1719 results about "Vertical load" patented technology

The invention is a novel moment-resistant building column insert system for distributing lateral and vertical loads between the column-beam and column-foundation connections. Loads are distributed between the column and beam using a column insert, nut plates and beam end plates incorporated to beam-ends. The column insert is hollow and similar cross-section shape to the building column for inserting there to. The column, column insert, nut plates and endplates have patterns of mounting holes for receiving mounting bolts tightened to nuts held by nut plates. Loads are distributed between the column and foundation using a base plate, column insert, and insert plates integrated with anchor bolts, nuts and washers in a concrete foundation. The base plate having mounting holes is incorporated to the building column bottom end to receive the plurality of anchor bolts there through for fixedly tightening as an exposed end of the column insert fits in the column.

The invention discloses a true triaxial loading and unloading test device for large-size bedded pressure-bearing rock and a testing method. The device comprises a confining pressure loading module, a sample storage and water outlet module, a confined water loading module, a load loading module and a signal collecting and processing system, wherein the confining pressure loading module comprises two horizontal loading and unloading systems which are independent and perpendicular to each other and is used for performing horizontal load loading and unloading on the wrapped sample storage and water outlet module; the confined water loading module is located at the bottom of the sample storage and water outlet module and is used for performing confined water loading and unloading on the bottom of the bedded rock; the load loading module is located at the top of the sample storage and water outlet module and is used for performing vertical load loading and unloading on the top of the bedded rock; the signal collecting and processing system is used for collecting and analyzing signals in a test process. The test device realizes the true triaxial test of the bedded rock through four independent loading and unloading systems, truly simulates three-way anisobaric stress state of the coal-series bedded pressure-bearing rock and is more true and more reliable than a conventional triaxial test.

The invention discloses a device and method for measuring swelling representation parameters of swelling soil. The device for measuring the swelling representation parameters of the swelling soil comprises a sample container, a soil body permeation coefficient measurement part, a jacking cylinder applying a vertical load, a dial indicator for testing a swelling soil sample to generate vertical deformation, and a deformation pipe used for testing water seepage coefficients of the swelling soil. The method comprises the steps of: immersing the swelling soil sample into water for swelling stably, measuring the water seepage coefficients; and then electrically heating the swelling soil sample to ensure that the swelling soil sample is dehydrated and contracted stably, and measuring the permeation coefficients of the swelling soil. Therefore, the invention can be used for measuring water seepage and permeation coefficients of the swelling soil in a repeatedly-swelling deformation process by controlling temperature and water content changes of the swelling soil sample in the sample container so as to reflect the change of a fracture and a soil body structure inside the soil body of the swelling soil in the repeatedly-swelling deformation process. In addition, the sample container of the device is connected with an external pipeline through each joint arranged on the sample container, therefore, data measurement in an experiment process is facilitated, and measurement precision of data is increased.

A box, preferably made from a unitary blank of material. The box has four interconnected sidewalls defining an open storage area that has a generally rectangular prism shape. Each sidewall defines at least a triple thickness of the material. The preferred material is corrugated paper or plastic.

An onboard system for determining the instantaneous weight and balance of an aircraft simply, reliably, accurately, and requiring a minimum amount of calibration includes a memory for storing previously determined breakout friction data of the aircraft's landing gear shock struts, sensors for sensing the pressures in the struts, the vertical loads exerted by the landing gear on the aircraft, and the attitude of the aircraft relative to the horizontal during loading or unloading thereof, and a computer for computing the vertical load in each of the landing gears from the stored calibration breakout friction data and the shock strut pressures, landing gear vertical loads and aircraft attitude sensed during the loading or unloading. The computer then computes the gross weight of the aircraft and the location of its center of gravity (CG) using the computed vertical loads in the landing gears.

A direct shear tester for both portable field test and indoor test and a sampling and testing method are provided. The tester comprises a sampling device, a portable vertical load system and a horizontal shear system. The testing method comprises burying a rigid frame together with a cruciform shear frame in the soil of a place to be test, digging out the whole soil containing the rigid frame and the cruciform shear frame to obtain an integrated sample with less interference, placing and fixing the integrated sample in a rigid frame base on a box-shaped frame, applying a vertical force by using the portable vertical load system on the box-shaped frame, and measuring the strength of the sample by using the shear frame. During the test process, the volume change of the sample in the vertical direction is not limited. The tester has simple structure, easy operation and good portability. The testing method employs flexible tension shear mode instead of the rigid top-bunt shear mode, overcomes the friction and sampling problems, and avoids the vertical pressure offset during the test process by using the portable vertical loading system, thereby increasing the test accuracy.

