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Ext Lm09 - Water In Landscapes, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course a part of a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically this module provides an overview of water and drainage in landscapes, and low water-use landscapes.

Ext Lm06 - Transplanting, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the sixth in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically this module presents information on each step of the transplanting process detailing steps such as soil preparation, the actual transplanting, and steps taken …

Ext Lm08 - Pruning, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the eighth in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically this module gives an overview of pruning, pruning decidious trees, and other kinds of landscape pruning.

Technical Requirements: QuickTime

Ext Lm07 - Turf Management, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the seventh in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically this module covers an overview, how to install, and how to maintain turf in landscapes. Since turf takes the bulk of time and …

Ext Lm01 - Landscape Management, Overview, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the first in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module is a high level overview of landscape management as it pertains to the American interior west.

Technical Requirements: QuickTime

Ext Lm04 - Plants And Landscapes, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the fourth in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module covers non-turf plants in the landscape, plant life cycle, plant physiology, and how to select plants to include in your landscape. …

Ext Lm05 - Annuals And Perennials, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the fifth in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module will cover the role of annuals and perennials in landscaping, which kinds to use, and how to plant and care for …

Ext Lm03 - Soils And Landscapes, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the third in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module covers the importance of soils, what plants need from soil, and problems caused by poor soil.

Technical Requirements: QuickTime

Ext Lm02 - Climate And Landscapes, Spring 1993, Roger Kjelgren

University Extension - OCW

This course focuses on maintaining landscapes in the interior west of the United States. The course will instruct you on how to keep plants and trees healthy, how to think through and solve problems related to landscape maintenance, and how to maintain landscape with as little intervention as possible through understanding the needs of the plants.

This course is the second in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module examines plants and their relationship to macroclimates and microclimates.

Technical Requirements: QuickTime

Ua1b3/6 Meeting Minutes, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Parking & Traffic Committee meeting minutes with attachments.

Review Of Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements In Picasso's Barcelona, By Temma Kaplan, Gary W. Mcdonogh

Growth and Structure of Cities Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ua1b3/6 Meeting Minutes, Wku Parking & Traffic Committee

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Parking & Traffic Committee meeting minutes with attachments.

The Uses Of Art: Medieval Metaphor In The Michigan Law Quadrangle, Ilene H. Forsyth

About the Buildings

Within the architectural diversity of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, a campus with a spread and a variety as extended as that of the university community itself, there is a place apart: the Cook Law Quad. The distinct ambiance created by the quad's buildings seems at variance with the melange that marks the rest of the campus where the free growth of the university over a long period of time has resulted in structures of various styles and uneven levels of distinction. Yet the quad's special character is not simply a matter of its architectural unity, as is often claimed. There …

Ua11 Western Kentucky University: President's Homes, Lisa Robertson, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Document regarding the history of WKU presidential homes by Lisa Robertson while working in WKU University Relations. Includes information regarding the original home aka Craig Alumni House, the M.E. Schell home and the Ed Alford home.

Initiating The Development Of An Integrated Waste Management Curriculum, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

The National Recycling Coalition, in recognition of significant changes in the field of solid waste management and the resulting need for people with new knowledge and skills, has assembled a committee to develop an “integrated waste management curriculum.” This paper identifies and discusses several possible objectives for such a curriculum, and explores issues associated with different ways in which it might be initiated.

A New Town Hall For Skaneateles, New York, Stephanie Burton

Architecture Thesis Prep

"A town hall has to transcend being generic and take on the idiosyncrasies of its specific context. The context, in turn, needs to inform the program and make it unique to the site. The history of the typology has shown the evolution of a building type that is identifiable in its form.... A town hall is a typology, that by definition, is strongly influenced by history and part of its role is to reflect and embody the specific history of a place..."

Faculty Catalog 1990 - 1993, School Of Architecture

School of Architecture Publications - Archive

This modest volume, the School of Architecture's Faculty Catalog, is offered as a companion to the more familiar academic reference, the Course Catalog. In fact, a Faculty Catalog is more important than its convention counterpart because it presents people, the teachers who give the courses and so much else. A faculty can do its work without courses; but courses -- those discrete units of content and procedure and time -- have no life without teachers. The Faculty Catalog is published to help those who want to know and to use the School of Architecture: Students and prospective students ... faculty …

Review Of The Origins Of Modernism In Russian Architecture By William C. Brumfield, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

Wendy Salmond reviews The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture by William C. Brumfield.

