Summary: A settlement limit is an angle with the length left out. The karst monitoring criteria are settlement amounts, settlement rates and crack ...
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Summary: A stockyard is the one site where the largest, the fastest changing and the most asymmetric load on the foundation of a machine is the mat...
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Summary: Track twist is the algebraic difference in cross level between two points a stated distance apart, and every standard that regulates it pu...
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Summary: A belt answers to two different angular errors, and the published tolerance tables do not tell you which one you are reading. A skewed idl...
Read More » Summary: Every document that governs a pile writes its verticality tolerance the same way, as a ratio of the deviation to the pile’s own leng...
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Summary: On an overhead crane runway the load argument for monitoring is weaker than it looks, and the instrument argument is different from the on...
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Summary: The building code gates a structural analysis with an angle. A bay whose roof slope is less than one quarter of an inch per foot has to be...
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Summary: A sea dyke is the one civil structure whose entire function is an absolute elevation. It does not hold anything up, it does not carry a lo...
Read More » Summary: An unreinforced concrete canal lining carries almost no load, which is why it does not fail the way a wall fails. It is a set of panels, a...
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Summary: Every number on a penstock drawing is a pressure, and every one of them points the same way. The wall is sized by hoop stress, tested at a...
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