1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969085903321

Autore

Abel Emily K

Titolo

Hearts of wisdom : American women caring for kin, 1850-1940 / / Emily K. Abel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000

ISBN

9780674020023

0674020022

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/082/0973

Soggetti

Caregivers - United States - History - 19th century

Caregivers - United States - History - 20th century

Medical personnel-caregiver relationships - United States - History - 19th century

Medical personnel-caregiver relationships - United States - History - 20th century

Women - United States - Social conditions

Home nursing - United States - History - 19th century

Home nursing - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-320) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: 1850-1890 1. "Hot Flannels, Hot Teas, and a Great Deal of Care": Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888 2. An Overview of Nineteenth-Century Caregiving 3. "Tried at the Quilting Bees": Con icts between "Old Ladies" and Aspiring Professionals Part Two: 1890-1940 4. A "Terrible and Exhausting" Struggle: Martha Shaw Farnsworth, 1890-1924 5. "Just as You Direct": Caregiver Translations of Medical Authority 6. Negotiating Public Health Directives: Poor New Yorkers at the Turn of the Century

Sommario/riassunto

A study of caregiving in America across ethnic and class divides during the 19th and early 20th century. This book reveals how a complex series of historical changes altered the cultural meaning of care.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911004818303321

Titolo

Performance-based design of structural steel for fire conditions : a calculation methodology / / prepared by the Special Design Issues--Fire Protection Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by David L. Parkinson, Venkatesh Kodur, Paul D. Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, VA, : American Society of Civil Engineers, : Structural Engineering Institute, c2009

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 124 p. : ill

Collana

ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice ; ; no. 114

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkinsonDavid L

KodurVenkatesh

SullivanPaul D (Paul David)

Disciplina

693.8/2

Soggetti

Building, Fireproof - Mathematics

Building, Iron and steel - Mathematics

Structural engineering - Mathematics

Steel, Structural - Mathematical models

Buildings - Performance - Mathematical models

Engineering mathematics

Numerical calculations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- 1 DESIGN MANUAL -- 1.1 Selection of Compartments or Areas to Design -- 1.2 Determination of Compartment Fuel Loads -- 1.3 Predicted Compartment Fire Time-Temperature Relationship -- 1.4 Predicted Steel Time-Temperature Relationship -- 1.5 Worked Example -- 2 CURRENT APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL FIRE SAFETY -- 2.1 History of the Standard Test Methods -- 3 THE PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN PHILOSOPHY -- 4 FIRE SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT -- 4.1 Compartment Fires -- 4.2 Ventilation-Controlled Vs. Fuel-Controlled Fires -- 4.3 Room Fuel Load -- 5 FULLY DEVELOPED FIRE MODELING -- 5.1 T-Equivalent Concept -- 5.2 Parametric Fire Curves -- 6 BASIC CONCEPTS OF STRUCTURAL FIRE



DESIGN -- 6.1 Role of the Structural Engineer Vs. the Fire Protection Engineer -- 6.2 Specific Calculation Requirements -- 6.3 Behavior of Steel under Fire Conditions -- 6.4 Critical Temperatures -- 6.5 Time-Temperature History of Fire-Exposed Members -- 7 FUTURE WORK -- APPENDIX A: REVIEW OF THE STANDARD TEST -- A.1 Influence of Standard Fire Test Time-Temperature Curve on Test Specimen -- A.2 Influence of Loading and Restraint of the Structural Member in the Test Chamber -- A.3 Influence of Material Properties -- A.4 Influence of Furnace Construction -- APPENDIX B: DERIVATION OF ROOM FUEL LOAD EQUATION -- APPENDIX C: FUNDAMENTAL HEAT BALANCE EQUATIONS FOR A COMPARTMENT FIRE -- C.1 Fundamental Heat Balance Equation -- C.2 qR: Rate of Radiative Heat Loss through the Ventilation Opening -- C.3 qW: Rate of Heat Loss through Compartment Boundaries -- C.4 qL: Rate of Convective Heat Loss Out Opening -- C.5 qC: Rate of Combustion Heat Release -- APPENDIX D: CALCULATION OF PLENUM TEMPERATURE FOR STRUCTURAL STEEL PROTECTED BY A SUSPENDED CEILING -- D.1 Calculation of Plenum Temperatures -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R.

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Sommario/riassunto

MOP 114 presents a new method developed to improve the design of structural steel for fire conditions.