Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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Mechanical Behaviour Of Hard Setting Soils Of Semi-arid Kenya. In: Proceedings Of The 3rd, World Congress On Conservation Agriculture, Nairobi Kenya. Linking Production, Livelihoods And Conservation.
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, 2005) -
Mechanical Behaviour Of Hardsetting Soils, The Critical State Soil Mechanics Approach To Soil Tillage.
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, 2010) -
Mechanical properties of granular materials as related to loads in cylindrical grain silos
(1987)Physical quantities thought to be pertinent to the development of loads in cylindrical silos filled with granular materials were identified. The principles of similitude and dimensional analysis were used to formulate, ... -
Mechanisms Governing Alkali Metal Capture By Kaolinite In A Downflow Combustor
(Mechanical Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1993) -
Mechanisms governing trace sodium capture by kaolinite in a downflow combustor
(1996)A 17-kW, 6-m-long gas-fired laboratory combustor was used to investigate the postflame reactive capture of trace sodium species by kaolinite. Emphasis was on alkali/sorbent interactions occurring in flue gas at temperatures ... -
Mechanization Of Small Farms: A Partial Solution To Poverty And Food Security In Kenya.
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2002) -
Mechanization status in the Lake Victoria Basin of East Africa
(Envrironmental and Biosystems EngineeringAgricultural Engineering, Makerere UniversityAgricultural Engineering, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, 2010)The study evaluated the mechanization status in the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) of East African countries namely; Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Baseline survey was conducted using semi-structured questionnaires. Initial soil ... -
Mediating difference to achieve sustainable outcomes for low-income communities
(University of Nairobi, 2013) -
Memoirs: Surviving the academic arena: my complex journey to the apex.
(Nairobi: University of Nairobi PressCivil Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2011)SURVIVING THE ACADEMIC ARENA: MY COMPLEX JOURNEY TO THE APEX recounts the true story of Francis John Gichaga, a survivor, who from a humble background rose in the academic and management ranks to become a leading scholar ... -
Merging Indigenous African and Western Knowledge Systems; I
(2011)Since colonial times, Euro centricism has eroded development and modernization of not only indigenous African architectural design values but also other Sub-Saharan, socio-cultural heritage knowledge and practices. From ... -
Mesure et Analyse des Champs de Vitesse a’ L’entrée d’un Contact Lubrifie Entre deux Cylindres
(Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1983) -
Metal speciation in phosphate and thermal stabilization of contaminated dredged sediments. In Contemporary Topics in Ground Modification, Problem Soils, and Geo-Support
(Civil and Construction Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2009) -
Methodological Guidelines for Agricultural mechanisation strategy formulation
(1994)The economies of most countries in Eastern and Southern Africa are going through a dynamic transformation from centralized to market oriented economies. The current emphasis on private sector development accompanied by ... -
methodology for sizing rainwater harvesting reservoirs, a paper presented at the annual SEASAE conference in Arusha Tanzania
(College of Architectural Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1997)Annual seasonal droughts of 2-4 months occur in Kusa limiting access of households to safe drinking water. This compounds the health and socio-economic disasters through increased water borne diseases rated at 10% morbidity ... -
Methods of Data Collection
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 2004) -
Microbial and Physical Chemical Indicators of Groundwater Contamination in Kenya: A Case Study of Kisumu Aquifer System, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Safe water of adequate quantity, and dignified sanitation, is vital for the sustenance of a healthy and productive human population. In the recognition of this, the United Nations formulated the Sustainable Development ... -
Microbial Quality of Ready-to-Drink Juice brands sold in the Kenyan Market
(2005)Preservation of the juice is achieved mainly through canning, freezing or addition of microbial inhibitors, which include ascorbic acid, benzoic acid or their salts. In addition to the juice or their concentrates, acids, ... -
Microbial sulfate reduction with acetate: process performance and composition of the bacterial communities in the reactor at different salinity levels.
(Envrironmental and Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Micromechanisms of fatigue crack growth in cast aluminium piston alloys
(2012)The fatigue crack growth behaviour in as-cast and hot isostatically pressed (HIP) model cast aluminium piston alloys with hypoeutectic Si compositions of 6.9 wt% and 0.67 wt% has been investigated. The HIP alloys showed ...