STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING SERVICES PRESTRESS MANUAL A GUIDE FOR FIELD INSPECTION OF CAST-IN-PLACE POST-TENSIONED STRUCTURES JANUARY 2005 Revision 1 05/05 TABLE OF CONTENTS Topic INTRODUCTION SAFETY PRESTRESS WORKING DRAWINGS PRESTRESSING DUCTS PRESTRESSING STRANDS/BARS ANCHORAGE DEVICES STRAND WEDGES PRESTRESSING JACKS PRESTRESSING OPERATION a. b. c. d. Preparation for Stressing Inspection Field Inspection Overstressing of Prestressing Steel Elongation
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1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF TCDSCo Transport consulting design share company (TCDSCo) is a full fielded state owned consulting firm that deals with the design and construction supervision of road‚ bridges and airports. The company is established in august 1987. Before its establishment as an independent consulting firm TCDSCo had been a division under Ethiopian roads authority. The main purposes of its establishment are the following:- To engage in the activities of surveying and designing of
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SPECIAL EDITION African Development Bank Annual Meeting 19th -23rd May‚ 2014 Kigali‚ Rwanda. WELCOME TO RWANDA The Economy at a glance Our achievements during this period include; • Growing the economy at an average GDP of 8% pa and we aim at achieving 11.5% from 2012 - 2017. • Growth of the GDP per capita in 2013 $693 from $644 in 2012‚ a 3 fold increase from 2000. Our GDP target is $1‚240 by 2017. • Rwanda’s strong performance is largely driven by the expansion of the service sector. The
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Introduction The "Building Envelope" is the area that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. A building envelope includes all elements of a building that enclose conditioned space. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air. For example‚ walls and doors between living areas are part of the building envelope; walls separating a garage from the living areas are not. Besides that‚ floors of conditioned basements
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0307-4358.htm MF 34‚12 848 The impact of corporate governance on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting by Egyptian listed companies Amr Ezat and Ahmed El-Masry Plymouth Business School‚ Plymouth‚ UK Abstract Purpose – This study seeks to examine the key factors that affect the timeliness of corporate internet reporting (CIR) by the Egyptian listed corporations on the Cairo and Alexandria
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SECTION 1 - PROFILE STUDY OF JINDAL STEEL WORKS LTD INDUSTRY PROFILE INTRODUCTION TO STEEL INDUSTRY India’s economic growth is contingent upon the growth of the Indian steel industry. Consumption of steel is taken to be an indicator of economic development. While steel continues to have a stronghold in traditional sectors such as construction‚ housing and ground transportation‚ special steels are increasingly used in engineering industries such as power generation‚ petrochemicals and fertilisers
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unvibrated fresh flowing concrete has thefollowing shortcomings and as follows: 1. It contains a number of small and medium size air bubbles. 2. There is reduced bond strength to reinforcement. 3. There are often settlement cracks around steel rebars. Originally developed in Japan‚ SCC technology was made possible by the much earlier development of Superplasticizers for concrete. SCC has now been taken
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Civil Construction Materials. | | The material used for construction or the materials used to produce other materials which may be used in construction is called construction material. construction material are: Cement‚sand ‚water. Concrete‚ Lime‚ Stones‚ Paints and Varnishes‚ Wood and Timber‚ Engineering Metals‚ Bituminous materials and Plastics‚ Rubber and Glass‚ Miscelleneous materials‚ http://www.aboutcivil.org/engineering-materials.html Cement Bricklayer Joseph Asp din
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INFOSTREAM MAY/JUNE 2008 IN THIS ISSUE GROWTH IN US CONTENT Negotiate the world’s “info-noise” with Datastream’s expansive and reliable US-focused content. NEW VALUATION RATIOS RELEASED 14 new Datastream valuation ratios have been released‚ giving you a detailed overview of markets and sectors as well as enabling you to compare company to industry ratios. CONTENTS FEATURES Introducing Intelligent Information from Thomson Reuters Regional Focus – Growth in US Content PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT
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Induced pluripotent stem cells from human revertant keratinocytes for the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa Noriko Umegaki-Arao et al. Sci Transl Med 6‚ 264ra164 (2014); DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3009342 Editor ’s Summary Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) is a rare‚ inherited skin disorder that causes such severe blistering that patients are often relegated to a delicate life in bandages. Like a patchwork quilt‚ the skin of a patient with EB can consist of both mutated skin cells (which cause the disease)
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