of steel, which allows it to span over a longer distance than wood, and also resist wind and earthquake loads. ...
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• R-7 Semyorka
  to eliminate the pad and to suspend the entire rocket in the trusses that bear both vertical weight load as well as horizontal wind forces. ...
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• Photovoltaic module
  protected from mechanical damage during manufacture, transport, installation and use (in particular against hail impact, wind and snow loads). ...
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• Skyscraper
  as opposed to constructions of load-bearing masonry , which passed ... which wind is a more significant load factor than earthquake or weight . ...
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• Gone with the Wind
  Gone with the Wind, published on June 30, 1936, is a romantic novel and the only ... Other proposed titles included "Tote the Weary Load" and ...
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• Norfolk Island
  If the wind changes significantly during unloading/loading, the ship will move around to the other side. Visitors often gather to watch ...
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• List of TUGS episodes (redirect from High Winds (TUGS episode))
  Zorran, Zebedee and Zak arrive to collect their load (they are doing ... Zebedee can't reverse, and he winds him ramming the railway bridge. ...
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• List of IEC standards
  IEC 60214 On-load tap changers. IEC 60228 Conductors of insulated cables. IEC 60233 Tests ... IEC 61400 Wind turbines. 61400-1: Design requirements ...
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• Pruning
  In nature, certain meteorological conditions such as wind, snow or ... pass through the tree resulting in less "load" being placed on the tree. ...
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• Goodspeed Musicals
  Goodspeed is that while loading in the scenery for Annie's original pre-Broadway run at Goodspeed is that a strong gust of wind took a large ...
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• Companies Investigation Branch
  in the courts being petitioned to wind up the company; can result in ... varying work loads, but sometimes because special expertise is required. ...
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• Rottnest Island
  600 kW wind turbine was erected and is now fully commissioned following upgrades to the power station and the installation of low load diesels. ...
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• Willow and Wind
  Willow and Wind (Beed-o baad) is a 1999 Iran ian film directed by Mohammad-Ali ... He tried hard and finally moved the load back to the ...
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• Herzogstand Radio Station
  Due to that load by wind, in addition, by snow and ice, additionally which can be expected, only steel wire of highest firmness was ...
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• Peter Pan's Flight
  The ship leaves the load area and winds through the Darlings' nursery, passing Nana the Nursemaid next to some toy blocks. The nursery ...
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• Castle of the Winds
  Castle of the Winds (CotW) is a tile-based roguelike computer game for Windows 3 ... system that limits a player's load based on weight and ...
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• Procellariidae
  (meaning their wings are long and narrow) and a heavy wing loading . ... taking advantage of the vertical wind gradient and minimising the ...
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• Anchor
  acceptable in strong reversing currents but a wind perpendicular to the current may break out the anchors as they are not aligned for this load. ...
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• Passive solar building design
  Sloped glazing is exposed to the weather, leaks, hail, ice-and-snow load, wind, and material failure. Excess solar gain, harsh lighting, ...
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• Earthquake engineering
  is the study of the behavior of buildings and structures subject to seismic loading . ... to withstand typhoon winds and earthquake tremor s ...
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• Leica R8
  integrally-styled motor drive or winder) automated film transport, a ... Motor-Winder R8/R9: gives powered film transport (loading/advance/ ...
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• MACS3
  which aim to minimize the operational load while loading a vessel, and ... Programs and Features MACS3 Basic: Automatic wind pressure calculation ...
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• Ethan Allen boating accident
  had been performed, the boat would not have been certified to carry any passengers due to insufficient stability to the load of the wind heel. ...
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• Tuned mass damper (section Wind)
  design strategy to reduce peak loads from 6g to 0.25 g, the TMDs being ... Wind: The force of wind against tall buildings can cause the top of ...
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• Load factor (electrical)
  In electrical engineering , load factor is the average power divided by the peak ... last British Wind Energy Association | authorlink British ...
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• Citigroup Center
  While LeMessurier's original design and load calculations for the ... construction change would do to the wind forces acting on two surfaces of ...
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• Dynamic demand (electric power) (section Local load control)
  Dynamic Demand is the name of a semi-passive technology for adjusting load demand s ... use of generation from variable sources, like wind power . ...
