Taiwan is located in the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The activities of the earthquake happen frequently, which threaten the safety of the bridge in the Taiwan Island. Besides, the severe floods resulted from the typhoon or storm events can cause great damages due to the bridge scouring. The steep-sloped rivers and sand mining problems in Taiwan accelerate the degradation of the riverbed. Scouring...

Scouring around a bridge pier is a complex phenomenon. More laboratory experiments are required to understand the scour mechanism. This paper focused on time development of local scour around piers and piles in semi integral bridges. Laboratory data collected at Hydraulics Laboratory, University of Malaya was analyzed for this purpose. Tests were performed with two different uniform sediment si...

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With efficient deactivation on glass wool, the Ultra Inert liners with wool provide excellent inertness, homogeneous sample mixing and evaporation, non-volatile residue trapping, and column and detector protection for drugs of abuse screening.

The wool harvesting industry employs workers of varying skill levels that differ in both quality and number of harvested fleeces. As it was unknown how skill affected parameters such as joint posture and loading, the current study comparatively examined 140 wool harvesting workers representing 4 skill levels during wool harvesting competitions. Three-dimensional upper limb postures and peak and...

Here, we monitor the dissolution of several natural protein fibres such as wool, human hair and silk, in various ionic liquids (ILs). The dissolution of protein-based materials using ILs is an emerging area exploring the production of new materials from waste products. Wool is a keratin fibre, which is extensively used in the textiles industry and as a result has considerable amounts of waste p...

8: Bradford and District by A. D. Flather, Hon. Seci^ THE only way, really, is to meet Bradford?with its sharp "a" and "T" in the middle?and see us, the Local Association, there. Bradford feels important but unloved?the centre of the world wool industry, renowned for its dirt, a good place to get out of, in deadly sibling rivalry with its big brother Leeds. As the fabled dog carried its shaggin...