The growth of roller-compacted concrete pavement use in cold climate regions often is impeded by concerns regarding its ability to resist frost attack. Most published laboratory test results have indicated that the frost resistance and particularly the deicer salt-scale resistance of RCC are not always satisfactory. However, long-term field performance indicates that non-air entrainment RCC can be quite resistant to frost action. The report provides a comprehensive review on the current practices and recent developments in material selection and aggregate gradation, mixture design methods, production process and placement techniques. Improved construction techniques and recent developments in mixture design methods have resulted in stronger more durable RCC. Data shows that as little as 1.5% of spherical air bubbles can have a beneficial influence on the frost resistance durability of RCC. Test results indicate that ASTM C 1262 appears to be a reliable method of assessing the frost durability of RCC.
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Building Successful Construction Alliances: Successful Partnering for Construction Firms
Author: Roberto Pietroforte | Size: 1.85 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: E & FN SPON, An Imprint of Chapman & Hall | Year: 7 Nov 1996 | pages: 149 | ISBN: ISBN-10: 0419219803 ; ISBN-13: 978-0419219804
1.Product Description
Building International Construction Alliances is the first book to address the challenges of international cooperation between medium-sized construction firms. By presenting a case study of the historical evolution of Fratelli Dioguardi S.p.A. and Beacon Construction Company, and representative projects, Roberto Pietroforte offers the reader an understanding of
* the way successful firms adjust their strategic, organizational and operational settings to the changes in their market environments
* the importance and advantages of international cooperation among medium-sized construction firms
* the necessary analytical background for developing long-term collaboration.
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Key features:
Clear, concise text, supplemented with comprehensive illustrations.Includes references to current Building and Construction Regulations, British and European Standards.
New chapter on Access and Facilities for the Disabled, as applied to industrial and commercial buildings.
Updated information on the aspects of higher energy efficient standards.
Considers construction processes and procedures to include site works, plant and equipment, sub-structures and temporary work, superstructure, demolition, framed buildings, fire protection and means for escape, formwork, pre-stressing, internal components and external works.
New illustrations added and existing illustrations updated to reflect established techniques.
Recommended for students on higher education certificate, diploma and degree courses in all construction and building related programmes of study.
Author info: Roy Chudley was formerly senior lecturer in building technology at Guildford College of Technology. Roger Greeno is a consultant, examiner and established author of many construction papers and publications.
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This book collects the proceedings of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2008 conference held in Lyon, France. Contributed papers by over 40 researchers representing the state of the art in parallel CFD and architecture from Asia, Europe, and North America examine major developments in (1) block-structured grid and boundary methods to simulate flows over moving bodies, (2) specific methods for optimization in Aerodynamics Design, (3) innovative parallel algorithms and numerical solvers, such as scalable algebraic multilevel preconditioners and the acceleration of iterative solutions, (4) software frameworks and component architectures for parallelism, (5) large scale computing and parallel efficiencies in the industrial context, (6) lattice Boltzmann and SPH methods, and (7) applications in the environment, biofluids, and nuclear engineering.
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This state of the art report covers the properties of concrete containing CSF in the fresh state, during hardening, and in the hardened state, with the emphasis on durability properties. The review is based on published reports, of which approximately 400 are available, the majority of Norwegian origin and written in Norwegian. Most of the reports contain original laboratory data, some are review articles covering limited topics, and a few are concerned with laboratory investigations of concrete from old structures.
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I am looking for two standards concerning testing of natural stone, as follows:
1. BS EN 12371:2010 Natural stone test methods. Determination of frost resistance
2. BS EN 12372:2006 Natural stone test methods. Determination of flexural strength under concentrated load
If someone of you have one of them or both, please, let's share them with me.
Thanks in advance.
