Age at Test (Days) Date Tested Air Cured Cubes Water Cured Cubes Water Cured Cylinder SSD Mass (kg) Ultimate Load (kN) Compressive Strength (N/mm2) SSD Mass (kg) Ultimate Load (kN) Compressive Strength (N/mm2) SSD Mass (kg) Ultimate Load (kN) Compressive Strength (N/mm2) 7 17 Jan 2.210 313.0 31.30 2.268 334.0 33.40 21 31 Jan 2.270 374.0 37.40 2.270 451.3 45.13 55 5 Mar 2.290 498.6 49.86 2.356 462.2 46.22 12.198 542.3 30.69 Age at Test (Days) Reading Air Cured Prism Water
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Pile Foundation Design: A Student Guide Ascalew Abebe & Dr Ian GN Smith School of the Built Environment‚ Napier University‚ Edinburgh (Note: This Student Guide is intended as just that - a guide for students of civil engineering. Use it as you see fit‚ but please note that there is no technical support available to answer any questions about the guide!) PURPOSE OF THE GUIDE There are many texts on pile foundations. Generally‚ experience shows us that undergraduates find most of these
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Kea‚ Cathy‚ Campbell-Whatley‚ Gloria. & Richards‚ Heraldo.: “Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy”. NCCRESt publications. (NationalCenter for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems) 2006. Practitioner Brief. Article focused on defining key challenges related to diversity in teacher education programmes and defines guidelines for culturally responsive curriculum. Findings were based on previous studies of number of researchers. Writers also
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There he goes‚ walking down the street with a sparkling 20 carat diamond stud on his ear. He has perfectly straight pretty white teeth. It appears that he just came back from the barber shop getting a new fade. Perhaps he has a doo rag under his sports cap‚ a fresh shirt over a clean beater that looks like it just got out of the dryer. His shoes are brand named and spotless. But then he turns around and all his hard work on looking good goes down the drain. His pants below his butt revealing the
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A free society dictates what they believe is morally right and wrong; the free society constructs a code of acceptable behavior formed around the beliefs of its members. Many people willingly choose to follow the societal rules mapped out before them simply because of their ability to classify right and wrong. Nevertheless‚ there are the few outliers that set aside the black-and-white good and bad distinction in a free society and pursue their own rules‚ frequently ending in jail time. Often times
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In Jared Diamonds book Collapse‚ he talks about different issues that can hurt the environment. These issues varied from environmental damage‚ climate change‚ hostile neighbors‚ and friendly trade partners‚ but most importantly is how society responds to the problem. Today a major problem that our society is facing is Electronic Waste. With technology becoming more advanced each year the demand for new products is increasing. Though this might seem good for the people‚ it actually is hurting are
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Blood Diamond vs. A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah’s autobiography is almost unique‚ as far as I can determine – perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century. This book tells us how a young boy was forced to become a soldier to preserve his life and live to tell his story. Although Beah was from an under developed nation‚ he had the dreams and thoughts of any normal teenager from the west. It is heartbreaking
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and Steel‚ author Jared Diamond centers his argument around the idea that “societies developed differently on different continents because of different continental environments” (Diamond‚ 9). Dissimilar to the prevailing belief that genetics play a role in determining societal development‚ Diamond argues that geographic factors and environmental influences substantially shape the distribution of wealth and power. J.R. McNeill’s article‚ “The World According to Diamond” correctly identifies the
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Noah Neerdaels Mr. Kelly AP World History November 24‚ 2014 Jared Diamond’s bestseller Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel has gathered lots of praise and popularity‚ but also has garnered lots of controversy and speculation. Diamond writes of how Europe came to dominate the world in expansion and conquest‚ while attempting to find the ultimate factors that caused their success. There are many historians who dispute his theory on the basis that he chooses certain snapshots
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the more unique ones is from Jared Diamond. He created the book “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” which was later turned into a TV miniseries. In it‚ Diamond travels around the world looking for an answer to a question that was asked by a New Guinean. Eventually‚ he turned to history. He looked at different societies and analyzed what caused them to be the way they were. Finally‚ he found an answer; geographic luck. In Episode 1 and 2 of “Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚” Jared Diamond addresses an important question
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