I'm studying a construction course and i have a test next week and i got a feeling that this question will come up in the test. thank you for all your answers.
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Planning permission or planning consent is the permission required by property developers and private individuals in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on, or change the use of, a plot of land or to redevelop an existing building. In certain circumstances planning permission is not required and is known as Permitted Development.\n\nIn law, an appellant is the party who, having lost their claim in a lower court decision, is appealing to a higher court to have their case reconsidered. This is usually done on the basis that the lower court judge erred in the application of law. The responding party is called the "appellee."\n\nCurtilage is a legal term describing the enclosed area of land around a dwelling. It is distinct from the dwelling by virtue of lacking a roof, but distinct from the area outside the enclosure in that it is enclosed within a wall or barrier of some sort.\n\nIt is typically treated as being legally coupled with the dwelling it surrounds despite the fact that it might commonly be considered "outdoors".\n\nThis distinction is important under US law for cases dealing with burglary and with self defense under the Castle Doctrine. Under Florida law, burglary encompasses the English common-law definition and adds (among other things) curtilage to the protected area of the dwelling into which intrusion is prohibited. Similarly, a homeowner does not have to retreat within the curtilage under Florida's Castle Doctrine.\n\nMore can be found at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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this website can answer your question, good luck
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I see a whole lot of people parroting what they've read and seen on TV, but here's an new and original thought for you...What if the blocks weren't pushed, pulled, levitated or moved into position at all?  What if they were "poured" into place as a sort of cement?  Think about it...They would've easily done it level by level, filling any smaller gaps with smaller blocks....\nAnyway, that's the only thing that really makes any sense to me.\nPulleys and levers, ramps..All that stuff has basically been disprove...If they were constructed in either one of those manners, then why can't we reproduce the great Pyramid using the same technology?....We should have pyramids all over the place!!!\nI like my cement theory!
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Take a look at the site below, it will give you the answer...;
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lol \nYou have homework that you don't know the answer to.  \n\nWhy would someone ask these here out of interest? Like you have these specific parameters and conditions that you are just raring to want to know just out of the blue.\n\n Quit wasting time writing and typing questions out waiting here for answers when you could be the next engineering graduate who actuallly UNDERSTANDS this stuff by doing it yourself.
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I work construction. I'm a 22 year old female, and can't seem to get enough of it! I love coming home, covered in paint, putty, and caulking. It's a feeling of completion.
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Answer is in the attached link.
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Generally there are several areas that engineers usually have to decide, but this depends on what the engineer is trying to do.\n\nFor instance if something is safety critical (i.e. a crane or bridge or tower), then they will choose to make something much stronger than it needs to be.\n\nSay a crane expected to see a max load of 10,000lbs.  The design might actually be able to support a load of 15,000, but you tell the public that 10,000 is the safe limit.  This is called factor of safety and engineers almost always want to be conservative.\n\nNow an engineer could design it to support 100,000 lbs, but this would make the crane much more expensive than it needs to be.  So what happens is they compromise with 15,000 pounds because it is safe enough and not as expensive.\n\n\nAnother topic would be tolerances.  For instance, you want a rod 1 foot long.  I the real world, it's impossible to get something exactly 1 foot long.  We can get close, 1.001 is easy to do, but why do you need such precision if something that is 1.2 feet long will do.  \n\nSo in many cases you see tolerancing on dimensions, 1 +/- .003. That means something from 0.997 to 1.003 is acceptable.  If you want something much closer, say 1.0001, then it'll be much more expensive because it's more difficult to make.\n\n\nHope this helps.
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The surface on which the structure is being built.
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Typically when a material is refered to as strong, you are refering to its mechanical property can 'Tensile Strength' - How much force you can pull it with before it breaks.\n\nIt terms of what makes one material strong compared to another, is related to many factors - On a microscopic level, basically how easy it is for discontinuities in the material to move.\n\nWith reference to your concrete example, the reason concrete of a skyscraper is strong, primary is because it is steel reinforced; steel bars are embeded inside the concrete - The combination of steel and concrete is a good one because steel is very strong in tension (which concrete is not) but concrete is very good in compression.\n\nWhen you combine different materials like this, the resulting material is refered to as a composite. Composites presently are the best structural materials that we have; examples are fiberglass/polyester and  carbon/epoxy. Carbon/epoxy is extremely popular for aerospace structures because of its high strength and low weight, as well as its durability. When composites first appeared, they were very expensive and limited to really hi-tech applications like aerospace, but today you can find them everywhere - golf club shafts are commonly carbon/epoxy for example.
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I will try. \nNot because it is difficult to understand but difficult to describe. Let us take a three member truss.\n\nA truss must be in equilibrium otherwise it will fall into its three component pieces. Lets assume it is for a roof\n\nFrom its apex to the two walls its load will come from the tiles, and for these the angles and weights are calculated to establish what portion of it goes to which joint.\nThe two portions at the top are examined together to make sure their loads will be stable against each other.\nThe portions at the bottom are being supported by two walls but they have two components each. One wants to rest on the wall while the other is trying to move away from the wall.\nTo keep this from happening we have to introduce our third truss member and make sure it can take the tension required of it.\nNow we know all the points we can show the summation of all the loads and ascertain if they are in compression or tension.\nWhen we have selected or designed each of our truss members we can fix them to keep the whole assembly stable.\nNow the truss it in equilibrium.\nTry it with large match sticks and think of what you are reading.\nIt might help.
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Dissipation in a yield line\nIf the axes of rotation for two slab parts are not at the same depth measured from the slab surface,\nthe relative displacement discontinuity is no longer perpendicular to the yield line. The angle\nbetween the displacement discontinuity and the yield line changes with the depth from the slab\nsurface and this must be taken into account when calculating the dissipation.\n\nAnd you will find more from this book.
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As sophisticated as this question looks I doubt that any one will answer....\nSTATE AN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT (i.e. Civil,architectural,mechanic, computer science)\n\nThere no such thing as a MULTI-PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER to answer your question...
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engineers know the properties of the materials used.  They also know the construction techniques used.  They may calculate load limits bases on theoretical assumptions or they may construct a model bridge, put a load on it and increase the load until the bridge breaks.  Knowing the characterists of the model, they can predict the characteristics of the real bridge.\n\nSometimes things can go wrong \n--> http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/tacoma/tacnarr.mpg
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You'll find the answer on this forum:\nhttp://www.retailworker.com/node/12438
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WORK = force x distance  So you would need something the work would be done on. you would need to exert a force on it and someplace for it to go.
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I suggest you put a message on "Engineering Tips" www.eng-tips you will need to register and go to the engineering area suited to your question. I guess it will be Mechanical