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Storm Water Management Model
The Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) is an open source EPA program that simulates the hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality of urban runoff and drainage systems worldwide.
Stormwater
Stormwater is rain and snowmelt that flows over impervious surfaces such as paved streets and rooftops instead of soaking into the ground, picking up pollutants and stressing urban streams.
Stormwater best management practice
A stormwater best management practice (BMP) is a structure or procedure that reduces the volume, rate, or pollutant load of runoff, through facilities like detention ponds and source controls.
Story Bridge
The Story Bridge, Brisbane's steel cantilever bridge across the Brisbane River, links Kangaroo Point with Fortitude Valley; opened in 1940, it remains Australia's longest cantilever bridge.
Stowe House
Stowe House is a Grade I listed country house in Buckinghamshire, England, built for the Temple family from 1677, seat of the Temple-Grenville family for over 300 years.
Strait of Gibraltar crossing
The Strait of Gibraltar crossing, also known as the Gibraltar bridge, is a proposed rail tunnel linking Spain and Morocco, planned at about 42 km long.
Strait of Messina Bridge
The Strait of Messina Bridge is a planned suspension bridge linking Messina in Sicily with Calabria, designed to carry the world's longest suspension span at 3,300 meters.
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral, also known as Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, is the Catholic cathedral of Strasbourg, France, built of pink Vosges sandstone from 1015 to 1439 with a single 142-meter spire.
Stratford Hall
Stratford Hall is a historic plantation house in Westmoreland County, Virginia, built in the 1730s by Thomas Lee and best known as Robert E. Lee's birthplace.
Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne, also called Art Moderne, is a late phase of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s with rounded corners, horizontal lines, and glass block.
Street
A street is a public way in a town or city that provides space for movement and serves as the setting for buildings, commerce, and public life.
Stressed ribbon bridge
The stressed ribbon bridge, or catenary bridge, is a tension structure like a suspension bridge with the cables embedded in a thin deck following a catenary arc.
Strip mall
A strip mall, also called a mini mall, is a row of connected shops with customer parking directly before the storefronts and no enclosed walkways between stores.
Strong column-weak beam
Strong column-weak beam is a seismic design principle requiring columns to be stronger than the beams at a joint, so beams yield first in earthquakes.
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization is a peer-reviewed Springer engineering journal founded in 1989 as Structural Optimization; it covers structural, fluid, thermal, and electromagnetic optimization and is ISSMO's official journal.
Structural Engineering International
Structural Engineering International (SEI) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal covering structural engineering, founded in 1991 to bridge professional practice and academic research, published by Taylor & Francis for IABSE.
Structural glass
Structural glass is glass used as a load-bearing material in buildings, appearing in beams, columns, floors, stair treads, and facades that carry loads rather than merely fill openings.
Structural health monitoring
Structural health monitoring, known for bridges as bridge health monitoring, uses sensor networks to detect, locate, and quantify damage in structures such as bridges and buildings.
Structural integrity and failure
Structural integrity and failure covers how structures such as buildings, bridges, and dams carry their intended loads, absorb local damage, and fail when that ability is lost.
Structural load
A structural load is a force, deformation, or other action applied to a structure that its members must be designed to carry, including dead, live, and environmental loads.
Structural number
The structural number (SN) is an index in flexible pavement design expressing the structural strength required to carry design traffic over the subgrade soil, developed in 1961.
Structural reliability analysis
Structural reliability analysis is a family of probabilistic methods that quantifies the probability a structure fails under uncertain loads, material properties, and model errors, using the reliability index.
Structure
A structure, in engineering, is an arrangement of connected members such as beams, columns, cables, arches, and trusses that supports loads and transfers them safely to the ground.
Strukton
Strukton is a Dutch construction and engineering group headquartered in Utrecht, founded in 1921 as the railways' construction arm, that builds and maintains rail, road, water, and energy infrastructure.
Stucco
Stucco is an exterior plaster, applied in two or three wet coats onto masonry or over lath, serving as both a weather-resistant finish and a decorative surface.
Stud wall
A stud wall is a wall built from a frame of evenly spaced vertical studs covered with drywall, the most common way to build a wall in modern construction.
Studio apartment
A studio apartment, also known as a studio flat or efficiency apartment, is a dwelling of one main room combining sleeping, living, and cooking, with a separate bathroom.
Stupa
A stupa, also known as a chorten or dagoba, is a dome-shaped Buddhist monument built to hold relics of the Buddha or his teachings, spreading from India across Asia.
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, also called StuyTown, is a pair of adjoining middle-income apartment complexes on Manhattan's East Side, opened by MetLife in 1947 and home to about 30,000 residents.
Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts
Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts is an 1860 and 1863 two-volume treatise on architecture and the applied arts by German architect Gottfried Semper.