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  • ==Instructions on building one (from the [[MultiMachine]] project)== It began with the request from an engineering professor in Kenya for a drill that would drill large holes in steel and al
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  • ...ctures out of natural materials, growing edible plants, sculpting and fire building. John is typically viewed as an eccentric person. He has been referred to b ...builds heat-insulated shelters. She is said to be proficient in mechanical engineering as well.
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  • ...al Commander Oku called him. Both were the authorities of Japanese torpedo engineering science and developing torpedoes. They just arrived Tokyo from abroad on th ...'' was a venerable inn since 1989, famous for its amenity, sanitary modern building, having beautiful scenary by the resort beach of Hayama, Zushi-city, in Kan
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  • ...Airs"'' in [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton (Bristol)]]. In the basement of the building, a large scale machine was producing the gases under the supervision of a y ...estar-engineering.com/|title=FireStar Engineering, LLC| publisher=FireStar Engineering| accessdate=2009-12-11}}</ref> The low freezing point of NOFB eases thermal
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  • Common [[ASTM]] specification are:<ref>[[American Concrete Institute]]: "Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-08) and Commentary," ISB ...st provides examples of the different notations used in the architectural, engineering, and construction industry.
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  • ...[[dilatant]] material developed by the [[United Kingdom|British]] chemical engineering company d3o Lab. d3o Lab was founded by [[Richard Palmer (entrepreneur)|Ric * Early building blocks of [[molecular armor]]
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  • ...uctures (like insulated walls panels) use a sandwich technology that use [[Building insulation|insulation]] layers placed in between two or more layers of conc [[Category:Structural engineering]]
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  • ...Rio de Janeiro City for extraction of [[clay]] a raw material for [[civil engineering]] (2009 picture).]] ...is acted upon or used by or by human labor or [[industry]], for use as a [[building material]] to create some product or [[structure]].{{Fact|date=October 2008
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  • ...many different ceramic materials are now used in domestic, industrial and building products. ...sical properties which constitute the field of [[materials science]] and [[engineering]] include the following:
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  • '''Rubblization''' is a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing ex ...unrestricted use. This saves the expense of removing and transporting the building pieces to a different site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nrc.gov/reading-r
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  • ...<ref>Hart, Diane (1991) The building slates of the British Isles. Watford: Building Research Establishment ISBN 0851254837</ref> Slate has two lines of breakab ...as where slate is plentiful it is also used in pieces of various sizes for building walls and hedges, sometimes combined with other kinds of stone.
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  • ...tively long. For a broad range of applications including catalysis, tissue engineering, and surface modification of implants this infinite length is an advantage. ====Tissue engineering====
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  • ...grip. Since this time the materials have seen widespread usage in e.g. the building industry (foam which expands with warmth to seal window frames), sports wea ...61/ai_n29164103/ "Shape memory polymers reshape product design"], Plastics Engineering. 2 April, 2009</ref>
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  • ...te and glass-reinforced and carbon-reinforced epoxy structures are used in building and bridge structures. General purpose [[Molding (process)|molding]] compounds, engineering molding compounds and sheet molding compounds are the primary forms of ph
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  • ...t, A. N.; Campion, R. P.; American Chemical Society. Division of Rubber, ''Engineering With Rubber: How to Design Rubber Components''; Munich: Hanser Publishers: ...most cost-effective resins to bind pigmented coatings. It is also used in building applications, as a sealing and binding agent behind renders as an alternati
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  • ...ast = Murray | first = G. T. | title = Handbook of materials selection for engineering applications | page = 242 | publisher = CRC Press | year = 1997 | url = htt ...nd chemical treatments in Scotland|publisher=[[Robert Gordon University]], Building Research Establishment and Historic Scotland|author=Young, M.E., M. Murray
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  • ...and other liquid [[Packaging|containers]]; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber. ...added to the polymer backbone in place of [[ethylene glycol]]. Since this building block is much larger (6 additional carbon atoms) than the ethylene glycol u
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  • ...an English]], bitumen is referred to as 'asphalt' or 'asphalt cement' in [[engineering]] [[jargon]]. In [[Australian English]], bitumen is sometimes used as the g ...lisher= | location=|page=10.06.1| url=http://www.mileslewis.net/australian-building/pdf/climatic-design/climatic-design-damp-proofing.pdf|accessdate=2009-11-11
