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- This is done through the use of control joints and expansion joints
- Control joints are cuts into the concrete or asphalt. The joints are cut into the structure at regular intervals allow cracking to occur in a controlled fashion. Road control joints can be sealed with hot tar or rubber
- Expansion joints are designed to allow for continuous traffic between structures accommodating movement, shrinkage, temperature variations on reinforced and pre-stressed concrete, composite and steel structures.
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How can bridges be built to deal with weather?
They have (overlapping) expansion joints that allows the span to shrink and stretch w/o forming a big gap.
When was Deal railway station created?
Deal railway station was created in 1847.
What became one of the dominant themes in the US Civil War's Western Theater?
Perhaps the experience of Union General Don Carlos Buell as he could only march slowly to Chattanooga in 1862, was to become a dominant theme in the West that Union generals had to deal with. The impediment in the West was the guerrilla raids that were constantly cutting supply and communications lines. The Union was forced to deploy thousands of troops to protect the railway lines, as one example. The Confederate raiders were aided by Tennessee sympathizers and so often the raiders easily burned down railway bridges and intercepted supplies.
Why the expansion period is not good enough?
New Deal
What is something a civil engineer would deal with?
Roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, harbours, dams, sea-defences...
This new deal program built schools buildings dams and bridges?
public works authority
Where can expansion joints be bought?
An expansion joint is used in construction to help deal with the effects of building materials expanding and contracting. They can be purchased through hardware stores like Home Depot.
What is thermal expansion and how bridge roads and sidewalks compensate or deal with thermal expansion?
Thermal expansion (TE) is a process in which materials expand due to changes in temperature. How different structures deal with or compensate thermal expansion (just some examples): Bridges and other structures have expansion joints (there are gaps in the road, which you hear/feel when crossing them in a car for example - usually in both ends of the bridge and sometimes in between as well, depending on the lenght of the bridge). Sidewalks - depends on the material of the sidewalk (sometimes there may be some spaces between different sections, but the temperature fluctuations are not so huge that it is reasonable to use any predicament against TE. Railroads - do you know the banging sound really associated with trains and railroad? This is a basic example of thermal expansion compensation. The tracks are assembled so that the ends of two track sections are not touching each other. The gap in between allows the track to expand in heat (therefore the sound of train wheels rattling is louder in the winter when the gaps are bigger and less in the summer)
What was the long term effects of the New Deal?
an expansion of a federal welfare system and a reduction of state and local aid
What kind of very old pine trees grow along the cog railway route to the top of pikes peak?
you know the deal
Where is the transmission oil cooler on a 2003 dodge neon?
Some radiators have the coolant lines and the trans lines going into them. So, it may be a one unit deal.
What were the goals of president Theodore roosevelts square deal plan?
Well according to different Wikipedia answerer, the goal's he as president were modernization, expansion, and reform of the Federal government. So the goals of his Square Deal Plan were most likely similar.
