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Volvo Gran Artic 300. The Volvo Gran Artic 300 is a proposed bi-articulated bus chassis manufactured by Volvo. It was developed in Brazil to operate on bus rapid transit systems. At 30 metres, it will be the longest bus in the world and be able to carry 300 passengers. It was launched in November 2016.

See also
AutoTram Extra Grand, a bi-articulated bus about  in length

References

Bi-articulated buses
Gran Artic
Smart Tower. Smart Tower (previously PLDT Tower) is a 36-storey skyscraper in 6799 Ayala Avenue, Makati.

The building was originally an unfinished 10-storey structure which was bought and developed by the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company for their corporate headquarters. Completed in 2009, the new 34-storey tower was known as the PLDT Tower, and is designed by Pimentel Rodriguez Simbulan & Partners. It was eventually renamed to "Smart Tower" following the transfer of Smart Communications, one of their subsidiaries, to the site, becoming their headquarters.

In 2020, PLDT sold the building to DMC Urban Property Developers Inc. of the Consunji family for $128 million.

References

See also

Skyscrapers in Makati
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila
Carlo Allegri. Carlo Allegri (1862–1938) was an Italian engineer who worked extensively in Siam (Thailand) during the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. He served under the government of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) for over 20 years, where he held the position of Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department. He oversaw the construction of numerous roads and bridges in the country and contributed to buildings such as the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall.

Early life 

In 1889, he left university and went to Thailand to work for the Grassi Brothers, a foreign construction company in Siam. Later, the Thai government hired Allegri to help build palaces and other structures, making him the first foreign engineer to work in the Thai construction industry. In 1893, he became the chief engineer for the Ministry of Public Works and promptly hired 35 Italian staff members.

Career 

Allegri was assigned by the Thai government to modify the palace. During renovations, Allegri had to overcome numerous construction issues. For example, he initially chose brick for the foundation of the building without realizing it was not strong enough. Allegri partnered with Annibale Rigotti and Mario Tamagno who both graduated from the Accademia Albertina in 1890. Allegri was not formerly educated in the same way as his partners, but had learned some engineering knowledge and experience from his family business. His family was known for bridge construction in Italy, and the Thai government knew that Allegri and his partners were able to construct the bridge. This is why they permitted to build many bridges in Thailand. In 1905,  he and his partner wanted to build a bridge that was made from iron. In 1907, he and his friends had designed Villa Norasingh that had a feeling of “Venice of the East” and they built a huge palace for King Rama V called the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall.  Allegri built many buildings and structures and contributed to buildings such as, Phan Fa Li Lat Bridge (1905), Red cross hospital (1900), Paruskavan Palace (1903-1905), and Phan Phiphop Lila Bridge (1904).

Personal life 
Having played a prominent role in Thailand during the time of King Rama V’s renovation of Siam (Thailand),  Allegri retired and returned to Italy after the completion of the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall. In 1938, he died in Italy at the age of 76.

References

Italian expatriates in Thailand
Italian engineers
1862 births
1938 deaths
Expatriates in the Rattanakosin Kingdom
Mini-PC E8. Embedsky Mini-PC E8 is a  postcard sized (100 mm x 65 mm) single-board computer, developed by Guangzhou Embedsky Computer Tech Company.

It features a 32-bit microcomputer processor, as well as many peripheral interfaces similar to personal computers such as power connector, audio interfaces, both VGA and HDMI outputs, a network port, and USB interfaces for connecting WiFi and Bluetooth dongles, a keyboard, and a mouse. It uses A8 kernel, 1 GHz frequency, a built-in SGX540 graphics processor, a 512MB DDR2 storage, and 4GB eMMC FLASH memory. Most notably, it supports Android 4.0.4, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows CE6 operating systems.

References 

Computing by computer model
Frederik van Iterson. Frederik Karel Theodoor van Iterson (12 March 1877 – 11 December 1957) was a Dutch mechanical engineering professor, who largely developed the typical design of power station natural draught cooling tower, being built from 1918.

