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  2. Bank vault - Wikipedia

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    The finished vault panels, door, and lock assembly are transported to the bank construction site. The vault manufacturer's workers then place the panels enclosed in steel at the designated spots and weld them together. The vault manufacturer may also supply an alarm system, which is installed at the same time.

  3. Time-delay combination locks - Wikipedia

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    Time-delay combination locks are frequently incorporated into money safes as an armed robbery deterrent. In many instances, time-delay combination locks are also equipped with a duress code which may be entered to activate the time delay whilst sending a silent alarm to a monitoring centre.

  4. Nondestructive testing - Wikipedia

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    Normally they work following specific work instructions for testing procedures and rejection criteria. Level 2 are engineers or experienced technicians who are able to set up and calibrate testing equipment, conduct the inspection according to codes and standards (instead of following work instructions) and compile work instructions for Level 1 ...

  5. Barrel vault - Wikipedia

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    A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are typically circular in shape, lending a semi-cylindrical appearance to the total design.

  6. Centring - Wikipedia

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    Centring [1], centre [2], centering [3] [4], or center [5] is a type of falsework: the temporary structure upon which the stones of an arch or vault are laid during construction. Until the keystone is inserted an arch has no strength and needs the centring to keep the voussoirs in their correct relative positions.

  7. Guastavino tile - Wikipedia

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    Guastavino vaulting is a technique for constructing robust, self-supporting arches and architectural vaults using interlocking terracotta tiles and layers of mortar to form a thin skin, with the tiles following the curve of the roof as opposed to horizontally (), or perpendicular to the curve (as in Roman vaulting).

  8. Safe-cracking - Wikipedia

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    Manipulation procedures vary, but all rely on exploiting mechanical imperfections in the lock to open it, and, if desired, recover its combination for future use. Similar damage-free bypass can also be achieved by using a computerized auto-dialer or manipulation robot in a so-called brute-force attack .

  9. Post and lintel - Wikipedia

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    Post-and-lintel construction is one of four ancient structural methods of building, the others being the corbel, arch-and-vault, and truss. [ 1 ] A noteworthy example of a trabeated system is in Volubilis , from the Roman era, where one side of the Decumanus Maximus is lined with trabeated elements, while the opposite side of the roadway is ...