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• Eigg
  electricity and individual crofthouses had wind , hydro or diesel ... A load management system has been installed to provide optimal use of ...
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• Responsive architecture
  designing structures consisting of rods and strings which would bend in response to wind, distributing the load in much the same way as a tree. ...
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• Switch (section Inductive loads)
  to short the windings of a 3 phase wind turbine for braking purposes ... (or worse if the load is not purely resistive) of the load's rated ...
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• Tian Tan Buddha
  In addition to the exterior components, there is a strong steel framework inside the statue to support the heavy load and wind pressure. ...
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• Glossary of nautical terms
  Apparent wind – The combination of the true wind and the headwind ... Beaching – Deliberately running a vessel aground, to load and unload ...
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• Corfield Periflex
  Load the film in the normal way, and wind on a bit while using the rewind release button, then replace the back. Next two frames must be ...
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• Smith-Putnam wind turbine
  In 1941 the Smith-Putnam wind turbine, the world's first megawatt-size wind turbine ... that could displace purchased power for meeting peak loads. ...
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• Huxley Hill Wind Farm
  Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power ... supply when demand exceeds turbine output (load balancing ). ...
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• Jakob Stoustrup
  Robust control of wind turbines ... "Linear parameter varying control of wind turbines covering both partial load and full load conditions". ...
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• Earthship
  Internal, non-load-bearing walls are often made of a honeycomb of ... The majority of electrical energy is harvested from the sun and wind. ...
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• Validus DC Systems
  equipment, wind turbines and batteries and provides the necessary critical load distribution of -575 VDC power to the Power Converter Units (PCU). ...
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• Biomechanics
  acclimative growth of plants in response to wind movement, have been ... preconditioned by repetitive cyclic loading to the extent where the ...
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• Type 88 (tank)
  incorporates the laser rangefinder, the onboard computer, and the wind sensor. The automatic loader is reportedly derived from that of T- ...
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• Leica R9
  counter on the top plate between the wind lever and the shutter-speed dial. ... Motor-Winder R8/R9: gives powered film transport (loading/ ...
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• Storybook Land Canal Boats
  enter the attraction through a chain queue that winds in front of the loading dock past. A lighthouse at the queue's entrance was once a ...
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• Big Blue (crane)
  that although the effects of side winds on the crane itself had been calculated, it had not been considered for the load the crane was lifting. ...
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• Glaspaleis
  None of the walls are load-bearing, neither the ones at the back, ... protected against the prevailing winds at the northwest side by a glass ...
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• Hopetoun, Western Australia
  Hopetoun has two 600 kilowatt wind turbines and two low-load diesel generator s. The town recently suffered a setback of sorts with ...
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• Scale (ratio)
  length proportional to a force loading, as in 1 cm to 1000 newtons: ... A weather map at some scale may be annotated with wind arrows at a ...
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• Snow (section Design of structures considering snow load)
  day such as when a strong downslope wind, such as a Chinook wind , ... be designed to accommodate the live load design contributed by the ground ...
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• Irish Sea (section Wind power)
  and power generation in the form of wind power and nuclear plant s. ... The Liverpool Bay : Offshore storage and loading facilities. ...
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• Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
  provided ample material for the high winds to blow around into huge drifts. ... equipment, such as front end loaders, had to be used (USACE 1977, p. ...
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• Bird flight
  which usually have low wing loading and are far longer than they ... dynamic soaring , which use different wind speeds at different heights ...
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• NASA Ames Research Center (section Wind tunnels)
  Historically, Ames was founded to do wind-tunnel research on the ... shock generation in air at an initial pressure loading of 1 | atm or greater. ...
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• Offshore wind power
  Offshore wind power refers to the construction of wind farms in bodies of water to ... Foundations transfer the loads from the turbine into ...
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• Alvis Stalwart (FV620)
  preference to the FV431, the load carrier variant of the FV430 series . ... However, this system caused 'wind up' in the transmission (inter- ...
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• 2009–10 Australian bushfire season
  increased the fuel load potential by drying out vegetation, and increases the potential occurrence of hot temperature and high wind ...
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• History of structural engineering
  structural forms, which cannot be linearly increased in size in proportion to increased loads ... Horizontal loads, for example wind, are ...
