A basic search for ' reinforced concrete ' brings up a big list of results, which he has a quick browse through.
A breakwater and mole, constructed of blocks of concrete.
A car, an unrecognizable hulk of blackened metal, was ground against the concrete abutment of an over pass in a puddle of water.
A cause is that which contains the effect (" causa aequat effectum "), but this is precisely what can never be proved with respect to anything that is claimed as a real cause in the concrete world.
A concrete arch is reinforced in much the same way as a wall, the stresses being somewhat similar.
A concrete gun emplacement, built during World War 11 just near this tomb, is still visible.
A Dounreay spokeswoman said " None of the evidence so far suggests there is a failure of the primary concrete containment.
A few yards upstream the Mole flows between concrete pilings and under the A309, clogged tight with early morning traffic.
A fuller description of the combination of steel and concrete will be given later.
A hazard warning reflective beacon will be placed off the west pier to warn sailors of a concrete plinth covered at high tide.
A knowledge of being and existences (concrete, not abstract) and their mutual relations, is necessary as the beginning of philosophy.
A nearby bomb would remove the brickwork allowing the concrete roof to fall in on the occupants.
A pleasing "rough" appearance can be given to concrete by brushing it over soon after it has set with a stiff brush dipped in water or dilute acid.
A remarkable extension of the use of concrete has been made possible by the introduction of scientific methods of combining it with steel or iron.
A solitary seagull sits on top of a concrete lamppost, the only type of structure still standing here.
Above it is an embanking wall of irregular masonry, and below it some remains of Roman baths, including five parallel vaults of concrete.
According to Hegel, the essence of the universe is a process of thought from the abstract to the concrete; and a right understanding of this process gives the key for interpreting the evolution in time of European philosophy.
According to McKechnie (1977 ), the typology of environmental simulations includes perceptual (experiential, concrete) and conceptual (abstract ).
Aggregates used in concrete, incl. artificial components, lightweight concrete etc. Concrete additives.
All have 40-degree slope gable roofs with either concrete pantiles (the majority) or flat tiles.
Also the concrete apron outside the side door was laid.
Although experi ments on this matter are badly needed, there is little Y doubt that good steel concrete is very nearly indestruc- tire.
Although we are always on the hunt for new and exciting inlays, we primarily use wood, horn, other metals, opalescents, stone and now concrete!
An important series of experiments on the strength of masonry, brick and concrete structures will be found in the Zeitschr.
An owner wants to change his concrete door lintels that are showing rust stains.
And so, when we pass from the ontology to the ethics of Platonism, we find that, though the highest life is only to be realized by turning away from concrete human affairs and their material environment, still the sensible world is not yet an object of positive moral aversion; it is rather something which the philosopher is seriously concerned to make as harmonious, good and beautiful as possible.
Another wall fountain is little more than a motif or figurine spout that is attached to the wall and a ceramic, concrete or metal pool is placed below the spout and attached to the recirculation water tube.
Arithmetic is usually divided into Abstract Arithmetic and Concrete Arithmetic, the former dealing with numbers and the latter with concrete objects.
As little is idealism responsible for any attempt to pass off logical abstractions for concrete reality.
As regards its convenience for building purposes it may be said roughly that in "mass" work concrete is vastly more convenient than any other material.
As sea-water contains both sulphates and magnesium salts, it is especially necessary in concrete for harbour work to take every care to produce an impervious structure.
As the Pharisees accumulated the oral tradition which was afterwards codified and elaborated or preserved by fragments, which served some useful purpose, in the Talmud and other Rabbinic writings, the Sadducees acquired concrete regulations to oppose so long as they dared.
As the plant grows older, a species of fluid is secreted in the hollow joints, in which a concrete substance once highly valued in the East for its medicinal qualities, called tabaxir or tabascheer, is gradually developed.
As the result of the reconstruction of this section, thousands of wooden buildings, which had been a striking architectural characteristic of the city, were replaced by structures of steel, brick, and, especially, reinforced concrete.
At first it was feared that such bars would have a tendency to slip through the concrete in which they were embedded, but experiments have shown that if the bar is not painted but has a natural rusty surface a very considerable adhesion between the concrete and steel - as much as 2 cwt.
At one point, quite unsigned, by a Sustrans marker, is a big concrete monolith.
At one time Portland cement concrete was considered to be lacking in fireproof qualities, but now it is regarded as one of the best fire-resisting materials known.
At the same time pantheism almost necessarily presupposes a more concrete and less sophisticated conception of God and the universe.
At the same time, concrete haunches were formed to support the road deck units.
Basement floor A layer of expanded polystyrene is laid below the concrete floor to reduce heat loss.
Be especially careful not to wear them on concrete.
Before the 20th century physicists had modeled matter as hard, concrete stuff.
Behind her, claws clicked on the concrete as Brutus followed.
Bound hand and foot he was thrown alive into a mould in which a block of concrete was about to be made.
But a religion could not permanently subsist in this world of space and time without some external concrete embodiment.
But concrete is hampered by the fact that the surface always has to be formed by means of wooden or other framing, and in the case of thin walls or floors this framing becomes a serious item, involving expense and delay.
But in a thin slab, with its comparatively small span and light load, the concrete is generally strong enough to bear the shearing stresses unaided, and the reinforcement is devoted to assisting it where the tensile stresses occur.
But in this case the concrete being still wet can adapt itself more or less to the shape of the adjoining bags, and strong rough walls can be built in this way.
But instead of returning to the concrete fact of the equivalence of momentum, by which each body moving makes the other move oppositely, he denied that bodies do reciprocally act on one another, and even that bodies as mutually resisting substances press one another apart in collision.
But it is difficult and expensive to work up into various forms. Concrete has been avoided for making beams, slabs and thin walls, just because its deficiency in tensile strength doomed it to failure in such structures.
But it is in the design of steel concrete beams that the greatest ingenuity has been shown, and almost every patentee of a "system" has some new device for arranging the steel reinforcement to the best advantage.
But its inquiries may be directed either towards concrete bodies or towards abstract qualities.
But now we've got things like pre-stressed concrete and plastics.
But that one step, from the abstract to the concrete, was precisely that which the character of Lagrange's mind indisposed him to make.
But the method which was peculiarly his, and which still forms the open road to discoveries in natural science, consisted in the combination of experiment with calculation - in the transformation of the concrete into the abstract, and the assiduous comparison of results.
But they are weak, and modern experience goes to show that a strong concrete is the best, and that probably materials like broken clamp bricks or burnt clay, which are porous and yet strong, are far better than cinders as a fireproof aggregate.
But to all such precautions should be added the use of concrete or brickwork tongues running longitudinally at the bottom of the trench, such as those shown at a higher level in fig.
But where the concrete or mortar is not well made and is porous, the continual passage of water through it will gradually break up and dissolve away the calcareous constituents of the cement until its strength is utterly destroyed.
But, generally speaking, in steel concrete the cost of the cement is but a small item of the whole expense, and it is worth while to be generous with it.
By focusing on these kinds of concrete goals, you can get past the bigger fear of "What if they don't like me?"
By way of concrete illustration Herbart instances "the common observation that the properties of things exist only under external conditions.
C. i is on the earliest dwellings of man; C. 2 on systems of Thales, Heraclitus, Democritus, &c.; c. 3 on bricks; c. 4 on sand; c. 5 on lime; c. 6 on pozzolana; c. 7 on kinds of stone for building; c. 8 on methods of constructing walls in stone, brick, concrete and marble, and on the materials for stucco; c. 9 on timber, time for felling it, seasoning, &c.; and c. to on the fir trees of the Apennines.
