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Wooden structures in the historic port of Rijeka

Građevinar, 2016
A review of the use of wood in construction of the historic port of Rijeka is given in the paper. Traditional use of wooden structures for floors and roofs can be seen in ancillary structures and early warehouses, while the first temporary storage units ...
Nana Palinić, Adriana Bjelanović
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Developing reading-writing connections; the impact of explicit instruction of literary devices on the quality of children's narrative writing [PDF]

, 2010
The purpose of this collaborative schools-university study was to investigate how the explicit instruction of literary devices during designated literacy sessions could improve the quality of children's narrative writing. A guiding question for the study
Anderson M., Applebee A., Bakhtin M., Bereiter C., Bershon B., Brown R., Buchanan J., Cairney T., Cairney T., Calkins L., Cochran-Smith M., Crossley-Holland K., Cullinan B., Dyson A. H., Dyson A. H., Flower L., Frater G., Furlong J., Garfeld L., Gates S., Gibbons A., Graham S., Graves D., Graves D., Harris K., Harwayne S., Hayes J. R., Hughes T., Kilworth G., King J., Kress G., Kroll B. M., Lancia P., Leavell A., Lewis M., Lobel A., May H., Maybin J., Merriam S. B., Miles M., Murphy J., Murpurgo M., Murpurgo M., Myhill D., Paramour S., Perera K., Purves A. C., Rosen M., Rosenblatt L. M., Rosenblatt L. M., Short K., Smith J., Thompson E., Tierney R., Vygotsky L. S., Wagner J., Webb N., Wells G., Whittaker R., Wray D.   +59 more
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Current Landscape: Use of Supercritical CO2 in the Wood Industry

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
The application of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) to successfully dewater as well as extract resin from wood is becoming increasingly popular due to its greener and less energy‐intensive approach. With world focus shifting to developing methods with greater efficiency while decreasing harm to the environment, scCO2 applications have begun to set ...
Anthony Dahdah, Subashani Maniam
wiley   +1 more source

A Wooden Pin Reinforcement of Ancient Chinese Wooden Temple: A Case of Daxiong Hall

Advances in Civil Engineering
Post and lintel frame is a prominent architectural structure in Chinese temple architecture, characterized by its wooden construction. Mortise–tenon joints (MTJs) serve as the primary connection method for these wooden structures, employing straight ...
Hua Zhang, Wuping Gao, Yanling Wang
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WOODEN STRUCTURES IN KENGO KUMA FACADES

Contemporary Materials, 2021
Kengo Kuma (born 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese architect and professor at the University of Tokyo. Realized a large number of urbarchitectonic structures worldwide, especially in the second decade of this century, emphasizing use of wooden materials in the facades.
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Prognosis method of wooden structure durability

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
Abstract The relevance of the studied topic is due to the fact that, despite the longtime wood use as a building material, the issue of durability predicting keeps underexplored. Wood offers a wide range of positive properties, but still has a number of disadvantages, one of which is a tendency to biodeterioration.
Alfred Sulejmanov, Denis Smirnov, Gaziz Khairullin   +2 more
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Finding Words: The Ligatus Glossary Project [PDF]

, 2011
All crafts, trades and disciplines sooner or later develop their own specialist vocabularies to allow their practitioners to communicate quickly, easily and clearly when going about their everyday activities. In the more literate areas of life – medicine
Pickwoad, Nicholas
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
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Flexural behavior of timber-steel composite beams using mechanical fasteners for heritage and multi-storey building applications

Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệ
This study evaluates the structural behavior of timber-steel composite beams assembled with mechanical connections: steel nails and self-drilling screws.
Le Truong Di Ha
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Research of natural wood combustion and charring processes

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2012
Wood is a material widely used for construction purposes and – in some cases – it is the main element of building structures. In comparison with other materials, wood has a number of advantages, such as lightness, strength, resistance to impacts and ...
Romualdas Mačiulaitis, Andrejus Jefimovas, Povilas Zdanevičius   +2 more
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