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Index Terms Links<br />

Reactors, current-limiting 15.25<br />

Rebars (see Steel reinforcement)<br />

Reciprocal theorem 5.73 5.74<br />

Rectifiers 15.10<br />

Reflectance 15.49<br />

Refrigerant 2.17 13.6<br />

Refrigeration:<br />

chilled-water 13.70 13.71<br />

direct-expansion 13.69 13.70<br />

(See also Air conditioners)<br />

Refuge areas 3.30 3.44<br />

Registers 13.6<br />

Relaxation 4.60 4.61<br />

Relays, protective 15.25 15.26<br />

Relief 11.51<br />

Resilience, modulus of 5.23 5.149<br />

Resistance:<br />

electrical 15.2<br />

thermal 13.6 13.19<br />

Resistivity, thermal 13.6<br />

Resonance 5.157<br />

Return 11.51<br />

Reveal 11.51<br />

Richter scale 3.12 3.13<br />

Ridging 11.51<br />

Rigid frames:<br />

bracing of (see Bracing)<br />

defined 1.12 3.7 5.102 5.107<br />

drift of:<br />

calculations of 5.94<br />

limitations on 3.7 3.13 3.14 5.181<br />

restriction of 7.47<br />

ductile 3.14<br />

purposes of 1.12 3.7<br />

steel:<br />

base hinges in 7.27 7.28<br />

characteristics of 7.26<br />

erection of 7.28<br />

knee shear in 7.63<br />

splices in 7.29<br />

stresses in 3.7<br />

tied 7.28<br />

uncertainties in analysis of 5.94 5.95 5.97 5.98<br />

(See also Beams, continuous; fixed-end,<br />

Frames, continuous)<br />

Rigidity, modulus of (See also Stiffness) 5.21<br />

Risers 16.7 16.9<br />

Risk:<br />

defined 3.1<br />

management of 3.1<br />

(See also <strong>Building</strong>s, hazards to)

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