Assessment Of Environmental Implications Of Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells, Donald L. Warner, Cary L. Mcconnell

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A detailed study was made of the potential for abandoned oil and gas wells in the Lower Tuscaloosa sand of Mississippi and Louisiana to act as conduits for movement of saline water from the Lower Tuscaloosa into underground sources of drinking water (USDW's). Finite-difference numerical modeling determined the extent that water might be forced from the Lower Tuscaloosa sand into a USDW as a result of injection into the Lower Tuscaloosa. Within the range of conditions modeled, water from the Lower Tuscaloosa never traveled into a USDW. On the basis of the modeling, we concluded that it is unlikely that …

Computed Versus Observed Inelastic Seismic Low-Rise Rc Shear Walls, Franklin Y. Cheng, G. E. Mertz, M. S. Sheu, J. F. Ger

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A technique of calculating inelastic deformation of low-rise shear walls having height-width ratios of 0.5 and 0.75 without boundary elements is presented with consideration of the coupling effect for bending and shear deformations as well as the deformation due to base rotation. An interaction surface of moment, shear, and curvature or moment, shear, and shear strain is developed. The deflections at crack, yield, and ultimate loadings can be calculated separately from bending and shear deformations, which are compared favorably with experimental results. The shear deformation is significant for the low-rise walls studied because the deformation due to bending deformation is …

Simplified Strength Prediction For Cold-Formed C- And Z-Shapes, Roger A. Laboube

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Although cold-formed steel C- and Z-shaped members possess a very favorable strength-to-weight ratio, are easily fabricated and erected, and offer a cost-effective structural design solution, they can be highly susceptible to local buckling. To adequately address the impact of the local buckling limit state, a complex, time-consuming design office effort may be required. Therefore, to facilitate the design of such shapes, a study was conducted that focused on developing relatively simple, easy-to-apply design guidelines. The design guidelines address the behavior of cold-formed steel C- and Z-shaped members when used as either a flexural member or a compression member. Both edge-stiffened …

Collapse Behavior Of Pino Suarez Building During 1985 Mexico City Earthquake, Jeng Fuh Ger, Franklin Y. Cheng, Le Wu Lu

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents the investigation of the collapse behavior of a 22-story steel building during the September 19, 1985, Mexico City earthquake by studying hysteretic behavior, ductility factors of individual structural components, and overall instability of the building. Extensive inelastic analyses have been performed for the building by using the multicomponent seismic input of actual Mexico City earthquake records. It was found that the structural response exceeds the original design ductility of this building, and most girders in the building have severe inelastic deformation. Due to the load redistribution that results from ductile girder failure, local buckling occurred in many …

Postbuckling And Hysteresis Models Of Open-Web Girders, Jeng Fuh Ger, Franklin Y. Cheng

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The paper presents analytical studies of hysteretic behavior of open-web girders with angle web members. The partial inelasticity of the member cross section is traced using finite segment formulation with stress-strain control. A member is divided into a number of segments, and, for each segment, the cross section is divided into many small elements, which allows the inelastic deformation of the member to be modeled. Therefore, member stiffness is established for various inelastic deformation stages. The eccentricities and initial imperfections of web members are considered in the analysis. Good agreement between experimental and present analytical results was found for individual …

Postbreakage Behavior Of Heat Strengthened Laminated Glass Under Wind Effects, Chris P. Pantelides, Amy D. Horst, Joseph E. Minor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Results of a full-scale experimental investigation into the post breakage behavior of heat-strengthened laminated glass subjected to windstorm effects are presented. Two different interlayer constructions and two different glazing configurations are examined. The two interlayer constructions are a PVB polymer and a PVB/PET/PBV composite polymer. The two glazing configurations are a conventional dry glazed system and an unconventional system with a silicone anchor bead. Two test criteria are established that relate to effects of a severe windstorm. The first criterion addresses impact with windborne debris; the second defines a wind-load spectrum that represents a severe windstorm of a 4-hr duration. …

Permeation Of Several Gases Through Elastomers, With Emphasis On The Deuterium/Hydrogen Pair, M. (Mark) W. Fitch, W. J. Koros, R. L. Nolen, J. R. Carnes

