Download or read book Behavior of Pipe Piles in Sand written by Magued Iskander and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding of the physical processes that control the behavior of piles during installation and loading. This monograph presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to identify these processes. These facilities include a unique instrumented double-walled pipe-pile that is used to delineate the frictional stresses acting against the external and internal surfaces of the pile. The pile is fitted with miniature pore-pressure transducers to monitor the generation of pore water pressure during installation and loading. A fast automatic laboratory pile hammer capable of representing the phenomena that occur during pile driving was also developed and used.
Download or read book Web of Sand written by E.C. Tubb and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was only one way out of Harge: to find a singing jewel, the greatest prize on that world of sand dunes. But the jewels were hidden deep in the burrows of Harge's most vicious predator. Earl Dumarest could fight humans, could match wits with the implacable Cyclan. But now, in his galaxy-spanning quest for the lost planet Earth, he must face the WEB OF SAND. (First published 1979)
Download or read book Extraterrestrial Sands written by Gary Gilligan and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quartz sand is anywhere and everywhere imaginable on the surface of the Earth. It forms the vast sandy Sahara and Arabian deserts where dunes can reach a staggering 180 meters in height. It makes up the world’s immense sandstone deposits, forms our beaches and is present in most soils around the globe. But where did all the sand come from?
Download or read book The Sand Sheet written by Arturo Longoria and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two million acres of sand, born and blown from an ancient sea beginning about ten thousand years ago, stretch across eight counties in deep South Texas. Known as the Coastal Sand Plain, the Texas Coastal Sand Sheet, or just the Sand Sheet, it is a region of few people, little rainfall, and no water. Among the dunes and dry, brown flats, only the hardiest shrubs and grasses provide habitat for the coyotes, quail, and rattlesnakes that live here. Arturo Longoria, whose cabin sits amid the sand scrub and desert motts of granjeno, brasil, and mesquite, knows this land intimately. A student of bushcraft and natural history, Longoria found refuge in this remote and hostile country as he recovered from a rare illness. He weaves a story of beauty and survival in a land where the vastness of Texas' storied ranches and rich oil fields serves as the backdrop for a steady migration of long distance “travelers,” who cross over the border and into el desierto at great peril. This book is about a harsh and dangerous landscape that has nonetheless given sustenance and solace to a writer for whom the Sand Sheet became both his home and his inspiration.
Download or read book Secrets of the Sands written by Harry Thurston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a part of Egypt so parched that decades might pass between rainstorms, amid a sea of sand, is a green island—Dakhleh, the “everlasting oasis”—that may contain the whole of human history. In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed science writer and journalist follows an international team of archaeologists as they unlock the secrets of nearly half a million years. Using high-tech methods, these scientists have made stunning finds, including indications that Dakhleh may have been the cradle of the Nile civilization that gave rise to the pharaohs and the pyramids. They have unearthed a perfect Old Kingdom town, with palaces and temples from the Golden Age, huge caches of mummies and papyri, and the world's two oldest books, and have located an entire Roman city—a Pompeii in the middle of the desert. Blending elements of adventure narrative, travelogue, and scientific mystery, Secrets of the Sands also traces on a grand historical scale the story of how humans have interacted with the changing environment, laying bare a parable with relevance to us all about the fragile balance between humankind and our world.
Download or read book Arabian Sands written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.
Download or read book Vanishing Sands written by Orrin H. Pilkey and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.
Download or read book Heads in the Sand written by Matthew Yglesias and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the wrong-headed foreign policy stance of conservatives, neocons, and the Republican Party for what it is—aggressive nationalism. Yglesias reminds us of the rich tradition of liberal internationalism that, developed by Democrats, was used with great success by both Democratic and Republican administrations for more than fifty years. [from publisher description].
Download or read book Prospecting and Exploration for Sand and Gravel written by John Roy Thoenen and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instructions in Field Density Determination by Use of Sand Volume and Drive Cylinder Methods written by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sand Injectites written by A. Hurst and published by AAPG. This book was released on 2007 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains color illustrations.--cf. page 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Observer written by Edward Fuller Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From May 1894 to Sept. 1895 the sections Outdoor world and Practical microscopy were issued as separate publications.
Download or read book Documents of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey written by New Jersey. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Methods and Costs of Mining and Preparing Sand and Gravel at the Clowdy Plant of the Dallas Washed and Screened Gravel Co Dallas Tex written by R. L. Windrow and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Feasibility Study of a Wave powered Device for Moving Sand written by Frederick F. Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