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• Steel plate shear wall
  Type of Loading carried by SPW | Lateral Load Only / Lateral Load ... truss action, which is known to be an efficient means to control wind drift.- ...
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• FED 2
  The FED 2 has a manual frame counter located below the wind-on knob, which must be reset by hand when loading film. Shutter: The Fed 2 has a ...
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• West coast lumber trade
  mariners were often forced to load right among the rocks and cliffs ... rigging permitted sailing closer to the wind, easier entry to small ports, ...
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• UTA Aerodynamics Research Center (section Supersonic Wind Tunnel)
  The wind tunnel s and equipment in the facility were mainly built by ... The total power consumption during full load operation is over 1.6 MW ...
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• AGL Energy
  sustainable energy businesses such as wind farm s and a hydroelectric ... Electricity generation: Base-load power station in Townsville (QLD) ...
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• Swept path analysis (section Unusual loads)
  Unusual loads: example the transportation of large items (such as wind-farm turbine blades, ship's hulls, aircraft wings or other large objects). ...
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• Bicycle trailer
  The load capacity of commercially-available cargo trailers ranges ... relatively light-weight loads such as canoes, kayaks, or wind surfing rigs ...
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• GRAITEC
  Arche is used to conduct preliminary sizing of the structure and to perform simultaneously load distribution, wind bracing and seismic analyses. ...
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• Wolfgang Klemperer
  and was able to assemble a body of research around wind-tunnel experiments on air loads and moments acting on airships in curved flight and ...
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• Samuel Brown (Royal Navy officer)
  used an unstiffened bridge deck, before it became clear that this form was vulnerable to wind forces and unstable under concentrated load s. ...
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• Self-steering gear
  The force provided by the wind vane, however, is not sufficient to make this system work with larger loads, and hence a so-called servo ...
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• British Mount Everest Expedition 1922
  beginning of a climbing day had to bear a very heavy additional load. ... As the wind grew intense they erected camp at 7460 | m | ft | 1 | ...
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• Ax Men
  The crews race to get their last loads to the mills as the season winds down. Aired in UK 2 October 2008. Season 2 Episodes "Ax Men ...
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• And the Sea Will Tell
  In contrast, the Grahams' ship, the Sea Wind, was a beautifully ... It was believed he fled on foot after leaving the dingy at the loading ...
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• List of Deadliest Catch episodes
  The Maverick lost a portion of their load to deadloss when their ... but a forecast for wind and heavy icing, which can make the vessels top ...
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• Hybrid lift
  Gondolas are heavier and have lower wind restrictions, but offer ... line, changing them as the rider load, season and weather conditions demand. ...
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• Hybrid Generator
  form of energy production, such as use of solar panels or wind turbines. ... significant quantities of fuel being consumed even if the loads are low. ...
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• Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
  of hydroelectric power generation used by some power plant s for load balancing . ... present this is rarely due to wind alone, increased ...
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• Column (section Equilibrium, instability, and loads)
  For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering , columns may be ... Equilibrium, instability, and loads: Image:Columns in the inner court of ...
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• Web mapping
  (such as water currents, wind patterns, traffic flow, trade flow, ... and data with each request or loading, product updates can happen every ...
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• Transmission (mechanics)
  become intrusive, when conditions are such that they repeatedly cut in and out as speed and such load factors as grade or wind vary slightly. ...
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• Contarex
  The wind lever is short, and the load increases noticeably for the last third of the 180° travel, from the point the mirror and lens iris ...
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• List of engineering branches
  engineering , the engineering of structures that support or resist loads ... Wind engineering , the analysis of wind and its effects on the ...
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• Michael Peter Skelly
  chief development officer for Horizon Wind Energy , the third largest ... transmission solutions to generators and load-serving utilities in ...
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• Chicago school (architecture)
  Horizontal loads, for example wind, are supported by the structure as a whole. About half the exterior surface is available for windows. ...
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• ITASE
  Similar changes in parameters such as temperature, snow accumulation, wind-blown dust, sea-salt loading and methane composition indicate ...
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• Bobbin
  "I'm going for a quick bobbin" or "Stop talking a load of bobbins ... Other uses/References : Wind the bobbin up' is a common nursery rhyme. ...
