Black rust on steel reinforcing bars in reinforced concrete structures is a sign of the onset of pitting corrosion which is very damaging. The UK Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, published by the Highways Agency describes what is happening (see BA34/90): 4.5.2 Penetration of concrete by ...
In many cases, businesses avoid generic ranking systems due to the need for concrete, empirical decision-making when assessment boils down to pitting workers against one another. However, smaller organizations can often benefit from the simplicity and less formal nature of a basic ranking system. 8...
Within a match, expect the Rogue Signal competitive Public Event to periodically appear, pitting you against other Operators and teams in a 90-second objective-based mission. There’s Cash, XP, and a special unique Reward Cache on the line. After a notification appea...
I really like this study, written by Joanna Weaver, because she refrains from pitting the sisters against one another in black-and-white terms, but rather focuses on the fact that both sisters are wired with strengths and weaknesses. Mary and Martha need one another. The body of Christ ...
still a weakness in them; much more of a weakness than gold was to Spain or glory to Napoleon. If ever we were in collision with our real brothers and rivals we should leave all this fancy out of account. We should no more dream of pitting Australian armies against German than of ...
operate noisily, making it sound like something like gravel in a concrete mixer. The bubbles in the fluid also reduce the capacity of the pump. Most importantly, cavitation removes small spots of material from the inside walls of the pump, pitting the walls and causing permanent damage to the...
“Myths are not built out of the concrete contradictions existing in given conditions and therefore are not a scientific reflection of reality. That is to say. In myths or nursery tales the aspects constituting a contradiction have only an imaginary iden
Many Leninist groups, mainly Trotskyists and derivatives of Trotskyism, point to "Red October" and the creation of the first ever workers state as concrete examples of the validity of their ideas. They point to Lenin’s State and Revolution as proving the "democratic" (even "libertarian") ...
Water conflict in the early twentieth century was severe, pitting large cotton producers in different parts of in the Piura valley against one another. These powerful growers managed to contain their problems by buying lands in the upper watershed—allowing them to cultivate when water was abundant...