C. t has for its subject pavements and roads, their construction, mosaic floors; c. 2 is on white stucco for walls (opus albarium); c. 3 on concrete vaults, gypsum mouldings, stucco prepared for painting; c. 4 on building of hollow walls to keep out the damp, wall decoration by various processes; c. 5 on methods and styles of wall painting, the debased taste of his time; c. 6 on fine stucco made of pounded marble - three coats to receive wall paintings; c. 7 on colours used for mural decoration; c. 8 on red lead (minium) and mercury, and how to use the latter to extract the gold from wornout pieces of stuff or embroidery; c. 9 on the preparation of red lead and the method of encaustic painting with hot wax, finished by friction; cc. to-14 on artificial colours - black, blue, purple;, c. to white lead and ostrum, i.e.
C. t is on selection of sites; c. 2 on the planning of buildings to suit different sites; c. 3 on private houses, their construction and styles, the names of the different apartments; c. 4 on the aspects suited for the various rooms; c. 5 on buildings fitted for special positions; c. 6 on farms and country houses; c. 7 on Greek houses and the names of various parts; c. 8 on construction of houses in wood, stone, brick or concrete.
Cast iron and concrete reinforced piles are now used.
Chemistry is abstract; mineralogy is concrete.
Compared with children, who tend to describe themselves in relatively simple, concrete terms, adolescents are more likely to employ complex, abstract, and psychological self-characterizations.
Concrete by itself, though strong in compression, can offer but little resistance to tensile and shearing stresses, and as these stresses always occur in beams the problem arises how best to arrange the steel so as to assist the concrete in bearing them.
Concrete confirmation of CO poisoning comes from a carboxyhemoglobin test.
Concrete in a shell is a name which might be applied to all the methods of founding a pier which depend on the very valuable property which strong hydraulic concrete possesses of setting into a solid mass under water.
Concrete is also amazing because it can be so customized.
Concrete is readily procured and easily moulded into shape.
Concrete may be compared with other building materials like masonry or timber from various points of view, such as strength, durability, convenience of building, fire resistance, appearance and cost.
Concrete pavings are being used in buildings of first importance, the aggregate being very carefully selected, and in many cases the whole mixture coloured by the use of pigments.
Concrete planter decorated with mosaic A detail of a vase This mosaic mural is on the south wall of the house.
Concrete proved a difficult material to build the kiosks from and was prone to breaking in transit and in positioning them.
Concrete reality or personality is given to this divine Ternar, as Baader calls it, through nature, the principle of self-hood, of individual being, which is eternally and necessarily produced by God.
Concrete science relates to objects or beings; abstract science to events.
Concrete terms are further subdivided as Singular, the names of things regarded as individuals, and General or Common, the names which a number of things bear in common in virtue of their possession of common characteristics.
Concrete walls, properly coped and provided with a trellis, may in some places be cheapest, and they are very durable.
Confusions between abstract and concrete terms are frequent; thus the word "relation," which is strictly an abstract term implying connexion between two things or persons, is often used instead of the correct term "relative" for people related to one another.
Considerable alarm was created about the year 1887 by the failure of two or three large structures of Portland cement concrete exposed to seawater, both in England and other countries.
Considerable remains of a theatre in concrete faced with brickwork, erected, according to an inscription, in 43 B.C., and 161 ft.
Considerable remains of public buildings, constructed in concrete faced with small stones with bands of brick at intervals, an amphitheatre with a major axis of 390 ft.
Considere's ex periments have shown that concrete when reinforced is capable of being stretched, without fracture, about twenty times as much as plain concrete.
Conventional houses are built on concrete foundations with brick walls joined together by cement.
Delicate materials like these may snag on the concrete, so if you do wear them to the pool be sure to lay out a towel before you sit down.
Democritean physics without a calculus had necessarily proved sterile of determinate concrete results, and this was more than enough to ripen the naturalism of the utilitarian school into scepticism.
Depositing concrete under water for breakwaters and bridge foundations requires special skill and special appliances.
Despite nothing coming of these overtures, neither the Diocese nor the Province were able to offer any concrete alternative to appointing another cleric.
Did you purchase any ready-mixed concrete in South West England during 2003?
Do people want to turn everything into mown grassland and concrete with a few marigolds?
Dr Hopkinson presented a rare combination of practical with theoretical ability, and his achievements in pure scientific research are not less intrinsically notable than the skill with which he applied their results to the solution of concrete engineering problems. His original work is contained in more than sixty papers, all written with a complete mastery both of style and of subject-matter.
Due to the loose interlocking log (not sectional) construction, a level concrete or paved base is required to enable installation.
Durabak - Do It Yourself truck Bedliners Uses include truck bed liner and concrete floor coating.
Elsewhere, a simple concrete or masonry wall or core has been used above as well as below ground, being carried up between embankments either of earth or rubble stone.
Even Epicureanism, which might appear concrete, was by him rightly designated abstract.
Even in his " logic " Kant speaks of abstraction from all particular objects of thought rather than of a resolution of concrete thinking into thought and its " other " as separable co-operating factors in a joint product.
Even though humans ran for thousands of years without the benefit of running shoes, they didn't run on surfaces as hard as concrete or asphalt.
Experience shows that, although spherical pebbles are to be avoided, Portland cement adheres tightly to smooth flint surfaces, and that rough stones often give a less compact concrete than smooth ones on account of the difficulty of bedding them into the matrix when laying the concrete.
External Works New paths and drives laid with using a variety of finishing effects - ie concrete, setts or clay paviors.
Fans hurled concrete, bricks, coins - anything they could find.
Few original stone kerbs remain, most having been replaced by concrete.
Figurative language is particularly problematic because the individual with Aspergers is quite concrete.
For (r), as concrete and transient, it is obviously not the real essential good that the philosopher seeks; (2) the feelings most prominently recognized as pleasures are bound up with pain, as good can never be with evil; in so far, then, as common sense rightly recognizes some pleasures as good, it can only be from their tendency to produce some further good.
For advice on the construction of bunds please read our Masonry Bunds for oil storage tanks and Concrete Bunds for oil storage tanks guidelines.
For an abstract thinker he was strangely in love with the concrete facts of life.
For first-class work, however, and especially in steel concrete, it is customary to reject very large stones, and to insist that all shall pass through a ring a of an inch in diameter.
For masonry, brick or concrete the arch subjected throughout to compression is the most natural form.
For moderate spans brick, masonry or concrete can be used without excessive cost, but for longer spans steel is more economical, and for very long spans its use is imperative.
For more active children, choosing an i play rash guard provides extra protection against abrasions and other skin irritations associated with chlorine, kick boards, pool ledges, sand and concrete.
For neither happiness, nor the concrete means to happiness, nor finally the conditions of its realization can be distributed; and in the end " not general happiness becomes the ethical standard by which legislative action is to be guided, but universal justice."
For preschool children, explanations should be simple and concrete.
For steel E =28,000,000 to 30,000,000, or on the average about twelve times its value for concrete.
For the masses can make little of abstractions and an omnipotent, omnipresent deity; they need concrete divine powers, standing nearer to themselves and their lot.
From this fact arises the ground of political obligation, for the institutions of political or civic life are the concrete embodiment of moral ideas in terms of our day and generation.
From this it will be manifest that the figures of Zoroasters religion are purely abstracrions; the concrete gods of vulgar belief being set aside.
