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Elevation is the main part of an Architectural drawing. This ebook will guide you to draw the elevation with AutoCad. An elevation drawing is an orthographic projection (drawing) that shows one side of a building. Details for each elevation (view) are projected down from each floor plan and ...
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A Strut-and-Tie Model for Deep Beam Design A practical exercise using AppendixA ofthe 2002 ACI Building Code lthough the Strut-and-Tie Method (STM) has been used for several years in Europe 1,2 and has been included in the Canadian Standard for the Design of Concrete Structures 3 since 1984 ...
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This document explains how the Government of British Columbia’s Value Analysis (VA) process for provincially funded facilities can be
adapted to include an Integrated Green Design approach. The Guide to Value Analysis and Integrated Green Design Process deals with issues of building design and site planning. Using it, a ...
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This paper reports on the key features of the “Guide for the Design and Construction of Concrete Reinforced with FRP Bars” issued by the American Concrete Institute (ACI). For new construction, FRP bars have been used as the internal reinforcement in concrete members to replace conventional steel rebars ...
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This paper looks at the state of the interior at the transition into the new millennium. In it, I explore the elision of public and private realms in the interior at advent of the 21 st century, surveying the interior spaces of the house, the apartment, the loft, ...
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The four seasons and the unique quality of the light in the North have always been sources of inspiration for Iittala’s designers. The long, dark Northern winter, in particular, has challenged designers to incorporate light into their creations. Heikki Orvola’s Kivi, a benchmark design for a simple candleholder, ...
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In a new era of multiple unprecedented challenges imposed by the processes of industrialization and urbanization, landscape architecture is now on the verge of change in the world, and especially in China. The profession must re-evaluate the vernacular of the land and the people, and lead the way ...
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Empirical and theoretical evidence suggests that company resources and structures are emergent rather than fixed. Planning business activity in emergent contexts requires flexible ebusiness models based on better management theories and models. A theoretical model of flexible process architecture is presented by identifying its core components and their ...
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This research is aimed at developing a valency dictionary architecture to comprehensively list the full range of alternations associated with a given predicate sense, both efficiently and robustly. In this paper we propose a sense-based dictionary structure capable of describing both Japanese and English mono-lingual lexicons, and a ...