kinds of avalanches; slab and loose snow. Loose snow are minor and usually never exceed 20 miles per hour. While slab avalanches are the destructive and deadly mountain slides. It is not uncommon for one of these to destroy a small town or forest. Since loose snow avalanches aren’t very dangerous‚ I will discuss slab avalanches. The fundamentals of how these snow masses occur‚ what to look for when testing and just all-together prevention. The basic chemistry behind a slab avalanche is when one
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location of all joints is required to be known in advance of the initial pours. If the initial joint placement is correct‚ the extension of the same joint lines throughout any adjacent pavements is done. "Dead ending" of joints in the middle of adjacent slabs is avoided whenever possible to prevent the risk of reflective cracking. An example of a well planned joint design is shown in Figure 7-1. The joints in this diagram are continuous from edge of pavement to edge of pavement. Also‚ the joints in the
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Transfer Q.1 The slab shown in the figure is embedded on five sides in insulation materials. The sixth side is exposed to an ambient temperature through a heat transfer coefficient. Heat is generated in the slab at the rate of 1.0 kW/m3. The thermal conductivity of the slab is 0.2 W/m-K. (a) Solve for the temperature distribution in the slab‚ noting any assumptions you must make. Be careful to clearly identify the boundary conditions. (b) Evaluate T at the front and back faces of the slab. (c) Show that
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ELECTROSTATICS - I – Electrostatic Force 1. Frictional Electricity 2. Properties of Electric Charges 3. Coulomb’s Law 4. Coulomb’s Law in Vector Form 5. Units of Charge 6. Relative Permittivity or Dielectric Constant 7. Continuous Charge Distribution i) Linear Charge Density ii) Surface Charge Density iii) Volume Charge Density Frictional Electricity: Frictional electricity is the electricity produced by rubbing two suitable bodies and transfer of electrons from one body to other. + ++
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developed through the fundamental theorem if calculus individually by Newton and Leibniz. According to Bernhard Riemann‚ integral is based on a limiting procedure which approximates the area of a curvilinear region by breaking the region into thin vertical slabs. During the 19th century more notions of integrals began to appear‚ where the type of the function as well as the domain over which the integration is performs has been generalized. There are many modern concepts of integration but the most
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Art analysis- Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate‚ a second before waking up By Salvador Dali‚ 1994‚ 51×40.5 cm‚ oil on canvas Thyssen-bornemisza collection “A typical dream with a long theme‚ the consequences of a sudden accident that causes the awakening” –Salvador Dali. The Style the artist has used is Surrealism‚ Salvador has done this piece in such a way though that the picture looks exaggerated and real. As it shows highlights‚ shadows and shapes of a realism
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Semester V: Unit 1: Chapter 2.2 CAKES Cakes are usually divided into 3 groups on the basis of their ingredients (whether or not they contain fat) and the appearance of their batter. The various types of cakes are: SHORTENED OR BATTER TYPE CAKES CONTAINING FAT UNSHORTENED OR FOAM TYPE CAKES COMBINATION OF TWO METHODS SHORTENED OR BATTER TYPE CAKES CONTAINING FAT: Layer cakes‚ pound cakes‚ cup cakes‚ and fruitcakes fall into batter type category. They contain shortening or fat in relatively
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SAFE DESIGN OF SLABS‚ BEAMS AND FOUNDATIONIS REINFORCED AND POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE Reinforced Concrete Design Manual ISO SAF120108M4-Rev2 Berkeley‚ California‚ USA Version 12 December 2010 Copyright Copyright Computers & Structures‚ Inc.‚ 1978-2010 All rights reserved. The CSI Logo® is a registered trademark of Computers & Structures‚ Inc. SAFE and TM Watch & Learn are trademarks of Computers & Structures‚ Inc. Adobe and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems
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by – Hardik Panchal (103710743) Introduction: Unicon manufactured precast concrete products which mainly consisted of four main products which were: facades‚ slabs‚ stairs and partitioning walls. These products were used in construction of large‚ high residential‚ offices and industrial complexes. In 1997-‐98 the sales
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9. A concrete highway is built of slabs 14 m long (20Cº). How wide should the expansion cracks be (at 20Cº) between the slabs to prevent buckling if the temperature range is -30Cº to +50Cº? I know I use the formula: L = LoT L = ? (Change in length of the slabs. We are solving for this.) = 12e-6 (Coefficient of expansion. I looked it up on page 388.) Lo = 14 m (Initial length of slabs.) T = 30 Cº (50Cº - 20Cº) (Change in temperaure. You only care about the hottest number
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