Further along the lane, set now deep among trees, was a concrete pillbox, its embrasures facing inwards toward the airfield.
Having thus disposed of the ideas of truth and causality, he proceeds to undermine the ethical criterion, and denies that any man can aim at Good, Pleasure or Happiness as an absolute, concrete ideal.
He described it as a white, painted concrete cube of about 40cm side with a brass plaque screwed on to the top face.
He finds his panacea in the concrete life of humanity.
He lays special stress on the point that abstract ideas when held in their abstraction are almost interchangeable with their opposites - that extremes meet, and that in every true and concrete idea there is a coincidence of opposites.
He paused, leaning against a concrete abutment, mesmerized by the never-ending torrent as it flowed over the edge of the dam.
He thought not only that a form, or essence, is something different from, and at most conjoined with, matter in a concrete body, but also that in all the bodies of one kind, e.g.
He wanted it to be more complex and added the sounds of a bicycle chain falling on concrete to the mix.
He was probably looking for some concrete sign that she was in agreement with him.
He was too much under the sway of feeling and concrete imagination to be capable of great things in abstract thought.
Hence slabs or beams of long span should not be built of plain concrete, though when reinforced with steel it is admirably adapted for these purposes.
Her conversation with Jenn made the world around her more concrete.
His grasp of the procedure by which the man of science manipulated his particular concrete problems was admirable.
His religion is, however, anything but an abstraction to the savage, and stands rather for the whole of his concrete life so far as it is penetrated by a spirit of earnest endeavour.
However, the studies are not wowing anyone with concrete proof that people do indeed lose weight by practicing yoga.
Hume naturally expected that the world would see as clearly as he did the connexion between the concrete problems agitating contemporary thought and the abstract principles on which their solution depended.
I have lost track of the number of times I was asked to commit perjury in order to make my evidence more concrete.
I need concrete evidence before I'm a believer and I don't see that on the horizon.
I put a dollop of honey down on the concrete near my shed, one hot sunny afternoon.
I wish it were more concrete.
If for important walls, or for small scantlings such as steel concrete generally involves, the concrete should be deposited in quite small quantities and very carefully rammed ng osit- into position.
If the company just uses buzz words and can't give concrete evidence that they have a successful method of working, they probably aren't worth your money.
If the situation is cool, the stone hard, and the concrete carefully rammed directly it is laid down and kept moist with damp cloths, only just sufficient to moisten the whole mass is required.
If the term number is confined to number in the abstract, then number in the concrete may be described as numerical quantity.
If we abstract from any actual combination of subject and predicate and proceed to determine the types of predicate asserted in simple propositions of fact, we have on the one hand a subject which is never object, a " first substance " or concrete thing, of which may be predicated in the first place " second substance " expressing that it is a member of a concrete class, and in the second place quantity, quality, correlation, action and the like.
If we retain the unit, the arithmetic is concrete; if we ignore it, the arithmetic is abstract.
If we take a set of concrete objects, and name them in succession " one," " two," " three,"..
If you are dealing with metal, concrete, or another hard surface, it is generally best to start with a commercial product designed especially to eliminate rust.
If you do decide to try them out, keep in mind that you're not really getting concrete information, and no application can track simple profile views.
In 1900 Nebraska City ranked third among the manufacturing cities of the state, the manufactures including canned fruits and vegetables, packed pork, flour, oatmeal, hominy, grits, meal, starch, cider-vinegar, agricultural implements, windmills, paving bricks, concrete, sewer pipe, beer, over-ails and shirts.
In a new block of flats it is proposed to use precast concrete floor planks.
In all cases it is customary to fill on top of the arches with a strong Portland cement concrete to a uniform level, generally the top of the deepest beam; the floor filling is constructed and carried to this level immediately upon the completion of each tier of beams, for the purpose not only of stiffening the frame laterally, and of adding to its stability by the imposition of a static load, but also to afford constantly safe and strong working platforms at regular and convenient intervals for use throughout the entire period of the construction.
In classical and medieval times bridges were constructed of timber or masonry, and later of brick or concrete.
In concrete terms, I propose the creation of an ' Anonymity Biosphere ' .
In fact, it is the concrete embodiment of a new approach to the relations between states.
In Germany and America twoand three-hinged arches of masonry and concrete have been built, up to 150 ft.
In Great Britain masonry or concrete core walls have been generally confined to positions below ground.
In hindsight, he didn't know why he thought the rocky beach provided a more yielding place to land than concrete.
In Kantian terminology apperception is (1) transcendental - the perception of an object as involving the consciousness of the pure self as subject, and (2) empirical, - the cognition of the self in its concrete existence.
In large towns, that can mean creating rooftop spaces or growing ivy and other creepers over concrete walls.
In mixing concrete there is always a tendency for the stones to separate themselves from the sand and cement, and to form "pockets" of honeycombed concrete which are neither water-tight nor strong.
In New South Wales thirteen thin concrete dams, dependent upon horizontal curvature for their resistance to water pressure, have been constructed in narrow gorges at comparatively small cost to impound water for the use of villages.
In physical and mechanical applications, where concrete measurements are involved, there is, as pointed out in the preceding section, the additional inaccuracy due to want of exactness in the figure itself.
In primitive religions inclusive of almost every serious offence even in fields now regarded as merely social or political, its scope is gradually lessened to a single part of one section of ecclesiastical criminology, following inversely the development of the idea of holiness from the concrete to the abstract, from fetishism to mysticism.
In proportioning the quantities of matrix to aggregate the ideal to be aimed at is to get a concrete in which the voids or air-spaces shall be as small as possible; and as the lime or cement is usually by far the most expensive item, it is desir able to use as little of it as is consistent with strength.
In regard to durability good Portland cement concrete is one of the most durable materials known.
In situ concrete, once installed, is permanent and cannot then be removed.
In strictness, there is but one res completa or concrete fact, and it is the business of philosophy, as science of the whole, to expound the chief relations that constitute its complex nature.
In the absence of some concrete reason to suspect CO poisoning, the disorder is often misdiagnosed as migraine headache, stroke, psychiatric illness, food poisoning, alcohol poisoning, or heart disease.
In the case of a smooth concrete face there are no joints to follow, and the cracks become an ugly feature.
In the construction of the Vyrnwy masonry dam Portland cement concrete was used in the joints.
In the Cottancin system the concrete is replaced by bricks pierced with holes through which the vertical rods are threaded; the horizontal tie-rods are also used, but these do not merely cross the vertical ones, but are woven in and out of them.
In the first place, an operation then corresponds more closely, at an elementary stage, with the concrete process which it represents.
In the first sense the word is used either in the abstract, for jurisprudence generally or for a state of things in which the laws of a country are duly observed ("law and order"), or in the concrete for some particular rule or body of rules.
In the foreground is the original prefabricated concrete of 1935, whilst beyond the footbridge is the platform extension of 1955.
In the Matrai system thin wires are used instead of rods, and are securely fastened to rolled steel joists, which form the beams on which the slabs rest; moreover, the wires instead of being stretched tight from side to side of the slab are allowed to sag as much as the thickness of the concrete will allow.
In the megaron and other rooms the floors are of good concrete decorated with a simple series of incised lines, coloured blue and red.
In the Odyssey, where they are represented as bringing round the seasons in regular order, they are an abstraction rather than a concrete personification.
In the realm of ideas the absolute finds itself, has its own nature over against itself as objective over against subjective, and thus is in the way of overcoming its abstractness, of becoming concrete.
In the same decade the Southern Railroad rebuilt the station platform sides with the then customary prefabricated concrete.
