Automation is being increasingly explored as a possible solution for safely increasing productivity in structural steelwork erection. A piece of automation equipment such as a robotic crane has no intrinsic knowledge of the steel erection process it automates. Thus, geometric and spatial information about a steel member and the motion sequences that must be executed to move that component from ...

This article presents information on employment and payroll generated per unit volume of timber or wood fiber processed by the various manufacturing sectors of Montana's forest products industry for 19871989. Average employment ranged from a high of 117 workers per million cubic feet (mmcf) of wood fiber processed at house log plants, to a low of 12 workers per mmcf at stud mills. Employment-co...

Education is by nature a process of change and growth. “Learning” implies movement from one status to another, “before knowing” “now knowing.” Longitudinal research, which involves the stud...

The design of upholstered sofa frames to meet the General Service Administration (GSA) performance test regimen requires that analytical method and design loads be available. A simplified analysis method using beam models to analyze and calculate bending moments of critical structural members in a three-dimensional sofa frame was explored. The GSA performance test regimen load schedules were ap...

Steel studs are an inevitable part of drywall construction as they lightweight and offer the required structural stability. However, act sound bridges between plasterboards, reducing overall insulation wall. Overcoming this often calls for wider cavity walls complex stud decoupling fixtures that increase installation cost while floor area. As alternative approach, research reveals potential per...

A total synthesis of the cyanobacterial natural product nostodione A is reported involving a convergent, diversity-oriented route, enabling the assembly of a mini-library of structural analogues. The first single crystal X-ray structural determination on a member of this series is reported along with SAR studies identifying potent inhibitors of invasion and replication of the parasitic protozoa...