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  2. NCK - Wikipedia

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    The company started as iron founders in 1794 and expanded in Victorian times to include coal and iron mining. They diversified into equipment manufacture and in 1947 the company started producing the American brands of Koehring excavators under the Newton Chambers Koehring name, [2] and in 1958 they took over Ransomes & Rapier building excavators, drag-lines, port cranes and other construction ...

  3. Engineering disasters - Wikipedia

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    Failure occurs when a structure or device has been used past the limits of design that inhibits proper function. [2] If a structure is designed to only support a certain amount of stress, strain, or loading and the user applies greater amounts, the structure will begin to deform and eventually fail.

  4. 2002 United States airtanker crashes - Wikipedia

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    N130HP crash scene from NTSB report. Lockheed C-130A Hercules registration N130HP, call sign Tanker 130, was flying against the Cannon Fire, [2] near Walker, California on June 17, 2002, when it experienced structural failure of the center wing section, causing both wings to fold upward and separate from the aircraft.

  5. Demolition - Wikipedia

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    The building is pulled down either manually or mechanically using large hydraulic equipment: elevated work platforms, cranes, excavators or bulldozers. Larger buildings may require the use of a wrecking ball, a heavy weight on a cable that is swung by a crane into the side of the buildings. Wrecking balls are especially effective against ...

  6. Oshkosh M1070 - Wikipedia

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    Enhanced Heavy Equipment Transporter System (EHETS) The Enhanced Heavy Equipment Transporter System (EHETS) is considered the replacement for the M1070/M1070A1/M1300 in U.S. Army service. The U.S. Army announced in July 2016 that it wished to use FY 2016 funds to start an engineering study into an EHET that would replace the M1070A1 and M1000 ...

  7. Allis-Chalmers - Wikipedia

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    Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries.Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills.

  8. All the most jaw-dropping wardrobe malfunctions of 2017 -- so far

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    There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.

  9. Pauli effect - Wikipedia

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    The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli , describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment ...