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Aachen Rathaus

Since the end of the Imperial City era and the Napoleonic occupation of the area, the structural condition of the City Hall was greatly neglected, so that the building was seen to be falling apart by 1840.

Adam Koppy

This role required him to carry out the design from clean sheet to final drawings in SolidWorks and Inventor, including structural analysis using the finite element method and hand calculations, as well as spindle design, drivetrain sizing, and servo actuator selection.

Adriana Kugler

Plant Turnover and Structural Reforms in Colombia (with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler), IMF Staff Papers, 2006, 53.

All-dielectric self-supporting cable

The inner structure is wrapped with polyester tapes and encased in a pultruded glass reinforced plastic tube, which provides the structural strength for the cable.

Aster Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2006, after Richard C. Aster, Professor of Geophysics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who has been involved in volcanological studies at the Mount Erebus volcano observatory on Ross Island, with ice, ocean, and tectonic seismic source research, and with seismological, tectonic, and structural studies of Antarctica.

Bilevel optimization

Structural optimization problems comprise of two levels of optimization task and are commonly referred as mathematical programming problems with equilibrium constraints (MPEC).

Blue laser

In the early 1990s the Institute of High Pressure Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), under the leadership of Dr. Sylwester Porowski developed technology to create gallium nitride crystals with high structural quality and fewer than 100 defects per square centimeter — at least 10,000 times better than the best sapphire-supported crystal.

Buhl, Haut-Rhin

Maurice Koechlin: structural engineer, designer of Eiffel Tower, born in Buhl

Chadwick House

Chadwick house demonstrates the principles of William Morris in its material and structural honesty, awareness of functionalism and site and appreciation of fine craftsmanship.

Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101

"The signs of structural problems were there but not addressed," safety board chairman Mark Rosenker said.

Charles Alton Ellis

Charles Alton Ellis (1876–1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

Daniel Lidar

in 1993, and obtained his PhD under Robert Benny Gerber and Ofer Biham, 1997, with a thesis entitled Structural Characterization of Disordered Systems also from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

David J. Farrar

It being the eve of World War II, he expected to go into the Royal Air Force, having been an active member of the University Air Squadron, but was assigned to the aircraft industry in the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he specialised initially in structural design.

Digital infinity

Jakobson had already persuaded a young social anthropologist — Claude Lévi-Strauss — to apply distinctive features theory to the study of kinship systems, in this way inaugurating 'structural anthropology'.

Dischinger

Franz Dischinger (1887 - 1953), a pioneering German civil and structural engineer

Ernest Goüin

An economic depression in 1847 affected orders for locomotives and forced Goüin to diversify; as a result his company began manufacturing structural metal constructions, and in 1852 his company built became the first metal bridge builder in France, with a bridge in Asnières.

Geodetic airframe

The "diagonal rider" structural element was used by Joshua Humphreys in the first US Navy sail frigates in 1794.

Gregory S. Boebinger

With a Churchill Scholarship, he traveled to the Cambridge University for one year of research under Professor Sir Richard Friend, studying the temperature dependent structural changes in one-dimensional organic superconductors.

International Press Telecommunications Council

NewsML is an XML standard developed by the IPTC to provide a media-independent, structural enveloping framework for multi-media news.

Intervertebral disc disorder

These loads are instead transferred non-uniformly through the annulus fibrosus, which undergoes progressive, structural deterioration.

John Merrill

John O. Merrill, American architect and structural engineer, 1896-1975

Korakuen Hall

In March 2011, as the hall suffered structural damage under the influence of the Tōhoku earthquake, the events scheduled for the time being, including WBC triple female world title fight, were postponed or canceled.

L'Oceanogràfic

The architecture of the complex is a work of the architect Félix Candela and the engineers Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro, who made the structural design of the concrete coverings of the buildings.

