The roof shown here ( fig. 9 ) is a 6-inch slab of reinforced concrete, covered with at least 20 inches of pit-run gravel.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

It is a slab of white marble long, wide, and thick, on which are 5 groups of markings.

If a small heater is available for the coldest nights, a slab or basement cistern can inexpensively provide the required thermal mass.

Originally concealed with a slab of stone, this is the beginning of the Ascending Passage.

A variant on spread footings is to have the entire structure bear on a single slab of concrete underlying the entire area of the structure.

His grave is marked by a simple black slab of granite and a large Honey locust tree.

Scott is also commemorated on a stone slab in Makars ' Court, outside The Writers ' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, along with other prominent Scottish writers ; quotes from his work are also visible on the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood.

Within the Church is a dented slab of marble that purports to bear the imprints of the knees of Peter and Paul during their prayer.

After attaching to hillsides, blown snow can evolve into a snow slab, which is an avalanche hazard on steep slopes.

William's grave is currently marked by a marble slab with a Latin inscription dating from the early 19th century.

A. Meissonnier, working in Paris ( illustration, below ), any reference to tectonic form is gone: even the marble slab top is shaped.

In a heat flux DSC, both pans sit on a small slab of material with a known ( calibrated ) heat resistance K. The temperature of the calorimeter is raised linearly with time ( scanned ), i. e., the heating rate

The two footprints on a marble slab at the center of the church — nowadays a copy of the original, which is kept in the nearby Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori le mura — are popularly held to be a miraculous sign left by Jesus.

It is needed to spread out the slab load bearing on the underlying soil and to conduct away any water getting under the slabs.

Scabbing, also known as " spalling ," is the violent separation of a mass of material from the opposite face of a plate or slab subjected to an impact or impulsive loading ( this does not necessarily mean that the barrier itself must have been penetrated at this point ).

A concrete slab foundation either left exposed or covered with conductive materials e. g. tiles ; is one easy solution.

During the day heat gains from the sun, the occupants of the building, and any electrical lighting and equipment, causes the air temperatures within the space to increase but this heat is absorbed by the exposed concrete slab above, thus limiting the temperature rise within the space to be within acceptable levels for human thermal comfort.

However this " regeneration " process is only effective if the building ventilation system is operated at night to carry away the heat from the slab.

Wilbur who is now strapped to a slab witnesses Dracula giving the Monster electrical boosts in the lab.

A fixed altar should in general be topped by a slab of natural stone, thus conforming to tradition and to the significance attributed to the altar, but in many places dignified, well-crafted solid wood is permitted ; the supports or base of a fixed altar may be of any dignified solid material.

The earliest known transi memorial is the very faint indent of a shrouded demi-effigy on the slab commemorating John the Smith ( c. 1370 ) at Brightwell Baldwin ( Oxfordshire ).

This is abnormal, as the dense slab typically sinks at a much steeper angle directly at the subduction zone.

The first documented attempt at an excavation dates to c. 1400 BC, when the young Thutmose IV ( 1401 – 1391 or 1397 – 1388 BC ) gathered a team and, after much effort, managed to dig out the front paws, between which he placed a granite slab, known as the Dream Stele, inscribed with the following ( an extract ):

It was fitted with lee boards ( a type of keel which slotted onto the sides of the vessel ), but these were found to be highly impracticable in rough weather on the New Zealand coast, so that later scows were designed and constructed with the much safer slab sided centre board which was raised and lowered as and when required.

This caused it to subduct at a much more shallow angle, in what is known as a " flat slab ".

The starting point for much of the action on the field is home plate, which is a five-sided slab of whitened rubber, 17-inches square with two of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent sides are 8½ inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and set at an angle to make a point.

It did not take much away from Sixty Special's individuality, and certainly improved the chances of avoiding a devastating parking-lot door ' ding ' on those smooth, slab sides.

