Concrete structures without reinforcing, like other unreinforced masonry structures, can fail during severe earthquake shaking.

A special feature of the motorways is the use of Porous Asphalt Concrete, which allows water to be drained efficiently, and even in heavy rain, no water will splash up, in contrast with concrete or other pavement types.

All other pressings of the album have the track Concrete And Clay instead-and an instrumental version of the same song.

Concrete is also a composite material, and is used more than any other man-made material in the world.

Concrete ladders are not always an improvement – the electric field-sensitive organs of the paddlefish are overloaded in the proximity of the rebar and other metal used in concrete construction, preventing them from gaining access to their spawning grounds and contributing to a catastrophic decline in their numbers.

New Point also has quite a few local businesses: a trucking company: Billman Trucking Inc., several small factories such as Wood-Mizer Products, Incorporated, a concrete statue business ( Snyder's Concrete Statues ) and other small businesses.

There is a Sea Cadets dry-dock training vessel (" the Concrete Corvette ") at Boldmere Gate along with the headquarters of the 1st Sutton Coldfield Sea Scouts, and at the other side of the park the 9th Sutton Coldfield Scouts.

Lahars from Glacier Peak pose a similar threat to the small communities of Darrington and Concrete and a lesser threat to the larger and rapidly growing towns of Mount Vernon and Burlington, as well as other communities along the lower Skagit and Stillaguamish Rivers.

On the other hand, Ilyenkov's work ( especially his masterpiece, the study on Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx ’ s Capital from 1960, and the collection of essays entitled Dialectical Logic from 1974 ) deeply influenced the reception of Marx ' economic writings from the 1960s onwards, in the Soviet Union and the GDR as well as in the West.

Despite his French name, Meccaneaux was a working-class accented English rat who was frequently called by the brothers to repair the van ( generally, after Hugo's driving had caused an accident ) and, on occasion, to provide other forms of technical expertise-such as the building of the Concrete Destruction Ray ( known by Victor as the " Discreet Correction Ray ").

Two covers were available for the first issue, one featuring Concrete and the other featuring Xerxes.

As well as serious answers, one reply was " Concrete one or the other ", thereby setting the tone for subsequent answers ( and subsequently questions ).

Besides the official name New Austrian Tunnelling Method other designations are used, e. g. Sequential Excavation Method ( SEM ) or Sprayed Concrete Lining ( SCL ) are often used in shallower tunnels.

Darrow has also contributed covers to a number of other comics, including Concrete, Transmetropolitan and Andrew Vachss ' Cross, as well as illustrating a part of Vachss ' Another Chance To Get It Right ( 1993 ).

In A Concrete Atlantis: U. S. Industrial Building and European Modern Architecture, 1900-1925 ( 1986 ) Banham demonstrates the influence of American grain elevators and " Daylight " factories on the Bauhaus and other modernist projects in Europe.

She would also go on to release similar songs about abuse and other society injustices with songs like " A Broken Wing ", " Love's the Only House ", and " Concrete Angel ".

The union leader represented thousands of laborers needed for constructing foundations, walls, and floors, the guts of every high-rise commercial and residential building in Manhattan, thus his importance as the overseer of the Commission's " Concrete Club " and the Five Families ' other construction rackets.

Concrete security parametrizes all the resources available to the adversary, such as running time and memory, and other resources specific to the system in question, such as the number of plaintexts it can obtain or the number of queries it can make to any oracles available.

Van Deman extended her research to other kinds of concrete and brick construction and published " Methods of Determining the Date of Roman Concrete Monuments " in The American Journal of Archaeology in 1912.

After the war, a number of leading artists and poets started to explore the functions and forms of the book ' in a serious way ' Concrete poets in Brazil such as Augusto and Haroldo De Campos, Cobra artists in Holland and Denmark and the French Lettrists all began to systematically deconstruct the book.

Concrete forms appear at least since the article of Court de Gebelin in the year 1781.

* Flying Concrete Steve Kornher's light weight concrete structural & sculptural forms

Concrete exerts less pressure against the forms as it hardens, so forms are usually designed to withstand a number of feet per hour of pour rate to give the concrete at the bottom time to firm up.

