(3) Provide the prestressing sequence in such a way that no additional tensioning operations are required to correct creep and shrinkage effects in service.
Plus ca la change.Figure 5: Output growth in services, shrinkage in manufacturingWhat should be done?In the near term, addressing the dysfunctional banks requires both better regulation and splitting RBS into a "good bank" and "bad bank".
To illustrate the creep and shrinkage effects during the construction and in service the FDA is applied to a real cable-stayed bridge.
Aerospace OEM including Rolls Royce, GE aviation, etc. had been selling their equipment along with after-sales service; however, shrinkage in business and severe environmental laws compelled these OEM to switch from after-sales service to a new strategy named as through life engineering.
Although this information is very useful for the calibration of theoretical models and design recommendations, the main contribution of this paper is the recognition of the detrimental effects at service conditions of shrinkage in composite members incorporating a solid slab.
Water-cement ratio is here interpreted in terms of average spacing between adjacent cement particles, and workability, air, shrinkage, and service life are normalized to water content.
We develop a matrix approach that links the potentials of land use (change) related to urban shrinkage with ecosystem services provisioning in cities.
It is quite true that there has been great shrinkage in attendance at the Sunday morning worship services at the Crystal Cathedral.
The job picture for women was brighter, largely because there was little job shrinkage in three major fields where women are employed disproportionately -- health services, education and social services.
And James A. Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group, said that growth in what is mainly a service sector cannot not make up for shrinkage in so-called export industries like finance, law, information and manufacturing.
During this recession, employment in service-producing industries has fallen by only 0.2% overall, compared with a 4.5% shrinkage in goods-producing jobs.
