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  • Thumbnail for Cant (road and rail)
    On more severe bends, the outside edge of the curve is raised, or superelevated, to help vehicles around the curve. The amount of superelevation increases...
    18 KB (2,205 words) - 18:17, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castelvecchio (Verona)
    merlons running along the castle and bridge walls. It has seven towers, a superelevated keep (maschio) with four main buildings inside. The castle is surrounded...
    4 KB (429 words) - 13:05, 14 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rail speed limits in the United States
    acts to overturn the train. To compensate for this force, the track is superelevated (the outer rail is raised higher than the inner rail). The speed at...
    16 KB (1,416 words) - 21:23, 31 October 2024
  • range from 2 percent for straight segments to 10 percent for sharp superelevated curves. It may also be expressed as a fraction of an inch in rise over...
    3 KB (280 words) - 07:17, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adhesion railway
    centre of mass of the units, the wheel gauge and whether the track is superelevated, or canted. Toppling will occur when the overturning moment due to the...
    26 KB (3,506 words) - 15:26, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Curve resistance (railroad)
    A CSX freight train on a superelevated curve...
    17 KB (2,190 words) - 19:28, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drainage gradient
    sections the drainage gradient is higher, and may often reach 5–12% due to superelevated CS that may reach 5–8% in areas with icy roads and up to 12% in areas...
    6 KB (724 words) - 12:00, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Avulsion (river)
    the bed of a river channel aggrades enough that the river channel is superelevated above the floodplain by one channel-depth. In this situation, enough...
    10 KB (1,336 words) - 10:00, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Road surface
    for curves of 1,000 feet, with guardrail at all embankments; Curves superelevated (i.e., banked) for a speed of 35 miles per hour; No grade crossings...
    53 KB (6,212 words) - 05:49, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cant deficiency
    separated into components that are respectively in the plane of the superelevated (i.e., banked) track and normal thereto. The component normal to the...
    10 KB (1,554 words) - 17:51, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lackawanna Cut-Off Restoration Project
    Route 602 45.8 47.0 Yes Connect wye track to mainline; align track, superelevate curve. 2025 3. Route 602 grade crossing 47.0 47.0 No Raise utility wires...
    59 KB (5,574 words) - 12:04, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Tiger (1913)
    the directors controlling the turrets were limited to 15° 21' until superelevating prisms were installed before the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 to allow...
    43 KB (5,883 words) - 14:39, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for LRC (train)
    rock into the curve to tilt the passenger cars the same way that a superelevated track would tilt them inward. Tilting systems had been introduced in...
    37 KB (4,644 words) - 04:52, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Boulevard, Perth
    for increased traffic in the area. Several curves were also eased and superelevated. As part of the development of the adjacent part of City Beach in the...
    30 KB (2,691 words) - 19:14, 5 May 2024
  • understanding of homeland and their relationship with the mystically superelevated Matterhor mountain. The interviews are accompanied by pictures of the...
    4 KB (334 words) - 23:47, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geometric design of roads
    traveling motorists. In curved sections, the outside edge of the road is superelevated above the centerline. Since the road is sloped down toward the inside...
    44 KB (5,775 words) - 00:45, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arroyo Seco Parkway
    used a design speed of 45 miles per hour (72 kilometres per hour), superelevating curves where necessary to accomplish this. (The road is now posted at...
    46 KB (5,053 words) - 08:26, 10 November 2024
  • track that can be raced on using a bicycle is a velodrome with four superelevated turns that are typical in most velodromes. Riders are not always traveling...
    4 KB (365 words) - 07:12, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palaeochannel
    floodplains, these conditions and frequent avulsions are correlated with superelevated alluvial ridges and river stages. The event or factor that can trigger...
    21 KB (2,884 words) - 19:20, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Santo Stefano (Genoa)
    would be baptized here. Santo Stefano is on a single nave, with a superelevated presbytery. Under the latter is the crypt, which would be the original...
    5 KB (435 words) - 11:27, 7 June 2024
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