Temporary Structures and Cranes

Cranes of the World: 8. Cranes in Myth and Legend

Formation of temporary flagellar structures during insect organogenesis

Cilia and flagella are rare in nongerminal tissues of anthropods, and are generally thought to be restricted to sperm and sensory cells in insects (2). Whitten (5) has reported the presence of kinetosomes at the base of mitotrichia in the dipteran fly Sarcophaga bullata, but reports no evidence of the organization of fibrous elements characteristic of cilia and or flagella. During an ultrastruc...

Control of Shipboard Cranes

We propose a new shipboard crane configuration for offloading cargo in open seas. We show that the “Maryland Rigging” crane of ship’s configuration, used in association with a friction control mechanism, provides a very effective method for reducing load pendulation caused by the motion of the crane in the roll direction. The effectiveness of the control technique is obtained by comparing the p...

Natural Fertility in Whooping Cranes and Mississippi Sandhill Cranes at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

The first fertile whooping crane (Grus americana; WC) egg produced through natural breeding at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (patuxent) was laid in 1991. Prior to that time, all fertile whooping crane eggs were the result of artificial insemination. Since 1991, eight different whooping crane pairs at Patuxent have produced fertile eggs through natural breeding. Mean fertility averages over ...

Dynamic Analysis of Cranes

The objective of this paper is to analyze the crane structures as a step to study their effects on the structures working integrally with them. The interaction between cranes and those structures has dominant effects on the global system behavior. Crane structures may have many forms of space structures. It is not logical or economical to perform experimental modal analysis to all of them to in...