Several concrete structures in tectonically active regions of the world are exposed to chloride ingress from seawater, saltwater, and other sources, making them vulnerable corrosion-induced deterioration. Although it is well-known that deterioration influences force-displacement behaviour corroded components under cyclic loading, no adequate provisions have been incorporated into state-of-pract...

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This paper investigates the collapse risk of seismically isolated buildings that are designed by procedures ASCE/SEI 7-16 standard for sites within 5 km active fault controls hazard. The study is based on six-story perimeter frame with special concentrically braced frames a location in California. seismic isolation systems considered this comprised either: (i) triple friction pendulum bearings ...

To estimate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, invariable step-size normalized least mean square (ISSNLMS) algorithm was applied to adaptive channel estimation (ACE). Since the MIMO channel is often described by sparse channel model due to broadband signal transmission, such sparsity can be exploited by adaptive sparse channel estimation (ASCE) methods using sparse ISS-NLMS algorit...

We describe synaptic connections through which information essential for encoding efference copies reaches two coordinating neurons in each of the microcircuits that controls limbs on abdominal segments of the crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus. In each microcircuit, these coordinating neurons fire bursts of spikes simultaneously with motor neurons. These bursts encode timing, duration, and str...

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has sponsored several reconnaissance teams to survey effects of the great East Japan earthquake and Tohoku tsunami. The first of these was the tsunami team, which traveled to Japan from April 15 to May 1, 2011, and focused on tsunami effects on coastal buildings, bridges, port facilities and coastal protective structures. All seven members of the t...

G. S. Collins and Y. Le Manach Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, and Departments of Anesthesia and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michael DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and the Perioperati...

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Benchmark problems in structural response control have served the international structural controls community as virtual test beds to compare different control algorithms since the first benchmark problem was proposed in 1996 through the sponsorship of the ASCE Structural Control Committee and Task Group on Benchmark Problems, the U.S. Panel on structural control, and International Association ...

Abstract We evaluate the seismic performance of modern seismically designed wood light-frame (WLF) buildings, considering regional hazard characteristics that influence ground motion duration and frequency content and, thus, risk. Results show WLF building response correlates strongly with spectral shape but weakly duration. Due to flatter motions from subduction events, buildings at sites affe...