Tests and mechanics model for concrete-filled SHS stub columns, columns and beam-columns
Lin-Hai Han(China), Xiao-Ling Zhao(Australia) and Zhong Tao(China)
Steel & Composite Structures Volume 1, Number 1, March 2001
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Seismic Retrofit of Circular Bridge Columns for Enhanced Flexural Performance
Author(s): Yuk Hon ChaiI, M. J. Nigel Priestley, and Frieder Seible
Publication: ACI Structural Journal
Volume: 88 (1991)
Issue: 5
Pages: 572-584
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Steel Jacket Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns for Enhanced Shear Strength-Part 1: Theoretical Considerations and Test Design
Author(s): M. J. Nigel Priestley, Frieder Seible, Yan Xiao, and Ravindra Verma
Publication: ACI Structural Journal
Volume: 91 (1994)
Issue: 4
Pages: 394-405
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Steel Jacket Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns for Enhanced Shear Strength--Part 2: Test Results and Comparison With Theory
Author(s): M. J. Nigel Priestley, Frieder Seible, Yan Xiao, an dRavindra Verma
Publication: ACI Structural Journal
Volume: 91 (1994)
Issue: 5
Pages: 537-551
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American Architecture, Second Edition (World of Art)
Author: David P. Handlin | Size: 152.1 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Thames & Hudson | Year: 2nd edition February 23, 2004 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0500203733, ISBN-13: 978-0500203736
America has always presented a unique challenge to architects: should they emulate the Old World or respond to the demands of the New? David Handlin tells the complex story with lucidity and insight. Almost from its seventeenth-century beginnings, American architecture was subject to two apparently contradictory processes--the practical and the grandiose. The first comes through in the vernacular buildings of rural America, the innovations of Jefferson, Bulfinch's fine civic buildings, the offices and factories of the Industrial Age, and the comfortable domestic tradition that lies behind the houses of the Greene Brothers and Frank Lloyd Wright. The second is seen in the unprecedented daring of the Chicago School--great engineers like Adler united with great designers like Sullivan; in the majestic state capitols, exhibition halls, and public buildings by firms such as McKim, Mead & White; in the luxury of Fifth Avenue mansions; and in the exuberance of commercial Manhattan. The revised edition ends with a lively account of recent developments--virtual architecture, the revival of historical styles (including modernism), the thirst for striking originality, and a new interest in the local, with figures including Stern, Meier, Gehry, and Mockbee. About the Author
David P. Handlin taught at Harvard University and is a practicing architect in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Scanned book, Double page on one side, Very good quality
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All cities are vulnerable. They have economically, socially, institutionally vulnerable urban space.
In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such as slums or areas occupied by squatters. At present, slum dwellers comprise one-third of the world's urban population of 3 billion, and it has been estimated that the number of slum dwellers will double in the next 30 years if no effective action is taken. Improvement of vulnerable urban areas, which is one of the targets of Millennium Development Goals, is thus an urgent worldwide challenge in our age.
This book combines empirical and comparative analysis of improvement of vulnerable urban space and post-disaster rehabilitation in Asian and Latin American countries. The discussions presented herein will serve as a useful, thought-provoking source for researchers, practitioners and students, especially for those who are working to alleviate the vulnerability of urban space.
2.Table of contents
Preface Tetsuo Kidokoro
List of Contributors
Part I. Introduction
1. Community-based Approach for Improving Vulnerable Urban Space
Tetsuo Kidokoro
2. The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters
Banasopit Mekvichai
3. Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting for Existing Low Earthquake Resistant Structures: The Most Important Issue for Earthquake Disaster Reduction
Kimiro Meguro
Part II. Improvement of Urban Vulnerability
4. Growing Vulnerability Crisis 'Will Slums Ever Reduce or Improve?': A Case from India
Vijay Neekhra
5. Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks
Francesco Ambrosi Filardi
6. Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory
Juan Ricardo Mejia B.
7. From Wood Huts to Buildings of Seven Floors: An Analysis of the Process of Housing Production in the Slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a Fifty-Year Period
Geronimo Leitao
8. The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo
Hitoshi Nakamura
9. Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental Infrastructure and Housing Provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region
Vilas Nitivattananon and Chalika Noonin
Part III. Management of Natural Disasters
10. Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts
Paola Mayorca
11. Improving Vulnerable Urban Space in Postdisaster in Yogyakarta and Central Java, Indonesia: Participatory and Comprehensive Approach
Suprayoga Hadi
12. Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake
Laretna T. Adishakti
13. A Review of the 921 Post-earthquake Community Rehabilitation of the Urban Disaster Area in Taiwan
Kuang-Hui Peng and Yao-Chi Kuo
14. Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area
Ayse Sema Kubat, Engin Eyuboglu, Ozhan Ertekin and Firat Sari
15. Structural Viewpoint
Mikio Koshihara
16. Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo
Takaaki Kato
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