The need for such reference standards is increasing nowadays because of the wide applications of shell structures in large building roofs, containers and vessels, and of the serious concern about their structural resistance to such dynamic forces as earthquakes and waves.
The raw measurements were corrected for non-atmospheric blanks, shielding (roof + container wall), tritiogenic helium and solar modulation (normalised to the average neutron flux over the past five solar cycles).
A spherical dome or circular plate roof, cylindrical container, top and bottom ring beams together with a circular plate foundation are considered as possible components of a water tank in the flexibility formulation.
So he uses snow dripping from the roof into containers on the ground for daily sponge baths and for the toilets, left dry without electricity to run the pumps from his well.
HOME TURF A quarter-acre yard in Glen Echo, Md., along with a container roof garden.
A New Jersey roofer fell 30 to 40 feet through a partly collapsed roof into a container of acid on Monday and was rescued by co-workers, including one who jumped in to grab him, fire officials in Clifton, N.J., said.
Rather than stick the isolated cells on a flat culture dish, they mixed the cells with liquid, then let the mixture hang in tiny droplets from a plastic lid, like condensation on the roof of a container.
A 3-year study was carried out in Krakow using a pilot-scale roof system in field containers.
Isabelle Palmer is the founder of the Balcony Gardener, an innovative online company specialising in product ranges for small urban outdoor spaces: balconies, patios, containers and roof terraces.
In the last quarter of 2007, optimism grew, and a kind of certainty came on January 11 when, with Ringo Starr bizarrely imprisoned in a shipping container on the roof of St George's Hall, the year officially began, cheered on by a crowd far bigger than anticipated.
Creating open space where others wouldn't think to look for it is a trademark of architect David Baker, who, for Curran House, an affordable housing project in San Francisco's gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, designed roof gardens with small individual container garden plots allowing residents to cultivate their own crops.
