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31Ramsey Car Transfer Apparatus — In railroad industry, the Ramsey Car Transfer Apparatus (Ramsey Transfer) was a proposed device to replace bogies on railroad cars to permit transfer of a train between railroad lines with different gauge.The Ramsey Transfer existed in a number… …
32temperature of deflection under load — The ability of a test specimen to preserve its shape up to a given temperature under a given dead load; characterized by the temperature at which the specimen supported at both ends and heated continually and uniformly in a liquid heat transfer… …
33weight transfer — The transfer of load from one end or side of the vehicle to the other when accelerating, braking, or cornering …
34Car handling — and vehicle handling is a description of the way wheeled vehicles perform transverse to their direction of motion, particularly during cornering and swerving. It also includes their stability when moving in a straight line. Handling and braking… …
35PDP-8 — A PDP 8 on display at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.. This example is from the first generation of PDP 8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8. The 12 bit PDP 8 was the… …
36Roll center — The roll center of a vehicle is the notional point at which the cornering forces in the suspension are reacted to the vehicle body.TheoryThere are two definitions of roll center. The most commonly used is the geometric (or kinematic) roll center …
37Comparative foot morphology — Skeletons of a human and an elephant. Comparative foot morphology is exemplified through study of the form of distal limb structures of a variety of terrestrial vertebrates. A challenge to understanding the role of the feet of a variety of… …
38DW-link — Diagram of the dw link suspension, as implemented on an Iron Horse Sunday, showing the location of the virtual pivot point The DW link is a subset of the common four bar system used widely in bicycle suspension. The four bar system has been used… …
39Column — For other uses, see Column (disambiguation). National Capitol Columns at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C …
40Truss — For other uses, see Truss (disambiguation). In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes.… …
