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Cantilever bridges are built using cantilevers — horizontal beams supported on only one end.
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Cyclocross Cantilever brake bosses are more often equipped with traditional center-pull cantilever brakes than the more contemporary and powerful linear-pull brakes (" V-brakes ") due to two reasons: native compatibility ( in terms of cable pull ) with the majority of drop-bar brake levers ; and the cantilever brake's greater brake pad-to-rim clearance, which minimizes drag in muddy conditions.
The famous Dalmarnock Ironworks was closed and demolished in 1986 but at least seven of their Giant Cantilever Cranes are still in existence.
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# The Cantilever bridge, if built with pinned joints is statically determinant, which makes it easier to calculate the stresses and size the parts of the structure.
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Cantilever monoplane wings provided much more space than the fuselage to mount armament — and being much more rigid than the old cable braced wings they provided almost as steady a mounting as the fuselage.
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* Gunnar Lucko and Jesús M. de la Garza, " Constructability Considerations for Balanced Cantilever Construction ", Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 47 – 56, February, 2003, accessed July 20, 2007
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" Castell y Gwynt " and the " Cantilever Stone " were used in Walt Disney's 1981 movie Dragonslayer, this was one entrance to the Dragon's lair.
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Cantilever walls resist lateral pressures by friction at the base of the wall and / or passive earth pressure, the tendency of the soil to resist lateral movement.
Cantilever monoplane wings were becoming the norm for most applications by the early nineteen thirties ; the era of the biplane was almost over.
Cantilever wings require a much heavier spar than would otherwise be needed in cable-stayed designs.
Another early psychical researcher and engineer W. J. Crawford ( 1881 – 1920 ) developed the " Cantilever Theory of Levitation " due to his experiments with the medium Kathleen Goligher.
The High Bridge of Kentucky by C. Shaler Smith ( 1877 ), the Niagara Cantilever Bridge by Charles Conrad Schneider ( 1883 ) and the Poughkeepsie Bridge by John Francis O ' Rourke and Pomeroy P. Dickinson ( 1889 ) were all important early uses of the cantilever design.
It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement.
Situated near the summit is the Cantilever Stone, a large rock which from the correct angle appears to be precariously balanced, making it a popular place for photographs.
( Cantilever lifts, counterweights and other equipment and materials were lifted by a barge crane or by a jack-up crane located between each column pair.
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