The invention provides a plane type ejection launch carrier-borne aircraft front undercarriage static force test loading apparatus. The apparatus comprises a plane type test bench rack, an undercarriage, a lateral load loading device, a course load loading device, a vertical load loading device, an ejection load loading device, a hamper load loading device and a mooring load loading device. Based on a conventional loading technology, a set of loading equipment capable of applying ejecting, hampering and mooring loads is designed, and the vertical, course, lateral, ejection, hampering and mooring load loading of an ejection launch carrier-borne aircraft is finished on a single test bench, no replacement of tools is needed, all the loading points are fixed in the frame type test bench, a self-balance bearing system is formed when loading is performed, the bearing of the test bench is quite small, the fixation is facilitated, and the precision is high.

A rapidly-erectable lightweight load resisting system for the construction of buried arched bridges, tunnels or underground bunkers, has a plurality of lightweight arched tubular support members which are formed of a fiber reinforced polymer material and are substantially oriented in a vertical plane. The lightweight tubular support members are connected by at least one or more lateral force resisting members which are positioned in a direction perpendicular to the vertical plane of the tubular support members, and which are capable of transferring vertical loads to the tubular support members and of providing lateral-load capacity to the load resisting system. The tubular support members are fitted with one or more holes near the top which allows them to be filled with a suitable material to provide additional strength or stiffness.

A key-board type input mechanism suitable for inputting large quantity of data is provided to a portable information technology device having a pen-input type display device. A keyboard (33 or 35) of the present invention comprises a key top panel portion (12 or 17) on which a plurality of input key portions (12a or 18) that are pressed down when carrying out a key input are integrally formed, a coordinate position information generating portion (13) and contact portions (16 or 19) for changing loads generated by pressing each input key portion of the key top panel portion down into a vertical load, a load distribution portion (14 or 20) for distributing unnecessary loads other than the vertical load changed by the coordinate position information generating portion and the contact portions, by deformation under a pressure. The key top panel portion, coordinate position information generating portion, contact portion, and load distribution portion are layered.

Standard test methods for determining one-dimensional consolidation properties of soils using incremental loading in accordance with ASTM D2435, or AASHTO 216, and of those of other international and organizations, do not accurately predict the values of vertical settlement, coefficients of consolidation in horizontal and vertical directions, and modulus of elasticity in vertical direction, because fixed ring used in these tests do not allow horizontal settlement and dissipation of excess pore-water pressures in horizontal direction, whereas, in field, under application of a vertical load, both horizontal and vertical settlements occur along with dissipation of excess pore-water pressures in both vertical and horizontal directions. To overcome this more than 100 year old problem, the inventor (Dr. Ramesh Chandra Gupta, Ph. D., P.E.) has invented a test device for determining three-dimensional consolidation properties of soils, using a flexible ring which permits development of horizontal and vertical displacements, and dissipation of excess pore-water pressures in both horizontal and vertical directions, along with increased lateral resistance as takes place in field at any depth in a soil deposit when vertical load at the surface is applied.

The flexible ring consists of filter fabric around the soil specimen, rubber membrane around the filter fabric, circular segmental metal plates around the membrane and elastomeric rubber bands or spring loaded jacket around the segmental plates, and allows horizontal and vertical displacements, dissipation of pore-water pressures in horizontal and vertical directions to take place with increased lateral resistance with each increment of vertical load like those in the field. Thus new test device simulates field condition to allow accurate determination of three-dimensional consolidation properties of soils (such as settlements, coefficients of consolidation in horizontal and vertical directions, and modulus of elasticity).

For this new test device, conventional incremental consolidation frame or triaxial type chamber system either with the triaxial loading system or modified to adapt to incremental consolidation frame, shall be used to perform three-dimensional consolidation tests.

A new and novel device for controlling a steering characteristic of a vehicle such as automobile so as to enhance an effect of suppressing a change in a behavior of the vehicle body due to a difference between driving and braking forces on the left and right wheels is characterized in that the device makes an amount of controlling the steering characteristic smaller as an index indicating an amount of a shift of vertical loads between the left and right wheels is increased. The steering characteristic is modified through controlling steering assist torque or a steering angle of the steered wheels. The steering assist by the steering control device is fully effective when the vehicle is running on a straight road having surfaces of different frictional coefficients while less effective on a curved road having a uniform frictional surface, preventing undesirable and unexpected modification of the steering characteristic during turning of the vehicle.