File: Pool formwork. JPG | Concrete pool construction using aluminum concrete forms.

File: Fence Formwork. JPG | Concrete fence construction using ashlar stone aluminum concrete forms.

For walls, concrete masonry technology and Insulating Concrete Forms ( ICFs ) are additional options.

* Concrete masonry unit

Concrete blocks, especially those with hollow cores, offer various possibilities in masonry construction.

Concrete masonry units ( CMUs ) or blocks in a basement wall before burial.

* Concrete masonry unit, a concrete " block " used in construction

* Concrete block / cinder block, also breeze block, foundation block, see concrete masonry unit ( CMU )

Image: McElroy Octagon House ( San Francisco ). jpg | Concrete house-Fowler's " gravel wall " construction-with cement render scored to look like masonry.

Code Violation: This Concrete masonry unit | concrete block wall is penetrated by cable tray s and cable s. The hole should be firestop ped to restore the fire-resistance rating of the wall.

* Concrete and masonry repairs to the foundation and chimney.

Constructing an artificial reef using Concrete masonry unit | concrete blocks

Concrete masonry units may be formulated with special aggregates to produce specific colors or textures for finish use.

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Concrete masonry, exposed structural steel, glass and metal roofs make up the majority of the building exteriors.

* Concrete masonry unit

Concrete has the ability to absorb and store energy and is high mass, which regulates interior temperature ( thermal mass ) and provides soundproofing and durability.

Insulating Concrete Forms ( ICFs ) are hollow blocks or panels made of either insulating foam or rastra that are stacked to form the shape of the walls of a building and then filled with reinforced concrete to create the structure.

Concrete buildings are more resistant to fire than those constructed using wood or steel frames, since concrete does not burn.

* Refractory Concrete Information related to heat resistant concrete ; recipes, ingredients mixing ratio, work with and applications.

Concrete should not be confused with cement, because the term cement refers to the material used to bind the aggregate materials of concrete.

Blocks of cinder concrete ( cinder blocks or breezeblocks ), ordinary concrete ( concrete blocks ), or hollow tile are generically known as Concrete Masonry Units ( CMUs ).

* Concrete mixer, a machine which combines the ingredients of concrete

In 1899, St. Louis Park became the home to the Peavey – Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, the world's first concrete, tubular grain elevator which provided an alternative to combustible wooden elevators.

* Concrete River Days – A summer festival held on the second weekend in July, with a parade, sidewalk sales, and many outdoor activities ; so named because the Palouse riverbed in downtown Colfax has been lined with concrete for the sake of flood control, and the water descends into a narrow central channel during the dry season.

Wolf Vostell ’ s automobile-concrete-sculptures made from cars and concrete are to be found in Cologne Ruhender Verkehr ( Stationary traffic ) from 1969, in Berlin Beton Cadillacs ( Concrete Cadillacs ) from 1987 as well as VOAEX ( Viaje de Hormigón por la Alta Extremadura ) from 1976 in the Museo Vostell Malpartida at Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain and Concrete Traffic from 1970 in Chicago.

Concrete sculpture at Lenwade inscribed with the words Figure in a landscape 7¾ miles from Reepham with disused railway and gravel pits contemplating the history of industry and their back turned on the old concrete works which once produced beams for motorway bridges but now crushes cars

Castellano's son Philip was the president of Scara-Mix Concrete Corporation, which exercised a near monopoly on construction concrete on Staten Island.

No one could pour concrete for a project worth more than $ 2 million without the approval from the Concrete Club.

* Concrete Poetry: A World View by Mary Ellen Solt on UbuWeb, which hosts a large amount of concrete poetry

Concrete is a very robust material, much more robust than cement, however concrete cannot survive tensile loading.

* Concrete saw, usually powered by an internal combustion engine and used with a Diamond Blade to cut concrete or asphalt pavement.

* Concrete moisture meter used to check a concrete floor before laying flooring on top

* Concrete float, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces