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COLD WEATHER CONCRETING
BY
Cris-Hawk Farrin
University of New Hampshire, December, 2010
Placing concrete in cold weather is conventionally performed using external devices such as heaters or insulated forms to protect fresh concrete from freezing temperatures. Such practices imbed excessive carbon and result in an undesirable carbon footprint. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of casting concrete in cold weather using chemical admixtures instead of hydrocarbons or expensive insulating blankets so construction can continue during the winter season in the Northern Tier States. Several innovative tests were performed to evaluate the properties and performance of cold weather concrete created with chemical admixtures. Results indicate adequate concrete strength can be attained through the use of chemical admixtures without the use of any heating or insulating and construction can be accomplished in the winter. However, due to less than desirable air void characteristics, resistance to cycles of freezing and thawing in an adverse environment may be problematic.
International Building Code Chapter 19: Concrete
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In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha’s concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of the ambivalent origins of the US national narrative. Stories of colonial captives, sentimental heroines, or fugitive slaves embody a “binary division between captive and captor that is based on cultural, national, or racial difference,” but they also transcend these pre-existing antagonistic dichotomies by creating a new social space, and herein lies their emotional power. Beginning from a simple question on why captivity, particularly that of women, so often inspires a sentimental response, Burnham examines how these narratives elicit both sympathy and pleasure. The texts carry such great emotional impact precisely because they “traverse those very cultural, national, and racial boundaries that they seem so indelibly to inscribe. Captivity literature, like its heroines, constantly negotiates zones of contact,” and crossing those borders reveals new cultural paradigms to the captive and, ultimately, the reader.
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