Margin of safety

Margin of safety in engineering, especially structural engineering contexts

Mary Brown Bullock

The biggest structural achievement during Bullock's reign was the $36.5 million Science Center that includes a three-story length painting of Agnes Scott's actual DNA, along with state-of-the-art equipment in all the labs.

May 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash

Goliath F-AEBY of Air Union crashed at Monsures, Somme, France following the structural failure of a wing in flight.

Mersey Match Factory

The factory was designed by Mewès and Davis in conjunction with the structural engineer Sven Bylander.

Metal Building Manufacturers Association

It has been reviewed by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and will be published by them as an interpretation of, and an extension to, the provisions of the 2005 AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings.

Moruleng Stadium

The stadium was constructed by South African companies Stefanutti Stocks and Omnistruct Nkosi with help from structural engineers Arup of Durban.

MV Kaawa

In September 2005 Uganda's minister of works, John Nasasira, claimed that structural repairs Kaawas collision damage and to her sister ship Pemba were almost complete but that 3.4 billion Ugandan Shillings was needed "to fully repair and maintain, class and insure the vessels".

New Law Tenement

New Law tenements are distinct from "Old Law" and "pre-law" tenements both in structural design and exterior ornament.

Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage

Novoryazanskaya Street Garage, also spelled Novo-Ryazanskaya Street Garage, and known as "Horseshoe garage", was designed by Konstantin Melnikov and Vladimir Shukhov (structural engineering) in 1926 and completed in 1929 at 27, Novoryazanskaya Street in Krasnoselsky District, Moscow, Russia, near Kazansky Rail Terminal.

Ontario Highway 70

Construction on this bridge was underway by March 1936; it was rapidly assembled using Douglas fir from British Columbia as the main structural members.

OnTrack

Congressman Jim Walsh appropriated $3 million in 2002 for OnTrack, although the company insisted the money was earmarked for structural rather than cosmetic improvements.

Rainer Wend

According to Wend important elements of crisis management are besides budget discipline and structural reforms in the affected countries a greater convergence of economic and financial policies of the EU members towards a “political union”.

Red Wing crater

The structural disturbance is filled by thick rocks of Jurassic age, suggesting that the impact took place during the Triassic.

Roland Wank

He went on to redesign the Norris Dam itself, taking the existing engineering proposal and simplifying its overall appearance, removing ornament, and pulling the structural masses into a more coherent and dramatic spatial composition.

Schell Bridge

Designed by Edward S. Shaw, the bridge was built by the New England Structural Company of East Everett, Massachusetts.

Screed

In the UK, screed has also come to describe a thin, top layer of material (traditionally sand and cement), poured in site on top of the structural concrete or insulation, on top of which other finishing materials can be applied, or it can be left bare to achieve an effect similar to that in buildings by Tadao Ando.

Stalk

Plant stem, one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant

Structural steel

The standard that covers CE Marking of structural steelwork is EN 1090-1.

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

Peter Antonelli, reviewing the book in SIAM Review, writes that it presents a "beautifully designed 'coffee-table-book'" summary of Lindenmayer's school of thought, explaining how Algorithmic Language Theory, like Noam Chomsky's theory of grammar, can describe how repeated structural units can arrange themselves.

Tumkur University

Prof. Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2002), Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA and Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Unfolded protein response

It has been argued that the genetic and structural evidence supporting the model simply shows BiP dissociation to be merely correlated with Ire1 activation, rather than specifically causing it.

Vladimir Batagelj

Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, Vladimir Batagelj, Mark Granovetter (Series Editor), Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences), Cambridge University Press 2005 (ISBN 0-521-60262-9).

Waleed Aly

His International Baccalaureate-extended essay was formal harmonic and structural analysis of 'Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody'.

X-ray standing waves

The characteristic shape of Y p can be used to derive precise structural information about the surface atoms because the two parameters f H (coherent fraction) and P H (coherent position) are directly related to the Fourier representation of the atomic distribution function.


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