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Bridge over the river...
...oh! the floods have finished now!
Railway bridge over Brightside Lane Sheffield
The Prime Minister David Cameron spoke to staff in Eland House' atrium about the Department’s key role in driving power down to the local level, in building the Big Society and on the Structural Reform plan.
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A view across the River Thames in London to the Tower of London and the many and varied towers of the City of London
The Institution of Structural Engineer's Young Structural Engineering Professional Award - Winner Kayin Dawoodi. © Bridges to Prosperity (www.BridgesToProsperity.org)
Tech. Sgt. Ryan Atoigue adjusts a light attached to his helmet while participating in structural fire training Oct. 20, 2014, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Atoigue's helmet indicates that he is a firecrew captain with the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg L. Davis)
Loughborough University Business School site structural frame assembly
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Author: Loughborough University
RAF MILDENHALL, England -- From left, Watch Manager Dave Bootman, from Feltwell, Norfolk, checks personal protective equipment on Airman Kevin Brittan and Brownville, Texas native Tech. Sgt. Caspar Vela, 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department firefighters, Feb. 20, 2013, at the fire training area here. The firefighters train regularly on structural, aircraft and compartmental fires to ensure quick and effective response to real fires or emergencies. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Dillon Johnston)
RAF MILDENHALL, England -- From left, Senior Airman Noel Rivera-Saldana from Lake Mary, Fla.; Tech. Sgt. Thomas Doyle from Charlotte, N.C., and Watch Manager Dave Bootman from Feltwell, Norfolk; 100th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department firefighters, practice door procedures before entering a structural trainer here Feb. 20, 2013. The firefighters train regularly on structural, aircraft and compartmental fires to ensure quick and effective response in real-world situations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Dillon Johnston)
ARABIAN GULF (Aug. 21, 2014) Aviation Structural Mechanic (Equipment) 3rd Class Dalton Brandt, Iowapark, Tx., washes an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Tomcatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31, aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Lorelei Vander Griend/Released)
FORT NORFOLK, Va. – For years, Mother Nature’s fury has steadily eroded the structural integrity of the Fort Norfolk pier and wharf area, seriously degrading its operational effectiveness and jeopardizing its safe operation. Broken, crumbling and missing pilings; underneath pier foundation completely deteriorated; wharf top cap rotten away; mooring fasteners and piling bolts – gone! That was then. Today, new state-of-the-art structural upgrades expand the facility’s operation and extend its useful life for up to 15 years. The Fort Norfolk Bulkhead and Pier Repair project, under the design and construction management of Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, began work in October 2011, and was completed ahead of schedule and more than $150,000 under budget. The Corps’ prime contractor, Team Henry Enterprises, LLC, based in Newport News, Va., is an 8A minority-owned small business. The project marked the first time Team Henry had performed work for Norfolk District, but their land work experience extended to other federal and state agencies. Completing the project ahead of schedule and below budget was no surprise to Steven Baum, Norfolk District’s project manager.
FORT NORFOLK, Va. – For years, Mother Nature’s fury has steadily eroded the structural integrity of the Fort Norfolk pier and wharf area, seriously degrading its operational effectiveness and jeopardizing its safe operation. Broken, crumbling and missing pilings; underneath pier foundation completely deteriorated; wharf top cap rotten away; mooring fasteners and piling bolts – gone! That was then. Today, new state-of-the-art structural upgrades expand the facility’s operation and extend its useful life for up to 15 years. The Fort Norfolk Bulkhead and Pier Repair project, under the design and construction management of Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, began work in October 2011, and was completed ahead of schedule and more than $150,000 under budget. The Corps’ prime contractor, Team Henry Enterprises, LLC, based in Newport News, Va., is an 8A minority-owned small business. The project marked the first time Team Henry had performed work for Norfolk District, but their land work experience extended to other federal and state agencies. Completing the project ahead of schedule and below budget was no surprise to Steven Baum, Norfolk District’s project manager.
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Structural Bolts
Assembly
Standard: ASTM A325 /A563 /F436 AS1252, DIN6914/DIN6915/DIN6916 EN14399 etc
35C 45C 40cr
Heat treatment
H.D.G
CL8.8 10.9
A 96th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter climbs onto a ladder during an annual structural fire training event April 12, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Firefighters completed the training by entering the training facility filled with smoke to find and rescue victims and put out a fire. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
PT&P custom designed and fabricated a 27' x 16' x 21' structural frame to be placed on the sea-bed for an offshore rig. This assembly will be used as an undersea cable support frame, capable of withstanding a load of 600 Kilonewtons (68,000 lbs for each pad). It is constructed of 8 tube-steel, a 10 channel, and a steel plate. The frame will remain stationary on the sea-bed and is designed to endure heavy wave action when lowered to or raised from the sea-bed.
Finite element analysis of the lifting lug on the structure was performed to verify load conditions. A trial fit-up of bolted sections was also conducted to ensure the structural frame will assemble easily before being placed in position.
On Pier 7, crews are adjusting the position of the "Delta Leg" girders so they will match-up with the "Knuckle" girders that will soon be erected.
The Sopwith Triplane was a British fighter aircraft introduced in early 1917. It was successful in combat. However, it proved to be structurally weak, difficult to repair and poorly armed. It was withdrawn from active service when the Sopwith Camel arrived later in 1917. Pilots nicknamed the Triplane the Tripehound or the Tripe. This is a reproduction.