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  • ...rength and resilience of metals has led to their frequent use in high-rise building and bridge construction, as well as most vehicles, many appliances, tools, ...ank Kreith and Yogi Goswami, eds. (2004). ''The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, 2nd edition. Boca Raton. p. 12-2.</ref>
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  • ...abundant metal on Earth]].<ref name="Emsley">{{cite book|title = Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements|last = Emsley|first=J.|publisher = Oxf ...Metallurgy, and Exploration|location = Littleton, Colo.|title = SME mining engineering handbook}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url = http://canmin.geoscienceworld.org
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  • Thermal or heat bridges in building constructions are often called by the less scientific name "cold bridge". Concrete balconies that extend the floor slab through the building envelope <ref>[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/why-there-are-few-gr
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  • ...ath> R = \Delta T/\dot Q_A</math>. The bigger the number, the better the [[building insulation]]'s effectiveness<ref>[[US Department of Energy]], [http://www.e ...g element conducts heat. It measures the rate of heat transfer through a building element over a given area, under standardized conditions. The usual standa
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  • ...ty, and Emission Intensity of Nanostructured CdSe Networks By Altering The Building Block Shape|journal=[[Journal of the American Chemical Society]]|year=2008| * [http://www.aerogel.org/?cat=10 Detailed guide for making aerogels and building a supercritical dryer]
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  • ...s essential in choosing which type of double glazed window to be used in a building to maintain desired thermal comfort. Relevant data and calculation from dif ....J, 'Heat Transfer, Natural Convection' March 2008, Department Of Chemical Engineering, University of Sydney.</ref>
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  • ...er. In other words, thermal insulation can keep an enclosed area such as a building warm, or it can keep the inside of a container cold. Insulators are used to ...large industrial applications, but in household situations (appliances and building insulation), airtightness is the key in reducing heat transfer due to air l
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  • {{Geotechnical engineering|state=collapsed}} [[Category:Building supply]]
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  • ...m properties (e.g. to help prevent differential settling under the road or building), or as a low-cost extender that binds with more expensive cement or asphal ...P. Bolen|year=2008|month=June|title=Construction Aggregates|journal=Mining Engineering|volume=60|pages=25–26 }}</ref>
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  • ...itioning, noise prevention, visual protection, protection against the sun, building safety. ...c fiber]]s are used to prevent cracking of the concrete, plastic and other building materials. Polypropylene and [[polyester]] are used in geo textiles and dry
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  • | work =Diracdelta.co.uk Science and Engineering Encyclopedia ...08-18 }}</ref> This property is exploited in modified [[drywall]] for home building material: it is infused in the drywall during manufacture so that, when ins
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  • | title = Combustion Science and Engineering ...nders]]'' are kerosene space heaters used on construction sites to dry out building materials and to warm workers. Before the days of blinking electrically lig
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  • ...roduct within the building industry, especially within the growing [[green building]] industry, due to [[polyvinyl chloride#Dioxins|environmental concerns]] in ...ing in the 1970s, a transformation of the product began, with the industry engineering formulation changes. These changes affected the product's production speed
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  • [[Category:Building materials]] [[Category:Building engineering]]
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  • [[Image:Temporary_Fencing.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Temporary fencing on a building site in Sydney, Australia.]] ...common use is as '''construction hoarding''' for security fencing around [[building site]]s. Other uses for temporary fencing include venue division at large e
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  • ...the shaking of the building. During an [[earthquake]], the sections of the building are subjected to movements which are relative to each other (for instance, [[Category:Building materials]]
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  • [[Image:ATF Guardrail.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Guardrail on residential building site in Australia]]'''Roof edge protection''' is fall protection equipment Many US federal and state laws require building contractors to implement measures to prevent workers [[falling]] from heigh
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  • ...construction is often used in building [[aircraft]], [[watercraft]], and [[building construction]]. There are several reasons to use [[composite materials]] in == Structural engineering ==
