Abstract We prove some important properties of the extremal coefficients a stable tail dependence function (“STDF”) and characterise logistic related STDFs. The well known sufficient conditions for composebility STDFs are shown to be also necessary.

In this paper, a displacement-based, variationally consistent, two variable refined theory for shear deformable beams is presented. The beam is assumed to be of linearly elastic, homogeneous, isotropic material and has a uniform rectangular cross-section. In this theory, the beam axial displacement and beam transverse displacement consist of bending components and shearing components. The assum...

Building fragility functions provide a probabilistic representation of a building damage potential due to a hazard of a varying intensity. A simplified probabilistic displacement-based framework is adopted to develop fragility functions for NZ building inventory subject to ground motion hazard. To account for the diversity of building characteristics within a given building class, a Monte-Carlo...

We describe a uniform way of obtaining basic hypergeometric functions as limits of the elliptic beta integral. This description gives rise to the construction of a polytope with a different basic hypergeometric function attached to each face of this polytope. We can subsequently obtain various relations, such as transformations and three-term relations, of these functions by considering geometr...

While industry IT project managers are scrambling for large numbers of IS graduates / professionals with significant COBOL skills to support billions of lines of legacy applications, academic programs are migrating away from COBOL as an integral part of their IS curricula. In some cases, IS programs have eliminated COBOL altogether. The trend toward reducing or eliminating a sequence of COBOL c...

Some basic properties relating to relative lower order of entire functions of two complex variables are discussed in this paper.