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- Millennium Bridge
- Whitby Bird and Partners, based in London, is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering firm at the leading edge of technology and innovation. Their competition-winning design for the York Millennium Bridge across the River Ouse was inspired by the spokes of a bicycle wheel and consists of an inclined arch with radially...
- Tags: Engineering, LUSAS, consulting, cable
- Case studies
- Cost-Effective Bridge Assessment
- Many steel bridges have been shown to fail assessment to design code BS5400 Part 3. Two consulting firms, both using LUSAS Bridge have proved a 40 tone capacity on a structure that, according to the code, had insufficient lateral restraint and would have required a severe weight restriction. By using...
- Tags: LUSAS, modeling, consulting, analysis, Web
- Case studies
- Dynamic Analysis of the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge
- Consulting Structural Engineers, Techniker Ltd, won a competition sponsored by the London Docklands Development Corporation to design a footbridge to span the Royal Victoria Dock in London. To help evaluate the dynamic response of the structure LUSAS Bridge was used. The global member loads and deflection envelopes obtained from the...
- Tags: LUSAS, consulting, 3D
- Case studies
- Modelling the Replacement of Degraded Concrete on the Terra Nitram Prill Tower
- The Severnside prill tower is operated by Terra Nitrogen UK Ltd to manufacture ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Despite a history of regular maintenance and repair parts of the reinforced concrete structure have deteriorated over the years due to the severe operating environment and by 1998 significant structural repairs were required. Taylor...
- Tags: LUSAS, modeling, project management, environment
- Case studies
- Support Hinge Assemblies for the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
- The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, designed by consulting engineers Gifford and Partners with Wilkinson Eyre, is an eye-catching, steel, opening bridge that spans 105m across the River Tyne. When closed, small river craft can sail beneath the bridge but, for larger vessels, the cable-stayed double arched structure pivots at the abutments...
- Tags: LUSAS, consulting, cable
- Case studies
- Innovative Dynamometer Design
- Design & Projects Limited, based in Eastleigh, UK, provide an engineering design and project management service that specializes in providing solutions to novel and complex engineering challenges. Typical of the type of work routinely undertaken with the aid of LUSAS Analyst is an innovative design for a new type of...
- Tags: LUSAS, aircraft, project management
- Case studies
- Offshore Centralizer Design
- UWG Ltd provides a consulting engineering design, fabrication and offshore service for the oil and gas industry. LUSAS Analyst is used to carry out detailed analyses of centralizer designs to investigate their ultimate strength and fatigue life. Use of the LUSAS sideline facility simplifies modeling the contact between the centralizer...
- Tags: LUSAS, modeling, consulting, industry
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Andrade set to miss Euro 2008 after knee surgery
- LISBON AFP — Juventus's Portugal international defender Jorge Andrade is almost certain to miss Euro 2008 after underoing surgery for a recurring left knee injury on Thursday, the Portuguese media reported. The 29-year-old has not fully recovered despite already undergoing surgery in France after suffering seriously torn ligaments...
- Articles 2008-03-13
- Mainstream Data to Distribute Lusa Content in Europe and Africa
- SALT LAKE CITY & NEW YORK -- Mainstream Data announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Portugal Telecom PT and Lusa (Portugal's national press agency) to distribute news stories and photographs to Lusa's newspaper and media customers in Europe and Africa via Mainstream's satellite and MediasNet[TM] Internet...
- Articles 2007-09-05
- Portuguese peacekeepers head to Lebanon next week
- LISBON AFP — Portugal will next week begin deploying the 140 troops which it committed to a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Lebanon, Defence Minister Nuno Severiano Teixeira has said. Twelve Portuguese soldiers, the first batch of the contingent, will head to the country on Tuesday with the remaining 128...
- Articles 2006-10-28
- Ice, snow disrupts travel in northern Portugal
- LISBON AFP — A jolt of snow and ice across northern Portugal created headaches for commuters, causing dozens of car accidents, leading to road closures and the cancellation of public transit. No public buses were operating in the city of Braganca, located some 500 kilometres (300 miles) northeast...
- Articles 2006-01-16
- VODAFONE NOW SERVES MORE THAN FOUR MILLION CUSTOMERS IN PORTUGAL.(Vodafone Group PLC)(Brief Article)
- Vodafone, Portugal's second largest mobile phone operator, saw subscriber numbers exceed 4 million in November, giving it a 34% market share. The figures were quoted on December 5 by a manager of the local affiliate of the British company, in a statement given to the Lusa press...
- Articles 2005-12-16
- Air Macau, Virgin Blue to start low-cost China airline in mid-2005: report
- LISBON AFP — Privately held Air Macau and Australian budget carrier Virgin Blue will start operating a low-cost airline serving China by the middle of next year. Air Macau, controlled by China National Aviation Company CNAC, will directly detain 51 percent of the new airline with the rest...
- Articles 2004-10-27
- Nun accuses Mozambique of covering up child organ trafficking
- LISBON AFP â A Roman Catholic nun who warned authorities in Mozambique that an organ trafficking network involving children was operating in the southern African country has accused officials investigating the case of a cover-up, it was reported. Sister Maria Elida alleged "that investigations by the attorney general's...
- Articles 2004-02-25
- PORTUGAL TELECOM MUST REPAY CONNNECTION CHARGES BILLED IN 1999.(Brief Article)
- A legal ruling will force Portugal Telecom PT to repay connection charges paid by its customers in 1999, according to the Lusa press agency on October 18, quoting a source close to the affair. A Portuguese court ruled in favour of consumer protection association Deco, which ...
- Articles 2003-10-28
- PORTUGUESE ACQUISITION.(Sociedade Lusa de Negocias SGPS S.A. acquires Biometrics Imagineering Inc.)(Brief Article)
- The Portuguese conglomerate Sociedade Lusa de Negocias SGPS, S.A. has acquired, for US$31.25 million, 25% of the shares of Biometrics Imagineering, Inc., a Puerto Rican firm engaged in research and development of systems for automatic identification of persons based on their physiological characteristics, and other technologies,...
- Articles 2002-01-01
- PORTUGAL TELECOM REGISTERS 30%.
- On 13 September, the Portugal Telecom group announced a net profit of Euro 200 million for the first half of 2001, down by 30% compared to the same period for the prior year (Euro 286 million). For the first time, these results consolidate the Lusomundo media group...
- Articles 2001-09-26
- PORTUGAL TELECOM TIGHTENS CONTROL OVER TELESP CELULAR.
- Portugal Telecom announced on March 14 that it has made a 240.7 billion Escudo (Euro 1.20 billion) bid for ordinary shares in Telesp Celular Participacoes, the holding which controls the Brazilian mobile telephony operator Telesp Celular. In July 1998, Portugal Telecom acquired 51.8% of shares with...
- Articles 2000-03-30
- Cape Verde plane crashes, killing all 18 people on board
- The Associated Press LISBON, Portugal -- A plane carrying 18 people crashed Saturday shortly after takeoff from a Cape Verde island in West Africa, killing everyone on board, news reports said. Cape Verde's Prime Minister Carlos Veiga said all 16 passengers and two crew...
- Articles 1999-08-08
- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America to Acquire Life USA Holding, Inc
- MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--May 17, 1999-- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America Allianz Life today announced that it has agreed to acquire the outstanding shares that it does not already own of Life USA Holding, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUSA) Life USA. As a result of the agreement, Life USA shareholders...
- Articles 1999-05-17
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