21,260 research outputs found
A study of the reactivation of landsliding at Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, following stabilisation works in the 1960s
No full textThe mostly clay cliffs of Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, comprise inhomogeneous strata of the Bracklesham, Barton and Headon Hill Formations, overlain unconformably by Plateau Gravels, and have a long history of erosion and instability. Heavily-engineered stabilisation works involving a 1,500m-long sheet-piled wall and cut-off drain were installed in the 1960s but a number of catastrophic failures of the wall have occurred at locations along the Barton frontage since then. This report is concerned with the failures at Cliff House Hotel / Tom’s Garden and at Hoskins Gap West.Extensive monitoring of the cliffs over the past sixty years has produced a large and diverse dataset which has been compiled, analysed and assessed in this report. This includes inclinometer, piezometer and rainfall records, topographic surveying, aerial and ground photography, borehole and exposures logs, consultants’ reports, engineering drawings and newspaper articles. This report identifies characteristics of the key periods of activity at the two locations and compares and contrasts them. Maps of the areas of activity, cliff-top retreat, revetment movement and drainage patterns are provided. Fieldwork undertaken for the project includes the logging of three cliff exposures and the surveying of four cross-section profiles. Drawing on the information available it charts the progress of instability in the two study areas, suggests possible mechanisms for the failures and offers a prediction of future activity based upon the mechanisms described
Marlin "Bart" Barton
No full textMarch 8, 2012, Ablah Library, Wichita State UniversityMarlin "Bart" Barton, award-winning author, reads from his newest book, The Cross Garden.WSU Libraries, Department of Englis
Letters from Joseph P. Barton to sons Amasa and Joseph, 1886-1887
No full textTypescript copies of two letters from Joseph P. Barton of Paragonah: one dated August 1886 to his son Amasa Barton of Rincon, San Juan County, the second dated July 16, 1887 to son Joseph, sent from Utah State Penitentiary where he was confined as a violator of the anti-polygamy law, expressing grief over the death of son Amas
Oral history interview with Kent Barton
No full textOral history interview by Anne P. Peterson with Kent Barton. Topics include: Businesspeople, Entrepreneurship, Economics and business, Social life and customs, Business, Industry, Labor, Commerce, City and Town Life, Education, Genealogy; Agriculture; Business ethics, Work ethic, Norbest Turkeys, Nutri-Mulch, Politics, Specialty food industry; Energy resources, Human resource development, Communication, and Moroni Feed Company; Mona (Utah)
Barton and Stewart law firm records, MSS.0121
No full textAbstract: Daybook and docket, 1827-32, of this Tuscaloosa law firm.Scope and Content Note: Daybook and docket, 1827-32, of this Tuscaloosa law firm.Biographical/Historical Note: Seth Barton, Alabama attorney and politician, resided in Tuscaloosa 1821-1830; George Noble Stewart, author of Stewart's Reports, resided in Tuscaloosa 1827-1835
Thermoelastic investigation of damage evolution in small stainless steel pipework
No full textThis paper describes work on damage studies in small cold worked pipe sections. The effect of material heat treatment on the sensitivity of the thermoelastic constant to exposure to plastic strain is assessed. It is shown that strain hardening plays an important role in modifying the thermoelastic constant. X-ray computed tomography has been use to assess the geometry of the deformed cross-section of pipe and to identify the presence of damage. Finally the potential of thermoelastic stress analysis for damage assessment in the pipe work is established
Barton Academy
No full textBarton Academy was named for state representative Willoughby Barton, the author of the bill that created Mobile's public school system. The building was used as a hospital for Union soldiers in 1864
Curve fitting of mixed-mode isopachics
No full textRecent work has focused on exploiting the observation that the stress-sum contours
(isopachics), obtained from TSA, in the vicinity of the tip take the form of a simple curve – the
cardioid. The analysis made use of the cardioid nature of the isopachics by deriving
expressions for the SIFs in terms of the cardioid area and the positions of certain tangents to
the curve. Both Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Differential Evolution (DE) have also proved
successful for parameter estimation, but some of the curve-fits indicated that the cardioid form
was inappropriate for the base model, particularly for mixed-mode cracks. The effect of cracktip
interaction has been explored and shows this has a small effect on the cardioid form. New,
higher resolution infra-red detectors have become available since the original data was
collected, so the object of the current paper is to use new techniques to extract the cardioid
form and use a GA to perform the curve fitting
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