In the sphere of the concrete sciences where law obtains only ws Eiri To 7roX6 this ideal of science can clearly find only a relative satisfaction with large reserves.
In these cases the concrete should be allowed to take all it can, but an excess of water which would flow away, carrying the cement with it, should be avoided.
In this system the concrete is filled into bags, which are at once lowered through the water like the blocks.
In view, therefore, of the probable decline in the Chinese demand, the cultivation of the drug for the European market in the hilly districts of India, and its preparation after the mode adopted in Turkey, viz., by drying the concrete juice as quickly as possible, might be worthy of the consideration of the British government.
Indeed, this is bound to happen more or less, but it is guarded against by lowering the concrete slowly in a special box, the bottom of which is opened as it reaches the ground on which the concrete is to be laid.
Instead of being placed in a metal coffin or concrete tomb, people who choose this method of burial are placed in biodegradable containers, which will naturally decompose over time.
Instead of concrete feed towers and 100 or so grotesque concrete pens, I now see slender young cherry trees and limes.
Instead of making the motive to choice a factor within the concrete process of volition, he regards it as a cause antecedent to the exercise of a special mental faculty.
It belongs to this view to regard the imperfection of things as devoid of real being, and so incapable of being definitely thought or known; accordingly, we find that Plato has no technical term for that in the concrete sensible world which hinders it from perfectly expressing the abstract ideal world, and which in Aristotle's system is distinguished as absolutely formless matter (An).
It consists of a 50m steel bridge leading to a 32 square meter reinforced concrete pontoon.
It harmonizes with the concrete visualizing turn of his mind that, to quote Professor Henry Smith, "Clifford was above all and before all a geometer."
It has been to a great extent superseded by Portland cement, on account of the much greater strength of the latter, though lime concrete is still used in many places for dry foundations and small structures.
It has therefore been proposed, for greater depths, to put four columns of tubbings of smaller diameters, 82 and 52 ft., in the shaft, and fill up the remainder of the boring with concrete, so that with thinner and lighter castings a greater depth may be reached.
It is a two story concrete blockhouse of the standard design with both floors above ground.
It is by the help of numbers that concrete quantities are practically measured and calculated.
It is essential that they shall be strong and stiff, so as not to yield at all from the pressure of the wet concrete.
It is hard to get more eco-friendly than concrete.
It is heavily reinforced with T40 rebar and will require the use of 1,000 cu m of concrete.
It is important to begin the study of graphics with concrete cases rather than with tracing values of an algebraic function.
It is in contemplating the abstract reality which concrete things obscurely exhibit, the type or ideal which they imperfectly imitate, that the true life of the mind in man must consist; and as man is most truly man in proportion as he is mind, the desire of one's own good, which Plato, following Socrates, held to be permanent and essential in every living thing, becomes in its highest form the philosophic yearning for knowledge.
It is in reference to the measurement of areas and volumes that it is of special importance to illustrate geometrical truths by means of concrete cases.
It is the oscillation which Mill manifests between the conception of his formula as it is actually applicable to concrete problems in practice, and the conception of it as an expression of a theoretical limit to practical procedure.
It is true that it can be moulded to any desired shape, but mouldings in concrete generally give the appearance of being unsatisfactory imitations of stone.
It is true that we obtain this result by subtracting 3 from io by means of a subtractiontable (concrete or ideal); but this table merely gives the generalized results of a number of operations of addition or subtraction performed with concrete units.
It must be remembered that one of the great advantages of concrete is that five-sixths of its total mass may be provided from local sand and gravel, on which no carriage has to be paid.
It sits on location at the end of an unfinished line of precast concrete caissons, 500 m out into the English Channel.
It took in excess of two full loads of readymixed concrete to fill the abyss.
It was a concrete expansion of the ideas of The Seven Lamps - that the buildings and art of a people are the expression of their religion, their morality, their national aspirations and social habits.
It will be a considerable improvement on the concrete flagstones which previously paved the Square.
It will not be easy to infuse into so abstract and bloodless a term as "metaphysics" the fuller life (and especially the inclusion of ethical considerations) suggested by the more concrete term "philosophy."
It's less expensive for the builder to build a home with a crawl space than it is for them to build a foundation on a concrete slab.
Its axes are 951and 79 yds., and it is in the main cut in the rock, though some parts of it are built with concrete.
Its fundamental motive is the serious consideration, in a continuous and concrete manner, of that union of philosophy and history which had been glimpsed by earlier thinkers, but had hitherto been pursued in a manner more or less capricious.
Its mineral baths are frequented in summer; and the volcanic pozzolana earth (also found near Rome), used now as in Roman times for making cement and concrete, derives its name from the place.
Jake trotted behind her, his nails clicking on the concrete floor.
January 2006 - Various groundworks, concrete piles and round slabs, drainage manholes across site and concrete retaining wall started.
Jonny opened it to reveal a comfortable looking room with a plush couch set, rugs to cover the concrete floors, and television lighting the room.
Keep in mind that children are concrete, not literal, thinkers.
Larger span covers may require propping from below to prevent distortion caused by the weight of the wet concrete infill.
Lastly, under the head of " organic," come geology, botany and animal physiology - presenting the concrete results of these processes in the three kingdoms of nature.
Lay a concrete path & you must learn to expect dirty fingernails.
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Like a tiny flower bursting through souless concrete, the wise feel a heartbeat beneath their feet.
Limestone is found in a broad belt in the east, south and west; more than 40% of the total output in 1908, which was valued at $1,102,009, was used for roadmaking and more than one-sixth in the manufacture of concrete.
Lintels can be made from in-situ reinforced concrete, timber and reinforced masonry.
Made from clay, ceramics or refractory concrete consisting of pumice or kiln burnt aggregate bonded with high alumina cement.
Many business letters also have a specific "call to action" which means the letter suggests the sender do something specific or take a concrete step.
Many devices are used, however, to ensure the adhesion between concrete and bar being perfect.
Masonry and concrete are more durable than metal, and metal than timber.
Metaphysically, he did not, indeed, as is often supposed, think the nature of substance to be matter and form, because in his view God is a substance, yet with no matter; but he did think that every natural substance or body is a concrete whole, composed of matter and form different from matter.
Mill, has been disputed on the ground that adjectives are applied both to concrete and to abstract terms. Hence some logicians make a separate class for adjectives, as being the names neither of things nor of qualities, and describe them as Attributive terms.
Mold growing on tile or hard surfaces, such as concrete or linoleum basement floors, can be spot treated.
Moreover, when depositing the concrete, a shovel or other tool must be worked between the wet concrete and the shutter.
Much of the external lighting was also cast into the concrete paving.
Near Douglas, in Converse county, there is a reinforced concrete dam, impounding the waters of Laprele Creek, to furnish water for over 30,000 acres, and power for transmitting electricity.
New concrete surfaces must be well washed before use to remove all the excess surface alkali.
No other sounds stirred but that of her boots over concrete.
No steel and concrete minimalism here, but marble and chrome and a bank of lifts that whisked us to the fifth floor.
Nobody ever means to drop a phone on the concrete, but it happens.
Nor were these abstract investigations unaccompanied by concrete results.
Number is concrete or abstract according as it does or does not relate to particular objects.
Obviously, the junction between the puddle and the concrete might have been made at any lower level.
On the Copernican change the heavenly bodies were recognized as concrete and yet subject to calculable law.
On the other hand, for reasons already given, thin walls, such as house walls, will cost more in concrete.
