Analysis and Design of RC Chimney in STAAD-PRO

Reinforced chimneys are used in Power plants to take the hot and poisonous flue gas to a great height designed mainly to resist the lateral forces like wind and earthquake as well the thermal stresses of the flue gas. An attempt is made to understand the variation of lateral deflection at the top of the chimney, by varying the height of chimney above 275 m. A total of five models are selected for five different heights i.e 275m, 285m, 295m, 305m & 315m and the analysis is done. All the models were analyzed and the lateral deflection regarding is calculated. Code of practice for design of reinforced concrete chimney (Third revision of IS 4998:1992 [Part I]) is used for the referance analysis. STAAD PRO software is used to do the analysis. Further an attempt is made to understand the variation of lateral deflection at the top of the chimney for different heights.

VIRTOPSY OF THE BODY OF A GIRL-ADOLESCENT DIED AFTER FALL FROM A GREAT HEIGHT

The article presents a case from the practice of the Serpukhov department of SBIH MR “Bureau of FME”, when the study of the corpse of a young girl as a result of a fall from a great height was used the method of computed tomography of the corpse (virtual autopsy), followed by X-ray anatomical comparison of the results.

“The Whole Country Below Them”: Gazing Imperially on Narnia From Above

In C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew, two British children, Polly Plummer and Digory Kirke, fly over the newly created fantastical world of Narnia on the back of a winged horse, looking down at the territory below. Within the internal chronology of The Chronicles of Narnia, this is only the first of several instances in which the British child characters—and the implied child reader—are invited to gaze on the landscape from a great height. Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt’s work on the imperial gaze in travel narratives, as well as Elleke Boehmer’s observations about the “high vantage point or knowledgeable position” traditionally taken by the European observer of a colonial landscape, and situating the series within the context of the end of the British empire, this article will examine the presentation of Narnia in these scenes as a claimable and colonizable space.

The Literary Work as a Semantic Amplifier

This article investigates the hermeneutic position of one text in relation to another one. More precisely, it is the case when one of the texts clarifies the meaning of another, amplifies the emphases of the other text, raises it to a higher power. A literary work with such explanatory intention is designated in the article with the term “semantic amplifier”. Its action is demonstrated by an analysis of two literary works of Dostoevsky: the novel “The Idiot” and the long short story “The Meek One”. The term “dissipative motif network” is introduced in order to designate a network of motifs, whose links stand significantly wide apart and refer to different narrative situations. The connections among the variants of the motifs are not obvious or graphic; they are so to speak dotted, implicit and require deciphering. In “The Idiot” the links of the motif network are such as marking oneself with a sign of the cross in front of an icon, deadly paleness, jumping, and blood. However, those are also the links of the motif chain that constitutes the suicide of the character in “The Meek One”. Nevertheless, when a reader goes through the lens of “The Idiot”, the linkage among these motifs in the long short story seems to be accelerated. What is separated in time and is indirectly connected, it becomes tightened and assembled. The dissipative motif network so to speak gathers up into one indivisible gesture in which this cause and effect merge together into one single trajectory of the jump, the end of which is the death of the character. It is as if what happens in “The Meek One” is latently set in advance in “The Idiot”. A jump from the stairs and a leaping from the roof are variants of the very important for Dostoevsky motif “threshold situation”, which is crossing the threshold in a literal and in a figurative sense; an act which marks a turning point in a plot when decisions are taken, characters go through a crisis and cross the border of incompatible events. When “The Meek One” is read in the sense of framework of “The Idiot”, the story has the function of a semantic amplifier: the jump from a low height turns into a jump from a great height; the almost unconscious ritual of bowing in front of the icon turns into jumping with an icon held in both hands, the deadly paleness understood figuratively turns into the real paleness of a dead body. Thus, in the process that is aimed at creating its artistic conception, a literary work enters into the depths of another literary work, deciphers its innermost messages, enunciates and articulates them with its own voice.

The Winning Shot

‘Caution.—The public are hereby cautioned against a man calling himself Octavius Gaster. He is to be recognised by his great height, his flaxen hair, and deep scar upon his left cheek, extending from the eye to the angle of the mouth. His...

Three centuries of multi-storied St. Petersburg

The article is devoted to assessment of the role of high-rise buildings in the St. Petersburg historic city’s ensemble. Features of formation of city architectural look, the conditions of city typical silhouette’s appearance which is characterized by the contrast of a small number of high-rise structures with a low horizontal mass building are observed. The consequences of the emergence of a significant number of great height buildings, the silhouette of which conflicts with the traditional St. Petersburg landscape’s compositional principles, are analyzed. The economic reasons of high-rise construction of residential and office buildings are given. The conclusions about the prospects of St. Petersburg high-rise construction in the light of city-building and economic factors are made.

Chapter XVI

When Albine and Serge awoke from their trance of bliss, they smiled at each other. They were returning from a land of light. They were coming down from a great height. Then they pressed each other’s hands in gratitude. There was a mutual recognition,...

STUDY OF FREON R22 HEAT TRANSFER IN FLOODED EVAPORATORS AT LARGE FREON REFRIGERATING TURBOMACHINERY

The object of research includes the experimental evaporator, the model of a large Freon refrigeration plant, and technical-grade Freon R22. The purpose of the research is to assess the effect of the tube bank lane and regime parameters (saturation pressure and saturation temperature) on heat transfer during technical-grade Freon boiling in multi-row tube banks, as well as to continue studying the features of freon boiling processes in the evaporators of large refrigerating machines. The article shows the calculated dependences of the influence of regime parameters on heat transfer in the process of boiling Freon R12 and R22 in flooded evaporators with great height of experimental tube bank. The visual observations of the boiling process have been described. Calculated dependences of heat transfer along the tubes in the tube bank have been obtained, the character of heat transfer changes and temperature distribution according to the height of the tube bank has been defined.