scholarly journals Long-Term Materials Test Program: materials exposure test plan

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Test Plan ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Exposure Test

Durable Evaluation by Long-Term Exposure Test of Impregnation Materials

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (9) ◽  
pp. 942-947
Author(s):  
T. Sasaki ◽  
Y. Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Test

Behaviour of friction piles in soft sensitive clays

1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Blanchet ◽  
F. Tavenas ◽  
R. Garneau
Keyword(s):  
Precast Concrete ◽  
Soft Clay ◽  
Load Test ◽  
Pile Groups ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Shear Creep ◽  
Soft Clays ◽  
The North ◽  
Effective Stress Analysis

During the construction of heavy structures, such as bridges and overpasses, on soft clays on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Valley, a detailed load test program on friction piles was performed to establish the characteristics of the most suitable type of pile and to study its long-term behaviour. Three types of piles, timber, steel pipe with closed end, and precast concrete Herkules H-420 piles, were tested. Four timber piles driven in a group and submitted to a 712 kN load served to study the long-term settlement of a small group of piles. Three deep settlement gauges were installed in the centre of this group for measuring settlements in clay at various depths.This test program was completed by the instrumentation of two bridge piers in order to verify the behaviour of larger groups of piles.The paper presents the results of the test piles, the long-term behaviour (4 years) of the bridge pier foundations resting on friction piles in soft clay, and the interpretation of the results.This study shows that the pore pressures induced by pile driving are related to the pre-consolidation of the clay and that they are much larger for tapered piles. It is demonstrated that the effective stress analysis method proposed in 1976 by Meyerhof determines adequately the ultimate pile bearing capacity, but that the effect of the timber pile taper doubles the skin friction.The settlement analysis of pile groups shows that settlements are due to the reconsolidation of the clay and shear creep deformations in the clay close to the pile wall.

Pulverized-Coal Transport Through Pipes

1959 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. C. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
General Information ◽  
Pulverized Coal ◽  
Steam Generators ◽  
Test Program ◽  
Horizontal Pipe ◽  
Friction Factors ◽  
Piping Systems ◽  
Coal Mixtures

Some typical problems related to pulverized-coal transport for steam generators have been investigated in a long-term test program. The investigation has provided information relative to the performance of a commercial-type exhauster handling air-coal mixtures, friction factors for 8 and 12-in-diam pipe handling air-coal mixtures, general information as to the flow characteristics of air-coal mixtures in various piping systems, and methods and means for control of coal drifting in horizontal pipe. Friction factors in the range of 0.017 to 0.035 for 8 and 12-in. pipe are indicated for the usual operating range.

scholarly journals Experimental and Numerical Examination of Naturally-Aged Foam-VIP Composites

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 2539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaushik Biswas ◽  
Rohit Jogineedi ◽  
Andre Desjarlais
Keyword(s):  
Performance Monitoring ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Exposure Test ◽  
Rigid Foam ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Long Term Performance ◽  
Term Performance ◽  
Thermal Conductivities

This article describes an aging study of a foam-vacuum insulation panel (VIP) composite insulation board installed on a test wall in a natural exposure test facility through a 30-month period. Silica-based VIPs with a polymeric barrier film were used in this study. The study results showed the effectiveness of a VIP-based insulation to reduce the heat gains and losses through a wall compared to regular rigid foam insulation of the same thickness. However, the long-term performance monitoring indicated a gradual decline in the thermal performance of the foam-VIP composite. In addition, one-dimensional numerical models were created to simulate the in situ behavior of the foam-VIP composite. One model utilized constant thermal conductivities of the test wall components and another utilized temperature-dependent thermal conductivities; the latter used measurements of conductivity over temperatures ranging from −15 to 55 °C. The results of the simulations emphasized the need to use both temperature and time-dependent material properties for accurately predicting the long-term performance of VIP-based insulation systems.

Update of the Long-Term Inflow and Structural Test Program

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Sutherland ◽  
Jose Zayas ◽  
A. Sterns ◽  
Byron Neal
Keyword(s):  
Test Program ◽  
Structural Test
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