1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910583053803321

Titolo

Hydraulic rubber dam : an effective water management technology / / edited by Sabu Thomas [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Cambridge, MA : , : William Andrew, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-12-813511-5

0-12-812210-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 pages)

Disciplina

678.2

Soggetti

Rubber - Permeability

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Rubber Dam-An Introduction -- Water Conservation Technologies -- Raw Materials-Rubber Dam -- Manufacturing Process-Reinforced Rubber Sheet for Rubber Dam -- Bonding and Anchoring System for Rubber Dam -- Inflation and Deflation of Rubber Dam -- Lifecycle Assessment of Rubber Dam.

Sommario/riassunto

Hydraulic Rubber Dam: An Effective Water Management Technology is the go-to source for information on the materials, manufacture, mechanics and functional benefit of rubber dams in water management. Readers will find a detailed background on water conservation and coverage, how inflatable rubber dam technology contributes to the picture, and information on the proper manufacture and use of rubber dams to increase water storage for release and delivery during drought. In addition, the book presents tactics on the even distribution of water across populations, how to increase water use efficiency, conservation, and how to prevent flooding. In particular, this book details specialist manufacturing techniques, including the development of rubber compounds and fabric, the bonding and anchoring systems which hold the rubber dam to the underlying concrete structure, and inflation and deflation mechanisms for rubber dams. The book provides a holistic lifecycle assessment of rubber dams to give additional insight to readers looking to deploy rubber dam technology.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148765003321

Autore

Gannon Nicholas

Titolo

Doldrums (Doldrums, Book 1), The : A Badly Planned Adventure.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-814942-9

Disciplina

[Fic]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. But how can he have an adventure when he can't even leave his house?Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. Archer longs for grand adventures but ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house. So, along with his best friends, Adélaïde L. Belmont and Oliver Grub, Archer forms a plan to get out of the house and set off on a grand adventure with crocodiles and parachutes and danger. It's a good plan. Well, it's not bad, anyway. But nothing goes quite as they expected...