Early life
He was born in Roermond. He was the son of Gerrit van Iterson and Aghate Henrietta van Woelderen. He attended the Delft University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Delft or TU Delft). In 1899 he gained a diploma in Engineering (ingenieursdiploma).

Career
In 1910 he began teaching at the technical high school in Delft. He became Director of the Dutch State Mines (DSM).

Cooling towers
He began work into the design of cooling towers. Previously, designs of cooling towers were more-or-less the same as chimneys, in octagonal planform. On 12 February 1915, the Dutch State Mines decided to build a new concrete cooling tower. This led to his work producing the hyperboloid design of cooling towers at the Staatsmijn Emma in 1918; the towers were demolished on 26 June 1985. This design of cooling towers was the world's first, and nearly all cooling towers now follow this hyperboloid design, with concrete structure. On 16 August 1916, he took out the UK patent (108,863) for Improved Construction of Cooling Towers of Reinforced Concrete; the patent was filed on 9 August 1917, and published on 11 April 1918.

The Emma coal mine, named after Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, was the second-largest in the Netherlands, with the Staatsmijn Maurits the largest. The Delft University of Technology still conducts much research on coal technology.

In 1931 he won an award from the Koninklijk Instituut van Ingenieurs. In 1934 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1945 he helped to establish Tebodin Consultants & Engineers, bought by Hollandse Beton Groep (HBS) in 2002, and now owned by Bilfinger of Germany since 2012.

Personal life
He married Jennie Woutera Rotgans on 24 December 1910. They had two daughters and a son. He lived at Heerlen.

See also
 List of hyperboloid structures
 Vladimir Shukhov, a Russian engineer also known for hyperboloid structures

References

External links
 Designing Buildings
 Bilfinger 
 Patents for cooling towers at Google Patents

1877 births
1957 deaths
Cooling towers
Delft University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
20th-century Dutch engineers
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
People from Heerlen
People from Roermond
H. M. Wilson. H. M. Wilson is a tugboat especially designed for service in Churchill, Manitoba, the only Arctic Ocean port connected to the North America railroad grid.

The vessel was designed by the well-known naval architectural firm, Robert Allan Ltd. She was designed to be broken down into several loads that could each be shipped on a railroad flatcar, to be reassembled in Churchill. She was designed with a relatively flat bottom, due to the lack of any nearby ports with maintenance facilities.  When her hull needs to be serviced or inspected, she beaches herself. She is equipped with a water cannon, for fighting fires. She was built to operate in icy waters.

See also

References

Tugboats of Canada
Water transport in Manitoba
1985 ships
Ships built in Manitoba
George Kydd. The George Kydd is a tugboat operated in Churchill, Manitoba, the only Arctic Ocean port connected to the North America railroad grid.

She was built in Owen Sound, in 1960, as the Ruswell.
When requests for a tug designed especially for service Churchill was made, an analysis praised the George Kydds maneuverability, but described her as underpowered for work with large ocean-going vessels.

The construction manager who oversaw the construction of the port, in 1931, was named George Kydd.
When the port facilities were complete Kydd was appointed the Resident Engineer, by the Department of Railroads and Canals.  
When the vessel was transferred to Churchill, she was renamed in Kydd's honor.

See also
 H. M. Wilson

References

Tugboats of Canada
Water transport in Manitoba
Shipwrecks of the Canadian Arctic coast
1960 ships
Udet U 7 Kolibri. The Udet U 7 Kolibri (Hummingbird) was a single engine, single seat, parasol wing light aircraft, designed and built in Germany in the mid-1920s. Though they had some competition success and set an unofficial lightplane duration record, only two were produced.

Design and development

The wooden, cantilever, two-spar wing of the U 7 was almost trapezoidal in plan, with sweep on the leading edge, out to ellipsoidal tips. It also thinned outwards in section with most of the taper on the upper surface, giving some anhedral. Short ailerons extended to the tips. The wing was mounted over the fuselage on six streamlined steel struts; two upright tripods ran from the forward spar to points on the upper and mid fuselage and two inverted V-struts joined the rear spar to the upper fuselage.

