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Showing 1 to 20 of 320 for “"Repairs"”.
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Meniscal root tears and repairs
… root tears; however, clinical studies of root repairs show that meniscal extrusion and joint degeneration are not completely prevented. This limited repair success may be due to inaccurate placement of repairs during surgery or from repair loosening postoperatively as early as during …
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Evaluation of concrete patch repairs
… which influence the adhesive strength of patch repairs. In order to evaluate the efficiency and quality of remote robotic hydroerosion, 4 sets of parameters (concrete, pressure, generating unit, demolishing unit and nozzle parameters) were investigated using 7 series of tests. The flexural …
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Critical literature review on concrete crack repairs
… in-depth review of literature on concrete crack repairs. Deterioration of concrete affects both the aesthetics and the integrity of structures. As a result, there is need to repair such defects in order to restore the aesthetics and the integrity of concrete structures. This research discusses …
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An outcomes study: Outpatient versus inpatient hernia repairs
The objective of this study was to investigate the quality of clinical outcomes in the surgical setting. Results of the study showed that there is no difference in infection rates between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.
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An outcomes study: Outpatient versus inpatient hernia repairs
The objective of this study was to investigate the quality of clinical outcomes in the surgical setting. Results of the study showed that there is no difference in infection rates between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.
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Annual sinking fund modelling for housing association major repairs provision
… to create sinking funds to finance future Major Repairs on all new and rehabilitated stock. The assessed maximum annual sinking fund contribution adequate for this is expressed in directives issued by Scottish Homes and the Housing Corporation.<br/><br/>Mathematical programming models were …
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Repairs of Impact-Damaged Prestressed I-Girders
… the bulb as well as the soffit. The range of the repairs examined were approximately 25%, 50%, and 75%, and 100% of the maximum practical amount of CFRP which could be applied based on the girder geometry, ACI guidelines, and manufacturers’ recommendations.The geometry of the girder limited the …
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Mechanical Characterization Of Composite Repairs For Fiber-Glass Wind Turbine Blades
… the blade surface. One of the methods to conduct repairs on wind turbine blades that are damaged while in service is hand lay-up of the repair part after grinding out the damaged portion and some of its surrounding area. The resin used for such repairs usually differs from the parent plate resin …
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The selection of adhesives and composite matrix resins for aircraft repairs
… of the selection of adhesives for aircraft repairs. It was undertaken because of the need to repair a number of different aircraft types with a limited range of adhesives to minimise stockholdings and wastage of materials which have shelf-life limitations. The aspects studied were tensile …
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Evaluation of Precast Portland Cement Concrete Panels for Airfield Pavement Repairs
… to allow for both single- and multiple-panel repairs. A series of various sized repairs were conducted in a full-scale airfield PCC test section. Results of accelerated testing indicated that precast panels were suitable for airfield repairs, withstanding between 5,000 and 10,000 passes of …
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Modern approaches to repairs and maintenance procurement within the social housing sector
… procurement approaches within the context of repairs and maintenance to social housing providers. Previous documents in this study are suggestive that there are some limitations for the effectiveness of social housing providers to undertake the role of construction client. This in turn would …
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Permanent running repairs: The successful failure of statutory homelessness policy in London
England has a statutory definition of homelessness, and prescribed levels of provision for homeless households. Policy is set by central but delivered by local government. 66% of the national demand for homelessness services is concentrated within London, where service provision is fragmented …
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Evaluating the Fracture Potential of Steel Moment Connections with Defects and Repairs
… but little research has investigated how the repairs affect the performance of full-scale moment connections subjected to inelastic rotations. Thus, the goals of this research were to establish the performance of full-scale moment connections with repairs and defects, then develop a method for …
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Epoxy-Based, Rapid Setting Polymer Concretes for use in Military Airfield Repairs
… for use on rigid airfield pavement spall repairs. These tests include various ASTM standards for compressive strength, flexural strength, slant-shear bonding strength, modulus of elasticity, coefficient of thermal expansion, and slump. Commercial Product "B" was not able to set and cure …
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The significance of transients following failures and repairs in packet-switched networks
… as its configuration changes due to failures and repairs. One approach used to measure overall system performance is to weight the level of performance measured for each system state by the probability that the system is in that state and then sum across all system states. Many performance …
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Load bearing regenerative repairs for the cartilaginous soft tissue of the intervertebral disc
Cartilaginous load bearing soft tissues such as the nucleus pulposus in the intervertebral disc are affected by degenerative diseases and physical injury, which if not treated early can initiate a progressive decline in joint function and result in lower back pain. Early treatment options to repair …
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A Portfolio on the Therapeutic Relationship, Therapeutic Ruptures and Repairs, and Counselling Psychology
… and clients. Overall, therapeutic ruptures and repairs were conceptualised as fundamentally relational, intersubjective acts, co-created and co-experienced by both members of the therapeutic dyad. The emerged findings are examined in relation to existing literature and, the implications for the …
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A Study of the Needs of Low-Income Families Relative to Home Repairs
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:53:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606875.pdf: 3988661 bytes, checksum: 10aef574f110dd7fdd4aa516be49f9e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Plug repairs of marine glass fiber / vinyl ester laminates subjected to uniaxial tension
… uniaxial tension are calculated before and after repairs using plug materials of different fiber volume fractions. The orthotropic laminates ranged from balanced to unidirectional woven rovings, and the chopped strand mat plug fiber volume fractions ranged from 0 to 0.40. The effectiveness of the …
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Dowel load transfer systems for full-depth repairs of jointed Portland cement concrete pavements
… for dowel load transfer systems in full-depth repairs of jointed Portland cement concrete pavements. Design traffic levels and joint faulting specifications are input to determine maximum allowable bearing stresses in the dowel load transfer system. Adjustments for various levels of …
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