superstructure


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structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck

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As to the other sciences, inasmuch as these borrow their principles from philosophy, I judged that no solid superstructures could be reared on foundations so infirm; and neither the honor nor the gain held out by them was sufficient to determine me to their cultivation: for I was not, thank Heaven, in a condition which compelled me to make merchandise of science for the bettering of my fortune; and though I might not profess to scorn glory as a cynic, I yet made very slight account of that honor which I hoped to acquire only through fictitious titles.
It would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even.
It was seventy feet long, but so narrow was it, and so bare of superstructure, that it appeared much smaller than it really was.
It remained as a goblin football, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.
Courses 130081, 130081A, and 130081B all require participants to complete a no-cost prerequisite, General Superstructure Design Considerations, course number 13008IP The Web-based prerequisite provides training on the fundamentals of designing LRFD highway superstructures, including a basic understanding of LRFD development and implementation, general design and location features related to superstructure design, and the primary loads and load combinations used for superstructure design.
Early analytical methods utilized wave function expansion to obtain the out-of-plane response of a two-dimensional (2D), semicircular, rigid foundation (with a shear wall representing the superstructure) when excited by plane SH waves [1, 2].
Highway Bridge Superstructure Engineering: LRFD Approaches to Design and Analysis
7 special town meeting, which asks voters to approve an alternate "superstructure" option to replace the Quaboag Bridge on Route 148.
"For the superstructure we have packages two and three which cover the terminal buildings, gate buildings, road and paving.
As part of a [pounds sterling]16m redevelopment project, the majority of superstructure is now being painted, as originally envisaged by Hodgkinson, in a Crown Commissioners tone of cream.
In this case the camera zoomed in on a large merchant vessel sitting dead in the water with flames spewing from the pilothouse and aft superstructure. I called out what I was seeing, and we sped inbound to get a closer look.
The biggest aluminium ship superstructure to be built in a British shipyard since the QE2, is pictured here taking shape at Swan Hunter's Neptune yard at Wallsend.
When you drive the crane from the superstructure, make sure the cab carrier's steering wheel isn't locked in place by a security chain or cable.
At the other end, 13 turner bars in the superstructure and two folder superstructures with two formers apiece will guide the web.