Patent classifications
E04H2015/204
Air beam system for an air beam structure
A tethermast and frag wall includes a fabric device having a fill volume fillable with a fill material on a flexible or compliant mast system. The fill volume may be a chambered curtain. The tethermast and frag wall is self supporting, easily deployed, and may be used in connection with a structure or may be deployed stand-alone. A tether system for an air beam structure utilizing a flexible tethermast, an external frag wall or frag curtain, soft couplings, air beam slings, or combinations thereof to reduce the effects of pressure waves, such as blast waves, onto and into an air beam structure and any inhabitants.
TEMPORARY MAINTENANCE ENCLOSURES AND METHODS OF MAINTAINING TURBINE BLADES
A temporary maintenance enclosure for the maintenance of at least part of a turbine blade, said enclosure comprises a number of side walls which substantially surround the circumference of a blade in need of maintenance; and a roof extending from said side walls towards said blade; wherein said roof comprises an aperture through which said blade is received.
Pneumatic structure and associated production method
The present invention relates to a pneumatic structure (10) comprising an inextensible body (12) defining at least a network of internal cavities (14), each cavity having a closed contour in at least one section of the cavity Each cavity being suitable for being pressurized so as to change the inextensible body from a rest configuration to at least one pressurized configuration, Inextensible body having, in each pressurized configuration, a macroscopic metric different from its macroscopic metric in the rest configuration, Each cavity being formed of at least two substantially rectilinear channels, each channel being fluidly connected to at least one of the other channels, the two said channels forming a heading change angle, Each cavity comprising at least one non-zero heading change angle, in particular at least three non-zero heading change angles.
Intermodal-container-based factory
An intermodal-container-based factory for manufacturing building construction components is disclosed. The factory includes a plurality of intermodal containers that have been converted into specialized workstations and arranged into one or more assembly lines. Each workstation includes manufacturing equipment permanently mounted within an intermodal container, where the equipment is configured to fabricate a particular type of building component such as windows, doors, walls, plumbing modules, aluminum panels, or structural frames. The assembly lines are configured to produce different building components in a sequential process, receiving raw materials at a first container, processing intermediate parts through subsequent containers, and outputting completed building components at a final container for installation in a building under construction.