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Serviceability of Construction Materials Under Tropical Climate Effects
2016The key aspect discussed in this study is the serviceability of the construction materials namely concrete and steel under the tropical climate effects. The environmental effects such as the temperatures, chemicals from the rain, and particles brought by the wind can cause corrosion on the concrete surface and thus may affect a structure’s performance.
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Role of Degradable Plastic Packaging Materials in Tropical Areas
Progress in Rubber and Plastics Technology, 1989The photodegradation and stabilisation of plastics have long been studied to enhance their life. Rapid growth of plastics and continued increase in their utilisation, in a multitude of applications, have raised question regarding their disposal. The unabated use and subsequent disposal of plastics have resulted in acute litter and pollution problems ...
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A Sketch of the Many Births, Lives and Deaths of Smartphones
, 2020Geoffrey Hobbis
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Design and Materials Selection of Tropical Natural Fibre Composites
2014In this chapter, two main topics in product development of products from tropical natural fibre composites; product design and materials selection are discussed. Engineering design process is presented and the emphasis is on the total design. Conceptual design and detail design are key activities in design but only conceptual design is emphasized in ...
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Dental materials in the tropics
Australian Dental Journal, 1958Howard K. Worner, Alan R. Docking
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Tropical Africa as a Source of Raw Materials
Geographical Review, 1937Raymond E. Crist, Leo Waibel
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Psychological causes, correlates, and consequences of materialism
Consumer Psychology Review, 2022L J Shrum +2 more
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The Suspended Material of the Amazon Shelf and Tropical Atlantic Ocean
1974Filtered samples and optical data from six cruises in the Atlantic Ocean off the Amazon River between 1963 and 19 71 are used to determine transport of surface suspended material outward into the ocean. During high-river discharge the turbid-water line (≥2.0 mg/l) extends 100 km seaward from the river mouth and northwestward along the coast for about ...
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(Luso)tropicality and the materiality of decolonization
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The Case History Material: a Rural People in a Tropical Environment
1981‘Few Gambians can locate Genieri on the map’ wrote Jay Saidy in 1976.1 ‘Even fewer know what great potential that tiny Eastern Kiang village once had for a social, cultural, and economic breakthrough only three decades ago.’ Yet it does provide case-history material unique of its kind which in the current state of knowledge can be used as a laboratory ...
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