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Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures
This book focuses on the durability problems of existing prestressed concrete (PC) structures caused by strand corrosion, clarifies the mechanical behavior of corroded prestressing strands, corrosion-induced cracking, bond degradation, prestress loss and structural performance deterioration, and proposes the corresponding prediction models. Its aim is to provide the knowledge, tools, and method…
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- 978-981-99-2053-2
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Consciousness Revisited: Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
We are material beings in a material world, but we are also beings who have experiences and feelings. How can these subjective states be just a matter of matter? This book looks at this question and much more.
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- 9780262255172
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RILEM Technical Committee 195-DTD Recommendation for Test Methods for AD and …
Laporan ini menyajikan program Round-Robin (RR) dan hasil pengujian termasuk evaluasi statistik komite RILEM TC195-DTD yang diberi nama “Rekomendasi untuk metode pengujian deformasi autogenous (AD) dan dilatasi termal (TD) beton usia dini”. Tugas komite adalah untuk menyelidiki pengaturan pengujian linear untuk pengukuran AD dan TD (Dilation Rigs) dalam periode dari pengaturan hingga akhir …
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- 16
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- 978-94-017-9266-0
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- RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports
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- 620.0044 BJO r
RILEM Recommendations for the Prevention of Damage by Alkali-Aggregate Reacti…
Buku ini berisi kumpulan lengkap Rekomendasi RILEM yang telah dibuat untuk memungkinkan para insinyur, penentu spesifikasi, dan tempat pengujian untuk merancang dan memproduksi beton yang tidak akan mengalami kerusakan yang timbul dari reaksi alkali dalam beton. Ada lima metode pengujian yang direkomendasikan untuk agregat (disebut AAR-1 hingga AAR-5), dan rekomendasi keseluruhan yang menjelask…
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- 17
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- 978-94-017-7252-5
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- RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports
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- 624.18 NIX r
Quantum Mechanical Models of Metal Surfaces and Nanoparticles
Buku ini mengusulkan dua model mekanika kuantum sederhana untuk deskripsi analitis permukaan logam dan nanopartikel. Buku ini memberikan gambaran nyata tentang gaya yang bekerja pada permukaan logam dan menyimpulkan rumus analitis untuk deskripsi sifat fisiknya. Buku ini menjelaskan hubungan antara tegangan dekat permukaan dan parameter permukaan yang umum. Konsep pemisahan benda tiga dimensi m…
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- 978-3-319-19764-7
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- 538.9 GRA q
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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Active matter
The first book on active matter, an emerging field focused on programming physical materials to assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and react to information. The past few decades brought a revolution in computer software and hardware; today we are on the cusp of a materials revolution. If yesterday we programmed computers and other machines, today we program matter itself. This has cre…
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- 9780262342476
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- 1 online resource (350 pages)
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The high price of materialism
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…
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- 9780262276764
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations.
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- 332 KAS h
Quality Function Deployment for Buildable and Sustainable Construction
Keberhasilan proyek bangunan perumahan bertingkat tinggi swasta terkait erat dengan penilaian yang cermat dan pemilihan bahan dan desain selubung bangunan yang memenuhi persyaratan berbagai pemangku kepentingan. Persyaratan ini biasanya berfokus pada pencapaian keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun dalam desain selubung bangunan. Meskipun keberlanjutan dan kemampuan membangun semakin penting da…
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- 978-981-287-849-6
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- 624.18 NAT q
Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe
"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…
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- 9780262326155
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- 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) :illustrations.
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