Temperature influence on the physical and mechanical properties of a porous rock: San Julian's calcarenite

This work discusses the results from tests which were performed in order to study the effect of high temperatures in the physical and mechanical properties of a calcarenite (San Julian's stone). Samples, previously heated at different temperatures (from 105 °C to 600 °C), were tested. Non-destructive tests (porosity and ultrasonic wave propagation) and destructive tests (uniaxial compressive strength and slake durability test) were performed over available samples. Furthermore, the tests were carried out under different conditions (i.e. air-cooled and water-cooled) in order to study the effect of the fire off method. The results show that uniaxial compressive strength and elastic parameters (i.e. elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio), decrease as the temperature increases for the tested range of temperatures. A reduction of the uniaxial compressive strength up to 35% and 50% is observed in air-cooled and water-cooled samples respectively when the samples are heated to 600 °C. Regarding the Young's modulus, a fall over 75% and 78% in air-cooled and water-cooled samples respectively is observed. Poisson's ratio also declines up to 44% and 68% with the temperature in air-cooled and water-cooled samples respectively. Slake durability index also exhibits a reduction with temperature. Other physical properties, closely related with the mechanical properties of the stone, are porosity, attenuation and propagation velocity of ultrasonic waves in the material. All exhibit considerable changes with temperature.

TENDENCIA THATCHERITIS OR ENGLISHNESS REMADE: The Fictions of Julian Barnes, Hanif Kureishi and Pat Barker

Julian Barnes, Pat Barker, and Hanif Kureishi are all canonical authors whose fictions are widely believed to reflect the cultural and political state of a nation that is post-war, post-imperial and post-modern. While much has been written on how Barker’s and Kureishi’s early works in particular respond to and intervene in the presiding political narrative of the 1980s – Thatcherism – treatment of how revenants of Thatcherism have shaped these writers’ works from 1990 on has remained cursory. Thatcherism is more than an obvious historical reference point for Barker, Barnes, and Kureishi; their works demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of how Thatcher’s reworkings of the repertoires of Englishness – a representational as well as political and cultural endeavour – persist beyond her time in office. Barnes, Barker, and Kureishi seem to have reached the same conclusion as political and cultural critics: Thatcher and Thatcherism have remade not only the contemporary political and cultural landscapes but also the electorate and consequently the English themselves. Tony Blair’s conception of the New Britain proved less than satisfactory because contemporary repertoires of Englishness repeat and rework historical and not incidentally imperial formulations of England and Englishness rather than envision civic and populist formulations of renewal. Barnes’s England, England and Arthur & George confront the discourse of inevitability that has come to be attached to contemporary formulations of both political and cultural Englishness – both in terms of its predictable demise and its belated celebration. Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and “The Body” speak to an alteration that has taken place in which historical Englishness and Thatcherism have become complementary rather than contrasting discourses. What Barker’s Border Crossing and Double Vision offer against this backdrop is a subtle interrogation of how renewal itself comes to be a presiding mode of cultural reflection that absorbs revolutionary possibility.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and America.

Selections which appeared in 1958 in the Polish review on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of J. U. Niemcewicz.

Comfortable words for Christ's lovers : being the visions and voices vouchsafed to Lady Julian, recluse at Norwich in 1373 /

"Bibliography of Lady Julian": p. 14-15.

[Influencia de los climas en la salud pública y la población] : Discurso leido en la Universidad Central por ... Julian Gomez García en el acto solemne de recibir la investidura de doctor en la Facultad de Medicina.

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Resumen de las virtudes y metodo de aplicar el agua vulneraria compuesta por Julian Landi ... /

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Teoría de la prueba en materia criminal : discurso leído en la Universidad Central por el licenciado D. Julian Arribas Baraya al recibir la investidura de doctor en la facultad de jurisprudencia el 26 de marzo de 1859.

Tesis de la Universidad Central (Madrid), Facultad de Jurisprudencia, leída el 28-05-1859.

Der Perserkrieg des Kaisers Julian.

At head of title: X. Jahresbericht des Herzoglichen Friedrichs-Realgymnasiums und der Vorschule des Fridericianum für das Schuljahr 1891-92, herausgegeben von dem Diektor beider Anstalten Prof. Dr. H. Suhle.

The forged note; or, Julian and Marianne. A moral tale, founded on recent facts,

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Julian Apostata: der letzte Hellene auf dem throne der cäsaren. Historischer roman,

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