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• Mechanical watch
  wheels are not under load, while the ones that wind the mainspring (the keyless work ) are used very seldom, so they do not wear significantly. ...
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• Building insulation materials
  Able to bear loads, including external loads from precipitation and ... Then, given the predominance of non-wind-proof cladding materials, and ...
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• Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge
  bars sharing the same load, the crack was not present two years earlier. ... wind caused vibrations in the rods, which in turn caused wear and ...
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• Renewable energy in the United States (section Wind power)
  U.S. wind power installed capacity now exceeds 25,176 MW which is ... ideally matched to summer noon peak loads in prosperous areas with ...
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• Adventure Bay, Tasmania
  all but strong north-easterly winds, the township of Adventure Bay at the ... long jetty from where sea-going vessels could load timber. ...
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• Vanadium redox battery
  response to changing loads and their extremely large overload capacities. ... variable generation sources such as wind or solar power, or to ...
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• Naval architecture
  Stability - Ability of a vessel to restore itself to an upright position after being inclined by wind, sea, or conditions of loading. : ...
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• Hurricane How (1951)
  Banks of North Carolina where it produced strong winds and high tides. ... It had been sailing from Puerto Rico with a full load of iron ore ...
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• Energy in Victoria (Australia) (section Wind)
  from natural gas and renewable energy sources - hydro, wind and solar. ... major base load power plants built at Yallourn , Hazelwood and Loy Yang . ...
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• Architecture of Chicago
  Horizontal loads, for example wind, are supported by the structure as a whole. About half the exterior surface is available for windows. ...
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• NuVinci Continuously Variable Planetary Transmission (section Wind Energy)
  development for other products including wind power turbines, light ... the entire ratio range smoothly, while in motion, under load, or stopped. ...
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• Climate of Mars (section Wind)
  Wind ... The trigger for a change of states could be either increased dust loading in the atmosphere or an albedo change due to deposition of ...
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• Pepper Wreck
  The ship had been seeking safer anchorage during strong winds in the ... After loading a cargo of pepper, classified by the government along ...
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• Hydroelectricity
  Compared to wind farm s, hydroelectricity power plants have a more predictable load factor. If the project has a storage reservoir, it can ...
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• Camel train
  the best possible shelter from wind-blown snow in winter; how to ... carrying some cargo—half of a camel load, or a full load—of their own on ...
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• Overhead power line
  must be strong enough mechanically to support the full weight of the span of conductor, as well as loads due to ice accumulation, and wind. ...
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• Jurca Sirocco
  The Jurca MJ-5 Sirocco (named for the Sirocco wind ) is a two-seat ... seating and a cargo door in the back able to load (very) small vehicles. ...
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• Eiffel Tower (section Wind considerations)
  Wind considerations ... as neither company (or indeed any company) had experience with installing lifts climbing to such heights with large loads. ...
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• Center of gravity of an aircraft
  provides information facilitating the calculation of moments for fuel loads. ... obvious when hovering into a strong wind, since less rearward ...
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• Marine fuel management
  Wind, current, hull condition, load, and propulsion system health can all impact fuel burn both positively or negatively. Some operators ...
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• Earthquake engineering structures
  first building in Los Angeles that uses an advanced steel plate shear wall system to resist the lateral loads of strong earthquakes and winds. ...
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• Silk Road (section Wind god)
  prehistoric peoples to carry heavier loads over greater distances, ... Wind god: The name of the west wind in Greek is Zephyr . ...
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• Power system simulation (section Load Flow Calculation)
  Load Flow Calculation: The load-flow calculation is the most common network ... Renewables (including hydro, wind, wave-power, and solar) ...
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• Honda DN-01
  and the lack of wind protection at high speed, meaning the rider is ... Since the initial reviews, the price has risen to US$ 15,599 The load ...
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• C-76 Caravan
  unstable when not carrying a cargo load; in order to obtain a stable ... At any speed, or in any gusting wind, the C-76's elevators would flap ...
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• Sport (camera)
  The combined shutter speed dial and wind-on knob, situated on the ... The camera base and back is removed for film loading. The only lens ...
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• Lowari Pass
  of whom make their living as porters carrying loads across Lowari Top. ... Even today, PIA pilots often turn back because of winds and fear ...