On the other hand, if the concrete is rough and porous the sea-water will gradually eat into the heart of the structure, especially in a case like a dam, where the water, being higher on one side than the other, constantly forces its way through the rough material, and decomposes the Portland cement it contains.
On the other hand, since the philosopher must still live and act in the concrete sensible world, the Socratic identification of wisdom and virtue is fully maintained by Plato.
On the other hand, the concrete, being a non-conductor, preserves the steel from being softened and twisted by excessive temperature.
On the other hand, water should be given generously in hot weather, also when absorbent stone is used or when the concrete is not rammed.
On the other, he assigned to vas with its insight into rationality too high a function with regard to the concrete in which the surd was present, a power to certify the truth of scientific principles.
On the streets, there were surface shelters brick buildings with a thick roof of reinforced concrete.
On the Titicus, a tributary of the Croton river, an earthen dam was completed in 1895, with a concrete core wall zoo ft.
On the whole, the grouping method refers mainly to concrete numbers and the counting method to abstract numbers.
One can hardly see how the Baconian method could have applied to concrete substances.
One concrete preventative is to never feed honey to infants younger than 12 months as it is one known source of botulism spores.
One of six self-feed drill rigs used with Nimbus Ultima core drills to stitch drill the reinforced concrete haunches.
One of the few drawbacks of concrete is that, unlike brickwork or masonry, it has nearly always to be deposited within moulds or framing which give it the required shape, and which are removed after it is set.
One of the great objections to the appearance of concrete is the fact that soon after its erection irregular cracks invariably appear on its surface.
Or does the same, blind inattention to the concrete presence of our fellows underlie both the gospel and the warfare?
Outside the property has the benefit of a concrete driveway with side lawned area having well stocked borders.
Percolation toe and concrete t through this sand is thus added to the original leakage.
Philosophy corrects in this way the abstractions which are inevitably made by the scientific specialist, and may claim, therefore, to be the only "concrete" science, that is to say, the only science which takes account of all the elements in the problem, and the only science whose results can claim to be true in more than a provisional sense.
Piles made of steel concrete are driven into the ground with blows that would shatter the best of timber.
Portland cement concrete, on the other hand, may be used without fear in sea-water, provided that certain reasonable precautions are taken.
Productive imagination is thus the concrete element'of knowledge, and its general modes are the abstract expression of the a priori laws of all possible experience.
Prolonged sitting, inappropriate leg positioning during sedentary activity, or standing on concrete flooring for prolonged periods may be associated with an increased incidence of leg cramps.
Protestors against the widening of the A12 near Colchester occupied several pillboxes, even digging tunnels through the concrete floors.
Reaching the wall, Deidre ignored the scrape of concrete against her hands and knees as she clambered on top.
Riveted sheets of steel have been occasionally used, and, where bedded in a sufficient thickness of concrete, with success.
Rockland county quarries considerable trap rock, used mostly for road-making and concrete, and Ulster county has for more than a century produced most of the domestic millstones used in the United States.
Roof finishes are offered to complement local architecture and include for example, fiberglass shingles, concrete or clay tiles or natural slate.
Roughly it may be said that where a large mass of concrete is to be mixed at one or two places a good machine will be of great advantage.
Sample IEP goals for autism can help answer a few of the questions as they present concrete examples.
Schelling had neither the strength of thinking nor 4-he acquired knowledge necessary to hold the balance between the abstract treatment of cosmological notions and the concrete researches of special science.
School-age children have concrete fears, such being hurt, doing badly in school, dying, or natural disasters.
Seneca even made the discussion of such problems into a regular discipline, claiming that their concrete character gave an interest in morality to those who had no love for abstractions; while they prevented those who had from losing themselves in the clouds.
Setting concrete limits about the amount of time that can be spent playing games and then enforcing these limits is essential.
Some concrete examples will best illustrate the nature of such ablutions.
Some of these had been prepared with interior parapets and platforms of concrete for medium guns.
Some of these have been replaced with concrete kerbs.
Sometimes in massive concrete structures large and heavy stones as big as a man can lift are buried in the concrete after it is laid in position but while it is still wet.
Sometimes rough concrete is rendered over with a plaster of cement and sand after the shutters have been removed, but this is liable to peel off and should be avoided.
Speculative or theoretic knowledge is divided into abstract and concrete.
St Martin's Gate A concrete footbridge over the 1960s Inner Ring Road which, controversially, punched through the City Wall.
Steelwork that has to come in contact with brickwork or concrete should not be painted, but should receive a wash of cement as the brickwork or concrete-work proceeds.
Stone flagged floor with some concrete blocks for repairs; heating grilles; flush plank flooring beneath the benches.
Studies of particular questions, both concrete and theoretical, in foreign languages are too numerous to specify, and much of the best modern work is to be found in economic periodicals.
Such concrete is known as rubble concrete.
Such hinges have been used not only for metal arches, but in a modified form for masonry and concrete arches.
Such stones may be of any size subject to each of them covering only a small proportion of the width of the structure (in the Vyrnwy dam they reached 8 or 10 tons each), and the spaces between them, where large enough, must be similarly built in with smaller, but always the largest possible, stones; spaces too small for this treatment must be filled and rammed with concrete.
Sweep and hose down sidewalks, driveways, decks and concrete patios.
Tabiya or rammed concrete of red earth and stone is the almost universal building material, and the houses are consequently seldom more than two storeys in height.
That pleasure is not the real absolute good, was no ground for not including it in the good of concrete human life; and after all only coarse and vulgar pleasures were indissolubly linked to the pains of want.
That steel concrete can be used for piles is perhaps the most astonishing feature in this invention.
The " true account " of the world in his own words is " that the concrete whole, which may be described indifferently as an eternal intelligence realized in the related facts of the world, or as a system of related facts rendered possible by such an intelligence, partially and gradually reproduces itself in us, communicating piecemeal, but in inseparable correlation, understanding and the facts understood, experience and the experienced world."
The already existing worship of Athena Hygieia had nothing to do with Hygieia the goddess of health, but merely denoted the recognition of the power of healing as one of the attributes of Athena, which gradually became crystallized into a concrete personality.
The anchor ties are connected to girders embedded in large concrete blocks in the foundations of the approach viaducts.
The anchors are built up of steel plates and angle bars, and are buried in a large mass of concrete.
The area of the port is 132 acres, and the inner harbour is protected by a stone and concrete breakwater 5950 ft.
The assembly pads are supported on concrete pillars that connect directly with the sandstone bedrock below.
The author's intent with they way she speaks is concrete, built upon word by word to enclose her readers into the story until the very last page.
The barrage will be made from a series of huge caissons (concrete blocks that are common in underwater construction ).
The beach is accessed by a concrete track with a 30 foot concrete jetty built out onto the beach.
The blocking ships were stripped of all fittings and filled with rubble and concrete.
The bridge is a box-culvert tunnel, formed by erecting pre-cast concrete sections on the base.
The canvas was laid in a hopper barge and there filled with the concrete and sewn up. The enormous bag was then dropped through a door in the bottom of the barge upon the breakwater foundation.
The casual concept, as given by experience, expresses not a necessary objective order of things, but an ordered scheme of perception; it is subjective and cannot be postulated as a concrete law apart from consciousness.
The ceiling above us was divided with half the room beneath a concrete slab and the remainder under what appeared as thick planking, well out of reach to either of us.
The channel was cast using a concrete slipform paver with a special mold.
The chief critical difficulty felt by this school is in identifying any concrete historic fact with the unchanging idea, that is, in making Jesus of Nazareth the incarnation of God.
