APPARATUS THEORY PROCEDURE RESULTS DISCUSSION CONCLUSION REFERENCES APPENDICES introduction A sieve analysis or gradation test is a practice or procedure used commonly used in civil engineering to assess the particle size distribution also called gradation of a granular material. The size distribution is often of critical importance to the way the material performs in use. A sieve analysis can be performed on any type of non-organic or organic granular materials including sands‚ crushed
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Engineering 9 Section Cases Nantucket Nectars Nantucket Nectars was founded by Tom First and Tom Scott. It is a company that has been built around its “personal” informal corporate structure and as a result of owners’ passion for the venture. Unlike any other product in the market‚ they created a very high quality product which lead their customers to pay the extra price premium for it. First and Scott wanted their company to grow and in order to do so they had two options: they would come out
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Nantucket Nectar is a beverage company created by Tom Scott and Tom First who met at Brown Universities. They first created Allserve‚ a floating convenience store that served boats in Nantucket Harbor. They then started creating and selling juices in 1990. Nantucket Nectars achieved its first year of profitability in 1995. It continued to grow and the firm was approached by six or more bidders that were interested in acquiring a position of the company. Therefore‚ Tom and Tom had to decide what they
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then poured our sample from our mixing bowl into the bowl on the scale. The actual weight was 5391.3g Now that we had an exact weight of our sample‚ we went to pour it into the Mechanical Sieve shaker that was in a separate room (with two other machines) for safetyand noise purposes. The Mechanical Sieve seems to work on a hydraulic system for tightening the trays in place during the shacking. You have to pump back and forth the shift stick until the trays no longer move in their slots. When the
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Nantucket Nectars’ "Juice Guys" Bottle Formula for Success With Quality Ingredients The island of Nantucket is known for its entrepreneurial spirit. Tom Scott and Tom First caught that fever nine years ago when they started peddling Nantucket Nectars in the island’s harbor. Now the self-proclaimed "juice guys" hold the number-two spot in the New Age beverage market. To say the juice guys started their company‚ Nantucket Nectars‚ on a shoestring budget would be an understatement. The two Toms
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from the attractiveness of this venture is the high threat of new entrants. As the Chinese government continues to deregulate their businesses‚ outside corporations are able to enter the Chinese market facing few barriers. Beijing Oasis’ fruit nectars fit within the market’s needs. The Chinese market does not contain many firms who are able to offer real fruit juice. Most juices are diluted concentrates. Your company produces high-quality
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Tom Scott and Tom First were entrepreneurs and for about 9 years worked tirelessly performing many of the core operational activities required to manage their company. When the time came for them to decide on how to grow their company‚ my decision to negotiate an agreement to sell all or a portion of the company stock would have been based on 1) raise capital to support the business’s strategic plan‚ 2) align new management to perform day-to-day operational and administrative tasks‚ and 3) pay me
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Entrepreneurial Management Case 11 - Nantucket 01/14/2014 I. Identify/Define the Key Issues/Situation Analysis A. Key issues that will impact the focal firm’s ability to survive‚ thrive and grow. First Nantucket Nectar has to decide on a strategy on how to achieve increased growth in future. This may include an IPO‚ being bought by one of the big players in the beverage market or growing organically. Independently on how they achieve this goal‚ it is most important that they preserve the
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experiments that were conducted are as follows; dry sieve analysis for both samples‚ clast roundness analysis for 50 clasts collected at Clarach‚
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of the test load. 2. Sieves – the sizes and apertures appropriate to the specification of the material being tested‚ complying with BS 410: For coarse aggregate‚ standard sieve size of 50.0 mm‚ 37.5 mm‚ 20.0 mm‚ 14.0 mm‚ 10.0 mm‚ 5.0 mm and 2.36 mm (Fig. 2C1-1). For fine aggregate‚ standard sieve size of 10 mm‚ 5.00 mm‚ 2.36 mm‚ 1.18 mm‚ 600m‚ 300 m and 150 m (Fig. 2C1-2). 3. Mechanical Sieve Shaker -a mechanical sieving device‚ used to create vibration of the sieve to cause the particles
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