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a type of dementia. and stars gather for a fashionable farewell. a memorial is held in london for dame vivienne westwood, who died in december aged 81. hello and welcome to the programme. next week marks the first anniversary of russias invasion. ahead of that, ukraines president, volodymyr zelensky, has warned belarus against helping a renewed russian offensive. speaking to our world affairs editor — mr zelensky said such a decision would be a big mistake. the belarusian leader, ale...

When i touched the concrete column, it would crumble to dust in my hands. as though it wasnt concrete at all. the iron was rusting in the columns, the rainfall was damaging and corroding the iron. in amid all this death and destruction, we need to remind ourselves that these days homes can be built or strengthened to withstand earthquakes of this magnitude. 2a years ago, this country got a big wake—up call when more than 17,000 people were killed in a previous quake. since then, the turkish au...

This study experimentally investigates the behavior of square concrete columns reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars under concentric, uniaxial eccentric, biaxial eccentric, and four-point bending loads. The experimental load-moment (P-M) interaction surfaces of GFRP bar-reinforced concrete (GRC) specimens were plotted. Experimental results revealed that the GRC specimens achieved lower maximum axial loads than the corresponding reference steel bar-reinforced concrete (SRC) ...

I couldnt see anything outside. i got my cell phone and called my friend and neighbor dick. there was no answer. i called my brother fred, the call went to his voice mail. i ran through my apartment and out to the hallway, i looked left to the north end of the building, a concrete column had pierced the hallway from floor to ceiling, and i looked at the elevators and the shafts were exposed and the doors were gone. i knocked on several neighbors doors, no answer. i run to the exit, open the door...

Earthquake safety, builders say that special steel tubes surround the central concrete column designed to offset each other to reduce -- oh, i cant even look at that. i cant look. >> you really dont like heights. >> i hate heights. tell me when i can look. >> work crews are finishing up hundreds of stores and restaurants for the towers big opening which will happen on the 22nd of may. heres a stat for you. a high-speed elevator takes seconds to reach the lower observation deck on the 350th floor...