The chimney breast was treated to a concrete effect paint finish.
The conception of a normal harmony between the higher and lower elements of human life has begun to be disturbed, and the side of Plato's teaching that deals with the inevitable imperfections of the world of concrete experience becomes again prominent.
The concrete consisted of I cement, 2 sand and 3 to 4 broken stone.
The concrete covered culvert is now the only entrance to the fields at the far end of Windsor Avenue.
The concrete escapes from the bag, which is then drawn up and refilled.
The concrete fingers reaching back into the slope to join building and land are the only real extravagance.
The concrete is reinforced by eleven 9 -in.
The concrete itself should always be the very best quality, and Portland cement should be used on account of its superiority to all others.
The concrete not only affords much of the strength to resist compression, but effectively protects the steel from corrosion.
The concrete plinth awaits the railroad to correct its size.
The constituents of concrete are sometimes spoken of as the matrix and the aggregate, and these terms, though somewhat oldfashioned, are convenient.
The converting factor mentioned under (i) therefore represents a rate; and partition, applied to concrete cases, leads to a rate.
The Diesels are the new, very concrete ' other ' in a Hegelian dialectic which defines the your world.
The division into abstract and concrete, for instance, is logical, if the former is taken as relating to number and the latter to numerical quantity (§ I I).
The Elephant & Castle is best known for its pink concrete eyesore.
The entrance is a small concrete entrance blockhouse in one corner of the car park.
The entrance under the facility was hastily dug but the tunnel running beneath the facility had thick metal walls and concrete floors and was lit by battery-operated lanterns.
The Essays are undoubtedly written with more maturity and skill than the Treatise; they contain in more detail application of the principles to concrete problems, such as miracles, providence, immortality; but the entire omission of the discussion forming part ii.
The existence of external things is as certain as the existence of the concrete subject, and the subject cannot cognise himself as existing save in relation to the world of facts of external perception.
The fact that a comparatively brittle material like concrete can be subjected not only to heavy loads but also to the jar and vibration from the blows of a heavy pile ram makes it appear as if its nature and properties had been changed by the steel reinforcement.
The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth.
The final paper will give concrete hints for gender sensitive media didactics.
The first evening we attended the service in the village church, built of concrete with wooden pews.
The first of these deals with the notion of duty, and endeavours to define the good or the ultimate end of action; the second lays out the scheme of concrete duties which are deducible from, or which, at least, are covered by, this abstractly stated principle.
The following day, a super market tabloid offered a one million dollar reward for concrete information on the existence of the "Psychic Tipster," Howard Abbott's new nom de plume.
The forms of thought and what gives thought its particular content in concrete acts of thinking could not be regarded as subsisting in a purely external and indifferent relation one to the other.
The forts are constructed in concrete with armoured cupolas.
The four concrete bases for the 25 foot steel gantry can still be seen on either side of the building.
The government, in short, has no concrete garbage disposal policy.
The great need of the age was authority; and authority was most likely to strike the imagination of the faithful if it found a vivid concrete embodiment in the person of the pope.
The guided bus way would involve replacing the track with a concrete guideway and demolition of the stations to provide car parking.
The harbour lies between the pier on the north and the spur of land called the Nothe on the south, and is protected by a concrete wall extending 500 ft.
The heads of the piles are sawn off, and a platform of timber or concrete rests on them.
The hydrated lime, after being passed through a fine screen to sort out any lumps unaffected by the water, is ready for concrete making, and if not required at once should be stored in a dry place.
The hypostasis through which this takes place is the personal Logos through whose union with this potential man, in the womb of Mary, the potential man acquires a concrete reality, an individual existence.
The important point of his idea was that it combined steel and concrete in such a way that the best qualities of each material were brought into play.
The interior of the well is generally filled up with concrete or brick when the required depth has been reached.
The interval between the back of the tubbing and the sides of the borehole is then filled up with concrete, which on setting fixes the tubbing firmly in position.
The introduction of steel concrete (also known as ferroconcrete, armoured concrete, or reinforced concrete) is generally attributed to Joseph Monier, a French gardener, who about the year 1868 was anxious to build some concrete water basins.
The lack of concrete proposals for ad-hoc collaborative projects represents the main area of disappointment to date.
The Land Beyond the concrete yard is a small sloping paddock.
The large concrete blockhouse beside the beach probably has much to do with this.
The last time I drove passed there I saw concrete gnomes in the front garden under the window of my birth.
The latest change in the material of bridges has been the introduction of f erro-concrete, armoured concrete, or concrete strengthened with steel bars for arched bridges.
The legend continues to live on because there is no concrete evidence to conclusively state without a doubt that there is no monster living within Loch Ness.
The lower grades in classification such as sub-species and varieties on the one hand, and the higher grades on the other, such as genera and families, were admitted to be human conceptions imposed on the living world, but species were concrete, objective existences to be discovered and named.
The majority of these systems have emanated from France, where steel concrete is largely used.
The materials on the coast were clay and gravel wrought into concrete, sun-dried bricks and pise, or rammed work, cut stalks of plants formed with clay a kind of staff, and lintels were made by burying stems of cana brava (Gynerium saccharoides) in blocks of pise.
The matrix is the lime or cement, whose chemical action with the added water causes the concrete to solidify; and the aggregate is the broken stone or hard material which is embedded in the matrix.
The mixing and laying should all be done very thoroughly; the concrete should be rammed in position, and any old surface of concrete which has to be covered should be cleaned and coated with fresh cement.
The most real realities to Plato and Aristotle had been thought and the objects of thought, vows and vomit, whether abstracted from sensibles or inherent in " matter," as the incognizable basis of all concrete existence.
The next port of call was the data center, buried ten meters down in an immense concrete bunker.
The only grouting that should be permitted in tall buildings would be in levelling up the tops of the concrete footings to receive the masonry courses, or in a very thin layer between the column pedestal and the masonry bed.
The only potential difficulty with Aries' pairing with Libra, Gemini or Aquarius is that these signs love the abstract, while Aries prefers things to be a bit more concrete.
The park is the world's first completely concrete indoor skate park.
The pathways should be paved with tiles, brick or stone, or made of concrete and cement, and the surface should be gently rounded so that the water required for evaporation may drain to the sides while the centre is sufficiently dry to walk upon; they should also have brick or stone edgings to prevent the water so applied soaking away at the sides and thus being wasted.
The pier can be bolted directly to a suitable concrete floor.
The pipe was continuously welded, and concrete coated for protection and negative buoyancy.
The porous paving can be materials such as gravel, grasscrete, porous (no fines) concrete blocks or porous asphalt.
The principal objects of physics are concrete substances, or abstract though physical qualities.
The prisoners also made a bowling alley out of concrete, as well as a concrete billiards table, complete with concrete balls.
The propositions of mathematics seem to be independent of this or that special fact of experience, and to remain unchanged even when the concrete matter of experience varies.
The puddle wall is crossed by a pedestal of concrete carry- - 3 ing the brick discharge cul v ert.
The R12 building was huge and the thick steel reinforced concrete walls were designed to withstand nuclear blast.
The rapid erosion of the soft limestone bed at one time threatened the destruction of the power, but this has been prevented by an enormous apron and an artificial concrete floor (completed in 1879).
The rate of flow is largely dependent upon the proportion of bitumen it contains, and is of course retarded by mixing it with sand and stone to form what is commonly called asphalt concrete.
