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Free Download Limit States of Compressed Concrete Elements by Transverse Deformations
by Iakov Iskhakov, Ilya Frolov, Yuri Ribakov
English | 2025 | ISBN: 103273891X | 119 pages | True PDF EPUB | 72.12 MB
The theoretical stress-strain model for compressed concrete (Iskhakov and Ribakov, 2018), is based on the structural phenomenon and requires no empirical coefficients. It includes such main parameters of concrete behavior as stresses and strains at the border between the elastic and non-elastic behavior, ultimate elastic strains and stresses and strains at the end of the post-peak region. Particular attention was focused on the descending branch of the stress-strain diagram and on concrete elastic and plastic potentials that are important for dynamic response of concrete element section and for concrete creep. The book presents experimental and numerical results confirming this model. It deals with experimental verification of theoretical models of cracking and failure scheme for cylindrical specimens. The importance of using transverse deformations for analysis of initiation and development of inelastic deformations under high loading rates is verified. The experimental and numerical results are in good agreement with the theoretical ones, which significantly reduces the number of empirical coefficients in compressed concrete elements design. The book deals with experimental and theoretical investigations, forming a basis for design of effective compressed concrete elements by using minimum empirical coefficients. It is shown that transverse deformations can be used as an additional ultimate limit state for such elements.

Free Download Life Support Systems for Humans in Space by Erik Seedhouse
English | EPUB | 2020 | 323 Pages | ISBN : 3030528588 | 116.5 MB
Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems. This textbook introduces the LSS capabilities that sustain humans who live and work in space, and it is written at a level appropriate for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Free Download Libraries of the Mind (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture) by William Marx
English | May 20, 2025 | ISBN: 0691267421, 9780691273884 | True EPUB | 200 pages | 4.98 MB
How we build our invisible libraries
Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisible library of his mind. Each of us has such a library-if not as extensive as Auerbach's-even if we are unaware of it. In this erudite and provocative book, William Marx explores our invisible libraries-how we build them and how we should expand them.

Free Download Oskar Mulej, "Liberalism after the Habsburg Monarchy, 1918-1935: National Liberal Heirs in the Czech Lands, Austria, and Slovenia "
English | ISBN: 3031644786 | 2024 | 389 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores what it meant to be 'liberal ' in interwar Czech, Austrian, and Slovenian politics. Up until 1918, these countries shared the common political framework of Cisleithania (the Austrian part of the Habsburg Monarchy). Within this framework was the predominantly pejorative function of the label 'liberal,' and as a result after 1918, no major political party employed it to describe its own political orientation. Despite making considerable efforts to dissociate themselves from liberalism, many parties continued to be referred to as 'liberal ' by the contemporary public. This association with liberalism, the book argues, was primarily due to the parties' historical background rather than any ideological commitment to liberalism, and for that reason, the author refers to them as 'national liberal heirs.' Examining the (dis)continuities of liberal party traditions, the book presents three representative cases of national liberal heirs: the Czechoslovak National Democracy; the Greater German People's Party; and the Slovenian sections of the Yugoslav Democratic Party, the Independent Democratic Party, and the Yugoslav National Party. Forming a distinctive part of early twentieth-century party landscapes in Central Europe, the national liberal heirs had inherited organisational structures, parts of electorate, as well as rootedness in specific cultural and social milieus from their liberal predecessors. Following the political trajectories of the national liberal heirs, the author seeks to answer in which spheres, in which manners, and to what extent liberalism survived or even continued to develop in the interwar Czech lands, Austria, and Slovenia.
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Free Download Xiang Ji, "Liangzhu's Story of Stone: Engineering and Tools "
English | ISBN: 9811956294 |2022| 109 pages | EPUB | 37 MB
This book explains how the walls of Liangzhu City were made from bedding stones and mud, with the total area of bedding stones covering roughly 290,000 square meters. Based on ongoing research and studies, the book tells the story of how these stones were collected from the surrounding mountains and how their mining and use required massive manpower and material resources, indicating what a tremendous undertaking the construction of Liangzhu City was. The book also shares insights into the process of discovering and researching the city wall, as well as the stoneware at the Liangzhu historical site complex.

Free Download Lethal Violence and Religion : Institutional and Denominational Effects on Homicide and Suicides in U.S. Counties By Bryan K. Robinson
2015 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1593327692 | PDF | 1 MB
Robinson uses sociological principles to examine the impact of community religiosity on county lethal violence rates. Testing both an integrated model and disaggregated models of lethal violence he finds evidence that religious homogeneity is a better predictor of lethal violence than either the rates of religious participation or the prevalence of religious institutions within a county. Moreover, he finds evidence that the presence of different conservative Christian denominations impact community violence in different ways. Specifically, the prevalence of Pentecostal, fundamentalist and evangelical Protestants in counties have different effects on suicide and homicide rates and should be examined independently.

Free Download Let's Fix This: Cleaner Living in a Dirty World
by Chandra Clarke
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1777217490 | 222 Pages | True ePUB | 0.37 MB
"A clearly written, thoughtful book that will motivate readers to combat climate change." - Kirkus Reviews

Free Download Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before edited by J.S. Fields, William C. Tracy, Heather Tracy
English | June 24, 2025 | ISBN: 1960247425 | True EPUB | 343 pages | 0.9 MB
Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings.
Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens.

Free Download Les petits Marabout : Recettes de famille by Collectif
French | January 2, 2019 | ISBN: 2501139003 | 192 pages | EPUB | 38 Mb
Petit format & grandes recettes : Pot-au-feu, hachis maison, petits farcis, lasagnes, desserts.

Free Download Lenn E. Goodman: Judaism, Humanity, and Nature : Judaism, Humanity, and Nature By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; Aaron W. Hughes
2014 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 900428074X | PDF | 1 MB
Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His prolific scholarship has covered the entire history of philosophy from antiquity to the present with a focus on medieval Jewish philosophy.