Earthquake Resistant Bridges Jacqueline Stoy 4/24/2013 Geography of Cultural Diversity 3350:275 Tuesday/Thursday 12:05-12:55 Throughout history‚ bridges have been a primary means of transportation. Unfortunately‚ natural disasters have come to destroy such bridges on many occasions. One of the most deadly natural disasters to face the bridges is earthquakes. The movement of the ground causes the supporting beams and columns to twist and collapse‚ often resulting in injury or death for
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Spaghetti Bridge Abstract For this assignment our task was to build as a group a spaghetti bridge with the objective of carrying the most weight as possible using only spaghetti and hot glue‚ meeting the specifications. The bridges will be loaded until they fall. After testing to destruction‚ the bridges loading capacity was 14.4kg‚ with an initial mas of 0.840kg. This gave a weight to strength ratio of 17.1 putting the group at 4th/8th position in class. From this it was learned the
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…5 Causes of failure……………………………………………….………6 Replacement bridge…………………………………….........……….10 Conclusions…………………………………………………………...10 References...........................................................................................11 Abstract (143 words) The Tacoma Narrows bridge was a one of a kind bridge at its time. Starting from its size and ending with the structure of the bridge‚ It was considered to be an outstanding bridge at that time. It looked perfect and flawless as it started
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Third Bridge Conundrum Istanbul‚ where also known as Constantinopolis‚ is one of the oldest cities in the world history. Istanbul is the most populous city in Turkey and still Istanbul’s population is increasing day by day because of the new births and immigration. Due to high population‚ there is too many cars in Istanbul. Therefore‚ there is traffic problems which affects people’s life negatively. In order to solve traffic porblems government looking for solutions continuously. Although it
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For our final‚ I toured the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester‚ New York where I found a piece by American artist Ralston Crawford‚ which I have chosen to write my paper on. Crawford’s work‚ Whitestone Bridge‚ is a 40 1/4 in. x 32 in oil on canvas piece that was created between 1939 and 1940; placing the piece in the last set of art movements we learned about this year. In addition to being classified as a work representative of the modern Precisionist style‚ a style that we did not focus on this
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The Brooklyn Bridge (initially known as the "New York and Brooklyn Bridge") links the districts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City . It was built between 1870 and 1883 and‚ at the time of its inauguration‚ it was the largest suspension bridge in the world (1825 meters long‚ and the light between pillars is 486.3 meters)‚ a record of light until 1889 the Forth Bridge is built ‚ with a maximum light of 521 m. It was also the first suspended by steel cables . Since then‚ it has become one of
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Ruby Bridges Reflection Ruby Bridges is an African-American six year old girl who‚ in 1960‚ proved to the non coloured population that she was capable of attending the exact same school as a white child. Ruby was one of the three coloured children selected to get an education through the strict white populated school surrounded by angry protesting parents who were against letting a coloured child into the same school their child was studying in‚ however‚ by attending this school she proved that
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In Anne Trumbore’s “Spite” dramatic point of view and juxtaposition of the mother’s screams with the math problem characterizes the narrator as someone who feels unloved. She distances herself from her mother in the opening paragraph. In this excerpt the author describes the incident as‚ “A thirty-five-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis fell while taking a shower. She screamed for her husband. He did not hear her (1)”. This paragraph‚ including this specific line‚ are delivered in 3rd person
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Suspension bridges come in two different designs: the suspension bridge‚ recognized by the elongated ’M’ shape‚ and the less-common cable-stayed design‚ which has more of an ’A’ shape. The cable-stayed bridge does not require two towers and four anchorages as does the suspension bridge. Instead‚ the cables are run from the roadway up to a single tower where they are secured. Forces on a cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge near Savannah‚ Georgia‚ USA A typical cable-stayed bridge is a continuous
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reason I found this piece so interesting is that the canvas are very tall‚ making it seem like you’re look out of a large window. The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge) was made with oil and tempera on canvas. It seem like Joseph Stella was trying to captured different parts the bridge and try to tell a story through the 5 canvases and it creates a uniqueness to it. “Italian immigrant Joseph Stella painted and O. Henry wrote their impressions of the essence‚ or
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