At the Museum of Flight, located south of downtown of Seattle, Washington. I visited this place on August 25, 2017.
The Donora-Monessen Bridge in Southwestern Pennsylvania is a structurally deficient steel deck-truss span built in the 1970s in a similar style as the one that collapsed Wednesday in Minneapolis. This one is scheduled to undergo rehabilitation in 2010, according to the state's Department of Transportation. While there are fewer than 40 of these types of bridges in Pennsylvania, this state leads the nation in the number of spans that have been identified as being in poor condition. We have 5,900 of them.
A 96th Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter climbs onto a ladder during an annual structural fire training event April 12, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Firefighters completed the training by entering the training facility filled with smoke to find and rescue victims and put out a fire. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)
The crane lifts the girder, while other members of the crew hold the guide ropes that help to control any spinning movements.
The room beyond is a toilet. This man grew up in the slum and has been a local politician. There is a strong sense of self help and helping neighbours. The public spaces of the slum are difficult to keep clean. The interiors of the cramped houses are very clean.
The structural pipe supports are fabricated from carbon steel and coated with red oxide primer. The structural steel will be stored in a warehouse for several months while the power plant is being built. Due to the plant's location along the United States East Coast, the use of the red oxide primer was selected. Also, modifications were made to our standard "insulation saddles" to allow for a higher load capacity; which can be seen in the foreground of the image above.
The girders have begun to arrive. Here ironworkers and the delivery crew work to release the tie-downs.
This was Olivia and my's first view of the Pacific from WA. She decorated the wall with shells while I was working on structural integrity. Try to surmount that wall, Snowy Plovers!
Structural Engineer Matthew Stucker watches as a team of Taft High School students prepares to test their structure.
Montage following the latest structural failure at Pershore Abbey, the right hand two images show how the reopened fissure has doubled in size within two months!
St John's chapel at the north east corner of Pershore Abbey. The chapel is suffering from a fissure that has opened through the east wall, window and vaulting, initially moving at a dramatic rate in 2005. After a period of stability, the fissure reopened in August 2011, moving apart yet further with worrying speed; currently the vaulted ceiling is threatened with collapse.
www.pershoreabbey.org.uk/whyscaffolding.html
Pershore Abbey is today a magnificent fragment, consisting of roughly half of the original medieval church. The monastery itself has long gone, the only traces being the scars on the wall of the south transept that show where the east range of buildings, perhaps including the monks' dormitory and refectory, were once attached to the church.
The Abbey dates back to Saxon times, having been founded by King Edgar in the 10th century, but the eatliest visible remains today are 12th century Norman, principally the south transept. What little evidence remains of the nave shows that this too was Romanesque, contemporary with the transept. The bulk of the building as it stands today dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, as witnessed by the splendid gothic choir (complete with rich vaulted ceiling and bosses, also added to the transept) with it's aisles and chapels. The imposing tower is the latest addition from the 1340s, and in it's topmost storey following a remarkably similar design to that of Salisbury Cathedral, suggesting involvement of the same architect/master mason.
The church today has a strangely L-shaped footprint owing to it's reduction in size as a result of the Dissolution of 1539, when the townspeople bought the eastern half of the church for parish use (instead of the smaller St Andrew's church immediately to the east). The nave was quarried away for it's stone, as were the monastic buildings (the cloister stood to the south of the nave) and have almost entirely vanished. The Lady chapel at the east end was also demolished at this time, the present apsidal chapel dates from the Victorian restoration. There were further reductions still to come, with the collapse of the north transept in 1686, of which only a tiny portion was rebuilt, giving the western part the curiously lopsided appearance it has to this day, with two of the former arches of the crossing now blocked up with recycled masonry.
The interior is impressive, both for it's Gothic and norman work. The higher ceilings have some excellent carved bosses, mainly foliage with the occasional face, rather difficult to make out from ground level. The original furnishings have not survived with the exception of the Norman font, carved with figures surrounded by strapwork, somewhat worn as a result of being exiled to a garden in the 18th century and later recovered.
There are a few monuments of note, mainly gathered in the south transept where two medieval effigies lie, one a fine 13th century cross legged knight (reputedly a crusader), not in situ and apparently brought in from the churchyard (presumably he lay in the now lost nave). A 14th century priest, somewhat worn, lies nearby along with a large, coloured late Elizabethan monument to the Haselwood family.
The Abbey was restored in the 1850s by George Gilbert Scott, during which time stained glass was reintroduced into the building (all trace of the medieval glass has gone), mostly by Clayton & Bell and Hardmans, the former of which also added some wall painting at the west end, that is now so deteriorated some must mistake it for medieval work. But the most notable feature of the Victorian period is the unique (and somewhat terrifying) bell-ringers platform suspended high in the centre of the tower by a cross of huge oak beams, in order to open up a view of it's interior. The bell ringers of Pershore must seriously need to conquer any fear of heights!
There have been ongoing structural problems with the foundations (presumably groundwater) on the north side of the building, first manifested in the collapse of the north transept, and more recently in the alarming fissures that have rapidly opened up in the north east chapel during the last six years. Currently the situation is growing ever more acute, and fate of this small corner of the building hangs in the balance.