Stresses along the FRP concrete interface are of great importance to the effectiveness of this type of strengthening because high stress concentration along the FRP concrete interface can lead to the FRP debonding from the concrete beam.
Commitment is conceptualized as the willingness of partners to invest resources including competences into the collaboration project because of the importance of strengthening and maintaining the ongoing relationship with exchange partners.
Clemens said he guessed that he might have reinjured his groin because he rested it instead of strengthening it between starts.
Despite European resistance, the United States will push ahead "because of the critical importance of strengthening the I.M.F.'s legitimacy and credibility," the officials said.
Up to this point in his European trip, the President had stressed the importance of strengthening defenses because of the Soviet threat and had spoken optimistically about the possibility that his Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") research program eventually will develop into a space-based defense system capable of repelling nuclear missiles.
Advanced planning for a rescue was undertaken by MI1, a branch of the British secret service, but because of the strengthening position of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and wider difficulties with the conduct of the war, the plan was never put into operation.
Harley-Davidson is going through a rough patch, not only because of the looming threat of an aging core population of Caucasian males, but also because of a strengthening dollar.
And perhaps because of the strengthening pound, the growth rate of our manufacturers has progressively decelerated in a straight line from 1.4% a year ago.
Because of its strengthening effect at elevated temperatures, its principal commercial use is as an additive in steels and superalloys.
In New York, the hotel boom has been driven by international tourism, which is softening because of the strengthening dollar and the banking crisis.