The invention discloses a negative pressure osmosis test device which comprises a base, a soil sample ring, a porous permeable stone, a water storage container, an electronic balance, a vacuum pump, a pressure gauge and a sealed container, wherein the soil sample is arranged in the cylindrical soil sample ring, the upper end of a sample is connected with the water storage container, and the bottom end of the sample is connected with the sealed container and the vacuum pump; a pressure difference is formed at two ends of the soil sample through vacuum-pumping, and water seeps in the soil sample under the action of the pressure difference; an osmotic coefficient of the soil sample can be obtained through calculating the amount of water passing though the soil sample in unit time; a load applying piston at the upper end of the sample can apply vertical load so as to solidify the soil; osmosis tests of different solidifying pressures can be performed to simulate the seepage of the practical field soil under different stress environments; the osmosis test can be directly performed on the prepared soil sample. Therefore, the test device has the advantages of simple structure, convenience in use, quick and convenient test, and obviously shortened test time, and is particularly suitable for the osmosis test of low-osmosis soil samples.

An air spring device includes an air spring (4) wherein gas is filled in an interior defined by an upper face plate (1), a lower face plate (2), as well as a cylindrical flexible diaphragm body (3) having opposite ends gas-tightly connected to the upper and lower face plates (1, 2), respectively. Between the lower face plate (2) and a lower supporting plate (8) spaced downward therefrom, a shear spring means (5) and a compression spring means (6) are series-connected, which are made mainly of rubber material. When a vertical load is applied to the air spring device, the shear spring means (5) and the compression spring means (6) are subjected mainly to shearing deformation and compressive deformation, respectively. The air spring device further includes an abutment member (10) allowing the compression spring means (6) to support the load in place of the shear spring means (5), after the deformation amount of the shear spring means (5) reaches a predetermined level.

The invention discloses a multi-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics test platform which comprises a double-rod vertical loading hydraulic cylinder with an axial force sensor, a measurement and control system, a roller, a rotating disk, a position servo hydraulic cylinder, a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart platform, an outer rotor motor, a six-force-component sensor and the like. The use of the multi-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics test platform can simulate the changes of geometrical shape and mechanical properties of a road pavement and the incentive role of the changes to wheels, the exertion of any one-dimensional or multi-dimensional force in six-dimensional pavement incentive force on the wheels can simultaneously carry out pavement simulation, static load simulation and dynamic load simulation, and the wheels can change the direction relative to the roller, thereby realizing the simulation of large tire sideslip angle caused by turning of a vehicle, being capable of measuring steering angles of the wheels and six-dimensional force born on the wheels, carrying out better simulation and testing on the practical driving working status of the vehicle, realizing the comprehensive research of the multi-degree-of-freedom vehicle dynamics and providing the vehicle dynamics test platform with more excellent performances.

A mobility assistance apparatus for use by a person as a walking aid, e.g. a cane, crutch, or walker, improves the mobility of the person by providing a loading response shock absorption which stores energy and releases the energy to generate propulsive force to aid mobility. A device of the apparatus for ground engagement has a monolithically formed extrusion with foot, ankle and shank portions with improved spring rate gain. An upwardly extending, vertical load bearing support of the apparatus is connected to the device and flexes to absorb shock and store energy and then release it in ambulation to aid mobility. A set of various terrain foot slipper socks with different distal surface configurations for ice, snow and mud can be selectively used on the foot to enhance safety.

A building roof fascia and coping connector arrangement includes a cleat having a planar wall, a spacer extending inwardly from the planar wall for spacing the planar wall away from a building side when the cleat is secured thereto and having an opening permitting air flow therethrough and between the planar wall and the building, an upper securement assembly at an upper end of the planar wall, and a lower securement assembly at a lower end of the planar wall, with coping secured across an outer surface of the planar wall and connected with the upper and lower securement assemblies; and a vertical load bearing member seating on the building roof when the cleat is secured to the building side, while being connected with an upper end of the cleat to transfer a load from the cleat and the coping to the building roof.

The invention discloses a moment distribution method for a self-adaptive cruise control system of a four-wheeled independent drive electric automobile. An ideal acceleration command is calculated through an upper layer control method and input in a lower layer control method, the lower layer control method is used for calculating the ideal drive moment according to the ideal acceleration command calculated through the upper layer control method and distributing the moment to four wheels, and the problem that a traditional self-adaptive cruise control system cannot be directly applied to the four-wheeled independent drive electric automobile is solved. Smoothly-restrained model prediction control is adopted in the upper layer control method, the practicality of the self-adaptive cruise control system is improved, and the requirements for safety, comfort and economical efficiency of a driver are met. Fuzzy control is adopted in the lower layer control method, so that the ideal longitudinal moment is obtained, the moment is distributed to the four wheels according to the vertical load proportions, and the robustness and practicality of the self-adaptive cruise control system of the four-wheeled independent drive electric automobile are improved while the dynamic quality of the four-wheeled independent drive electric automobile is guaranteed.

A method of controlling a washing machine is provided. A first laundry load is first detected based on a rotational property of a pulsator. A second laundry load is detected based on a property that varies in accordance with a vertical load applied from a tub. Finally, it is determined if laundry loaded in the drum is in a dry state or a wet state by comparing the first laundry load with the second laundry load.