The safe tensile strength of Portland cement concrete would be something like one-tenth of its compressive strength, and might be far less.
The same kind of investigation maybe extended to many cases of natural motion, such as voluntary action or nutrition; and though inquiry is here directed towards concrete bodies, and does not therefore penetrate so deeply into reality as in research for forms, yet great results may be looked for with more confidence.
The same praise cannot, however, be given to lime concrete.
The sawdust adapts it self to the rough shape of the concrete, and deadens the blow to some extent.
The scientific and practical value of this idea was soon seized upon by various inventors and others, and the number of patented systems of combining steel with concrete is constantly increasing.
The seats are fixed with steel angles to precast concrete planks supported on steel beams to form a rake.
The sermons of these men were largely scriptural, the cardinal evangelical truths being emphasized with reality and vigour, but with a tendency to abstract theology rather than concrete religion.
The shutters must be planed, and coated with a mixture of soap and oil, so as to come away easily after the concrete is set.
The skate park is made of high quality concrete which is hard wearing and Vandal proof.
The small neat headstones are of bronze plaques mounted on small white sloping concrete blocks each bearing the regimental insignia of the deceased.
The speculative sciences, indeed, are classified according to their relation to form, pure, abstract or concrete, i.e.
The spores of the fungus will find a way through brickwork, concrete and similar material, in order to reach woodwork that may be on the other side.
The steel bridge is already waiting on site and concrete abutments have been built for it.
The steel frame is fixed to the piles using circular concrete pile caps.
The steel reinforcement is generally applied in the form of vertical rods built in the wall at intervals, with lighter horizontal rods which cross the vertical ones, and thus form a network of steel which is buried in the concrete.
The steel reinforcement is of immense importance in fireproof work, because, if properly designed, it enables the concrete to hold together and do its work even when it has been cracked by fire and water.
The structures in which steel concrete is used may be analysed as consisting essentially of (I) walls, (2) columns, (3) piles, (4) beams, (5) slabs, (6) arches.
The substantial good of the universe, in Aristotle's view, is the pure activity of universal abstract thought, at once subject and object, which, itself changeless and eternal, is the final cause and first source of the whole process of change in the concrete world.
The sugar thus produced, by constant stirring and evaporation almost to dryness, forms a species of small-grained concrete.
The surface building consists of a rectangular windowless concrete blockhouse with one corner cut out and a slightly hipped roof.
The surface of the concrete was finished by hand before the mosaic of tiles, mirrors and handmade ceramics was applied.
The tank must be water-tight, and the precaution necessary to be taken in order to ensure this is dependent upon the nature of the soil; it is usual, however, for the tanks to be lined with concrete.
The theatre, covered by a stream of lava, and built partly of small rectangular blocks of the same material, though in the main of concrete, has been superimposed upon the Greek building, some foundations of which, in calcareous stone, of which the seats are also made, still exist.
The theoretical proof rather serves as useful aid towards the more exact determination of the nature and province of self-determination, and of its relation to the whole concrete nature of humanity.
The thermal coefficient of expansion of steel and concrete is nearly the same, otherwise changes of temperature would cause shearing stress at the junction of the two materials.
The thorough mixing of the constituents is a most important item in the production of good concrete.
The townwalls are built of flint and concrete bonded with ironstone, and are backed with earth.
The tufa, sperone and peperino were easy to quarry, and could be employed by those who possessed comparatively elementary tools, while travertine, which came into use later, was an excellent building stone, and the lava (selce) served for paving stones and as material for concrete.
The university is well-equipped with laboratories, the psychological laboratory, the laboratories of Sibley college and the hydraulic laboratory of the college of civil engineering being especially noteworthy; the last is on Fall Creek, where a curved concrete masonry dam has been built, forming Beebe Lake.
The upper level is a surface concrete blockhouse often referred to as an ' Aztec Temple ' .
The use of reinforced concrete as a building material received a special impetus in consequence.
The walls were solid concrete and windowless.
The water, like all the other constituents of concrete, should be clean and free from vegetable matter.
The wearing surface was a very hard lime, almost akin to concrete.
The work done includes a concrete dock, mechanically equipped to convey freight between river and railways.
The work included a massive new concrete foundation, hence the necessity to build the coffer dam.
There are a few concrete steps we can take together now to improve preparedness for an influenza pandemic.
There are a large gymnasium and a stadium of re-enforced concrete for athletic contests, capable of seating 20,000 people and one of the largest athletic fields in the world.
There are also real-word problems that are built into the lessons, making it easy to turn abstract concepts into concrete applications.
There are many other informative books about more concrete aspects of dating available online - such as sexual techniques and information.
There are these huge concrete blocks, built where the ghetto used to be.
There are various minor external causes for the failure and ultimate destruction of cement mortar and concrete, but their discussion is a matter for the specialist.
There is a concrete loading dock at the front edge of the site.
There is no concrete data as to when Samuil created an autonomous Macedonian archbishopric.
These are concrete pits of a few square meters, leveled flush with the ground, with some steel plates like rectangular manhole covers.
These are our best authorities, but they are deficient in concrete facts.
These can be sunk to almost any depth or brought up to any height, and are filled with Portland cement concrete.
These conditions, the postulates of practical reason, are the concrete expressions of the three transcendental ideas, and in them we have the full significance of the ideas for reason.
These defects will no doubt be overcome as concrete grows in popularity as a building material and its aesthetic treatment is better understood.
These kits are also suitable for fixing seats onto surfaces of bituminous macadam, laid on top of concrete.
These machines are highly articulate and can be fitted with a variety of bucket sizes and other accessories such as a concrete breaker.
These portions usually consist of masonry in some form, including under that general head stone masonry, brickwork and concrete.
These rods assist in taking the weight, and the whole network binds the concrete together and prevents it from FIG.
These three breakwaters, with a united length of rather more than 14 m., are each built of massive concrete blocks in the form of a practically vertical wall founded on the solid chalk and rising to a quay level of 10 ft.
These uprights are supported on huge piers of masonry and concrete, the foundations for which were carried down, by the aid of iron caissons and compressed air, to a depth of about 15 metres on the side next the Seine, and about 9 metres on the other side.
They are built of concrete faced with small blocks of stone, and at the bottom are nearly 9 ft.
They are exceedingly thin, but being buried in concrete no danger of their perishing from rust is to be feared.
They are generally of brick and concrete.
They are repelled by the dryness of much of the matter, the unsuitableness of many of the topics discussed for poetic treatment, the arbitrary assumption of premises, the entire failure to establish the connexion between the concrete phenomena which the author professes to explain and these assumptions, and the erroneousness of many of the doctrines which are stated with dogmatic confidence.
They had devised canons for the investigation of the concrete problems of this, but had either ignored altogether the need to give an account of the mirroring mind, or, in the alternative had been, with some naïveté, content to assume that their nominalist friends, consistently their allies in the long struggle with traditionalism, had adequately supplied or could adequately supply the need.
They had no abstract ideas; in their minds all was concrete, visible and tangible.
They have constructed the earth bund and inserted concrete posts down to floor level to prevent the fence blowing down in a gale.
They have the property of entering into chemical combination with the lime, forming a hard setting compound, and increasing the hardness of the resulting concrete.
They need to be especially careful at high elevations and in areas with surfaces that reflect the sun's rays, such as off sand, water, concrete, and snow.
They offer little by way of evidence or concrete exemplification.
They were willing enough to admit the abstract claims of the Empire; but in the world of feudalism there was a multitude of established customs and rights which rudely conflicted with these claims, and in action, remote and abstract considerations gave way before concrete and present realities.
