The geotechnical engineering practice has not been advanced in South Africa. As no significant integration of unsaturated soil mechanics (USM) is yet to be covered in pavement design. Stiffness of subgrade soils that is ...

Faster mould production methods will undeniably impact positively on the product development community. Rapid Tooling (RT) concepts, in context with the product development process and related product development theories, ...

Catchment response time and design rainfall are regarded as fundamental input to all design flood estimation methods in ungauged catchments, while errors in estimated catchment response time and design rainfall directly ...

The Centre for Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing (CRPM) at the Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) manufactures implants using Electro Optical Systems (EOS) titanium Ti-6Al-4V alloy powder (further referred ...

Expansive soils vary in volume, in relation to water content. Volume changes when wetting (swelling) and drying (shrinkage). Lightweight structures in construction are the most vulnerable structures experiencing severe ...

The aim of this study was to examine the possibility of more suitable and economic alternatives to existing conventional sewerage reticulation systems where such systems might be required. Existing solids-free systems ...

Notwithstanding the benefits that information and communications technology (ICT) offers to learning processes, the majority of learners in rural and township areas in South Africa either do not have access to computers ...

The aim of this study was to create a dynamic software system that captures all information related to a student and delivers it to the educators, principal, higher authorities and parents. In order to achieve this aim, ...

In South Africa, water is a scarce resource and it has become very important to manage this resource effectively. The State developed a regulating framework, under the hospice of the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, ...

Much effort is spent in regulating the power quality in alternating current power supplies for electronic devices. Many electronic devices, however, do not use alternating current, but rather direct current. The output of ...