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Bond Strength and Stress slip of Lap splice reinforcement with Fiber Reinforced Polymer wrapped and unwrapped concrete beams with the confinement properties. Abstract: This paper describes the experimental results of different researchers to examine the properties and behavior of lap splice reinforcement in a concrete beam. Beam specimens were constructed and tested in the lab. The beam specimen was tested with monotonic (cyclic) and fatigue loading. The beam was divided into three groups:…

Cragmen In a daze, Martin VanHobby awakens. Wearing nothing but a tattered loincloth and his fish shoes, Martin shields his eyes from the three suns piercing his vision as he struggles to get off his back. Disoriented, he grabs onto a nearby boulder for stability and lifts himself to his feet. He feels the scales in his shoes fold around the tough terrain surrounding him. His eyes begin to adjust and Martin takes a look around. He is surrounded by red rocks varying from monstrous…

The Babylon Empire, one of the most prosperous and long lasting empires of Ancient Mesopotamia, a fertile region due to its location in correspondence to important rivers, such as the Nile and Tigris River, in what is now modern Iraq. For any good civilization to be great, like the ancient Babylon empire, it will need a good law code. A law code is a set of rules all citizens of a society must follow. A law code is necessary because it makes sure that criminals will always receive their…

The Permian Mass Extinction Introduction There are five major extinctions in history: the Late Devonian, the Ordovician-Silurian, the Permian-Triassic, the Triassic-Jurassic, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary. Known as the Big Five, these extinctions exceeded all others in size and destruction, each killing more than 60% of species from that period. Each one acted as a bottleneck, allowing the survival of only a fraction of the organisms that had been thriving before, from which evolution and life…

Lake in the Utah desert with a meters-long straight tail that winds into the counterclockwise curvatures of the spiral. The spiral was planned for months in advance and required a team of many to bring to it to conception and thousands of tons of basalt rock, boulders, salt crystals and mud. Smithson chose the location for its stark, desolate quality and also for the features of the lake, which turns bright red seasonally due to the salt and bacteria that thrive in it. However, along with…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…

Abstract Porphyry copper deposits are important for economic value and resources. Some of the common metals found in porphyry copper deposits are gold, silver, and molybdenite. Most porphyry copper deposits can be found along the Pacific Rim and formed during the Tertiary and Quaternary periods. Porphyry copper deposits form through a series of subducting tectonic events, having a copper bearing source, and convection of hydrothermal fluids acting on an igneous intrusion. Introduction…

A language that was called “Nahuatl” were known by people who lived in the area of Central Mexico around 600 AD. It is believed that these people who spoke the language came from the North, travelled to Central American and settled. The people who spoke “Nahuatl” started to gain power and they were the dominant power around 1000AD. The Mexica, were people who were one of the last groups of people who spoke “Nahuatl” to come to that area and they were a big part of the rise or the founding of…

Introduction Postulated to be the result of either a long-runout landslide, or a structural pop-up, the Poverty Hills present a unique problem in the geologic community. Located on the western-most edge of the Basin and Range Province in eastern California (Fig.1), and within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies,…

6th BIOLOGICAL CRISIS WHICH MAN IS THE CAUSE ABSTRACT This article will discuss the biological crises the Earth faced since the creation of the living organisms. Then, this article will argue the reasons why human beings generated a 6th biological crisis. Finally, this article will explain what the elements of this 6th biological crisis are. KEYWORDS Biological crisis, Extinction of species, environmental ecosystems, massive extinction, ecological niches, Industrial Era, greenhouses gases,…