Gov. Jerry Brown weighed in on the latest controversy surrounding the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge this week, but this one had nothing to do with safety concerns or cracking bolts.
All types of climbs — slabs, cracks, bolted sport climbs, chimneys, faces and boulder problems — are included among the area's more than 2,000 established routes.
These weaknesses and deviations may be due to cracks, loose bolts, broken welds, corrosion and fatigue (Khoshnoudian and Esfandiari 2011).
The Austrians won the game by cleverly cracking the Bolt, the manager Karl Rappan's usually parsimonious plan, with a series of short and snappy passes.
"A storm raging, waves heaving, bolts cracking -- it's all in there, almost like sound effects.
The winds whipped up, the thunder cracked and lightning bolts slashed the sky as I walked in the rain to my local soccer bar Friday afternoon to watch the match between Germany and Greece in the European Cup quarterfinals.
Thomas Devine, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, said it was premature to adopt the saddle solution before engineers had ascertained the cause of the hydrogen-assisted cracking in the bolts.
When the turbine approached its top speed of 483 km per hour, writhing lightning bolts cracked from the sphere and branched into trees of lavender light.
The investigations that followed confirmed that the collapse started with the cracking of the bolts used to centrally join the roof girders.
An aluminum alloy joint lug of the framework of an airplane was found to have a crack near the bolt hole after serving for a period.
