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It is a steel cantilever construction, designed by John Alexander Low Waddell and built under the auspices of the Port of New York Authority, now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which currently operates it.
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is and steel
The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders.
The weight of fame and history is formidable, and dreary steel engravings in schoolbooks do little to quicken interest and imagination.
While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.
Wiry and burr-headed, with steel blue eyes and a chest splattered with medals, Chandler is the epitome of the old-time trooper.
As for the materials they used, the WD-2's mask is fabricated with a highly elastic material called Septom, with bits of steel wool mixed in for added strength.
For example, steel is stronger than iron, its primary element.
Stainless steel is an example of a combination of interstitial and substitutional alloys, because the carbon atoms fit into the interstices, but some of the iron atoms are replaced with nickel and chromium atoms.
If the steel is cooled slowly, the iron will gradually change into its low temperature allotrope.
However, if the steel is cooled quickly the carbon atoms will not have time to precipitate.
Architecturally it is considered an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting.
A trend toward composite armour is taking place in place of steel-composites are stronger for a given weight, allowing the tank to be lighter for the same protection as steel armour, or better protected for the same weight.
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
The steel-string acoustic guitar evolved from the nylon-or gut-string classical guitar, and because steel strings have higher tension, heavier construction is required overall.
If, conversely, tin is used to coat steel, when a breach of the coating occurs it actually accelerates oxidation of the iron.
Beryllium is a steel gray and hard metal that is brittle at room temperature and has a close-packed hexagonal crystal structure.
The modulus of elasticity of beryllium is approximately 50 % greater than that of steel.
The vertical force on the bridge becomes a shear and flexural load on the beam which is transferred down its length to the substructures on either side They are typically made of steel, concrete or wood.
Care needs to be taken when transporting bromine ; it is commonly carried in steel tanks lined with lead, supported by strong metal frames.
It is a component of YBCO ( high-temperature superconductors ) and electroceramics, and is added to steel and cast iron to reduce the size of carbon grains within the microstructure of the metal.
This is a system by which a steel or iron wire framework is built in the shape of a boat's hull and covered ( trowelled ) over with cement.
is and cantilever
The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.
The largest cantilever bridge is the Quebec Bridge in Quebec, Canada.
The bridge is launched by the cantilever method.
Basements are a form of cantilever walls, but the forces on the basement walls are greater than on conventional walls because the basement wall is not free to move.
In an attempt to analyze the results of ultrasonic force microscopy in a quantitative fashion, a force-distance curve measurement is done with ultrasonic vibration applied to the cantilever base, and the results are compared with a model of the cantilever dynamics and tip-sample interaction based on the finite-difference technique.
* Kingman is the closest city to the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Just to the west, an arched cantilever truss bridge named the Bryan Bridge is also open to through traffic.
The Commodore Barry Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Delaware River from Chester, Pennsylvania to Bridgeport in Logan Township.
Still standing today, the bridge is a pinconnected steel cantilever bridge and cost $ 177, 000 to build.
The original bridge was dismantled, and moved to the crossing at Lyons Ferry, where it still stands today as the oldest extant steel cantilever bridge in Washington, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The current North Stand was opened in the early 1960s which runs along the long north edge of the pitch, and was the second football stand in Britain to have a cantilever roof ( thus amongst some fans, it is known as " the cantilever ").
A cantilever is a beam anchored at only one end.
The Forth Bridge in Scotland is an example of a cantilever truss bridge.
This type of construction lends itself well to balanced cantilever construction where the bridge is built in both directions from a single support.
The largest cantilever in Europe is located at St James ' Park in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the home stadium of Newcastle United F. C.
Another use of the cantilever is in fixed-wing aircraft design, pioneered by Hugo Junkers in 1915.
The most common current wing design is the cantilever.
An early example of a MEMS cantilever is the Resonistor, an electromechanical monolithic resonator.
The first is Stoney's formula, which relates cantilever end deflection δ to applied stress σ:
where ν is Poisson's ratio, is Young's modulus, is the beam length and is the cantilever thickness.
is and construction
The dramatic construction of his stories characteristically turns on a situation in which someone is simultaneously compelled and forbidden to love.
Confidence in the state's economic future is reflected in the Georgia Power Company's record construction budget for this year.
SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., is developing plans to utilize specially treated lumber for underground shelter construction.
The Structural Clay Products Institute, Washington, D.C., is working to develop brick and clay products suitable for shelter construction.
New obligational authority for 1961 recommended in this budget for aircraft procurement ( excluding amounts for related research and construction ) totals $4,753 million, which is $1,390 million below that enacted for 1960.
On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.
Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.
Since the same method of shaping and fitting the dogs and notches is used throughout, we will only describe the construction of one locking bar.
This is an important step because any misalignment would cause progressively worse misalignment in the hull as you advance in construction.
Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.
This is much smaller than the highest resolution of even the very large reflectors now under construction, and consequently the radio emission of different regions of the disk cannot be resolved.
Finally, information is retrieved from the dictionary as required by stages of the translation process -- the grammatical description for sentence-structure determination, equivalent-choice information for semantic analysis, and target-language equivalents for output construction.
When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.
It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.
Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;
Thermal conductivity is directly traceable to the material's porous, air-cell construction which effectively traps air or a gas in the maze of minute bubbles which form its composition.
A Highway Department source said there also is a plan there to issue some $3 million to $4 million worth of Rural Roads Authority bonds for rural road construction work.
In 1961, it is estimated that multiple unit dwellings will account for nearly 30 per cent of the starts in residential construction.
Louis H. Grenier, clerk of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed in December at the time the board is visiting new construction sites in the town for assessment purposes.
The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.
The primary use of asphalt is in road construction, where it is used as the glue or binder mixed with aggregate particles to create asphalt concrete.
Because there is no canonical well-ordering of all sets, a construction that relies on a well-ordering may not produce a canonical result, even if a canonical result is desired ( as is often the case in category theory ).
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