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  • '''Iron rod''' is a type of [[wrought iron]] and is used in building and heavy [[construction]], especially in [[armed concrete]]. It is not orn [[Category:Building materials]]
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  • ...s directed to the outside through [[weep]] holes, rather than entering the building. * The cavity can include [[building insulation|insulation]], which is typically in the form of rigid foam, incr
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  • ...r used in wall and roof cavities to separate the inside and outside of the building thermally and acoustically. <br /> Cellulose is the oldest [[Building insulation materials|building insulation material]]{{citation needed|date=December 2007}}. Many types of
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  • ...o associate the term concrete with [[Portland cement concrete]] only. The engineering definition of concrete is any [[composite material]] composed of mineral ag ...d wave]]s. The idea that highway design could be influenced by acoustical engineering considerations including selection of surface paving types arose in the ver
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  • ...and Bridges Branch at the same time that former members of the branch were building the first reinforced concrete structures in Australia.<ref name=Molen2004>v |work=Australian Building: a cultural investigation
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  • ...d with [[soil]] or [[sand]] that are used in [[civil engineering]], [[road building]], and [[military]] applications. For [[erosion control]] caged [[riprap]] ==Civil engineering==
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  • ...ic, sculptural forms and has been revived in recent years by the [[natural building]] and [[sustainability]] movements. [[Image:Mixing cob at UW.jpg|thumb|left|Cob building is usually a highly cooperative activity, as seen here at the [[University
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  • ...eeded|date=July 2009}} The word 'lime' originates with its earliest use as building mortar and has the sense of 'sticking or adhering'.<ref>http://www.etymonli These materials are still used in large quantities as building and engineering materials (including [[limestone]] products, [[concrete]] and [[mortar (mas
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  • ...ef>Charette, R. and Marshall, A."Uniformat II Elemental classification for Building Specifications, Cost Estimating, and Cost Analysis," NIST BFRL Office of ap ...system of articles and paragraphs.<ref>Ross Spiegel and Dru Meadows, Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification, John Wiley & Son
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  • ...superior to [[adobe]]. In the [[United States]], most general contractors building with CEB are in the Southwestern states: [[New Mexico]], [[Colorado]], [[Ar * Jim Hands, P.E., Red Mountain Engineering, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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  • The levels of a building are often referred to as floors and are described in the article [[storey]] ...rs meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict [[building codes]].
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  • ...st=Michael F. |authorlink=M. F. Ashby|coauthors=& David R. H. Jones |title=Engineering Materials 2 |origyear=1986 |edition=with corrections |year=1992 |publisher= ...sler Building detail.jpg|thumb|right|The pinnacle of New York's [[Chrysler Building]] is clad with type 302 stainless steel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nic
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  • ...ion and introduction on a vast scale of gabions and mattresses for [[civil engineering]] use. {{Geotechnical engineering}}
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  • ...es for civil engineering applications'', Structural Engineering/Earthquake Engineering (1993) 10:37s-48s</ref>. This means that the mechanical interactions betwee * The 95 m (312 ft.) Glorio Roppongi high-rise apartment building in [[Tokyo]] contains a total of 54 ECC coupling beams (2 per story) intend
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  • *[[Geotechnical engineering]] [[Category:Building materials]]
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  • ...|Guastavino ceiling tiles on the south arcade of the [[Manhattan Municipal Building]]]] ...lieved that these timbrel vaults represented an innovation in [[structural engineering]]. The tile system provided solutions that were impossible with traditiona
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  • ..., formed from lunar [[regolith]], that would cut the construction costs of building on the [[moon]].<ref name=GFH>{{cite news|work=[[Grand Forks Herald]]|locat ...s/Ruess%20et%20al%20ASCE%20JAE.pdf|format=PDF|journal=Journal of Aerospace Engineering|publisher=[[American Society of Civil Engineers]]|date=July 2006|pages=138|
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  • [[Category:Building engineering]] [[Category:Building materials]]
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  • ...sign and a layer of open graded stone may have to be placed over the soil. Engineering fabrics are often used to separate fine-grained soils from the stone layer. *[http://www.concrete.org/technical/green-building-resources.htm American Concrete Institute]
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  • ...derlying soil are taken into the entire tensioned slab, which supports the building without significant flexure. Post-tensioning is also used in the constructi ...oncrete is the predominating material for floors in [[skyscraper|high-rise building]]s and the entire containment vessels of [[nuclear reactors]].
