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“The most dramatic event in the history of relations between Mexico and the United States took place a century and a half ago.” (Document C, Paragraph 1) The Mexican War started in 1846, and ended in 1848. President Polk and Texas agreed that the Texas-Mexico border was the Rio Grande River. But when President James K. Polk heard Mexicans were the first to fire upon Americans at Texas, America was prepared to go to war. The majority of Congress agreed on the war vote too. In the Senate, the votes were 40 to 2, and in the House of Representatives it was 174 to 14. “Restless spirits, discontented at home … joined them ….” (Document D, Paragraph 3) Though the Mexicans were the first to start the war, the Americans had a play in it too. There are many different perspectives on the Mexican War, and many people wonder if it was reasonable or not. One opinion is that the United States was unjustified in going to war with Mexico because America robbed Mexico, invaded Mexican territory, and took advantage of Mexico’s offers.

This is the most recent type of concrete formwork. It’s an emerging tech for RCC construction as well as architectural design work. This materials’ flexibility creates the ability to make concrete of any shape.

Most people think concrete is an impenetrable solid. But in actually, concrete is a porous material with many capillaries and voids throughout the surface. Although concrete is strong in compressive strength, it is weak in tensile stength and elasticity. Concrete can tolerate heavy loads, but it is susceptible to damage which causes it to break apart over time.

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In chapter 2, literatures of concrete modelling have been reviewed. The scope of this chapter is to describe the finite element software" SOFISTIK" to simulate the nonlinear behavior of the foam balls lightweight concrete. The results from this numerical technique are presented and validated with the experimental results obtained from the laboratory tests. The results obtained from these experimental and numerical investigations are taken to predict the nonlinear behavior of 150x150x150 mm FBLWC cube. The damage plasticity concrete concept is used to model the foam balls lightweight concrete cube in the SOFISTIK. Meanwhile, a spring elements are considered to reproduce the nonlinear FBLWC behavior. They are taken into account to develop the F.E.M. structural analysis to obtain stress-strain responses.

Aggregate is one of the basic constituents of concrete. Its quality is of considerable importance because about three-quarter of the volume of concrete is occupied by aggregates. One of the physical properties of aggregate that influence the property of concrete is the grading of aggregate. The grading of aggregate defines the proportions of particles of different size in the aggregate. The grading of fine (size < 5 mm) and coarse (size > 5 mm) aggregates are generally required to be within the limits specified in BS 882: 1992.

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A specific subset of recycled aggregates is recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) where the masonry content is limited to not more than five per cent. The performance characteristics of RCA are better than RA and consequently there are fewer restrictions on the use of RCA in concrete (BS 8500-2)

Yield line theory is a productive method for deciding the breakdown heap of strengthened concrete slabs, and it pre-dates limit examination. The term 'yield line ' (in Danish: 'brudlinie ', truly signifying 'line of crack ') was authored in 1921 by Ingerslev to depict lines in the slabs along which the twisting minute is steady [1]. In 1931 K W

This experiment was therefore aimed at determining the ultimate compressive strength of different concrete samples after 14 days. Additionally, other properties of the concrete such as modulus of elasticity and Poisson ratio were also determined.

The report will mainly focus on the differences between reinforced, prestressed and partially stressed concrete. These concrete reinforcing methods differ in the period they have been used. Reinforced concrete was developed by a nursery owner in Paris in 1867, Joseph Monier, applying it to practical use for the first time (Salmon & Wang, 2007). Prestressed concrete’s discovery dates back to the late 1800’s. Freyssinet was one of the first engineers who used this method and realised that, for this method, high quality concrete with very high tensile steel wires, stressed as high as possible was needed (Chris Burgoyne, 2005).

The objective of the hardened concrete test was to determine the compressive and indirect tensile strength. On the other hand, this experiment was also used to examine the effect of curing condition on strength of concrete, the influence of specimen shape on compressive strength, the effect of compaction on compressive strength and this experiment was also to examine the effect of increasing water to cement ratio on compressive and in direct tensile strengths of concrete.

elf-compacting concrete (SCC) is a flowing type of concrete that is able to consolidate under its own weight. It is a high-performance concrete that has the ability to spread readily and fill the restricted sections including congested reinforcement structures without using mechanical consolidation. SCC was first conceptualized by Prof. Okamura of Japan in

The macroscopic material behavior of concrete is influenced by the geometry, spatial distribution and material properties of individual material constituents and their mutual interactions. Therefore, it is essential to study the influence of each material constituent in order to estimate the residual strength of the structural components. Thus, failure of concrete is a complex phenomenon due to its multiscale and multiphase nature. When the normal stress in a material reaches its tensile strength, the inhomogeneities in concrete promote the formation of an inelastic zone ahead of an existing crack termed as the fracture process zone (FPZ). The FPZ is dominated by various complicated mechanisms such as crack shielding, crack deflection, aggregate bridging and microcracking around the crack tip and exhibits a post-peak softening behavior under tensile loading. It therefore becomes necessary to include these effects for predicting reasonably well the residual strength of existing cracked and damaged structures.

Over the past quarter century, many of both the experimental and analytical studies have increased dramatically on the monotonic behavior of FRP-confined concrete columns, and as a result, many axial stress-strain models have been proposed; however, most of them have focused largely on FRP-confined plain concrete cylinders numerous people tested (e.g., Mirmiran and Shahawy 1997; Mirmiran et al.1998; Xiao and Wu 2000; Lam and Teng 2002, 2003; Berthet et al.2005; Almusallam 2007; Benzaid et al.2008; Eid and Paultre 2007, 2008; Teng et al.2009; Smith et al. 2010; Cui et al.2010). A certain number of these researches have included non-circular unreinforced (plain) columns (e.g., Rochette and Labossiere 2000; Ilki and Kumbasar 2002; Youssef 2003; Rousakis et al.2007; Youssef et al. 2007; Benzaid et al.2008; Wu and Wei 2010; Wu and Zhou 2010; Benzaid and Mesbah 2013). Owing to the limited progress of the experimental investigations carried out on FRP-confined non-circular reinforced concrete columns (RC) tested under cyclic axial compression loading, a well-defined study indicates that a few essential gaps need more further research. As a result, the current study aims to consider the most significant issues, namely, the influence of 1) cross-sectional aspect ratio, 2) internal hoop or longitudinal steel reinforcement ratio, and 3) cyclic or monotonic compression loading pattern. These issues which form the basis of the experimental program on CFRP-confined rectangular reinforced