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9-23-2016
Structure Fire
SouthMeade Dr
Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal
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Here is a picture I took from beneath one of those power line towers. I liked how symmetrical it looks from this perspective.
Jon and Dave make it work!
As part of our Firday15, we spent an extra couple minutes to take the Marshmallow Challenge. The task is simple: in eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top.
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11-1-2016
Structure Fire
105 Josephine Rd, Garner
Polenta Elementary School
Mobile Unit
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, 50-210 FD, 50-210 EMS, Johnston Co Fire Marshal.
At first I wanted to take a coloured picture of the orange flower, but then I really liked the structure of the BW version
11-1-2016
Structure Fire
105 Josephine Rd, Garner
Polenta Elementary School
Mobile Unit
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, 50-210 FD, 50-210 EMS, Johnston Co Fire Marshal.
Looking up from the bike path across the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, California, US.
SNY_SFO_SEP_2016
Not much happening with the sky but you get an idea of the structure at the Warried Blowhole - Canyon X.
May 23, 2009 is the going away party for Riverview High School. It is being demolished this summer to make way for a parking lot for the new high school.
The current cathedral is built on the site of at least two previous structures dedicated to Finbarr of Cork. The first dated from the 7th century, with works continuing through the 12th century. This building was damaged during the Siege of Cork (1690), and a new structure was built in 1735 - though elements of the earlier spire were retained.
This structure remained until the 1860s, when a competition for the building of a new larger cathedral was held 1862. In February 1863, the designs of the architect William Burges was declared the winner of the competition to build a new cathedral of St Fin Barre. His diary records his reaction - "Got Cork!" - whilst the cathedral accounts record the payment of the winning prize sum of £100. Building work took seven years before the first service was held in the cathedral in 1870. Building, carving and decoration continued into the 20th century, long after Burges's death in 1881.
The style of the building is Early French, Burges's favoured period and a style he continued to favour throughout his life, choosing it for his own home, The Tower House, in Kensington. The stipulated price for construction was to be £15,000, a sum vastly exceeded. The total cost came to significantly over £100,000. Burges was "unconcerned" (his own words) in his letter of January 1877 to the Bishop of Cork: "(In the future) the whole affair will be on its trial and, the elements of time and cost being forgotten, the result only will be looked at. The great questions will then be, first, is this work beautiful and, secondly, have those to whom it was entrusted, done it with all their heart and all their ability."
Burges oversaw all aspects of the design, including the architecture of the building, the statuary, the stained glass and the internal decoration. The result is "undoubtedly Burges's greatest work in ecclesiastical architecture".
11-1-2016
Structure Fire
105 Josephine Rd, Garner
Polenta Elementary School
Mobile Unit
Cleveland FD, Clayton FD, 50-210 FD, 50-210 EMS, Johnston Co Fire Marshal.
Today was a day when we got to break stuff in our structures class! In the previous semester, we built a flitch beam (a hybrid of wood and metal) and crushed it with a machine in the basement of our building that can exert tens of thousands of pounds of pressure.
This semester we are studying lateral forces and concrete. Our first project was to test various structural systems against lateral forces (i.e. wind and earthquakes). The way to do this without taking into consideration gravity or other loads, was to design a "building" that could be suspended from the wall and loaded on it's side. This would demonstrate how three types of structural systems behaved.
My group had to design a braced frame structure, and our brilliant and simple plan was sidetracked several times by not planning out our choice of materials very well. We chose to use aluminum rods as the columns, not realizing until it was too late that no continuous metal pieces could run through joints (e.g. floorplates). So we cut up our metal into bits, and then had to figure out how to glue it back together (gorrilla glue, anyone?). Eventually we settled on a combination of pvc pipe and epoxy, and then were able to string fishing line as our braced elements, creating a giant tension truss. Our original idea had been to make our building totally transparent, and had chosen to use plexiglass as the floor plates.
During testing, our building was able to sustain quite a bit of loading in comparison to its own weight (6 lbs.). Eventually it failed due to the columns not being secure enough in the base, being pulled out and demonstrating the property of "uplift."
Next project in a few weeks: we are casting concrete, making beams, and then crushing them! Breaking stuff is so cool :)