A New Design Method for Industrial Portal Frames in Fire

Industrial portal frames near to other buildings must keep their vertical walls standing in fire in order to prevent fire spread.A recently developed analysis, implemented in the program Vulcan, using a combination of static and dynamic Mens Bags solvers, has shown that the strong base connections recommended by the current design method may not al

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Forest restoration in a fog oasis: evidence indicates need for cultural awareness in constructing the reference.

BackgroundIn the Peruvian Coastal Desert, an archipelago of fog oases, locally called lomas, are centers of biodiversity and of past human activity.Fog interception by a tree canopy, dominated by the legume tree tara (Caesalpinia spinosa), enables the occurrence Jackets in the Atiquipa lomas (southern Peru) of an environmental island with a diverse

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