March: Patience Spent, the Storms Begin

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-198
Author(s):  
Michael V. Metz
Keyword(s):  
Defense Contractor ◽  
Building Housing

Spring began with protests against defense contractor General Electric’s campus recruiting, and after an RU rally students turned violent, breaking windows in the building housing recruiters. Crowds massed in Green Street and police cleared them, but at night crowds again broke windows on the quad. The next day trustees canceled a William Kunstler speech; angry students stormed Green Street, breaking windows in several stores. Governor Ogilvie called out 750 National Guardsmen, every one needed to control crowds on a third night of rioting. Only a minority of students turned violent, but frustration was high.

Assessment of the condition of the building housing the machine room at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP from results of trial dynamic tests

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
A. P. Kuz’menko ◽  
V. S. Saburov ◽  
S. M. Sergeev ◽  
E. V. Yan’kov ◽  
A. I. Kolomeitsev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Tests ◽  
Building Housing ◽  
Machine Room

scholarly journals Assessment of the Effect of Wind Load on the Load Capacity of a Single-Layer Bar Dome

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Dominika Opatowicz ◽  
Urszula Radoń ◽  
Paweł Zabojszcza
Keyword(s):  
Load Capacity ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Wind Load ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
Building Housing ◽  
Von Mises ◽  
Actual Configuration ◽  
Geometric Nonlinear Analysis ◽  
Shallow Structure ◽  
Selection Of

The main purpose of the paper was the assessment of the effect of wind load on the load capacity of a single-layer bar dome. Additionally, which numerical method is appropriate for low-rise single-layer bar domes was checked. In order to explain the effect of the height-to-span ratio on the selection of the appropriate calculation model and method of analysis of the bar dome, an example of the known von Mises truss was proposed. Two cases of von Mises truss differing in the height-to-span ratio were considered. For the shallow structure, a significant change in the value of the stiffness matrix determinant and the current stiffness parameter was observed. A similar tendency in the behavior of the structure can be observed on fragments of larger structures, including shallow single-layer steel domes. These problems are described on the basis of the dome, which is located on top of the building housing the restaurant. This structure is subjected to large displacement gradients and the actual configuration is taken into account in analysis. The analysis showed that there is a change in stiffness for these structures, and, therefore, that such structures should be designed according to geometric nonlinear analysis (GNA).

The Need for Enhanced Defense Contractor Cost Management Systems

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Zabihollah Rezaee ◽  
Robert C. Elmore
Keyword(s):  
Cost Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Defense Contractor

The Curtiss-Wright Corporation and Cold War–Era Defense Procurement: A Challenge to Military-Industrial Complex Theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gholz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Defense Procurement ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Defense Contractor ◽  
Strategic Perspective

The extraordinary year-to-year continuity in the list of top Cold War aerospace suppliers has led many analysts to adopt theories of a military-industrial complex (MIC). The collapse of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, once the second-largest manufacturer in the United States and a leading defense contractor, belies their approach. This article recounts the histories of Curtiss-Wright's three independent divisions and uses these to test the MIC theory against three other explanations of the pattern of Cold War defense procurement: the technological imperative, the bureaucratic-strategic perspective, and free-market competition. The bureaucratic-strategic theory is most consistent with the case-study evidence.

Tympanic Membrane Perforation in Survivors of a Scud Missile Explosion

1994 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl A. Patow ◽  
Jeffrey Bartels ◽  
Kenneth T. Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Tympanic Membrane ◽  
Impact Crater ◽  
Blast Injury ◽  
Tympanic Membrane Perforation ◽  
United States Military ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Building Housing ◽  
Membrane Perforation ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
The Impact

On February 25, 1990, an Iraqi SCUD missile exploded inside a building housing United States military personnel in Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One hundred seventy-two individuals who were near the impact site at the time of the blast were interviewed and examined to determine blast injury to the ear. Tympanic membrane (TM) perforation was used as the clinical marker for aural blast injury. Thirty-four personnel had unilateral TM perforation and 28 had bilateral TM perforation. Eighty-six sustained sufficient injury to be hospitalized. Fifty-nine of hospitalized personnel (70%) had TM perforation. Of a total of 90 TM perforations, 39% were estimated to be 25% or less of the tympanic membrane surrface area, 36% were 26% to 50%, 16% were 51% to 75%, and 10% were greater than 75%. Morphology of the perforations and estimated proximity to the blast were documented. Personnel distant from the blast, in open doorways or wearing headphones, had relative protection from TM perforation. Historic nuclear blast data were used to estimate the SCUD blast waveform based on measurements of the SCUD impact crater. A mathematical model based on the estimated waveform was validated against the actual field data by comparing the proximity and incidence of TM perforations in the SCUD missile explosion.

scholarly journals Ferrocement Structural Elements in Building/Housing Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wail wail Al-Rifaie
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
Labour Cost ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Building Housing

The use of ferrocement in pre-fabrication of building/housing offers numerousadvantages in temrs oflightness ofrveight and ease ofhandling. low labour cost and a durablematerial requiring little maintenance.A considerable amount of laboratory testing research and prototype constructions havebeen completed at the Building and Construction Eng. Dept. of University of Technology forthe production of ferrocement members that would be used in the roof/floor/wall ofbuilding/housing.The present .paper describes the applications of ferrocement to housing/buildingconstructions.

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