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  • [[Category:Building materials]] {{civil-engineering-stub}}
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  • ...d panels''' (or ''structural insulating panels''), SIPs, are a composite [[building material]]. They consist of an insulating layer of rigid polymer foam sandw ...properties as the flanges. SIPs combine several components of conventional building, such as studs and joists, insulation, vapor barrier and air barrier. They
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  • ...n the base, to facilitate interconnection or fastening strut to underlying building structures. ...used to mount, brace, support, and connect lightweight structural loads in building construction. These include pipes, electrical and data wire, mechanical sy
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  • A '''tie rod''' is a slender structural unit used as a [[tie (engineering)|tie]] and (in most applications) capable of carrying [[tension (mechanics) == Physics and engineering principles ==
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  • ...''ICFs'') are [[formwork]] for concrete that stays in place as permanent [[building insulation]] for energy-efficient, cast-in-place, [[reinforced concrete]] w ...bricks and serve to create a form for the structural walls or floors of a building.
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  • ..., [[granite]], [[slate]], [[coral]] rock, [[travertine]] and other natural building stones. Cast stone has been a prime building material for hundreds of years. The earliest known use of Cast stone dates
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  • [[Category:Building materials]] [[Category:Structural engineering]]
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  • ...It is a corrosion resistant wire mesh that is largely used in structural building. It is also available in different forms like rolls and panels for industr ...s used in fencing residential and official properties like gardens, parks, building etc. The PVC coated welded mesh which is available as both rolls and panels
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  • ...{{cite book|last=Ashby |first=Michael F.|coauthors=David R. H. Jones|title=Engineering Materials 2|origyear=1986|edition=with corrections|year=1992|publisher=Perg ...year=1986|title=Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics|publisher=Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd. |page=563}}</ref><ref name=
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  • ...| last = Campbell | first = Flake C. | title = Elements of Metallurgy and Engineering Alloys | publisher = ASM International | page= 154 | year = 2008 | url = ht ...ature. Historically, coldshort iron was considered good enough for [[nail (engineering)|nails]].
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  • ...mmonly [[granite]] or [[limestone]], and occasionally concrete rubble from building and paving demolition. It is used to protect coastlines and structures from ...XLGAAACAAJ&dq=%22rock+manual%22 Rock Manual - The use of rock in hydraulic engineering].
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  • ...al significance in [[East Asia]] and [[South East Asia]], being used for [[building material]]s, as a food source, and as a versatile raw product. ...e bamboo plants following their fruiting means the local people lose their building material, and the large increase in bamboo fruit leads to a rapid increase
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  • ....jpg|thumb|Example of drywall with [[joint compound]], the common interior building material. (This photo shows drywall hung vertically.)]] ...drying chamber, the sandwich becomes rigid and strong enough for use as a building material.
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  • ...Pavements."] North Carolina State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept. Raleigh, NC.</ref>{{rp|2}} <ref>EPA. [http://www.epa.gov/oaintrnt/sto [[Category:Building materials]]
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  • ...ve many practical uses in areas such as [[sustainable architecture]] and [[engineering]]. The main purpose of using such materials is to minimize the negative ef ...aking countries.<ref name= About>{{cite web|last=Craven|first=Jackie|title=Building With Natural Materials|url=http://architecture.about.com/od/naturalmaterial
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  • ...dirt is to fill in a low lying construction site to raise the level of the building foundation in order to reduce the chances of flooding. Several massive use {{civil-engineering-stub}}
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  • ...es of the builders and users."<ref>Smith, Michael G. "The Case for Natural Building," in Kennedy, Smith and Wanek (2002), 6.</ref> ...mentally lessen operational costs and positively impact the environmental. Building compactly and minimizing the [[ecological footprint]] is common, as are on-
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  • ...tiles are 'hung' from the framework of a roof by fixing them with [[Nail (engineering)|nails]]. The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows, with each row overl ....jpg|thumb|left|The elaborate floor pattern of the Sydney [[Queen Victoria Building]]]]
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  • ...BostonCityHall byLebovich8 HABS MA1176 crop.jpg|thumb|right|275px|A modern building: [[Boston City Hall]] (completed 1968) is largely constructed of concrete, ...[[Bourg-la-Reine]], constructed between 1894 and 1904, the first concrete building in [[France]].]]