They will only be effective for certain soil types, where a sufficient impedance mismatch with concrete for the wall can be achieved.
This can be achieved through construction of reinforced masonry or reinforced concrete window frames.
This concrete side of moral philosophy came specially into evidence when Stoicism was transplanted to Rome.
This corresponds to the concrete method, in which we have 9 objects, take away 4 of them, and recount the remainder.
This course introduces delegates to the new terminology that applies to familiar properties of fresh and hardened concrete.
This curriculum also teaches concepts in a concrete way in the earliest grades, then moves to pictures, and then finally in the higher grades teaches the abstract.
This interest in the concrete phenomena of society inspired him with the idea of the Annual Register (1759), which he designed to present a broad grouping of the chief movements of each year.
This is the lowest stage of concrete consciousness - life, and not knowledge; the spirit inspires, but does not reflect.
This method can only be carried out in still water, and where strong and tight framing can be built which will prevent the concrete from escaping.
This raked structure consists of concrete treads and timber infill risers and is used as a supply air plenum.
This report soon took the more concrete form that he had fled to the Parthians and would return thence to take vengeance on Rome.
This section covers musique concrete, minimalism, electroacoustic works, third stream compositions and more.
This space is filled with a flooring of reinforced concrete, resting on the two arches, and carrying the central roadway.
This steel septum was protected on either side by a thin wall of asphaltic concrete supported by rubble stone embankments, and owing to irregular settling of 'the embankments became greatly distorted, apparently, however, without causing leakage.
This success was largely due to the originality of its title, the diversity of its contents (von Hartmann professing to obtain his speculative results by the methods of inductive science, and making plentiful use of concrete illustrations), the fashionableness of its pessimism and the vigour and lucidity of its style.
This, again, is a process of abstraction, the attainment of abstract ideas which, apart from the concrete individuals, are conceived as having a substantive existence.
Thus a hypothesis may be ruled out by principles or postulates without any reference to the concrete facts which belong to that division of the subject to explain which the hypothesis is formulated.
Thus it comes about that the largest use of cement is for manufacturing concrete for dock and harbour work, and for the making of foundations.
Thus the building material made up of separate substances combined into one is known as concrete (see below).
Thus the concrete fact required to enable us to pass arithmetically from the conception of a fractional number to the conception of a surd is the fact of performing calculations by means of logarithms.
Thus the one point of weakness in the concrete slab is overcome by the addition of steel in its simplest form, and both materials are used to their best advantage.
Thus the term "man" is concrete, while "manhood" and "humanity" are abstract, the names of the qualities implied.
Thus we start '3 from the point of view of a world of separate persons and things, in which thought mirrors these concrete realities, taken as ultimate subjects of predicates.
Thus, physiology is an abstract science; but zoology is concrete.
Timelines are helpful in allowing your child to see history unfold in a concrete way.
To allow, however, that abstraction admits of degrees, and that it never obliterates all reference to that from which it is abstracted, is to take a step forward in the direction of the correlation of logical forms with the concrete processes of actual thinking.
To do this holes are first drilled into the concrete using specialized drilling equipment.
To do this, consider what the ordinary processes of multiplication and division mean in reference to concrete objects.
To the end, the ego remains, partly the pure logical ego, partly the concrete individual spirit, and no explanation is afforded of the relation between them.
To the prophets knowledge of God is concrete knowledge of the divine character as shown in acts - knowledge of a person, not of an idea.
Turning from abstract mathematical and moral relations to concrete relations of coexistence and succession among phenomena - the third sort of knowable relation - Locke finds the light of pure reason disappear; although these relations form " the greatest and most important part of what we desire to know."
Two long jetties or breakwaters have now been constructed, about 350 acres of harbour area have been dredged to a depth of 30 ft., and two wharves of steel and concrete, one 600 ft.
Two rolled from his place on the concrete floor in the corner and unwrapped the ratty blanket he used to keep himself warm.
Vertical services can be installed between infill blocks and the void made good with in-situ concrete.
Water-tight concrete is a suitable material for the purpose; it need not be made so thick as the puddle core, and is therefore sometimes used with considerable advantage in lieu of the puddle for the whole depth below ground.
We also custom make concrete boxes to complement your own specific ring set.
We don't drag a concrete mixer across the Continent.
We need devices, indeed, to determine priority or superior claim to be " better known absolutely or in the order of nature," but on the whole the problem is fairly faced.4 Of science Aristotle takes for his examples sometimes celestial physics, more often geometry or arithmetic, sometimes a concrete science, e.g.
We never had anything concrete to tell her— still don't.
Weed growth, mainly herbaceous or annual, will be your best bet, but better still forget the concrete!
When concrete starts to chip and flake it can be a real eyesore.
When hard ground is reached, a seat is formed for the cast iron tubbing, which is built up in the usual way and concreted at the back, a small quantity of caustic soda being sometimes used in mixing the concrete to prevent freezing.
When Hellenism came to stand in the world for something concrete and organic, it was, of course, no mere abstract principle, but embodied in a language, a literature, an artistic tradition.
When mixed the concrete is carried at once to the position required, and if the matrix is quick-setting Portland cement this operation must not be delayed.
When you are in an underground parking garage surrounded by thick concrete walls, it's understandable that you may not be getting any service from your provider.
When, however, we come to the equation x 2 --- 5, where we are dealing with numbers, not with quantities, we have no concrete facts to assist us.
Wherever possible re-cycled and innovative materials such as crushed concrete and reclaimed plastic will be used.
While definitive answers to these questions are yet to come, research done over the past decade or so has shown more concrete results when it comes to treatment.
While praise can be a reward unto itself, sometimes more concrete rewards are useful as well.
While we presumed Daniel Brennan and Merrill Cooms had gleaned much about our group from our many conversations, we continued to volunteer nothing concrete.
With regard to forms, the investigation may be directed either towards concrete bodies or towards qualities.
With regard to geometry, he holds emphatically that it is an empirical doctrine, a science founded on observation of concrete facts.
With regard to the first., in ultimate result it depends upon the theory of forms; for whenever the compound body can be regarded as the sum of certain simple natures, then our knowledge of the forms of these natures gives us the power of superinducing a new nature on the concrete body.
With respect to his attacks on the critical philosophy in the Metakritik (1799), it is easy to understand how his concrete mind, ever alive to the unity of things, instinctively rebelled against that analytic separation of the mental processes which Kant attempted.
Within the city limits the Muskingum is crossed by seven bridges (including a notable concrete Y bridge) and the Licking by two.
Within the town are two subterranean vaulted buildings in good masonry, of uncertain nature, some other remains under modern buildings, and a concrete ruin known as the "Bagni di Bacco."
Yet they do not really add much to what is there already, and they have the drawbacks of pseudonymity; they lack concrete and personal qualities; they are general expressions of tendencies which we cannot well locate or measure, save by means of the Apostolic Fathers themselves or of their earliest Catholic successors.
You could not find a more inappropriate place for such an ugly concrete monstrosity.
You may even type in the name of popular landmarks such as the concrete cows or the peace pagoda.
You may never need to blend chunks of concrete in your kitchen, but if you're looking for a high-powered home appliance capable of liquefying fruits and vegetables in the push of a button, the HealthMaster blender may be your solution.
You must admit not much you can do with a concrete flyover - except flyover!
Younger school-age children, six to 12 years old, should be at the "concrete operations" stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory, characterized by the ability to use logical and coherent actions in thinking and solving problems.