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• Clothes line
  greenhouse gas emissions from the average mechanical clothes dryer per load) ... direct solar radiation and the convective assistance of the wind. ...
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• Baccara
  releasing a string of Hi-NRG club hits such as “Fantasy Boy” and “Touch Me” in the late 1980s and the later UK club hit “Wind Beneath My Wings”. ...
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• Air New Zealand Flight 901
  each helo load and that left the remaining people with more work to do. ... after the original was eroded by low temperatures, wind and moisture. ...
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• History of architecture
  Horizontal loads, for example wind, are supported by the structure as a whole. About half the exterior surface is available for windows. ...
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• Chief Mate
  As cargo officer, a chief mate oversees the loading, stowage, ... to a number of forces, such as wind, swells, and storms which could capsize it. ...
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• Natural ventilation (redirect from Wind driven ventilation)
  occurring in buildings: wind driven ventilation and stack ventilation. ... Due to high internal heat loads, natural ventilation of boiler rooms ...
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• Tonneau
  tarpaulin was commonly used to protect a load from road dust or weather. ... electric trucks to reduce wind resistance and increase the range. ...
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• STS-29
  minutes for nearly two hours because of ground fog and high upper winds. Mission highlights: A waiver was approved for orbiter wing loads. ...
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• Thermal cycling
  specific design in mind, to be able to deal with a given load or "Stress ". ... adverse environmental conditions (such as wind, rain, snow, sleet). ...
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• Xcel Energy (section Wind Power)
  According to the Annual Wind Industry Report for year-end 2008 ... the demand for daytime power generation was so great it created load problems. ...
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• Airtecture
  The building was designed for a snow load of 50 kg/m² and a simultaneous wind speed of 80 km/h. Current Situation: Today, many companies ...
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• Combined cycle
  diversity of weather and load, but these have been shown in the pan-European case to be quite low, showing that overall wind energy costs ...
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• Typhoon Pongsona
  Marianas Islands while near its peak winds of 175 km/h (110 mph 10- min ). ... the island, and destroyed a fuel pier and a loading pipeline. ...
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• Murchison River (Western Australia)
  Because of the high sediment load, and continual stirring by wind and river flow, the water is turbid The mouth of the estuary is a small ...
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• Leonard Warden Bonney
  a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that ... , so that they could turn sideways into the wind on landing... ...
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• Energy policy of India (section Wind power showcase)
  India is the world’s fifth largest producer of wind power after ... every Block and more if required as per load, networked and connected ...
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• German attacks on Nauru
  serious damage on the island's important phosphate -loading facilities. ... During south-westerly wind periods—which are common from November ...
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• Bicycle
  the same distance to be distributed over more pedal turns, reducing fatigue when riding uphill, with a heavy load, or against strong winds. ...
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• Lamella clarifier
  The compact design minimizes hydraulic disturbances caused by wind or ... The LGST handles flow rates and/or solids loadings beyond the ...
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• Facultative lagoon
  Aerator operation may be limited to periods of heavy waste loads, high temperatures, darkness, low wind velocity, or other conditions ...
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• Ice Road Truckers
  attitude, stamina and consistently high number of loads delivered per season. ... strong Arctic winds leading to whiteouts, and unforgiving ...
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• Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System
  LAPES was used to provide a method of supplying heavy loads into Khe ... once the parachute catches the wind outside the craft, it pulls the ...
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• Cormorant (album)
  The Strongest Wind That Blows - 4:46 Track listing : Ronny - 4:22 ... Load the Boat - 3:51 Troublemeat - 4:40 Reason With the Beast - 1:53 ...
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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  6515 | LT | t | 0 | abbr on full load | Ship length 269 | ft | m | ... USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278) was a United States Coast Guard Wind ...
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• Scout Moor Wind Farm
  Scout Moor Wind Farm is the largest onshore wind farm in England. ... the moor was covered in a layer of peat with a low load-bearing capacity. ...
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• Gliding (flight)
  This form of drag, also known as wind resistance , varies with the ... Glide ratio usually varies little with vehicle loading however, a ...
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• Blue roof
  least reduce the HVAC load placed on mechanical refrigeration equipment. ecologically friendly features such as renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.). ...
