Science Research

Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2016

  • Hospital Ash Waste-Ordinary Portland Cement Concrete

    Augustine U. Elinwa

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2016
    Pages: 72-78
    Received: 2 March 2016
    Accepted: 8 April 2016
    Published: 7 June 2016
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    Abstract: This work is part of the on-going research work in the Civil Engineering Department of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi Nigeria. The work is on characterizing and utilization of hospital waste ash (HWA) in the production of concrete. This work is important in the light of the recent happenings in Nigeria, where cases of Ebola and Lassa fev... Show More
  • Development of Effective Urinal Odour Traps for Conventional Household Urinals, Urine Diversion Dry Toilets (UDDT) and Community Urine Collection Tanks

    Ababu T. Tiruneh, William N. Ndlela, Jonna Heikkilä

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2016
    Pages: 79-87
    Received: 7 May 2016
    Accepted: 16 May 2016
    Published: 13 June 2016
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    Abstract: Control of odour from urinal installations is an important task from considerations of health, hygiene and acceptability or use of these installations. Because of the problems associated with cost, technology and proprietary nature of many of the marketed technologies for odour control, there is a need to develop simple, easily adaptable and low co... Show More
  • A Review on Different Factors of Woven Fabrics’ Strength Prediction

    Mohammad Mobarak Hossain, Eshita Datta, Salvia Rahman

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 3, June 2016
    Pages: 88-97
    Received: 8 May 2016
    Accepted: 19 May 2016
    Published: 13 June 2016
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    Abstract: There are different fabric manufacturing methods like weaving, knitting, non-woven and braiding. Among them woven fabric shows good dimensional stability and good cover. One of the most important characteristics of woven fabric is strength. Strength is also measured in tensile, tearing or bursting strength. But, so many factors are related to the f... Show More