When the U 7 first appeared in 1924 it was powered by a  Douglas  flat twin, mounted in a squared-off cowling with its cylinders exposed for cooling. By June 1924 this had been replaced by a  Douglas flat twin.  In the summer of 1925, one of the two U 7s built had a  ABC Scorpion flat twin, similarly enclosed. Behind the engine the rectangular section fuselage was plywood covered, with an open cockpit under the wing.

The Kolibri's tail was conventional, with a trapezoidal plan tailplane and elevators mounted on top of the fuselage and with a quadrantal fin and a rounded rudder that reached down to the keel. It had a very simple, fixed, tailskid undercarriage with the mainwheels on a short single axle held just below the fuselage underside, making the track narrow.

Operational history

The U 7s took part in several contests. One of the earliest was the August 1924 Rhön meeting for gliders and lightplanes. There were thirty of the latter, though several were motorised gliders rather than sports tourers. The weather was not good, with high winds, and the Kolibri, flown by Udet, was the only one of three powered aircraft to complete the  round trip from the Wasserkuppe to Kissingen and back, thus winning first prize.  In October 1924 Udet, again starting from the Wasserkuppe, flew the U 7 for 4 hr 39 min, an unofficial record for very light aircraft. There was no official recognition of this class of aircraft at the time.

The two Kolibris, fitted with the engines used at the Rhön, flew in the demanding "Round Germany Flight" which began on 9 June 1925. They were expected to do well but the ABC powered machine had to make two forced landings on the first day, resulting in some damage. Neither was amongst the small group from the lowest power class that completed enough circuits to be amongst the prizes; the winner was the Daimler L21.

Specifications

References

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Udet aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
1920s German civil aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1924
George Kydd (engineer). George Kydd was a prominent Canadian engineer.
He was known for playing key roles in large construction projects.
From 1916 to 1918 he worked on the Trent-Severn Canal.  From 1924 to 1927 he worked on the Welland Canal.  In 1927 he was transferred to Canada's Department of Railways and Canals, and was appointed the supervising engineer in charge of building the Port facilities and rail terminal, in Churchill, Manitoba.  Kydd supervised a construction force of over 1,500 workers.

When the port was opened for operations, in 1933, Kydd remained supervising engineer, and was appointed the port's first harbourmaster.

Decades later a tugboat operating in Churchill was named in honour of him.

References

Kydd, George
Tumble flap. A tumble flap is a flap housed in the intake area of many modern automotive gasoline engines to produce a swirl at right-angles to the cylinder axis. This swirling motion improves the air-fuel mixture and enhances power and torque, while at the same time lowering fuel consumption and decreasing emissions. The flaps can be actuated with pneumatic or electric power. Furthermore, the position of the flap can be controlled continuously with a feedback controller or just kept either fully closed or open. Use of a tumble flap improves the lean burn ability of a spark-ignition engine.

Operation 
The set point of the tumble flap is adjusted by an electrical or vacuum-activated servo mechanism which is under the control of the engine management system. Tumble flaps are open or closed depending on engine operating states (related to engine speed and load), engine temperatures, combustion modes (characterized by air-fuel ratio), catalytic converter heating or cold start active or inactive etc.

In gasoline direct injection, stratified charge mode is used for light-load running conditions, at constant or reducing road speeds, where no acceleration is required. In this charge mode, the air-fuel mixture is concentrated around the spark plug by means of the specifically produced air flow and a special geometry of the piston, while pure air is placed near the cylinder walls. Tumble flaps are used to realize this stratified charge. The flaps remain closed during the stratified charge mode. A switchable tumble system is normally used to direct a targeted air flow. The so-called "tumble plate" divides the air inlet channel into an upper and lower half. An upstream flap allows air flow either only over the upper part or over the entire cross-section.

