Author:Weinert, HHDate:1980Naturally occurring materials, such as rock and soil, constitute a significant portion of the materials content and cost of a road. Most textbooks dealing with road construction materials, however, are mainly concerned with the manufactured ...Read more
Author:Clauss, KADate:20 Feb 2009The book brings together the results of research spread over a number of reports and papers during the past 27 years and to create a guide for soil stabilization work. Its aim is to provide sufficient knowledge of soil/lime reactions to make ...Read more
Author:Muronga, Khangwelo; Ruxwana, NkqubelaDate:Jul 2017Naturalistic Driving Studies (NDS) is a research methodology that has the potential to improve existing approaches for collecting data about driver behaviour and performance in normal driving conditions. Analysis of naturalistic driving data ...Read more
Author:Rakitianskaia, AS; Olivier, MS; Cooper, Antony KDate:Aug 2011Online social spaces have become very popular in the past couple of decades. With the great numbers of users in the online environments it becomes obvious that the human factor plays an important role in the social structure of such environments. ...Read more
Author:De Vries, M; Gerber, A; Van der Merwe, ADate:May 2014Enterprise engineering originated as a practice with most publications focusing on the practical facets without the underlying scientific foundation. Foundational works emerged from different authors in recent years, including Dietz, Hoogervorst ...Read more
Author:Baumbach, JDate:Oct 2009During 1983 DSTO in Australia measured the reflectances of grass, trees and soil in northern Australia, using a custom-build spectroradiometer. During 2002 CSIR in South Africa performed similar measurements in northern South Africa, using a ...Read more
Author:Cannoo, BR; Gledhill, Irvy MA; Cooper, Antony K; Greben, JMDate:Mar 2008The protection of coastal structures is important to South Africa. The dynamics of breakwaters is a topic that is becoming amenable to numerical study, in terms of the motion of multiple interlocking structures under wave action. In this ...Read more
Author:Reyers, B; Nel, JL; O'Farrell, Patrick J; Sitas, Nadia E; Nel, DCDate:Jun 2015Achieving the policy and practice shifts needed to secure ecosystem services is hampered by the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their management. Methods for the participatory production and exchange of knowledge offer an ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Danielle PDate:06 Sep 2023Reliance on digital technologies for innovation management is unavoidable in current contexts. While digital processes and business models have been prioritised as key factors to drive innovation and value creation within firms, cybersecurity ...Read more
Author:Badenhorst, Jacob AC; De Wet, FebeDate:Apr 2022The aim of the National Centre for Human Language Technology (NCHLT) project was to create speech and text resources that would enable Human Language Technology (HLT) development for the 11 official languages of South Africa. The speech data ...Read more
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, MH; Van Heerden, C; De Wet, Febe; Badenhorst, JDate:May 2014The NCHLT speech corpus contains wide-band speech from approximately 200 speakers per language, in each of the eleven of cial languages of South Africa. We describe the design and development processes that were undertaken in order to develop ...Read more
Author:Popoola, PAI; Pityana, Sisa L; Fedotova, T; Popoola, OMDate:Jun 2011As the reports in the literature regarding corrosion performance of Al/TiB2 MMC are rather contradictory, the optimization of laser surface alloying parameters for these composite coatings seems to be necessary. The characterization of the ...Read more
Author:Govender, G; Ivanchev, LHDate:Oct 2005The SSM forming technology has demonstrated that it will be a competitive process for the manufacture of high quality, high volume components for the automotive industry in particular. The new slurry approaches to SSM forming has made the ...Read more
Author:Mouton, F; Malan, MM; Kimppa, KK; Venter, HSDate:Nov 2015Social engineering is deeply entrenched in the fields of both computer science and social psychology. Knowledge is required in both these disciplines to perform social engineering based research. Several ethical concerns and requirements need ...Read more
Author:Erasmus, J; Jacob, M; Erasmus, Louwrence DDate:Sep 2015The South African engineering and manufacturing industries drive employment and growth in the economy, but face a large industrialisation and supplier development challenge in a globally competitive and knowledge intensive market. In order ...Read more
Author:Petrick, AJDate:1971This report discusses the importance of fuel research institute as an industrial research institution, and emphasis on how problems of direct interest to the industries served by the Institute fall directly to their responsibility to undertake ...Read more
Author:Manus, N; Manus, L; Wall, K; Otterman, ADate:Jul 2010The South African government has prioritised infrastructure asset management as a critical element in sustaining services to all. Responsibility for implementing water services lies principally with municipalities in their role as statutory ...Read more