Shrinkage of an isolated plain concrete member would merely shorten it without causing camber (Gribniak et al. 2007).
Plains Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.
That point was made abundantly plain to members of the Class of 1962 and a small contingent from the Class of 1952 who convened on Friday in the school auditorium (a place where some of them undoubtedly used to serve a form of disciplinary punishment known as detention).
"I can pull out my phone right now and I can show you what every one of mine are doing," said Brian Bezner, a North Plains board member from Dallam County, scrolling through soil moisture and sprinkler data on his smartphone, miles from his farm.
"We could call ourselves the Heck's Angels," said Bill Burmeister jokingly, of White Plains, a member for 17 years, who said attendance began to drop off because of leadership changes in the 1990s but has stabilized since Mr. de Leeuw became rector six years ago.
The phenomenon is characterized by significant widening of single or few cracks out of the total number of cracks that develop under tension (as opposed to nearly uniform widening in plain RC members).
It is well known that in analyses of plain concrete members using smeared crack models, the constitutive behaviour of cracked concrete has to be defined as a function of the crack bandwidth so that the results are not significantly affected by the adopted mesh discretization.
Innes is a Plains Cree member of Cowessess First Nation and an assistant professor in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
A total of 20 specimens, including 12 concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) members, 4 reference hollow structural section (HSS) members and 4 reference plain concrete (PC) members, were tested.
President Bush campaigned in New Hampshire the Friday before Election Day, telling voters, "The people of this state want down-to-earth, plain-speaking members representing them, and that is exactly what John Sununu is".
