roof comb

Examples of roof comb in the following topics:

• Architecture of the Maya

  • The roof of the temple was topped with a crest known as a roof comb, and its facade still retains much of its stucco sculpture.
  • Like many other buildings at the site, the Observation Tower exhibits a mansard roof.
  • The Palace's Observation Tower with mansard roof, Palenque, Mexico, Late Classic period

• Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms

  • Typical houses were circular and ranged from 15 to 45 feet in diameter, and their walls were made of paired posts that tilted outward and joined with other pieces of wood to form a cone-shaped roof.
  • The roof was then covered with bark.
  • They used bone and antler in small tools and in ornamental objects such as beads and combs.

• Thai Buddhist Architecture

  • Multiple roof tiers are an important element of the Thai temple—a technique reserved only for the roofs of temples, palaces, and important public buildings.
  • The use of multiple roof tiers is more aesthetic than functional.
  • Because temple halls are large, their roof areas are also quite large, and multiple tiers have the effect of lightening the roof's massive appearance.
  • Roofs of Thai temples are typically decorated with finials attached to the bargeboard, the long, thin panel on the edge of the roof at the gable ends.
  • The roofs of wats were commonly decorated with finials of mythical creatures.

• Tombs

  • These shifted to the use of royal mastabas: flat-roofed, rectangular structures made of stone or mud bricks that marked the burial site of many important Egyptians .
  • These usually consisted of everyday objects such as bowls, combs, and other trinkets, along with food.

• Van de Graff Generators

  • One comb is connected to the sphere, and another is connected to the ground.
  • Due to the electric field around the lower pulley, the belt receives negative charge as it passes the lower comb.
  • Electrons seep from the belt to the upper comb and then the terminal, leaving the belt positively charged and the terminal negatively charged.
  • The sphere acts as a Faraday shield, shielding the upper roller and comb from the electric field produced by charges on the outside of the sphere.

• Architecture of the Han Dynasty

  • Thatched or tiled roofs were supported by wooden pillars, since the addition of brick, rammed earth, or mud walls of these halls did not actually support the roof.
  • Molded designs usually decorated the ends of roof tiles, as seen in artistic models of buildings and in surviving tile pieces.
  • Even models of single-story farmhouses show a great amount of detail, including tiled roofs and courtyards.
  • Han models of water wells sometimes feature tiny tiled roofs supported by beams that house the rope pulley used for lifting a bucket.
  • Notice the stone-carved decorations of roof tile eaves, despite the fact that Han Dynasty stone que (part of the walled structures around tomb entrances) lacked wooden or ceramic components (but often imitated wooden buildings with ceramic roof tiles).

• Building efficiently

  • Consider installing a green roof on your building.
  • A green roof is an inexpensive and lightweight roofi ng system planted with heat-loving foliage.
  • The benefits of a green roof include a reduction in ultraviolet radiation (which helps prolong the life of the roof), increased energy efficiency for the building (green roofs provide excellent insulation properties), a decrease in rainwater runoff, and excellent noise reduction properties.
  • When used in conjunction with a system that collects and stores excess rainwater, green roofs can also reduce maintenance costs associated with standard roofs.
  • If installing a green roof is not possible, cover your roof with reflective material or solar panels.

• Agenda-Setting Theory

  • Max McCombs and Dr.
  • In the 1968 "Chapel Hill study," McCombs and Shaw demonstrated a strong correlation between what 100 residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, thought was the most important election issue and what the local and national news media reported was the most important issue.
  • By comparing the salience of issues in news content with the public's perceptions of the most important election issue, McCombs and Shaw determined the degree to which the media sways public opinion.

• Amnion Development

  • This cavity is roofed in by a single stratum of flattened, ectodermal cells called the amniotic ectoderm.
  • The continuity between the roof and the floor is established at the margin of the embryonic disk.

• Tonga

  • Traditional Tongan architecture, known as fale, consisted of a curved roof (branches lashed with sennit rope, or kafa, thatched with woven palm leaves) resting on pillars made of tree trunks.
  • Woven screens filled in the area between the ground and the edge of the roof.
  • If the winds threatened to shred the walls and overturn the roof, the inhabitants could chop down the pillars, so that the roof fell directly onto the ground.
  • Because the roof was curved, like a limpet shell, the wind tended to flow over it smoothly.