At higher engine speeds and torques, the tumble flap is opened to achieve a better degree of filling. During this homogeneous mode of combustion, the engine functions like a conventional fuel injection engine, but with higher efficiency due to the higher compression.

The tumble flaps are also actuated to improve cold engine idling. During scavenging the flaps are opened in order to draw much fresh air into the cylinder.

See also 
 Swirl flap

References 

Automotive engineering
Personal Editor. Personal Editor (PE) and Personal Editor II (PE2) was a text editor developed by IBM for IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS in the 1980s. It became popular because of its easy, fast, and programmable (custom keyboard shortcuts) user interface.
PE influenced its successor text editors, such as Personal Editor 32, a modern 32-bit editor with a user interface based on PE2/PE3, and QE, a text editor for Linux systems.  Personal Editor 3 is an open source implementation for 64 bit Linux and Windows 10+ running Intel compatible processors, implemented using the SNOBOL5 programming language.

For Asia-Pacific region, IBM Japan released a DBCS version of Personal Editor for IBM 5550 and PS/55. It was available in IBM's lineup over the years, although the E editor came with PC DOS since version 6.1.

See also 
 E (PC DOS)

References

External links 
 PE2 on Text Editors Wiki
 Personal Editor 32 website

DOS text editors
IBM software
DOS software
Console applications
Techrules AT96. The Techrules AT96 is an electric sports car made by Techrules. Unlike most electric cars, it uses a multi-fuel (jet fuel, kerosene, natural gas, biogas) aviation turbine to charge the batteries. It has 1030 hp and 6372 lb-ft (8369 nm) of torque, a  time of 2.5 seconds, and a top speed of .

The Techrules GT96 variant uses a turbine limited to its gas fuels.

The car appears and features in the 2013 racing game Asphalt 8: Airborne, and the 2018 racing game Asphalt 9: Legends.

References

Electric cars
AT96
Concept cars
Italdesign GTZERO. The Italdesign GTZERO is an electric shooting-brake concept produced by Italian design company Italdesign Giugiaro and showcased at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.

Performance 
The GTZERO is powered by three electric motors, two in the front and one in the rear, and is all-wheel drive. The front electric motors produce 148 hp (110 kW) each and the rear motor produces  for a total of  and an electronically limited top speed of . Italdesign says the car has a range of  and can recharge to 80 percent capacity in 30 minutes.

Features 
The GTZERO is built on a modular carbon fiber monocoque, which Italdesign says houses the batteries and allows for multiple body styles to be used. The chassis also features aluminum front and rear subframes. a lightweight composite body, butterfly doors and four wheel steering with 5 degrees of steering angle. The interior features configurable seating which can be changed from a 2+2 to a 3+1 arrangement as well as multiple touchscreens to control interior functions.

References

Hatchbacks
Italdesign Giugiaro

Electric vehicles
Italdesign concept vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
SAFE Building System. The SAFE Building System, also known as the SAFE Foundation System, is a way to build in flood zones and coastal areas, developed by architect and inventor Greg Henderson and his team at Arx Pax Labs, Inc. It is designed to float buildings, roadways, and utilities in a few feet of water.  The self-adjusting floating environment draws from existing technologies used to float concrete bridges and runways such as Washington's SR 520 and Japan's Mega-Float. It also absorbs the shock of earthquakes, allowing buildings and their related communities to remain stable. Arx Pax is working with Republic of Kiribati and Pacific Rising to solve for sustainable development challenges associated with rising sea levels.

Arx Pax, the company involved in this technology has proposed building a “floating village” project in north San Jose's Alviso hamlet, deploying a group of pontoons beneath the buildings to protect the development from floods and earthquakes.

Originally developed for earthquakes as an alternative to Base Isolation the floating foundation decouples the structure from the earth with a simple patented method consisting of three parts. According to the patent, "Three part foundation systems can include a containment vessel, which constrains a buffer medium to an area above the containment vessel, and a construction platform. A building can be built on the construction platform. In a particular embodiment, during operation, the construction platform and structures built on the construction platform can float on the buffer medium. In an earthquake, a construction platform floating on a buffer medium may experience greatly reduced shear forces. In a flood, a construction platform floating on a buffer medium can be configured to rise as water levels rise to limit flood damage."

