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A Symbiotic Structural Health Monitoring and
Structural Control System for Resilient Highway Bridges
Our transportation infrastructure is subjected to many natural and man-made hazards as well as daily traffic loadings. For this reason, a symbiotic structural health monitoring and structural control system is proposed to increase the resilience of highway bridges.
Thinking of reducing your household and office (cubical) energy consumptions? The Intelligent Energy Manager is exactly what one might be looking for. This is an Electronic Energy Meter integrated with GSM modem, a mobile SIM and an electronic control unit. i-Energy manager provides full cell phone connectivity ,
This design presents a method for preventing vehicles from corroding each other. As experienced by most of people that two cars are driven on the road, the second car (the car behind) is often approaching the first car (the front car) so close that the driver in the first car almost feels that the second car will him.
More than 24 million Americans endure the pain of a Root Canal every year. A Root Canal, or Endodontic Therapy, requires a hole to be drilled in the infected tooth to facilitate the removal of infection. To remove infection deep within the canals of the tooth, Dental Professionals employ an Endodontic File.
"Digitally Timed Gas Mileage" is my invention. It will tell you how much time (hours,min,sec) is left until you have to refuel your car. This will replace the empty/full gauge with a digital clock, showing how much time is left. It will be based off RPM's.
A Detonation Flame Arrestor (DFA) is designed to extinguish a flame front resulting from an explosion or detonation of a gas in a pipeline. However, in addition to extinguishing the flame, the DFA must be capable of dissipating (attenuate) the pressure front that precedes the flame front.
Traditional pressure-boundary piping gaskets, such as pipe flanges and valve body-to-bonnet joints, can leak due to many factors. Chief among these are (i) improper initial gasket seating stress (GSS) sufficient to form a seal and (ii) failure to maintain the initial GSS in-service due to creep relaxation of the gasket sealing material over time.
Old & current ship designs have the propeller to run the ship. Here I have designed a ship with a small replacement. It gives high efficiency, which is a theoretical calculation. In this ship from an imaginary line on front and back shows that it won't submerge in water whole from any unwanted ocean waves.
The device will have some optical sensors, a camera, an audio system & a digital signal processor. The software should have intelligent algorithms to map an human eye charateristics & portion of the human brain responsible for vision analysis.
The device shall be tied to the user at a convenient position.
This is a Universal Credit Card. I got vexed with carrying credit cards from different vendors. When customer is supreme in this customer oriented world, I prefer carrying a single credit card.
This is how it is supposed to work.
Stage 1: I get a universal credit card from any one vendor I chose or got approved.
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