There are three types of megaliths: ( 1 ) the southern type, which is low and often a simple slab with supporting stones, ( 2 ) the northern type, which is larger and shaped much like a table, and ( 3 ) the capstone type, which has a capstone with no supporting stones.

In the towards looked there was a strange " pictorial relief " of which some of this " grottesche " were realised: it was the roman stucco, a great techniques that the ancient roman was utilised to reproduce the marble effect, as soon as the decoration can be do from a marble slab, that was too much expensive already at that time and for the Imperator ( we have to think that there were all a " Domus " in marble, for a size as like as a range of KM 1. 5-2 around Colosseum, it was the most famous residence of the Roman Empire ).

The slab was re-incised with a Latin inscription to commemorate Elizabeth Poyntz ( d. 1631 ), wife of a much later Robert Poyntz.

The black slab is simple, indicating his name, birth and death dates ; the inscription is now considerably worn.

One is built into a corner of the ' mort house ' in the churchyard, and shows two crosses incised in a worn pink granite slab.

When a drill like this is used to drill holes down into a concrete slab, the flutes are so worn that they can no longer lift the dust out of the hole ; the concrete dust packs up in the hole and jams the bit.

While the Cairo Stone reports the whole of Semerkhet's reign, unfortunately, the surface of the stone slab is badly worn and most of the events are now illegible.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

In the original scheme, an externally cross-braced framed tube was applied with primary / secondary beams carrying metal decking with reinforced concrete slab.

When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja ( Old Norse " fetter ") hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll ( Old Norse " scream "), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground.

The site of Parsons ' cremation was marked by a small concrete slab and was presided over by a large rock flake known to rock climbers as The Gram Parsons Memorial Hand Traverse.

The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop readable.

New inscriptions painted in white on the left and right edges of the slab stated that it was " Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801 " and " Presented by King George III ".

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

Each dwelling was entered through a low doorway that had a stone slab door that could be closed " by a bar that slid in bar-holes cut in the stone door jambs ".

However, the placement of the slab at Caput Bovis suggests that the canal extended to this point or that there was a second canal downriver of the Kasajna-Ducis Pratum one.

According to Neilsen in 2009 Victoria Bitter was claimed to be Australia's only billion dollar retail beer brand, selling the equivalent of one slab every second.

He proposed a design in which an electric field was applied across the thickness of a thin slab of a semiconductor.

This partitioning, an improvement over the continuous slab, was patented in 1924 by Arthur Wesley Hall and William Alexander McVay who wished to minimize damage to the concrete from the effects of tectonic and temperature fluctuations, both of which can crack longer segments.

The top of the character would overhang the slug, forming a kern which was less fragile than the normal kerns of foundry type, as it was on a slab of cast metal.

The lettering on the Royal Festival Hall and the temporary Festival building on the South Bank was a bold, sloping slab serif letter form, determined by Gray and her colleagues, including Charles Hasler and Gordon Cullen, illustrated in Gray ’ s Lettering on Buildings ( 1960 ).

The saga relates that shortly after Haakon died on the same slab of rock that he was born upon, he was greatly mourned by friend and foe alike, and that his friends moved his body northward to Sæheim in North Hordaland.

" The saga relates that, shortly after, Haakon died on the same slab of rock that he was born upon, that he was greatly mourned by friend and foe alike, and that his friends moved his body northward to Sæheim in North Hordaland.

* Youdales Hut is a historic pioneering timber slab walled hut that was built in the 1930s on a small pastoral run established in the Kunderang Gorges.

The sandstone slab bearing large, mysterious footprints was later purchased by Elihu Dwight, who gave the prints the name of " Noah's Raven.

Macomber's invention was a revolutionary assembly of steel joists with a top slab used to support of floors, ceilings and roofs.

Consequently, the lighter " lithosphere " was uplifted, then collapsed on the denser slab, increasing the load on its edge and driving the denser sequence further under the lighter slab.