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Abstract: This paper describes an experimental program on walls formed from two skins of profiled steel sheeting and an in-fill of concrete. Twenty full-scale tests are reported, which include samples where both axial forces and ...

Abstract: Society faces large challenges as to how we will deal with the increasing losses from natural, technological, and environmental hazards. Residents in hazard-prone areas are reluctant to protect themselves before the event ...

Abstract: During the fall of 1994 a conductivity?temperature?depth/hydrographic survey was carried out as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment one-time survey, Line P15N. The survey included standard water properties ...

Abstract: There are several changes in the American Concrete Institute’s 318-02 building code from 1999 that have had a significant impact upon beam analysis and design. On one side of the equation, the load factors are now based ...

Abstract: It has been demonstrated that the methods used to measure daily mean temperatures are subject to bias errors and therefore, may not be accurate enough to determine climatic trends. To eliminate bias errors, it is necessary ...