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The squeals and exclamations of fun, the sounds of scooters and bikes on the concrete floated through the air. If one was making these sounds, the other child always slowly lured the front doors’ seals open with the all-too-familiar creak of the hinges. Out of the auburn brick threshold skipped one child, and out of the cracked and chipped home slinked the raven girl. They played together. The scrape of chalk on the concrete, the familial roles of playing house, the bleeding knees from bike races. They

northern corbel has cracked significantly at one corner of the corbel (Figure 27). The cracked portion is hanging from the corbel by a small section of concrete at the top of the corbel. Due to spatial constraints, measurements could not be made, but the section of concrete hanging from the corbel appears to be about ½in thick. Small pieces of concrete were found on the ground in this area, suggesting that the corbel is slowly deteriorating. Bearing pads appear to be in use on the southern corbel only

Scurrying along the copper colored brick road, people moved their way through the crowd. My family and I were new to the state of Washington, and eager to explore the Pike Place Market. Tourists crowded in front of the original Starbucks, taking pictures and forming a line. I shifted my weight and waited impatiently in the filled to the brim coffee shop. “How much longer?” I whined, crossing my arms and pouting my lips. The line was moving at sluggish speed, and I was ready for my hot chocolate.

The influence of the Roman Concrete and Arch INTRODUCTION Ancient Rome achieved many nice carry outings that have influenced varied cultures. Varied governments, at the side of the U. S., have adopted components of the Roman law. Roman literature just like the epic remains to browse these days, This paper will look at the cultural epic; remains browse these days and look at the cultural influence of the Roman development of the arch, Concrete a structure in building construction, which may carry

conditions. Most of these are found in nature like rocks, wood, leaves, clay etc. Apart from these, some man made materials are also widely used like plastic, glass, etc. There are many types of building materials, some of these are described below 1. Concrete: - It is one of the most widely used construction materials and has a long history of use. Cement is a very important material. Therefore it is necessary to know about it in some details. Generally, cement has been classified by different types depending

PROBLEM DEFINITION This work aims to study the seismic performance with different soil condition like hard, medium and soft of multi-storied buildings having plan regularities. The buildings were analyzed by software STAAD Pro. The result obtained in term of percentage change in base shear and peak story shear. In this attempt, following major cases will be analyzed:- i. Modeling of structures which is 6 stories are presented. ii. A problem of multi-story structure with different soil type of condition

The platforms are commonly fashioned the boxed structure of a ceiling and roof, or the ceiling and ground joists of the story above. right here the technique is variously cited colloquially in the building trades as stick and body, stick and platform, or stick and field because the studs and help the shape its vertical member guide, the container-fashioned ground sections with joists on within long post and lintels, will also support the load and the roof above the top tale. Framing lumber should

This work aims to study the seismic performance with different soil condition like hard, medium and soft of multi-storied buildings having plan regularities. The buildings were analyzed by software STAAD Pro. The result obtained in term of percentage change in base shear and peak story shear. In this attempt, following major cases will be analyzed:- i. Modeling of structures which is 6 stories are presented. ii. A problem of multi-story structure with different soil type of condition with seismic

Sentinel City appears to be a primarily urban area with very little open space. The houses are mostly multi-family complexes like apartments, condos, senior and independent living centers, that are constructed from brick. Industrial Heights and Casper Park District have older, more dilapidated buildings that were probably factories years ago. Trash and graffiti are abundant within this area. Nightingale Square and Acer Tech Center have more well taken care of lawns, less graffiti, more historical

“A criticism of Self-Compacting Concrete” which talks about the problems in using SCC such as segregation and roles of different materials which affect it. It talks about the economic problems too. Finally it says about some projects which are executed with SCC. This paper helped in identifying the disadvantages of using SCC. In 1990, T.H. Cooke wrote a book “Concrete Pumping and Spraying: A practical guide”. This book is related to pumping operations of concrete. A nomograph is suggested by this