Abstract: This paper provides a summary of typical damages inflicted on steel reinforced concrete (SRC) structures in Japan, during the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake. The paper is based on observations made by the writers during ...

Abstract: This paper derives from a study of grinding wheel break-up behavior due to impact. The impact fracture characteristics of circular disks of plaster of Paris with a concentric central hole were ...

Abstract: Experiments are described in which cylindrical tubes were perforated normally at their central section. Quasi-static tests were performed using mainly square-section punches possessing pointed ...

Abstract: When an oil tank collapses or ruptures any contained hazardous substance flows outwards and can damage nearby plant or people as well as lead to pollution of the local environment. In recent ...

Abstract: Lactic acid accumulation is a common phenomenon in animal bodies during anaerobic respiration, but it is rarely found in natural systems like cattle manure digestion plants or anaerobic municipal sewage sludge bioreactors. ...

Abstract: Fresh water resources are scarce in rural communities in the southern deltaic plains of Bangladesh where both shallow and deep groundwater is frequently brackish, and fresh water ponds have been increasingly salinized by ...