* BS 1881: 201 Methods of Testing Concrete Part 201: Guide to the Use of Non-Destructive Methods of Test for Hardened Concrete

Concrete is widely used for making architectural structures, foundations, brick / block walls, pavements, bridges / overpasses, motorways / roads, runways, parking structures, dams, pools / reservoirs, pipes, footings for gates, fences and poles and even boats.

Concrete was used for construction in many ancient structures.

Concrete reduces the risk of structural collapse and is an effective fire shield, providing safe means of escape for occupants and protection for fire fighters.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

" The Veldt ," " The Concrete Mixer ," " The Long Rain ," " Zero Hour ," and " Marionettes Inc ." were adapted for the TV series The Ray Bradbury Theater.

Concrete historical evidence for this period is scarce, but overall it appears that the region was populated by a number of different peoples speaking distinct languages.

Reference ASTM standard specifications A767 Standard Specification for Hot Dip Galvanised Reinforcing Bars, A775 Standard Specification for Epoxy Coated Steel Reinforcing Bars and A955 Standard Specification for Deformed and Plain Stainless Bars for Concrete Reinforcement.

* Online Calculator for Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beam

Concrete is widely used as building material, including for all types of residential housing.

The Louis Woodham Concrete Company, which would provide construction materials for the growing Shalimar area, was established at Dixie Point at the end of Ferry Road by 1956, and would survive into the late 1970s before being replaced by condominiums.

Ready Mix Concrete supplier for Central Indiana.

The words " Welcome to Concrete " were painted on for the filming of " This Boys Life "

As for Concrete Herald, local resident and town council member Jason Miller has given rebirth to the newspaper after purchasing the Upriver Community News from another local resident.

After remaining empty for a number of years, the building became the Concrete Assembly of God church sometime in the 1990s.

Building a large float on Lake Shannon ( just above the town of Concrete ), they had approximately fifty fishing boats available for rent.

In order to fit the " look " of 1950s-era Concrete, the town itself was transformed back in time " Hollywood-style " for the weeks that filming took place in 1992.

Reporters heard soon after of the coincidental blackout of Concrete, and sent the story out over the international newswire and soon the town of Concrete was known ( if only for a moment ) worldwide.

In 1982, he won an Obie Award for his role in Forty Deuce, and soon after made his Broadway debut in Slab Boys, with then-unknowns Sean Penn and Val Kilmer.

* " Sixty-Ton Statue is Carved from a Single Slab of Stone " Popular Mechanics, August 1935 statue Gladiator commissioned for the main national archive building in Washington DC in 1935

Slab avalanches, which account for around 90 % of avalanche-related fatalities, form when the application of dynamic forces causes catastrophic structural failure inside a weakness below a slab of snow.

Modern applications of continuously supported track include Balfour Beatty's ' Embedded Slab Track ' which uses a rounded rectangular rail profile ( BB14072 ) embedded in a slipformed ( or pre-cast ) concrete base ( development 2000s ), the ' Embedded Rail Structure ', used in the Netherlands since 1976, initially used a conventional UIC 54 rail embedded in concrete, later developed ( late 1990s ) to use a ' mushroom ' shaped SA42 rail profile ; a version for light rail using a rail supported in an asphalt concrete filled steel trough has also been developed ( 2002 ).

" Slab " ( a street name for ammonium chloride mixed with radium ) has a similar effect to electrolyte drinks, but much more severely.

A master escape artist himself, the now-adult Shilo was appointed security chief of the Slabside Island Maximum Security prison for Metahumans also known as the Slab.

* The video for " Fourth of July " by Shooter Jennings is partially set at Slab City.

* Slab City figures in Sue Grafton's mystery novel, " G " Is for Gumshoe, first published in 1990, about private investigator Kinsey Millhone.

* In the cable reality show Art Race ( broadcast on Halogen TV ), one of the artists attempts to stay in Slab City to sell his art but leaves soon after dark with the show's crew because of fears for his safety.

* Slab City featured in the music video for the track " Everyday " by the dubstep artist Rusko.

* East Jesus, the Range and other parts of Slab City are featured in the music video for the track " Honda Prius " by the band Manhattan Murder Mystery.

At the Young Vic he directed A Servant To Two Masters ( national & international tour & West End ), As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Blood Wedding, The Jungle Book, Grimm Tales (& international tour ), More Grimm Tales (& Broadway ), The Slab Boys Trilogy, Oedipus ; for the National Theatre: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Billy Liar ( national tour ), Accidental Death of an Anarchist ( national tour ), Whale, Romeo and Juliet, The Villains Opera ; for the RSC: Midnight ’ s Children ( Barbican, national tour & Apollo Theatre, New York ), Love in a Wood, Tales from Ovid ( Young Vic ), The Comedy of Errors ( national / international tour & Young Vic ), Spring Awakening: for Kenneth Branagh ’ s Renaissance Theatre Company: Coriolanus ( with Branagh, Judi Dench, Richard Briers and Iain Glenn ) and Traveling Tales.

* 1978 – John Byrne for The Slab Boys and Brian Clark for Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Located on Irwin Street at the BeltLine, The Slab Town installation artistically resembles the " slab-style residences " to those abandoned for their vices in the 1800's.

But the plan fails and Logia goes to hell again after Dailogian is damaged by Daisazer, found by Belzeus who offers him another chance by increasing his power and reviving Logia in return for the Crystal Slab by taking Mika and Professor Horiguchi as hostages to force Tenma to hand deliver it to him alone.

Inscription on Memorial Slab at the foot of Trebah Garden: " To the officers and men of the U. S. 29th Infantry Division ( United States ) | 29th Infantry Division, who embarked from Trebah in June 1944 for the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach.

Aware of the distress which would be caused by permanent closure of the quarry Sir Haydn bought the lot himself in 1911 for £ 5250, and became the sole owner of what became the Abergynolwyn Slate and Slab Company.

Unlike some ice cream stores, such as Cold Stone Creamery or Marble Slab, Amy's does not use a cold stone for a mixing board.