A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit‚ one leg of which includes the unknown component. Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. It was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843. One of the Wheatstone bridge’s initial uses was for the purpose of soils analysis and comparison.[1] -------------------------------------------------
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Bridge to Terabithia In most novels involving children‚ the endings are clear-cut happy endings with the children learning a valuable life lesson in the process of their adventures. An exception to this is Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia. Though the valuable life lesson is still present in the story‚ its acquisition comes at a terrible price‚ effectively breaking the myth that life will always work out happily. Katherine Paterson is said to have written this novel based on something
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INTRODUCTION A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on 1955. At the beginning was considered as a one-act verse drama but then it subsequently revised the play to contain two acts. The Drama presents different society taboos that happened at that time in the United States such as migration‚ sex-war‚ maleness and homosexuality. ANALYSIS It is set in 1950s‚ in an American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge NY; where most of the European
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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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Tacoma Narrows Bridge A lot of things can go wrong when building or designing a major building‚ plane‚ bridge‚ or even a road. Engineers face the challenges to overcome these flaws or problems everyday when they are trying to design structures. The primary causes of engineering disasters are usually: Human factors‚ design flaws‚ material failures‚ extreme conditions or environments‚ and combinations of these reasons put together. There are many things an engineer has to look for when designing
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Notorious Brooklyn Bridge When you hear the word bridge‚ I’m sure the first thing that comes to mind is connection. Yes‚ connection is such a vague word when we talk about a bridge but it blossoms in variety and definitions when we specify the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is the first bridge built in New york City 1883. The first of many construction work that would build the well known juggernaut of a city that we have here today. Many people view the Brooklyn Bridge as a symbol of new
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This bridge was one of the bridges that we thought as a group that can hold the much weight because of its structures. At first it was really hard to figure out on how to build it but three minds always work better then one so as we figured out the best way to built it we would test it ourselves. The Pratt truss was first developed in 1844 under patent of Thomas and Caleb Pratt. Since the 1840s through the early twentieth century‚ the Pratt has diagonals in tension‚ verticals in compression‚ except
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction A bridge consists of super structure of steel or reinforced concrete member that is supported on one or more points by cables extending from one or more tower is known as cable stayed bridge. The cable-stayed bridge is one of the most modern bridges. It consists of a continuous strong beam (girder) with one or more pillars or towers (pylons) in the middle Cables stretch diagonally between these pylons and the beam‚ these cables forms intermediate supports
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Signature Bridge The Yamuna Bridge at Wazirabad is an unsymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a span of 251 meters and length of 675 meters. The bridge’s composite deck carries 8 lanes (4 in each direction). It is about 35 meter wide and is supported by lateral cables spaced at 13.5 meters interval. The height of the steel tower is approximately 150 meters. The area around the bridge will later be developed into a park and the Yamuna River will be widened to lake like dimensions. At the same time
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A Report on “A case study on Bi-Mechanism Bridge at Madhapar” A PROJECT REPORT On Project I Submitted by 1. Rushikesh J Dabasia (140850106011) 2. Ruchit M Dabasiya (140850106012) 3. Kiran K Hirani (140850106032) 4. Prakash V Hirani (140850106047) 5. Vikrant D Patel (140850106064) Team ID.:- 2827 In fulfilment for the award of the degree Of BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING HJD INSTITUTE OF TECHANICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH‚ KERA-KUTCH Gujarat
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