For regular, rectangular slabs, strip designs tend to be just safe, but in irregular cases the designs are more variable, ranging from the marginally unconservative to over-designs of the order of 30%.
In the United States in the 20th century, bacon is generally marketed in five standard styles: slab, regular sliced, thin sliced, thick sliced, and ends and pieces.
The moisture distribution profiles are then obtained for regular objects such as slab, cylinder and sphere.
Dimensionless moisture distributions were obtained for three regular shaped objects such as slab, cylinder and sphere to verify them with the available experimental measurements.
The ductile end diaphragm concept developed for regular (i.e., straight) slab-on-girder or deck-truss steel bridge superstructures is expanded to make it applicable to bidirectional earthquake excitation.
Physically, all that remains at the end of the once-bustling retail stretch is a fenced-in area with metal spikes at regular intervals, and weeds growing between slabs of concrete.
Oh yes, this is exactly how people feel when they're eating a Mars bar: "Never mind green vegetables and regular exercise, this high-calorie sugar-slab of chocolate and caramel is my passport to optimum physical well-being!" One appreciates that this is an ongoing headache for Mars.
The ribs ($12.99 for a half slab) and pulled pork ($8.99 for a regular platter) are pretty good, but the winners might be the sides — bright and tangy slaw and deep-fried corn on the cob ($1.75 each).
In most applications, the assumption that the particles are of a regular shape, i.e. spherical, cylindrical, or flat slab, is made to simplify the solution of model equations.
