Sentence examples for truss installed from inspiring English sources

After backing away about 450 feet, the Atlantis flew around the space station, taking pictures of the station's new configuration, including a 17.2-ton truss installed during the shuttle astronauts' nine-day visit.

And so it happens that beginning on Nov. 4 the Guggenheim will mount one of the strangest, most audacious exhibitions in its half-century history, suspending several thousand pounds' — and many tens of millions of dollars' — worth of high-end, internationally collected art from cables attached to a heavy-duty aluminum truss installed almost 90 feet in the air under the museum's glass dome.

The Starboard 1, or S1, truss is to be attached to the starboard side of a central truss section installed on the station's Destiny science module last April.

"Sometimes I look at it and I am amazed we all got there," Bruce C. Ratner, the chairman and chief executive of Forest City Ratner Companies, the project's developer, said last week after part of the roof truss was installed.

The recent completion of $68 million in electrical, acoustical and structural work — quadrupling the electrical capacity, reinforcing truss work, installing dozens of lighting and chain hoists — means that the armory, which has spent three years in what Ms. Robertson calls "R & D," is now ready to showcase a variety of art.

One radiator will be extended during this mission, but the entire system will not be activated until an almost identical truss segment is installed next month on the port side by a crew aboard the shuttle Endeavour.

The trusses had been installed in 1946 to stiffen the bridge deck and lessen the chances that the 2,300-foot-long 2,300-foot-long 2,300-foot-longind, aspane Tacoma Narrowouldidge ("Galloping Gertie") did in 1940.

A horizontal truss system is usually installed at the top flange level to increase the torsional stiffness.

Hence, a horizontal truss system is usually installed at levels of both the top and bottom flanges to increase the torsional stiffness providing a quasi-closed bridge cross-section.

Lumber should be kiln dried or seasoned, as green lumber may shrink and/or warp after the truss is assembled and installed.

In this pilot bridge, Perfobond Leister ribs (PBR) were installed in the truss girder's joints, which played double roles as shear connector and stiffener.