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unusual facts about truss



Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black

The singles released from the album were "Can't Truss It", "Night Train", "Shut Em Down" and its B-side "By the Time I Get to Arizona" (samples "Two Sisters of Mystery" by Mandrill and a live version of "Walk on By" by the Jackson 5), in which Public Enemy was depicted in the video killing the Arizona governor, Evan Mecham, who refused to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.

ATS-6

The antenna feeds (in C, S, L, UHF and VHF bands) were placed on the spacecraft body, facing the antenna reflector, and linked to the antenna and the solar panels masts by a carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) truss.

Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge

The Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge at Savage, Maryland is the sole surviving example of a revolutionary design in the history of American bridge engineering.

Caroll C. Cropper Bridge

Built in 1977, the four-lane arched truss span provides a western Ohio River crossing for the Interstate 275 beltway around the Cincinnati area.

Carrathool

Percy Allan, the designer of Allan truss and other bridges, was a senior engineer in the NSW Public Works Department.

Cheat Bridge, West Virginia

The current bridge is a steel truss bridge built in 1912 by the Canton Bridge Company.

Cherry Street Bridge

Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge, a bascule bridge and Warren truss in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Clarkton Bridge

It was built in 1902 by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Co., and is the only remaining metal truss structure in Virginia built for highway purposes, which is supported by steel cylinder piers.

Convex uniform honeycomb

The space-filling truss of packed octahedra and tetrahedra was apparently first discovered by Alexander Graham Bell and independently re-discovered by Buckminster Fuller (who called it the octet truss and patented it in the 1940s).

Dennis Bridge

The Dennis Bridge is a steel truss bridge which carries the Pacific Highway across the Hastings River near Port Macquarie, Australia.

Donnellys Crossing Section

For much of the line's length, its formation can be seen travelling through the countryside, and a truss bridge over the Kaihu River is still in place.

Elite Stratocaster

This guitar model featured an alder body, a maple neck featuring a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets, 12" radius, Schaller die-cast tuners with pearloid buttons, BiFlex truss-rod system with MicroTilt neck adjuster, Schaller Straplock Ready locking strap buttons, two hardened steel EasyGlider string trees, side-mount jack socket and a Freeflyte vibrato system, as well as three serrated "rubber insert"-style control knobs.

Garden City Skyway

The construction work included an Ontario "tall-wall" concrete median barrier, new bridge parapets, and the installation of shaded high-pressure sodium lights using the existing truss poles.

Goethe Way

In Buchfart the Goethe Way crosses a wooden through-truss bridge (Holzkastenbrücke) and runs past limestone rocks in which artificial caves were once hollowed out as a refuge.

Grand Glaize Bridge

Its unusual design prompted it to be called the "upside down bridge." Other bridges built across the lake at the time including the Hurricane Deck Bridge over the Osage Arm and the Niangua Bridge over the Niangua Arm were also deck truss structures.

Guillemard Bridge

Guillemard Bridge (Malay: Jambatan Guillemard Jawi: جمبتن ڬويلليمارد) is a single track railway truss bridge located in Kusial, in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.

I-5 Skagit River Bridge collapse

Although the finite element method and plastic design theory, both capable of analyzing redundant structures, had recently been formulated and had seen occasional use, they required significantly more calculation than the simple calculation methods for statically determinate structures, which precluded the use of redundant structural members.

Illinois State Park Lodges and Cabins Thematic Resources

Though White Pines State Park Lodge is much smaller than the other four it still features the focal point lounge, fireplace and open truss systems displayed at the other sites.

Jersey Central Traction Company

It eventually got to what is now Route 35 and followed it into Monmouth County; the truss bridge that now carries Route 35 northbound over the New York and Long Branch Railroad in Sayreville was probably built for it.

Laoag Cathedral

Wood was used for trusses to support the roof, which originally was made of cogon grass and was later replaced with nipa.

LOCAD

The S6 Truss was swabbed in space on flight day 5, March 19, 2009, during the first spacewalk by Steve Swanson (EV1) and Richard R. Arnold (EV2).

Loutre River

The Katy Trail State Park, a 225-mile-long former railroad bed converted to public use, crosses the Loutre River at McKittrick by means of an iron truss bridge built by the A.P. Roberts Company in 1897.

Minato Bridge

It is the third-longest cantilever truss span in the world, behind the Quebec Bridge and the Forth Bridge.

Monsieur Alfonse

In addition, he also has a "dicky ticker", which comes on every time something stressful (or arousing) happens, and also suffers from the less publicised "tricky truss".

Ord Bridge

The steel truss bridge was named after Colonel Sir Harry St. George Ord (1819–1885), the first British Governor of the Straits Settlements (1867–1873) after it was given the Crown Colony status.

Peter Wisoff

During the 13-day flight, the seven member crew attached the Z1 Truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the International Space Station using Discovery’s robotic arm and performed four space walks to configure these elements.

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge

Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge was built in 1885–86 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a formerly electrified, wrought iron, two-track, deck truss, (fixed shut) swing bridge across the Schuylkill River in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Semimonocoque

The Mooney range of four seat aircraft, for instance, use a steel tube truss frame around the passenger compartment with monocoque behind.

Tapanui Branch

Bridges sans rails are believed to still exist in the early stages of the line, notably including a truss bridge across the Pomahaka River.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

The fictional Madison Bridge is represented by the Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.

Tokyo International Forum

Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and completed in 1996, it features swooping curves of steel truss and glass; the outside is shaped like an elongated boat.

Tube frame

Space frame or space structure, a truss-like, lightweight rigid structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern

Walter Taylor Bridge

The bridge is a similar design to the Hercilio Luz Bridge in Florianopolis, Brazil, with the truss carrying the bridge being above the roadway and meeting the cables at non-uniform heights.

Wendel Bollman

Only one of his patented "Bollman truss" bridges survives, the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge in Savage, Maryland.

The Old Rakaia Gorge Bridge in New Zealand's South Island from 1882 utilized the Bollman truss design and is registered as a Category I heritage item with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

The Wells Creek Bollman Bridge near Meyersdale, Pennsylvania is also standing, although that bridge features a "Warren truss" system.

William Milnor Roberts

He was in charge of construction of a two-level lattice-truss bridge across the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

William Oefelein

The seven-member crew on this 12-day mission continued construction of the International Space Station by adding the P5 spacer truss segment during the first of four spacewalks.

Yosemite Valley Bridges

Concrete bridges were chosen at the urging of Thomas Chalmers Vint of the Park Service, in lieu of alternative designs for steel truss bridges, or suspension bridges suggested by the park superintendent.


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