See also
 Sustainable development
 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
 Very large floating structure

References

Civil engineering
Construction adhesive. Construction adhesive is a general-purpose adhesive used for attaching drywall, tile, molding, and fixtures to walls, ceilings, and floors. It is most commonly available in tubes intended for use with a caulking gun.

Properties
Adhesion to a variety of substrates allows bonding of dissimilar materials if necessary. High cohesive strength is desirable. Flexibility improves peel strength by flexing with peel stress. High elastic modulus of substrate and adhesive resists stress at the bond line.

Composition
There are multiple chemistries for construction adhesives. Common ingredients include clay, cement, acrylic resin, polyurethane monomers, styrene-butadiene rubber, hexane and other nonpolar solvents, and various initiators and functional additives.

Standards
ASTM C557 "Standard Specification for Adhesives for Fastening Gypsum Wallboard to Wood Framing" gives requirements for construction adhesives used for attaching wallboard in building construction.

See also
 Aerolite (adhesive)

References

External links
Asbestos Toxicity: Where Is Asbestos Found?
A New Era of Industrial Adhesives: Inorganic Adhesives

Adhesives
Made in USA (sculpture). Made in USA is a 2005 sculpture by American artist Michael Davis, installed at the SODO light rail station in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington. It consists of a  by  steel archway as well as a plaza with seating areas. The archway is composed of oversized tools, including a try square, spirit level, and carpenter pencil. The seating area includes benches shaped into I-beams and a cog, with cast bronze replicas of workbench tools soldered onto the granite tops. Both elements honor the industrial legacy of Seattle's SoDo neighborhood by using "tools of the trade".

The archway element of the piece was installed in August 2005 as the first piece of public art on the Central Link line.

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2005 establishments in Washington (state)
2005 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Washington (state)
Outdoor sculptures in Seattle
SoDo, Seattle
Steel sculptures in Washington (state)
Civil Lines metro station (Jaipur). Civil Lines is an elevated metro station on the East-West Corridor of the Pink Line of Jaipur Metro in Jaipur, India. This station was opened on 3 June 2015, which serves the Civil Lines colony.

History

Station layout

Connections

Entry/exits

See also

References

External links
 UrbanRail.Net — descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.

Railway stations in India opened in 2015
2015 establishments in Rajasthan
Jaipur Metro stations
Man Mohan Suri. Man Mohan Suri (1928–1981) was an Indian mechanical engineer and the Director of Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur. He is best known for inventing Suri Transmission, a hydromechanical transmission unit, reported to increase the efficiency of diesel locomotives and he held the patent for the inventions. The technology is known to have led to 36 patent specifications in eleven countries. He is also credited with the conceptualization of Swaraj farm tractor, a product of Punjab Tractors Ltd. and held another patent for his development of Railway truck wheel assembly. He received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1961. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1962. The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has instituted an annual award, Padmashri Manmohan Suri Project Award, for honoring the best mechanical project by its alumni.

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Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science
1928 births
1981 deaths
Engineers from Punjab, India
20th-century Indian inventors
Indian mechanical engineers
20th-century Indian engineers

People from Punjab Province (British India)
McMahon Services. McMahon Services is an Australian civil engineering and construction company. It was established at Dry Creek in Adelaide in 1990. McMahon Services is contracted by governments and private industry for construction and demolition projects in most states of Australia. These include construction of part of the Northern Connector freeway, and demolition of the Northern Power Station.

McMahon Services is one of 12 Class A asbestos removal licence holders (licensed to remove friable asbestos or asbestos-contaminated dust) in South Australia and claims to be Australia's largest asbestos services provider.

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Construction and civil engineering companies of Australia
Companies based in South Australia
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1990
Australian companies established in 1990