In Britain, Norman Baker, minister for transport, stated in a letter dated 26 September that the government will oppose inclusion of a tar sands value and will "continue to have discussions with colleagues in other member states to ensure all heavy crudes are dealt with, not simply oil sands".
Wijewickreme et al. [39] suggested that when using Eq. (1) to find the axial resistance in compacted sand, K value should be considered within a range between K0 and 2.5.
For the dense sand, larger values of modulus of elasticity of the sands were considered and varied between 40,000 and 69,000 kPa.
To study the dense sand, larger values of modulus of elasticity of the sand were considered and varied between 40,000 and 69,000 kPa to determine the proper modulus of elasticity that can be used to represent the dense sand.
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Bagnold (1966) stated that this condition is fulfilled when C is larger than 0.51 for natural beach sand, but this value would depend on the size of particles.
The average compressive strength of the 2.5-h autoclaved cement paste with 30% ground sand displays a value equivalent to that of the 28-day normally cured cement paste without ground sand.
The Asutifi District has abundant natural resources including areas of forestry products, the soil of high agronomic value, sand, clay and mineral deposits, such as gold, bauxite and diamond (Government of Ghana 2009).
For most NC sands, the (r^_{m}) value for medium compressibility is about 0.5%%, but the (r^_{L}) value is almost 0 for sands of low compressibility and (r^_{H}) = 1 % (or more) for sands of high compressibility.
These days four-fifths of British mining output by weight is of low-value sand and gravel.
