seismic resistance engineering
51soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them. * * * Study of soils and their utilization, especially in planning… …
52Piscine de désactivation — Exemple de piscine de désactivation et stockage de combustible (ne contenant ici qu’une faible quantité de combustible, à l’occasion de l’arrêt à froid d’un réacteur de la centrale nucléaire de Caorso …
53United Airlines Flight 93 — United 93 redirects here. For the movie, see United 93 (film). For the related made for TV movie, see Flight 93 (TV movie). United Airlines Flight 93 UA 93 s flight path on September 11, 2001 from Newark, New Jersey to Shanksville, Pennsylvania …
54Energy development — Schematic of the global sources of energy in 2006 2007 …
55Occidental Petroleum — Corporation Type Public (NYSE: OXY) Industry Oil and gas …
56China National Petroleum Corporation — 中国石油天然气集团公司 Type Government owned corporation Industry Oil Gas Founded Beijing, PR China (1988 …
57mining — /muy ning/, n. 1. the act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines. 2. the laying of explosive mines. [1250 1300; ME: undermining (walls in an attack); see MINE2, ING1] * * * I Excavation of materials from the Earth s… …
58United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
59Metamaterial antenna — This Z antenna tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is smaller than a standard antenna with comparable properties. Its high efficiency is derived from the Z element inside the square that acts as a metamaterial, greatly… …
60Noise — This article is about noise as an unwanted phenomenon. For other uses, see Noise (disambiguation). NASA researchers at Glenn Research Center conducting tests on aircraft engine noise in 1967 In common use, the word noise means any unwanted …