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• Lockheed Model 10 Electra
  and bulkhead webs subjected to tension loads through pressurization. ... Wind tunnel work on the Electra was undertaken at the University of ...
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• Ballast tractor
  haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads. ... bed 5-axle trailer en route to a wind farm substation ...
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• Translational lift
  If there is a steady wind (above 10 knots ) a helicopter in the ... Mason describes a situation where he took off with a load of 2500 pounds ...
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• Model yachting (section Wind vane method)
  stronger winds in which models were sailed, they needed a greater draught . ... single schooner with a maximum load water-line of 63 inches, and ...
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• B-47 Stratojet (section Crew and loads)
  the ancestor of NASA ) performed wind tunnel tests on a composite ... Crew and loads: The XB-47 was designed to carry a crew of three in a ...
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• Comet
  As the relative orbital speed of the comet and the solar wind is ... congregate and act to "load" the solar magnetic field with plasma, such ...
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• USS Union (AKA-106)
  Strong winds, high seas, and thick fog made this entire operation a ... After off-loading and back-loading Marine vehicles, the ship returned ...
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• BEML
  company_name Bharat Earth Movers Limited | company_logo File:Beml_Logo. jpg | 135px company_type Public Sector Undertaking(BEML)(500048) | ...
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• Truss
  bearing loads), these connections must resist shear forces acting perpendicular to the plane of the truss and uplift forces due to wind. ...
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• Simple suspension bridge
  the deck being an arc, not flat) and the response to dynamic loads ... Design: These also add stability in wind. An example is the 220-meter ...
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• BMP-3
  The turret is fitted with the 2K23 system which consists of an automatic loader, a ballistic computer 1V539, a cross-wind sensor, a 2E52-2 ...
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• Remington Model 1858
  The combustible cartridge loading method sped up revolver loading ... Gone with the Wind , and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , as well as ...
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• Renewable energy in Australia (section Wind power)
  In Australia , solar and wind energy sources are being harnessed on a ... estimated 6.8% of Australia's base load power needs by 2030 ...
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• USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281)
  6515 | LT | abbr on | lk on full load | Ship length 269 | ft | abbr ... USCGC Westwind (WAGB-281) was a United States Coast Guard Wind-class ...
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• The Airscrew Company
  company was also making wooden-bladed ventilation fans and wind tunnels. ... were able to withstand a distributive load of 1 ½ tons when ...
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• Codex Alera
  to allow them to lift loads far too heavy for normal people, while wind crafters can increase their speed and metalcrafters their endurance. ...
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• X-ray astronomy (section Unstable winds)
  Image:GOES-O before oxidizer and hydrazine loading. ... Unstable winds: Given the lack of a significant outer convection zone, theory predicts the ...
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• Wrightsoft
  s of Americato design software for HVAC Manual J load calculations. ... Bushnell, Davis "He caught wind of a software need" The Boston Globe ...
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• Dana Carpender
  All are published by Fair Winds Press of Gloucester, Massachusetts ... The column, however, continues to concern itself with glycemic load, ...
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• Regina, Saskatchewan
  which maintains a province-wide grid with power generated from coal-fired base load, natural gas-fired, hydroelectric and wind power facilities. ...
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• Nuclear power debate
  "Sun, wind, tides and waves cannot be controlled to provide directly either continuous base load power, or peak-load power when it is needed. ...
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• Portland, Victoria (section Portland Wind Project)
  Portland Wind Project ... services twice a week, but Pacific National said that due to the drought there were no trains to attach the loading to. ...
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• Pentax ME F
  By 1981, almost every part of the classic mount lens/load film/compose/focus/meter/f-stop/shutter speed/shoot/wind sequence of SLR ...
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• Sheet (sailing) (redirect from Three sheets to the wind)
  made of chain to handle the heavy loads while remaining flexible ... Three sheets to the wind: The term "three sheets to the wind," meaning " ...
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• Tokelau
  Ships load and unload cargo by motoring up to the down-wind (leeward ) side of the islet where the people live and maintaining station, by ...
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• Shrouded tidal turbine
  While the shroud may not be practical in wind, as the next generation ... Shrouded turbine loads are 3 to 4 times those of the open or free ...