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Diffusion and Permeation Coefficients for He, H2, D2, O2, and N2 in a Variety of Elastomers Were Measured by Simple Manometric Methods. the Elastomers Studied Were Butyl Rubber; Hypalon® 40 and 45; Viton® E60 and GF; Hydrin® 100 and Filled Hydrin® 100; Kraton® G, FG, and KG VTEOS; EPDM; Epoxidized Natural Rubber; and Neoprene. Consistent with Earlier Studies, Elastomers with Higher Glass Transition Temperatures Exhibited Lower Diffusion Coefficients. the Ratio of Diffusion Coefficients of the Hydrogen Isotope Pair Differed from the Purely Molecular‐weight‐based Prediction. Deuterium's Slightly Smaller Size Relative to Hydrogen is Consistent with Observed Deviations from the Molecular‐weight‐based …

Phenotypic Characterization Of Copper-Resistant Mutants Of Methylosinus Trichosporium Ob3b, M. (Mark) W. Fitch, D. W. Graham, R. G. Arnold, S. K. Agarwal, P. Phelps, G. E. Speitel, G. Georgiou

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Cultures of Methylosinus Trichosporium OB3b Grown in the Presence of Very Low Concentrations of Copper Synthesize a Soluble Methane Monooxygenase (SMMO) that Efficiently Catalyzes the Oxidation of Trichloroethylene and Other Organic Pollutants. Recently, We Isolated Five M. Trichosporium OB3b Mutants that Express SMMO Activity When Grown in the Presence of Elevated Copper Concentrations (P. A. Phelps, S. K. Agarwal, G. E. Speitel, Jr., and G. Georgiou, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:3701-3708, 1992). Here We Show that, in Contrast to the Results for the Wild-Type Cells, the Addition of Copper to Mutant Cultures Grown on Methane and Nitrate as the Nitrogen Source …

Mineralization And Uptake Of Triazine Pesticide In Soil-Plant Systems, Dhileepan R. Nair, Joel G. (Gerard) Burken, Louis A. Licht, Jerald L. Schnoor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Deep-Rooted Trees Planted as a Buffer Zone Can Intercept Runoff and Eroded Sediments, Thus Reducing Non-Point-Source Pollution Due to Agricultural Chemicals. in This Study, Populus Sp. Were Grown in Bioreactors with an Agricultural Soil (Silt-Loam) and in a Silica-Sand Media; Both Were Spiked with ¹⁴C Uniformly Ring-Labeled Atrazine. the Plants Took Up over 11% of the ¹⁴C Labeled Atrazine Applied to the Silt-Loam Soil and over 91% of that Applied to the Silica Sand Media, with the Majority of the ¹⁴C Accumulating as Nonphytotoxic Metabolites in the Leaves. Research Suggests that, in Addition to Nutrient Uptake, Poplar …

Structural Behavior Of Architectural Laminated Glass, R. A. Belir, Joseph E. Minor, H. S. Norville

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Experimental and theoretical investigations conducted over a 20-year time period by several investigators provide sufficient data and information to define, for practical engineering purposes, the behavior of architectural laminated glass under lateral pressures. Investigations included definitions of material properties, theoretical stress analyses, experimental stress analyses, and destructive tests involving monolithic, laminated, and "layered" glass plates of several geometries. The preponderance of data and information indicate that: (1) Architectural laminated glass behaves in a manner similar to monolithic glass of the same nominal thickness under short-term lateral pressures (representative of wind loads) at and below room temperature; (2) the temperature at …

Behavior Of Arc Spot Weld Connections In Tension, Roger A. Laboube, Wei-Wen Yu

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Arc spot welds, commonly called puddle welds, are widely used for connecting cold-formed steel roof decks to their supporting members. These support members are typically hot-rolled steel beams or girders, or the top chord of open-web steel joists. A comprehensive experimental study of the tension strength of arc spot weld connections used to affix a cold-formed steel roof deck to its support member was conducted. The study investigated the key parameters that influence the connection strength: Steel thickness, tensile strength, and ductility; type of weld process, automatic or manual; cross section of the roof deck; loading condition, symmetrical or eccentric …

Molloy, Janice Louise (Fa 189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 189. Paper (24 p.): "On the Road: Vernacular Architecture as a Creative Response to Economic Opportunity," written by Molloy and Trudy Balcom for a Western Kentucky University class. The paper focuses on the Horseshoe Motel in Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes tape transcription (11 p.).