When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Eight-wheel drive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-wheel_drive

    Latest generation 8x8 wheeled armored vehicles have steering on the rearmost axle to improve maneuverability. [ 4 ] [ unreliable source? In the case of both truck and armored vehicle applications, drive may be limited to the rear two axles for on-road use, thus reducing drivetrain stress and tire wear, and increasing fuel efficiency .

  3. Tree stand - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_stand

    Tree stands or deer stands are open or enclosed platforms used by hunters. The platforms are secured to trees in order to elevate the hunter and give them a better vantage point. A tripod stand is a similar device, but because it is freestanding rather than attached to a tree, it is not technically a tree stand.

  4. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roof_shapes

    Bell-cast (sprocketed, flared): A roof with the shallow slope below the steeper slope at the eaves. Compare with bell roof. East Asian hip-and-gable roof; Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof; Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped equally on all sides and centered over a square or regular polygonal floor plan. [10]

  5. MAN KAT1 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAN_KAT1

    5,000 kg (4x4), 7,000 kg (6x6), 10,000 kg (8x8); Category 1 A1 increased 8x8 payload to 15,000 kg: Transmission: usually ZF manual with torque convertor and two-speed transfer case: Suspension: coil springs and dampers for each axle

  6. Glued laminated timber - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glued_laminated_timber

    Glulam brace with plates used for connections Glulam frame of a roof structure. Glued laminated timber, commonly referred to as glulam, is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural adhesives so that all of the grain runs parallel to the longitudinal axis.

  7. Mansard roof - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansard_roof

    A mansard roof on the Château de Dampierre, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, great-nephew of François Mansart. A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows.

  8. Hip roof - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_roof

    A raised bungalow in Chicago with a hipped roof A hip roof type house in Khammam city, India. A hip roof, hip-roof [1] or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others. [2] Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides ...

  9. Yogini temples - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogini_temples

    It was constructed with 65 shrine cells (10 on the front, 11 at the back including the one for the central deity, and 22 on each side), each with a doorway made of two squared granite pillars and a lintel stone, and each with a tower roof. 35 of the cells survive. It stands on a 5.4 metre high platform.