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Durability of Building Joint Sealants
2008Predicting the service life of building joint sealants exposed to service environments in less than real time has been a need of the sealant community for many decades. Despite extensive research efforts to design laboratory accelerated tests to duplicate the failure modes occurring in field exposures, little success has been achieved using ...
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History of Building Joint Sealants
1996The use of sealants in facades became more widespread in the 1950s and 1960s with the increasing use of curtain wall construction. While most sealants specified for new construction today are silicone or urethane-based, older buildings may contain polysulfide and acrylic-based sealants.
MJ Scheffler, JD Connolly
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Sealants for joints in buildings
Structural Survey, 1992Discusses the history, development, and current state of the building sealant industry. Considers various joint designs as well as sealant application and oil‐based and butyl mastics, acrylic, polysulphide, polyurethane and silicone sealants. Surmises that the proper selection and application of sealant give the designer considerable freedom of choice ...
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Joint appointments: another dimension to building bridges
Nurse Education Today, 2001For many years nurse education has been under close scrutiny, with particular focus on the links between what is taught in the classroom and what is practised. Since the onset of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing and Midwifery's Project 2000: A new preparation for practice, concerns have been raised over the potential for an even greater ...
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Evaluating development programs: building joint activity
Evaluation and Program Planning, 2001Abstract There has been an increasing plea for a participatory approach to development programs. It is argued that for programs to be sustainable, they need to be conceptualized, negotiated and run by all stakeholders jointly. Concurrent with this trend, there has been an increasing demand for program evaluation strategies, which encompass an ...
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Historic American Buildings Survey Building 9570, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson
2014This report is an assessment of Building 9570 and historic district. Building 9570 is a contributing resource to the Flight Line Historic District, which is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion A for its significant role as part of Elmendorf Air Field during World War II (WWII). The 10 contributing buildings that
Humphreys, George +1 more
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Treatment of joints in building structures
Structural Survey, 1992Claims that joints in buildings have been well‐discussed in the literature, rightly, as they fail frequently. Reviews the principles of joint design and joint sealing, including the selection of sealants. Points out six key principles of sealant application techniques.
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Component building and the jointing problem
Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, 1976In a new CIB report called “The geometry of joints”, working commission W24 has analysed one of the crucial problems of dimensional co-ordination with the aim of providing an agreed basis for international standardisation. The report is described here by one of the co-authors who was part of a special W24 study group that also included Klaus Blach, co ...
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