When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Ship measurements - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_measurements

   Grain Cube (or Grain Capacity) – The maximum space available for cargo measured in cubic metres or feet, the measurement being taken to the inside of the shell plating of the ship or to the outside of the frames and to the top of the beam or underside of the deck plating. It is a measurement of capacity for cargoes such as grain, where the ...

3. Span (engineering) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_(engineering)

   In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam). Span is measured in the horizontal direction either between the faces of the supports (clear span) or between the centers of the bearing surfaces (effective span): [1] A span can be closed by a solid beam or by ...

4. Beam (nautical) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_(nautical)

   Graphical representation of the dimensions used to describe a ship. Dimension "b" is the beam at waterline.. The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point. The maximum beam (B MAX) is the distance between planes passing through the outer sides of the ship, beam of the hull (B H) only includes permanently fixed parts of the hull, and beam at waterline (B WL) is the maximum width where the ...

5. Pier (bridge structure) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_(bridge_structure)

   In this case, the height of the structure, measured between the top of the deck and the ground, is between the values a/3 and a/2, where a denotes the span of the arch, which is generally a semicircular or elliptical arch. [7] The thickness e of the pier depends solely on the span of the arches: a/10 < e < a/8.

6. Plate girder bridge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_girder_bridge

   Generally, the depth of the girder is no less than 1 ⁄ 15 the span, and for a given load bearing capacity, a depth of around 1 ⁄ 12 the span minimizes the weight of the girder. Stresses on the flanges near the centre of the span are greater than near the end of the span, so the top and bottom flange plates are frequently reinforced in the ...

7. List of bridges in the United States by height - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_the...

   A bridge's deck height is greater than its clearance below, which is measured from the bottom of the deck structure, with the difference being equal to the thickness of the deck structure at the point with the greatest clearance below. Official figures for a bridge's height are often provided only for the clearance below, so those figures may ...