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  • ...g|thumb|right|The [[Art Deco]] gate in the entrance hall of the [[Guardian Building]] is made from Monel metal.<ref name="MetAmHist">{{cite book|url = http://b ...s | year = 1953 | last1 = Teeple | first1 = H. O. | journal = Industrial & Engineering Chemistry | volume = 45 | pages = 2215 }}</ref><!--http://books.google.de/
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  • ...tural or artificial [[construction aggregate|aggregate]]s to form a strong building material that is durable in the face of normal environmental effects. ...by [[Roman engineering|Roman engineers]].<ref>Hill, Donald: ''A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times'', Routledge 1984, p.&nbsp;106.</ref> They
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  • ...olz kabache werte verfall trostlos.jpg|thumb|right|75 Unit [[Apartment]] [[building]], made largely of wood, in [[Mission, British Columbia]].]] ...with [[adhesive]]s, to form [[composite material]]s. These products are [[engineering|engineered]] to precise design specifications which are tested to meet nati
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  • ...ugh the early 21st century. They were used in building construction, civil engineering work, and industrial uses such as grindstones. ...more cheaply and more uniform than natural stone, and was widely used. In engineering projects, it had the advantage that transporting the bulk materials and cas
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  • ...oogle.com/?id=LgB5dkmPML0C&pg=PA218| page=218| title=Materials Science and Engineering|first=V.| last= Raghavan| publisher =PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=8120324552 ...[[hull (ship)|hull]]s of large [[ship]]s, and structural components for [[building]]s. Since pure iron is quite soft, it is most commonly used in the form of
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  • ...ramidale|balsa]] is light, making it useful for [[model (physical)|model]] building. The densest wood may be [[Olea laurifolia|black ironwood]]. ...d.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm The Wood Handbook: Wood as an engineering material]''. General Technical Report 113. Madison, WI.</ref>
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  • ...ain child of [[John G. Linvill|John Linvill]], a professor of [[Electrical Engineering]] at Stanford University, who later became head of the EE Department. The ...establishing their Integrated Circuits facilities, leading MIT’s Dean of Engineering to remark that Stanford got the lead in integrated circuit research because
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  • ...4572|year=1966}}</ref>, TSI's first product, was conceived by [[Electrical Engineering]] Professor [[John G. Linvill]] as a means for his blind daughter, Candy, t ...s Code|Chapter 7 bankruptcy]] and all its employees were escorted from the building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afb.org/AFBPress/pub.asp?DocID=aw060403|titl
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  • ...e with the right mix of skills including technical or [[Safety engineering|engineering]] knowledge, worker knowledge and input from an [[ergonomics]] expert. Suc ...>Dixon, S. M., Theberge, N., & Cole, D. (2005) The ergonomist has left the building: Sustaining a participatory ergonomic program. ''Proceedings of the Associa
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  • ...and [[structure]]s, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants. ...samples, monitoring human exposure to pollutants, collection of samples on building surfaces and computer modelling of air flow inside buildings.
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  • *[[Mechanical engineering|Mechanical failure]] of any [[life-critical system|safety critical element] Collapse of building or structure - Unintended collapse or partial collapse of:
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  • ...e]], which killed 148 garment workers in New York who could not escape the building, or died from jumping out of the windows. Originally called the United Asso ...ty. The practice specialties include academics, construction, consultants, engineering, environmental, fire protection, healthcare, industrial hygiene, internatio
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  • While engineering as a rule factors human safety into the design process, a modern appraisal ...www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/SHAPE/ Safety and Health Awareness for Preventive Engineering (SHAPE) program]
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  • ...ited States have died, or will die, from asbestos exposure related to ship building. In the [[Hampton Roads]] area, a shipbuilding center, [[mesothelioma]] occ ...he most commonly used type of asbestos. According to the U.S. EPA Asbestos Building Inspectors Manual, chrysotile accounts for approximately 95% of asbestos fo
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  • ...sonably practicable) to prevent danger. Guidance from the [[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] (IET, published under the [[Institution of Electrical Engi ...PAT testing training must inspect the installation annually in any public building and/or a place that people work, private houses do not need this test. The
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  • ...Moisture Meters - Problems With Moisture]</ref> [[Flooding]], leaky roofs, building maintenance problems, or indoor [[plumbing]] problems can lead to mold grow ...also [[dust mites]]). After a single incident of water damage occurs in a building, molds grow inside walls and then become [[Dormancy|dormant]] until a subse
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  • ...including epidemiology, medicine, industrial hygiene, safety, psychology, engineering, chemistry, and statistics. The director of NIOSH is [[John Howard (public ...and healthy workplaces through interventions, recommendations and capacity building
