Chapter 9 Peat hazards: compression and failure

Chapter 9 SYSTEM FAILURE AND RECOVERY

1. INTRODUCTION Current databases need logging and recovery to maintain the correctness properties of transactions and consistency of the database under failures. Also, logging and recovery have tremendous performance implications. While there has been a lot of work that deals with logging and recovery algorithms for traditional disk resident databases ([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]) and Main Memory Database...

Stress-Temperature Effects on Peat Compression

Laboratory and field tests have shown that accelerated compression of peat soils occurs in response to moderate heating and an effective overconsolidation is produced on subsequent cooling. This phenomenon has been termed thermal precompression. In this study, long-term laboratory and field tests were conducted to investigate secondary compression behavior of peat as a function of stress and te...

3.2.2 Failure Hazards

Chapter 9 Risk assessment

Chapter 9 TISSUE ENGINEERING

Tissue Engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the principles of engineering and life sciences toward the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ [52]. Currently, TE is emerging as an invaluable field of study and is one of the most promising fields for the next century. The ultimate goal is to develop powerfu...