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• Geography of China
  The loose, loamy material travels easily in the wind, and through ... it carries a heavy load of sediment in the form of sand and mud from ...
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• Eurocopter EC135 (section Offshore Wind Support)
  Offshore Wind Support ... 208 lb | loaded weight main | loaded weight alt | useful load main 1,455 kg | useful load alt 3,208 lb | max takeoff ...
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• HMS Lord Clyde (1864)
  Armament 1870:9 inch muzzle-loading rifles Fourteen 8 inch muzzle- ... 12 Stating circumstances of wind and sea Angle of roll to windward 32 ...
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• Electricity sector in Mexico (section Wind)
  Although exploitation of solar, wind, and biomass resources has a ... of low demand in Baja California, surplus electricity and base load (i.e. ...
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• Revolving door
  revolving door is always closed, so wind and drafts cannot blow into the building, also efficiently minimizing heating and air conditioning loads. ...
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• Gerald Bull
  building a supersonic wind tunnel, at that time a relatively rare device. ... slowing down the acceleration and loads on the airframe, while ...
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• SR.N4
  Service: The craft entered commercial service in ... winds. The stretched SR. ... Specification Dimensions : Load: : Mark 1: 30 cars and 250 passengers: ...
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• Dam
  intermittent power sources such as wind or solar, the reservoir can serve as pumped water storage to facilitate base load dampening in the power grid. ...
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• Aker Verdal
  flare tower s, loading buoy s, modules and deck s as well as subsea ... including cold bending and construction of offshore mounts for wind mill s. ...
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• Nanban trade
  favorable NorthEast wind for sailing South was blowing, Japanese ships with heavy loads of silver and copper arrived at the Viets river-ports. ...
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• Station North Arts District
  the opening of Joe Squared Restaurant, Load of Fun Studios, Single Carrot Theatre, and The Wind Up Space (an arts venue and bar), have ...
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• Greenmount West, Baltimore
  the opening of Joe Squared Restaurant, Load of Fun Studios, Single Carrot Theatre, and The Wind Up Space (an arts venue and bar), have ...
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• Geology of Alderley Edge
  flow and wind- ripple laminae indicative of aeolian dune accumulation. desiccation cracks, mud flakes, raindrop imprints, loads and flutes. ...
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• Wind River Experimental Forest
  The Wind River Experimental Forest is an ecological and silvicultural research in ... freestanding tower crane with a load jib extension ...
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• SaskPower
  including three coal-fired base load facilities, four natural gas-fired facilities, seven hydroelectric facilities, and two wind power facilities. ...
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• Radio masts and towers (section Wind-induced oscillations)
  Similar structures include electricity pylon s and towers for wind ... These tend to cater for greater heights and loads than the pump-up type ...
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• Control of the National Grid (section Matching of power station output to load)
  dealing with both sudden changes in load, and sudden changes in the ... On a day when wind strength is enough to give a total output of 600 MW ...
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• Lancair Propjet
  loaded weight alt - | useful load main 1,500 lb | useful load ... Specifications: Cross Wind Landing: 21 mph component. Fuel Consumption: 33 gal / ...
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• Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
  and high winds over the North Sea during which a considerable number of bombers jettisoned the explosive part of their bomb loads ...
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• Fireworks
  loading of the shells; and if electronically firing, wiring and testing. ... the mortars, plus distance adjustments for wind speed and direction. ...
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• Camera magazine
  As the loader cannot see what (s)he is doing, the loader must ... wound with the emulsion facing inwards, which is the standard manufacturing wind. ...
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• Electricity sector in Peru (section Wind)
  particular wind and solar energy , due to an inadequate regulatory framework. ... only in operation during peak load periods or when ...
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• AMX-30E
  As a result, the loader received a presentation unit to ... received, including angular velocity , wind velocity, gun elevation and ...
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• BKW FMB Energie AG (section Wind Power)
  Aarberg , canton of Berne (Switzerland): run-of-the-river, 15.2 MW installed load, owned plant. ... installed load, ... Wind Power: Image:EOLIENNE. ...
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• J.A. Jones Construction
  The first load of houses survived, unscathed, 100-mile-per-hour winds on the barge and a jarring 7.74 earthquake, again evidencing J.A. ...
