Chief of Staff Minister Eliseu Padila said that there had been a presidential orientation to cancel the proceedings. The removal took place just a few hours after the tender had been published.
Aides to Temer said that the tender had been authorized by the Government Secretary and by the Institutional Security Cabinet without having consulted higher levels of government.
The tender, scheduled for January the 2nd, would have chosen the company responsible catering and supplying the Brazilian version of Air Force One, beginning next year.
The tender notice detailed the purchase of more than 170 items, including five different types of ice cream and another five flavors of popsicles.
For Haagen Dazs premium ice cream alone, the government would have spent R$7,500 (US$ 2,300) for 500 tubs. R$21 thousand (US$ 6,400) were earmarked for 1,500 liters of coconut milk, R$18,300 (US$ 5,600) for 5,000 espresso coffee capsules and more than R$96 thousand (US$ 29,360) for one and one-half tons of chocolate pie.
And there were even 500 bologna sandwiches budgeted at R$ 16.45 (US$ 5) each to be ordered. Also on the list, mixed tuna sandwiches, with cheese and ham, in addition to Himalayan rose salt. Lunches and dinners on the airplane would have cost an average R$ 167 (US$ 51), including appetizer, main course and dessert.
Breakfast would have added up to R$ 96 (US$ 29) including Greek yogurt, cubed seasonal fruit, sliced meats and cheese, pastry and a main dish (omelet, quiche, etc.).
A release from Planalto, the President's Office declared that when Temer came aware of the tender he determined that it should be immediately canceled.
And what about the rest of the crooks who continue to keep enjoying their special [precious] privileges, absurd salaries, and the fringe benefits?
Steel trusses are structures of steel bars connected into joints. Trusses according to structural mechanics is a bar system, geometrics of which is not changed if rigid joints are replaced with hinged ones. Only tensile and compressing stresses appear in elements of trusses if there is no misalignment of rods or out-joint loads.
The chord is a steel structures forming the outline of a truss. The web consists of posts and crossbeams connected to truss chords by means of welding. The Russian word «ферма» (in Russian it stands for a word “truss”) is derived form Latin word “Firmus” (firm). The main advantage of steel trusses is a reliability of structures; on this parameter they outperform any other types of structures, even those entirely made of steel. At the same time trusses weights less and consumes less steel in manufacturing. This allows reducing labor and transpiration costs. modern type of trusses can withstand huge loads and thus they are commonly used as support or floor structures.
In the first case the axis of a truss form an axis which is capable of withstanding of multiaxial loads. Eachfaceofthisaxisisaplanetruss. Elements of a plane truss are located in one plane and thereby it can withstand significant loads directed from one side only.
Trusses can be divided into several types according to their structures: shape of the chord, dimensions of spans, structural static, type of joints, etc. Static trusses can be arch, beam, cable or framed. Other frequently used types of trusses are: polygonal, triangular, segmental, trapezoidal trusses and the ones with parallel chords.
The most common type of trusses is a combined truss. They are irreplaceable in constructions with live static loads. Structure of steel truss has no bends, thus it can cover spans with length of more than 70 m.
According to the most widespread classification of trusses they are divided into the following types:
Arch. This type consumes less steel, but enlarges area of a building. Because of this, the area of closure structures becomes large too.
Split-type. This type is used for construction of buildings with big-sized spans in most of the cases.
Trusses for industrial buildings – rafter truss and secondary trusses. Rafter trusses are used for construction of buildings having spans of 24 m and more, and bridge cranes with load capacity more than 20 t. Secondary trusses are used as a support for the main bearing and floor structures, in case if the pitch of columns exceeds the one of beams and constructional trusses.
Light trusses are single-web frame with one row of gusset plates and chords of different cross-sections. Angles, channels, t-beams, seamless pipes of a different configuration are used for fabrication of this type. Light trusses of shape angles forming a structural tee are the most common. Gusset plates located between angles form its base. Anglesareweldedwithsidefilletwelds.
The base of a tube trusses are hot-rolled and welded tube and pipes. Welded ones are economically advantageous in fabrication of compression elements. The most feasible type of splice connection – is the one with direct abutment of contour welded pipes. In case if it is unable to perform shape cut, the ends of pipes are usually flattened and then welded to the chords of a truss. Trusses made of closed or open section have joints of a simpler structure.
Fabrication of steel trusses is carried out in several stages. The first stage is – preparation of KMD drawings.
Assembly of truss elements is performed in several stages with the help of tack-welding. Assembly of the whole rafter structure is done is a single working area.
The next manufacturing stage is the final welding of a structure. Direct-current power supply is used for this purpose. Welding method – semi-automatic. Once all welding works are finished, each seam should be thoroughly cleaned from weld spatter and metal flows.
Anti-corrosion treatment is a final stage of manufacturing at Chelyabinsk Steel Structure Plant. Steel structures are cleaned in shot-blasting chambers and then coated with several layers of anti-corrosion paints – primer and final coating (if required).