Tests were carried out on thirteen large scale members of circular cross-section, with and without external confinement, and with different proportions of rubber content and axial loads.
Additionally, Type III systems are seldom used due to the minimal amount of test data, especially on large-scale members, and design procedures available.
The experimental task of large scale structural members to develop the design procedures can be reduced by adopting an alternative way in which the concrete material model available in finite element packages are validated with the limited number of tests conducted on material and structural members.
The most alarming allegations cited in this book come from a 2006 report released by David Kilgour, a former member of the Canadian Parliament, and the human rights lawyer David Matas, which suggested that vital organs (including kidneys, corneas and livers) had been harvested on a large scale from executed members of Falun Gong, a banned spiritual group in China.
Experimental results from seventeen large scale tests on bracing members are presented within the context of tensile force demands on connections during seismic loading.
There is no information about large scale surrenders of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTEE) members, some of whom surrendered with their children.
There are two reports of large scale reprisal killings of these members of 13th SS Division by the Partisans, one of which included the mass shooting of 1,400 soldiers.
These calls eventually led to large scale visits of Japanese Diet members to North Korea -- the slow-built honeymoon ending with the counter-trend of Japanese anger at revelations about North Korea's abduction of scores of Japanese citizens who were later held against their will in order to inform Kim Jong Il and the North Korean state about culture and events beyond their border.
Spain is the only member state where large scale cultivation of GM maize occurs.
concept, whereby the overall shape of a building is used to generate a large-scale structural member.
