Sample plans/project descriptions

The advantage of the SAP format is a clear division of the field and laboratory activities and the ensuing focus of the field and laboratory personnel on their respective tasks. The USACE SAP format by being extremely detailed serves as a comprehensive model for the preparation of the sampling and analysis plans (USACE, 1994). The disadvantage of the USACE format is a certain redundancy, as the same information on project description, history, background, organization, and schedule needs to be repeated twice, in the FSP and in the QAPP. (In practice, once these sections have been included in the FSP, they may be incorporated into the QAPP by reference.)... 

Some examples will now be used to illustrate some of the considerations going into planning, carrying out experiments and analyzing experimental results for samples undergoing phase transitions. Many of these studies have appeared in the literature and so no great emphasis is placed on the ramifications of the structures determined. The reader is directed to the literature for more detailed descriptions of these aspects of the projects. 

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