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Pipe subjected to internal pressure has its highest mechanical stresses in the tangential direction. For a proper design of pipes, it is of paramount importance to relate the stresses to the right material properties. Currently there is no convenient standard test method to dete…

Detection of stress corrosion cracks and other types of deterioration in pipes can be performed by producing elastic Lamb waves in the circumferential direction. Availability of Fiber Composite materials that have been utilized to retrofit the pipeline networks necessitates deve…

This thesis is to examine the nature of the archaeological evidence for coffee and tobacco consumption in Arabia during the Ottoman period (sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries). The data used in this study are culled from survey projects carried out in Saudi Arabia d…