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  • ..."BuildingBlocks451-3">{{cite book |last=Emsley |first=John |title=Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements |year=2001 |isbn=0-19-850341-5|pages=4 ...in lead alloys for [[lead shot]]s and [[bullet]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title = Engineering Properties and Applications of Lead Alloys|chapter = XIV. Ammunition|first
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  • **[[Building (magazine)|Building Magazine]] ***Health and Safety Awards <ref> http://www.building.co.uk/hybrid.asp?navcode=579 </ref>
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  • | discipline = [[Engineering]] | website = http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/10694
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  • [[Category:Engineering awards]] [[Category:Building engineering]]
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  • ...vement in the advancement of the science and technology of fire protection engineering and is named in memory of the achievements of Arthur Guise <ref>Society of [[Category:Engineering awards]]
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  • ...e concentration of 100 ppm.<ref name="Emsley">{{cite book|title = Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements|last = Emsley|first=John|publisher = O http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/engineering/issues/muh-06-30-6/muh-30-6-5-0605-5.pdf
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  • ...visory service; to amend the law relating to building regulations, and the Building (Scotland) Act 1959; and for connected purposes.</sup>| ...ed by the [[Building Act 1984]] which replaced them by a general scheme of building regulations.
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  • ...format = PDF | title = California’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone Update and Building Standards Revision | publisher = CAL FIRE | date = May 2007 | accessdate = ...ribution for Wildfire Detection and Management | journal = Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing | volume = 64 | issue = 10 | date = October 1998 | pages
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  • ...o create [[Flint (tool)|flint tools]].<ref>Hartman, Howard L. ''SME Mining Engineering Handbook'', Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration Inc, 1992, p3.< ...for ornamentations and pottery. Later, between 2,613 and 2,494 BC, large building projects required expeditions abroad to the area of Wadi Maghara in order "
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  • The '''International Energy Conservation Code''' ('''IECC''') is a building code created by the [[International Code Council]] in 2006. It is a model c [[Category:Building engineering]]
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  • ..., water pollution boards, city and industrial planners, highway engineers, building contractors, real estate developers and private citizens. ...d at state and federal environmental agencies as well as mining companies, engineering and consulting firms, surveying companies, universities, and private citize
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  • ...p''' develops, manufactures, and markets products for the construction and building maintenance industries, primarily to the professional end-user. It concentr ...40 million annually in researching and developing safer and more efficient building technologies. A recent example of this R&D in power tool technology is Hil
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  • ...egional NGO based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for their continued efforts in building human talents. ...in [[Nagakute, Aichi]], featuring an artificial waterfall cut through the building and facade]]
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  • ...e of the company's USA division. Founded in New York City at the [[MetLife Building]] in September 1959, it was known as '''Matsushita Electric Corporation of ...ing, development and testing is performed while system installation, field engineering, major quality functions, certification and program management are performe
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  • ...in the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, the Bosch Group reported sales of [[euro|€]]43.7 [[1,000,000, Bosch caters to the areas of consumer goods and building technology with its [[power tool]], thermotechnology, and security systems,
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  • | The university was formed by the affiliation of [[Case School of Engineering]] (originally Case School of Applied Science, founded by Case in 1877) and ...conceived of the idea of having a free institute in New York. He erected a building and endowed the institution, which he presented to the City of New York in
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  • ...], 1968|alt=A man in a suit faces the camera while he stands in front of a building.]] ...first mail bomb was sent in late May 1978 to [[materials science|materials engineering]] professor Buckley Crist at [[Northwestern University]]. The package was f
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  • Building a counter-terrorism plan involves all segments of a society or many governm | AIA building, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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  • [[Image:USAMRIID3.jpg|thumb|305px|right|<center>The "Dan Crozier Building", USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA]] ...anced [[biocontainment]] suites, which is formally known as “The Crozier Building”. Ground breaking came in 1967 (personnel moved in during 1971 and 1972).
