Author:De Saxe, CDate:Dec 2012Until recently, car-carriers in South Africa operated under abnormal load permits allowing a finite relaxation of legal height and length limits. This practice is being phased out, and exemption will only be granted if a car-carrier complies ...Read more
Author:Theyse, HLDate:Mar 1999Transportek has been involved in accelerated pavement testing (APT) with a fleet of Heavy Vehicle Simulators (HVSs) over the past two decades. During this period, a vast amount of pavement response and performance data has been accumulated, ...Read more
Author:Moodie, BDate:1965During the past few years a survey was undertaken of the petrographic composition and characteristics of various coals sizes produced by collieries in South Africa. This report deals with the smaller coal sizes, in the Transvaal and seven in Natal.Read more
Author:Moodie, B; Kunstmann, FHDate:1963The results of the petrographic analysis and of the laboratory coking tests are discussed in this report.Read more
Author:Savage, WHDDate:1961In the progress report for the period October 1960 to February 1961 (FRI Technical memorandum No. 2 of 1961) certain phosphorus contents of waterberg coal samples were reported.Read more
Author:Savage, WHDDate:1961In the progress report for the period October 1960 to February 1961 (FRI Technical memo 2/1961) certain phosphorus contents of Waterberg coal samples were reported. It was decided that further investigations be undertaken, with particular ...Read more
Author:Moodie, BDate:1975There are two variations in every coal seam seam namely type and rank. Type is determined by the plant material from which the coal was formed and rank is the degree of maturation or metamorphism. Rank is the most important property of a ...Read more
Author:Berry, HDate:1949The No. 4 seam at this colliery, judging from the diagrammatic representations at the end of the report, appears to maintain a uniform structure and a fairly consistent thickness throughout the mine.Read more
Author:Coetzee, BJ; Van Der Meulen, F; Zwanziger, S; Gonsalves, P; Weisser, PJDate:Dec 1977The vegetation of the Nylsvley Nature Reserve in the Transvaal Mixed Bushveld is classified hierarchically by the Braun-Blanquet method of vegetation survey. The vegetation is seasonal grassland and deciduous savanna with four floristically ...Read more
Author:Lord, DA; Anderson, FP; Basson, JKDate:Oct 1984The rational development of major projects involving the marine disposal of effluents by pipelines requires the close cooperation of planners, scientists and engineers.
In May 1983, a workshop entitled 'Pipeline Discharges of Effluents to ...Read more
Author:Van Doornum, GAWDate:1971The following notes are extracted from a paper presented by A.H. Kloosterman at a meeting of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Engineers on 19th November, 1970 and published in " De Ingenieur of 2nd April, 1971. In this extract, particular ...Read more
Author:McDonald, DJDate:Mar 1985Swartboschkloof forms part of the Jonkershoek mountain catchment complex at the headwaters of the Eerste River, Cape Province. It has been selected as a primary study site for the Fynbos Biome Project multi-disciplinary studies of Mountain ...Read more
Author:Labuschagne, Philip WDate:Sep 2004A polymer system (polyvinylpyrrolidone + polyvinyl acetate-co-crotonic acid) was successfully identified for use as encapsulation material for sensitive actives using supercritical CO2 as plasticisation medium, having the following properties: ...Read more
Author:Drews, RJLCDate:1983Pond systems are ideally suited for small communities, and for schools, hospitals and other institutions since they are simple and economical to construct, operate and maintain. Numerous pons systems have been designed and commissioned in ...Read more
Author:Taviv, R; Trikam, A; Lane, T; O'Kennedy, K; Mapako, M; Brent, ACDate:May 2008South Africa has ambitious goals for economic and social development, such as halving poverty and reducing unemployment to below 15% by 2014. A government investigation, supported by independent research, indicated that between 2004 and 2014 ...Read more
Author:Sander, WJDate:1975The world we live in today is one with a seemingly insatiability demand for energy. This rightly is so because without an increasing consumption of energy no progress, with regard to both technology and society in general, is conceivable.Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more
Author:Department of Science and TechnologyDate:Apr 2005During the research period the project was funded by the CSIR and in 2001 the Poverty Alleviation programme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) became involved in the project. The project was funded by DST to the amount of kR5700 ...Read more