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• T-64
  incorporation of an automatic loader for its 115-mm gun, allowing a ... T-64B: a 1B11 cross-wind sensor. Its ford capacity reaches 1.8 m without ...
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• Suspension bridge
  A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (the load-bearing ... jpg | Mackinac Bridge in a snowstorm, during high winds, the ...
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• Launch commit criteria (section Wind)
  Prior to external tank propellant loading, tanking will not begin if ... Wind: Tanking will not begin if the wind is observed or forecast to ...
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• Citroën C15
  Models with 600 kg and 800 kg load capacities were introduced (the ... sagging or to snapping off in a high wind, so, after a year or two, only ...
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• Glossary of fuel cell terms (section Load profile)
  Load following power plant : ... solar and radiant energy , wind , rain , tides and geothermal heat —which are renewable (naturally replenished). ...
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• Greater Gabbard wind farm
  Greater Gabbard is a 500MW wind farm under construction on sandbanks 23 Km off the ... Specification : Load factor: 'greater than 40%' ...
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• Leica M5
  The M5 incorporates an improved rapid film loading spool design ... The M5 has a rapid transport lever which winds the shutter and advances ...
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• SmILE
  Less air resistance, with a 30% improvement in the wind tunnel (C w ... frequent use in the higher load range, which results in higher thermal stress . ...
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• List of energy abbreviations
  DLC — Direct load control (regarding Load management ) ... V : VAWT — vertical axis wind turbine (wind) VIN — vehicle identification number (US ...
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• Airfield traffic pattern (section Wind direction)
  Wind direction ... Although, at tower-controlled airports, ATC will provide traffic advisories for VFR flights on a work-load permitting basis. ...
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• Cossack, Western Australia
  and the Cape Lambert iron ore loading facility (operated by Pilbara ... Past the townsite, the road winds up to Tien Tsin Lookout, from which ...
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• USS Almaack (AKA-10)
  unloaded, Almaack soon found the wind and sea making operations difficult. ... Shifted from a combat load to a regular cargo load, Almaack ...
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• Ralph Alger Bagnold
  He laid the foundations for the research on sand transport by wind ... The nature of saltation and of "bed-load" transport in water. ...
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• MiG Skat
  A number of aerodynamic configurations have been wind-tunnel tested ... It is intended to carry a combat load of up to two tons, with a combat ...
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• North Channel Naval Duel
  the state of the wind and tide at that time prevented them from ... That meant they had to load their guns the slow way, pouring in the right ...
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• Raimondo Guarini
  Raimondo had to load his pockets with stones to keep himself from being blown away by the winds, while going on his expeditions in search ...
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• Konica
  Matic Deluxe "New" (1965) Improved film take-up spindle, easier loading. ... Konica Auto SE (1966) Wind-up "motorized" film advance. ...
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• Deletion (music industry)
  "Stiffed" tracks a load of cut-outs from MCA's warehouse to Pennsylvania dealer John LaMonte, who winds up in a complicated deal involving ...
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• B-52 Stratofortress
  but some Gs without jamming equipment and with a smaller bomb load). ... which reduced airframe fatigue from wind gusts during low level flight. ...
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• Bicycle wheel (section Reaction to load (tensioned wire spoked wheels))
  Finally, for best, long-lasting results, spoke wind-up should be ... Reaction to load (tensioned wire spoked wheels): When a radial load is ...
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• SS William Clay Ford
  face the dangers of gale force winds and vicious seas, in the ... In December 1984, she hauled her last load of cargo from Duluth, Minnesota ...
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• Budgie (TV series)
  Accidentally stealing a van load of pornographic magazines from the ... Eventually all his "friends" desert him and he winds up back in jail, ...
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• Kite types
  flexible sails are also often considered to be simply inflated by the wind. ... Wing loading or sail loading: A kite may fly with a loading on its ...
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• Electricity sector in Guyana (section Wind)
  Latin America and the Caribbean), load discharges and voltage variations. ... Wind : The potential for wind-based generation is considered to be ...
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• Ship stability
  These systems are designed to reduce the effects of waves or wind ... The IMO International Convention on Load Lines does not mention active ...
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