This thesis presents the results of research in which a formulation was developed for the effective length factor for compression members with non-ideal end conditions. This research stems from previous research conducted ...

Design Sketching is an important tool for designers and creative professionals to express their ideas and thoughts onto visual medium. Being a very critical and versatile skill for engineering students, this course is often ...

In most cases, pavement failures are directly related to subgrade failures. Subgrade failures are normally attributed to soils which are expansive in nature. The expansive properties of a soil can be chemically altered by ...

In the world of distributed processing it is desirable that the failure of one or more processes does not affect all the other processes. For long-running applications, it is necessary to provide fault-tolerance, to complete ...

As the world population increases, the demand increases for quality drinking water. The harvesting of rainwater has the potential to assist in alleviating pressures on current water supplies and storm water drainage systems. ...

Excess supply coupled with domestic reliance on export markets dictates that the U.S. cotton industry compete globally in terms of both price and fiber quality. Two cycles of divergent selection for fiber upper-half mean ...

The objective of this thesis is to determine a method for assigning a rating to in-service timber railroad bridges. The standard method of rating a railroad bridge is to assign a Cooper E rating which corresponds to the ...

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Experiments were conducted to determine the elects of cottonseed meal (CSM) on growth and performance of Coturnix quail when diets are formulated on a digestible amino acid basis in the presence of high and low concentrations ...