An early Alan Ayckbourn play that the dramatist has now suppressed – Standing Room Only – asked the designer to provide a deck, seats and a staircase winding upwards.
And if you were part of a regular evening card game, the conductors would reserve seats for you, supply a board to play on and provide a deck of cards, all for 25 cents per person.
Now the oil derrick in Beverly Hills has become an obelisk in the city, an attraction, while the billboard provides a deck and some shade for the house under it.
The heavier particles come in contact with the deck surface and acted upon by frictional force and vibrational force provided to the deck of table.
Of course this provides a conservative estimate of ultimate strength of the slab and is quite unsustainable, but may well result in a significant under-estimation of deflection because of the shrinkage strain gradient and the restraint provided by the deck and this should not be ignored.
The adjoining open mess deck provided sleeping and living quarters for the marines and crew, and additional storage space.
Glass portholes in the deck provided natural light for the interior of the ship; in action these were covered by iron plates.
Propane torches can still be used on buildings with concrete decks, provided that the contractor holds a certificate of fitness issued by the Fire Department.
The casemate-mounted secondary armament was one deck below the main deck and provided the majority of the complaints from shipping water from the forward positions and breaking the flow of the bow wave imparting extra drag on the design.
