What's the difference of tensile young's modulus and compressive young's modulus?

For cement and concrete materials, can the young's modulus be obtained from either the tension stress-strain curve or the compression stress-strain curve? if not, what's the difference between them?

05 June 2015 354 3 View

Can Abaqus model thermal effects on moisture flow under unsaturated conditions?

I spent much time in searching the online documents to figure out if Abaqus can model the thermal effects on moisture flow under unsaturated conditions. Unfortunately, there is no relevant example...

31 December 2014 5,059 5 View

Can anyone suggest a classic/good textbook to learn the theory of plasticity?

31 December 2014 5,943 7 View

What's the typical heat transfer coefficient of concrete (to air)?

It seems that a big range of values to me, and makes me confused. Can anyone clarify it? If you can provide a variety of heat transfer coefficient at different scenarios (different w/c, wind...

31 December 2014 3,559 4 View

What's the annual consumption of concrete in the world?

I tried my best to find the data in 2009, which is 25 billion tonnes [CSI,2009], see attached. Does anyone have more recent data?

03 April 2014 8,759 17 View

What's the drying temperature when drying specimens in an oven to obtain the dry mass for water content calculation?

01 February 2012 7,971 44 View

Can I inquire the standard ASTM C496-96 from anyone got it? Thanks.

ASTM C496-96 Standard Test Method for Splitting Tensile Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimens. This standard can not be downloaded from my college's database. I want it for interest on...

01 February 2012 3,322 5 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

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APA 7th In-Text citations with two references with three authors with the same surname, but four different author?

I have an issue with APA 7th in-text citation. II have two papers where the first three authors are the same, and the fourth is different. I am using the Mendeley desktop app, and automatically it...

02 March 2021 790 3 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

Where can I find life cycle inventory or assessment of non woven materials?

Dear network, I am looking for the LCA or LCI or at least the energy balances of the non woven fabrics process for my master project, in specific for natural fibers, yet I have found...

02 March 2021 9,662 1 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View