For pump installation most experts recommend installing conventional metallic baseplates on concrete foundations and securing them to the foundation with a combination of anchor bolts and epoxy grout. Many papers have been written on the techniques required to obtain a good quality installation free of voids and properly bonded to the concrete and baseplate itself so as to give a long trouble-f...

Since time domain reflectometry (TDR) has been identified as one of the potential non-destructive methods for quality control of soil nailing works in 2003, further development work has been carried out. This report updates on the experience gained on the use of this technique to determine soil nail length. Various sources of uncertainty of a TDR test have been studied. They include human judge...

Rehabilitation of a watermain by grouted sliplining is usually carried out when the existing pipe is only partially deteriorated. Although designs that neglect the structural contributions from the existing pipe and the grout are generally conservative, the performance of the rehabilitated pipe needs to be better understood for effective design and management of buried water pipes. Presented in...

In this work we introduce a cost-aware methodology for selective hardening of combinational logic cells, which provides a list of the most effective candidates for hardening. Two heuristics are proposed in order to define when selective hardening becomes unfeasible. The methodology and the heuristics are applied to a set of benchmark circuits using costs extracted from an actual standard cell l...

This document presents TLS and how to make it secure enough as of 2014 Spring. Of course all the information given here will rot with time. Protocols known as secure will be cracked and will be replaced with better versions. Fortunately we will see that there are ways to assess the current security of your setup, but this explains why you may have to read further from this document to get the u...

The goal of this research is to study the anisotropic material behavior during forming processes, represented by both complex yield loci and kinematic-isotropic hardening models. A first part of this paper describes the main concepts of the ‘Stress-strain interpolation’ model that has been implemented in the non-linear finite element code Lagamine. This model consists of a local description of ...

This paper presents the results of 12 tests on small-scale reinforced concrete beams strengthened in flexure with a single NSM carbon FRP bar. The used bar is novel commercial high values glass transition Tg and decomposition Td temperature to improve performance strengthening system at elevated temperature. bonded using cementitious grout rather than an epoxy adhesive. Flexural were performed ...