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  • ...rrorist attacks. On April 10, 1998 Hauer attended a "roundtable on genetic engineering and biological weapons" under President [[Bill Clinton]]. ...rugs to the public even before Iran Contra, believes that it was the third building where much incriminating CIA information was held and was the prime target
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  • ...s in the body like energy metabolism and enzymatic reactions. Also, as the building blocks of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) they are e Recently the market has been segmented by age into:<ref>GEA Processing Engineering Inc.[http://www.niroinc.com/drying_dairy_food/production_powdered_baby_food
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  • ...he late 1960s, but as microprocessors became more powerful the practice of building a CPU from discrete components fell out of favor and the 74181 was not used ...e.us/issues/spring2007/Book%20Reviews2007.pdf review] in Journal of Modern Engineering, Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2007.
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  • |title=Digital and microprocessor engineering Address decoders are fundamental building blocks for systems that use buses. They are represented in all integrated c
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  • ...ectual property rights that subsist in the design. IP cores can be used as building blocks within [[application-specific integrated circuit|ASIC]] chip designs ...A netlist gives the IP core vendor reasonable protection against reverse engineering.
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  • ...conglomerate]] company that produces a variety of [[consumer product]]s, [[engineering]] services, and [[aerospace]] systems for a wide variety of customers, from ...ement with charitable donations, encouraging study of math and science, re-building after hurricane Katrina and a long-standing partnership with the National C
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  • '''Analogue [[Filter (signal processing)|filters]]''' are a basic building block of [[signal processing]] much used in [[electronics]]. Amongst their ...inrich Hertz, "Electric waves", p.42, The Macmillan Company, 1893</ref> by building two resonant circuits, one of which was driven by a generator and the other
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  • ...ignal state. Relatively small changes to the analog signal levels due to [[Engineering tolerance|manufacturing tolerance]], [[Path loss|signal attenuation]] or [[ ...o make an [[embedded system]]. These are usually programmed by [[software engineering|software engineers]].
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  • ...Analogue electronics|analog]] or [[Digital circuit|digital]], [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineers]] need to be able to predict the voltages and currents ...its more efficiently, reducing the time cost and risk of error involved in building circuit prototypes. Some of these make use of hardware description languag
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  • ...</ref><ref>[http://www.crystalradio.net/contest/index.html Crystal Radio Building Contest], by [http://www.midnightscience.com/ The Xtal Set Society] midnig | title = The New Radio Receiver Building Handbook
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  • ...PLL) is a [[control system]] that generates an output [[Signal (electrical engineering)|signal]] whose [[phase (waves)|phase]] is related to the phase of an input ...e a single [[integrated circuit]] can provide a complete phase-locked-loop building block, the technique is widely used in modern electronic devices, with outp
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  • ...mation (geometry)|mathematical transformations]] between some [[Passivity (engineering)|passive]], [[linear]] impedance networks commonly found in electronic circ ...be useful to make such a transformation, not for the purposes of actually building the transformed circuit, but rather, for the purposes of aiding understandi
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  • *building a [[breadboard]] or other prototype version of the design and testing again ...blem has still not been solved. To avoid this a certain amount of 'catalog engineering' can be applied to solve the more mundane tasks within an overall design.
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  • ...</ref><ref>''Secrets of RF Circuit Design'' by Joseph J. Carr, Chapter 17, Building and using the RF noise bridge. ISBN 0-07-137067-6</ref> ...ef>''The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 2007: The Comprehensive RF Engineering Reference'' by Mark J. Wilson, Dana G. Reed. Published by American Radio Re
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  • Practical [[electronics]] engineering and assembly requires the use of many different kinds of electronic test eq ...iant (i.e., instruments that employ GPIB, VXI, PXI, etc.). This simplifies building and operating hybrid configurations of instruments.
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  • ...Janesch, “Maximizing Throughput and Accuracy: A Tutorial,” Evaluation Engineering,http://evaluationengineering.com/features/2008_july/0708_data.aspx, accesse ...r circuit, so the addition of some external wiring makes them suitable for building very flexible and unique combinations of input/output configurations.
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  • ...cilloscope is able to vary its timebase to precisely time its sample, thus building up the picture of the signal over the subsequent repeats of the signal. Thi The [[waveform monitor]] in television broadcast engineering is very close to a standard oscilloscope, but it includes triggering circui
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  • In [[electrical engineering]], a '''current transformer''' ('''CT''') is used for measurement of electr ...rade CTs drive the electrical utility's watt-hour meter on virtually every building with three-phase service and single-phase services greater than 200 amp.
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