Author: Sreenivas Alampalli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic signs and signals
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A study was recently completed examining the validity of design procedures used in calculating loads on poles supporting traffic signals suspended from untethered span-wires. First, current New York State Department of Transportation design procedures were examined for their appropriateness and compliance with AASHTO specifications. A traffic-signal pole was then instrumented with load cells and a wind-speed monitor. Loads transferred to the pole from the span-wire and associated wind speeds were recorded over several months. These data were compared with corresponding loads calculated using 1) methods specified by AASHTO and 2) current methods used by the Department. This report summarizes the study and its results.
Wind Loads on Untethered-span-wire Traffic-signal Poles
Author: Sreenivas Alampalli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic signs and signals
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A study was recently completed examining the validity of design procedures used in calculating loads on poles supporting traffic signals suspended from untethered span-wires. First, current New York State Department of Transportation design procedures were examined for their appropriateness and compliance with AASHTO specifications. A traffic-signal pole was then instrumented with load cells and a wind-speed monitor. Loads transferred to the pole from the span-wire and associated wind speeds were recorded over several months. These data were compared with corresponding loads calculated using 1) methods specified by AASHTO and 2) current methods used by the Department. This report summarizes the study and its results.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic signs and signals
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
A study was recently completed examining the validity of design procedures used in calculating loads on poles supporting traffic signals suspended from untethered span-wires. First, current New York State Department of Transportation design procedures were examined for their appropriateness and compliance with AASHTO specifications. A traffic-signal pole was then instrumented with load cells and a wind-speed monitor. Loads transferred to the pole from the span-wire and associated wind speeds were recorded over several months. These data were compared with corresponding loads calculated using 1) methods specified by AASHTO and 2) current methods used by the Department. This report summarizes the study and its results.
Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) 2016-2020: Mitigating the Impact of Natural Hazards on Civil Infrastructure and Communities
Author: Julio Alfonso Ramirez
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889711862
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889711862
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Development of Hurricane Resistant Cable Supported Traffic Signals
Author: Ronald A. Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hurricane protection
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hurricane protection
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Transportation R&D News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Engineering and Design
Author: Us Army Corps Of Engineers
Publisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781780397603
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This manual provides guidance on evaluating the condition of the concrete in a structure, relating the condition of the concrete to the underlying cause or causes of that condition, selecting an appropriate repair material and method for any deficiency found, and using the selected materials and methods to repair or rehabilitate the structure. Guidance is also included on maintenance of concrete and on preparation of concrete investigation reports for repair and rehabilitation projects. Considerations for certain specialized types of rehabilitation projects are also given.
Publisher: Military Bookshop
ISBN: 9781780397603
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This manual provides guidance on evaluating the condition of the concrete in a structure, relating the condition of the concrete to the underlying cause or causes of that condition, selecting an appropriate repair material and method for any deficiency found, and using the selected materials and methods to repair or rehabilitate the structure. Guidance is also included on maintenance of concrete and on preparation of concrete investigation reports for repair and rehabilitation projects. Considerations for certain specialized types of rehabilitation projects are also given.
Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Roland Schmehl
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811019479
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This book provides in-depth coverage of the latest research and development activities concerning innovative wind energy technologies intended to replace fossil fuels on an economical basis. A characteristic feature of the various conversion concepts discussed is the use of tethered flying devices to substantially reduce the material consumption per installed unit and to access wind energy at higher altitudes, where the wind is more consistent. The introductory chapter describes the emergence and economic dimension of airborne wind energy. Focusing on “Fundamentals, Modeling & Simulation”, Part I includes six contributions that describe quasi-steady as well as dynamic models and simulations of airborne wind energy systems or individual components. Shifting the spotlight to “Control, Optimization & Flight State Measurement”, Part II combines one chapter on measurement techniques with five chapters on control of kite and ground stations, and two chapters on optimization. Part III on “Concept Design & Analysis” includes three chapters that present and analyze novel harvesting concepts as well as two chapters on system component design. Part IV, which centers on “Implemented Concepts”, presents five chapters on established system concepts and one chapter about a subsystem for automatic launching and landing of kites. In closing, Part V focuses with four chapters on “Technology Deployment” related to market and financing strategies, as well as on regulation and the environment. The book builds on the success of the first volume “Airborne Wind Energy” (Springer, 2013), and offers a self-contained reference guide for researchers, scientists, professionals and students. The respective chapters were contributed by a broad variety of authors: academics, practicing engineers and inventors, all of whom are experts in their respective fields.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811019479
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This book provides in-depth coverage of the latest research and development activities concerning innovative wind energy technologies intended to replace fossil fuels on an economical basis. A characteristic feature of the various conversion concepts discussed is the use of tethered flying devices to substantially reduce the material consumption per installed unit and to access wind energy at higher altitudes, where the wind is more consistent. The introductory chapter describes the emergence and economic dimension of airborne wind energy. Focusing on “Fundamentals, Modeling & Simulation”, Part I includes six contributions that describe quasi-steady as well as dynamic models and simulations of airborne wind energy systems or individual components. Shifting the spotlight to “Control, Optimization & Flight State Measurement”, Part II combines one chapter on measurement techniques with five chapters on control of kite and ground stations, and two chapters on optimization. Part III on “Concept Design & Analysis” includes three chapters that present and analyze novel harvesting concepts as well as two chapters on system component design. Part IV, which centers on “Implemented Concepts”, presents five chapters on established system concepts and one chapter about a subsystem for automatic launching and landing of kites. In closing, Part V focuses with four chapters on “Technology Deployment” related to market and financing strategies, as well as on regulation and the environment. The book builds on the success of the first volume “Airborne Wind Energy” (Springer, 2013), and offers a self-contained reference guide for researchers, scientists, professionals and students. The respective chapters were contributed by a broad variety of authors: academics, practicing engineers and inventors, all of whom are experts in their respective fields.
Smoke Signals
Author: M. John Fayhee
Publisher: Ravens Eye Press LLC
ISBN: 9780984005628
Category : Adventure travel
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Fayhee's wayward wanderings have been recounted in his monthly "Smoke Signals" column for the "Mountain Gazette, " of which he is the editor. In this volume he distills his favorite tales.
Publisher: Ravens Eye Press LLC
ISBN: 9780984005628
Category : Adventure travel
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Fayhee's wayward wanderings have been recounted in his monthly "Smoke Signals" column for the "Mountain Gazette, " of which he is the editor. In this volume he distills his favorite tales.
Seize the High Ground
Author: James A. Walker
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.