Agricultural operations soil conservation and preparation; crop cultivation and harvesting; animal production; and commodities transportation, processing, packaging, and storage are precision operations involving large tonnages, heavy power, and critical factors of time and place.
This paper will present the aforementioned instrumentation methodology and results from one field installation in which surface strain gauges were installed on ten concrete sleepers on a high-tonnage, heavy-haul freight railroad with the objective of quantifying sleeper-to-sleeper bending moment variability.
As the division inched its way forward through the tough German defenses, it used a lot of ammunition the main item of the daily supply tonnage in heavy combat.
His venerable, pampered fieldstone is not the sort you see dumped in heavy tonnage for the granite and mortar walls that surround so much new construction in Fairfield County.
Other railroads were prompted to begin TOFC in the 1960s when the availability of heavy tonnage cranes at new container terminals simplified the placing of trailers in the so-called "pocket" cars.
It's a full frontal assault, a heavy tonnage media bombardment starting in the Lake Tahoe area.
Historian William James has noted that while Nymphe was slightly heavier both in tonnage and weight of shot, the French ship carried 80 more personnel who had been serving as a unified crew for significantly longer than those aboard the British frigate; among Pellew's men were 80 Cornish tin miners pressed into service only a few weeks earlier.
MIKE HALE Sculpture: A Cultural Heavyweight In terms of sheer tonnage — upward of 500 — it is undoubtedly the heaviest exhibition ever to have tested the floors of the recently rebuilt Museum of Modern Art.
Seventy years have come and gone, but I still can see ships of every then-known tonnage, armament, and design -- aircraft carriers, destroyers, oil tankers, submarines, light and heavy cruisers, trawlers, minesweepers, PT boats -- lying at anchor or getting underway on the turn of a morning's tide.
A number of the tanks were plated with gold and were so heavy that the floors of Sotheby's had to be reinforced to withstand the tonnage.
Operation on heavy fuel is thus cost-effective for almost all ships, according to MAN B&W Alpha Diesel, the exceptions being tonnage whose load profiles dictate frequent starting and stopping and low annual running hours.
