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Structural member that transmits loads to columns; carries horizontal loads. *

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The Corps of Engineers is a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies. ... Planning, designing, building, and operating locks and dams.

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A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads.

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In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assemblage as a whole behaves as a single object". A "two-force member" is a structural component where force is applied to only two points.

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A Total Station is a modern surveying instrument that integrates an electronic the odolite with an electronic distance meter. ... Total Stations use electronic transit theodolites in conjunction with a distance meter to read any slope distance from the instrument to any particular spot.

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A total station (TS) or total station theodolite (TST) is an electronic/optical instrument used for surveying and building construction. ... Robotic or motorizedtotal stations allow the operator to control the instrument from a distance via remote control.

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Torsion occurs when an object, such as a bar with a cylindrical or square cross section (as shown in the figure), is twisted. The twisting force acting on the object is known as torque, and the resulting stress is known as Shear stress.

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a piece of string, cord, or the like used for fastening or tying something.

"he tightened the tie of his robe"

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the state of being stretched tight.

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A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridges, which lack vertical suspenders, have a long history in many mountainous parts of the world.

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A strut is a structural component commonly found in engineering, aeronautics, architecture and anatomy. Struts generally work by resisting longitudinal compression, but they may also serve in tension.

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Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man made structures.

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Frame. It is defined as the engineering structure of different shapes like curved or straight. It contains one multi-force member. The frame structure is the combination of beams, column, and slab. ... Rigid structural frame refers to the frames which are capable in resisting the deformation.

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Structural analysis is the determination of the effects of loads on physical structures and their components. Structures subject to this type of analysis include all that must withstand loads, such as buildings, bridges, vehicles, furniture, attire, soil strata, prostheses and biological tissue.

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Statics is the study of methods for quantifying the forces between bodies. ... Staticsis an essential prerequisite for many branches of engineering, such as mechanical, civil, aeronautical, and bioengineering, which address the various consequences of forces.

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Static loading is a load that doesn't change over time. In engineering, static loadstend to be better defined and require less of a safety factor on them then dynamicloading. ... For instance, a static load on an overhead crane would be the weight of the structure, block, etc., because those never change.

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In engineering, shear strength is the strength of a material or component against the type of yield or structural failure when the material or component fails in shear. Ashear load is a force that tends to produce a sliding failure on a material along a plane that is parallel to the direction of the force.

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Highway engineering is an engineering discipline branching from civil engineering that involves the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods.

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Piers. Generally, a pier may be defined as a vertical, column-like engineeringstructure on land as well as in open water, whose purpose is to transmit safely structural load onto a deep-lying, firm, and load-bearing stratum of soil or rock covered by soft soil materials. ... Piers are prismatic or cylindrical columns.

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Construction Loads are defined as, loads imposed on a completed or temporary structure during and as a result of the construction process.

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A mechanical joint is a section of a machine which is used to connect one or more mechanical part to another. ... Most mechanical joints are designed to allow relative movement of these mechanical parts of the machine in one degree of freedom, and restrict movement in one or more others.

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Geomatics Engineering is the management of global infrastructure through the collection, measuring, monitoring and archiving of geospatial data. Geomatics engineers contribute to the welfare and safety of the public through administering appropriate research and advanced mapping techniques.

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In physics and engineering, a free body diagram (force diagram, or FBD) is a graphical illustration used to visualize the applied forces, moments, and resulting reactions on a body in a given condition.

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A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members. When incorporated into a floor framing system, joists serve to provide stiffness to the subfloor sheathing, allowing it to function as a horizontal diaphragm.

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In classical mechanics, a particle is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on that particle is zero. By extension, a physical system made up of many parts is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on each of its individual parts is zero.

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lectronic distance measurement (EDM) is a method of determining the length between two points using electromagnetic waves. EDM is commonly carried out withdigital instruments called theodolites. ... Devices known as total stations share similarities with theodolites and can be used to measure distances as well as angles.

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Dynamics is the part of mechanics that studies movement and its causes. The study of the causes of motion and changes in motion is known as dynamics. Dynamics is the study of how moving objects behave.

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A dynamic load is any force that changes with time, such as car tyres, people walking, and wind gusts. Usually in structural engineering we treat these as static loads in order to simplify calculations.

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The meaning of compression in engineering is all about forces of compression. A compression force is defined as the force generating by compressing or squeezing the object. When objects are compressed, shear forces comes into action which indicates compression forces.

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A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. ... For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering,columns may be designed to resist lateral forces.

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Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Central Core. The central core describes the five regions of the brain that are present in all vertebrate creatures and are responsible for the most basic and essential biological and sensory life processes.

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Cantilever bridge. ... A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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Brace. (in structural engineering), a connecting element that ensures the stability of a main (supporting) member of the frame and contributes to the three-dimensional rigidity of the structure as a whole. ... Braces are used most often in steel and wood structures.

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In engineering mechanics, bending characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element. ... In the absence of a qualifier, the term bending is ambiguous becausebending can occur locally in all objects.

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Beam bridges, also known as stringer bridges, are the simplest structural forms for bridge spans supported by an abutment or pier at each end. ... Bridges designed for modern infrastructure will usually be constructed of steel or reinforced concrete, or a combination of both.

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A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally to the beam's axis. Its mode of deflection is primarily by bending. The loads applied to the beam result in reaction forces at the beam's support points.

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An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side

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In engineering, abutment refers to the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam. This is where the structure's superstructure rests or contacts. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end. These provide vertical and lateral (side to side) support for the bridge.