Eight reinforced concrete (RC) slabs were prepared and corroded using different accelerated corrosion setups including full-immersion, half-immersion, and wet-dry cycling, aiming to investigate their differences in terms of non-uniform corrosion distribution and expansive crack opening.
The turbine had a higher power coefficient in shallow immersion and half submerged condition.
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Testing results suggest that the fracture toughness of the FRP-to-concrete interface conditioned through half immersion is significantly higher than that of the interface conditioned through full immersion.
For regular EM, mouse brain tissues were dissected from the skull and immersion fixed in half strength Karnovsky's fixative (2% paraformaldehyde and 2.5% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate buffer, pH 7.4) for 24 h at 4°C.
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After this half-hour immersion, anything else might be an anti-climax, but the sequence that follows of Erik Satie piano pieces (Sarah Rothenberg and John Cagee choral fragments (Houston Chamber Choir) traces a hypnotic line of innovation.
Levit, who clearly enjoys a humorous rapport with the performance artist, looked at me with a mischievous air and said: "She hates technology, right?" Asked how he planned to approach these performances of the Goldberg Variations – after his own nightly, half-hour immersion in silence – he demurred a bit.
One-and-half-hour immersion in 0.2% chlorhexidine mouthrinse did not have significant influence on the archwires surface roughness or the frictional resistance between stainless steel orthodontic brackets and archwires made of SS and Ni-Ti.
The left half was immersion-fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 24 hours, and the right half was dissected into anterior cerebral cortex, posterior cerebral cortex, striatum, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebellum and rest of brain.
The half-immersion method could be used in the research focusing merely on corroded steel bars as it led to serious non-uniform corrosion but less severe expansive cracking.
