Multi-story, reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures with soft stories are highly vulnerable to damage due earthquake loads. The story causes a significant stiffness irregularity, which has led numerous buildings collapsing in previous seismic events. In addition the structural collapse, failure of non-structural components (NSCs) also been observed during past earthquakes. light this, thi...

In the study, weight efficiency of Triple Friction Pendulum Bearing (TFP) Isolators is investigated on optimal planar steel frames. For this investigation, an optimization program based Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm have been developed for study. design frames, structure should satisfy strength, inter-story drift, top-story drift and geometric requirements that are implemented from LRFD...

This paper presents a multi-story power delivery scheme which shows significant reduction of supply noise and power consumption compared to conventional power delivery scheme. To maximize the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, a digital voltage regulator is designed to balance the current dissipation of circuits in different voltage domains. Data transfer circuits based on capacitive couplin...

In the present work, the effect of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) in low frequency structures resting on loose soil, through numerical modelling and shaking table tests have been studied. In theoretical studies two types of models namely fixed base and flexible base structure were subjected to three selected earthquake records. Nonlinear dynamic analysis was employed for all of the numerical ...

Abstract A nine-story reinforced concrete dual system (wall-frame) building located in Bucharest, categorized as plan-asymmetric and designed according to the provisions of Romanian European codes was studied. The criteria for regularity plan were verified comparatively three (Eurocode 8, ASCE 7-16 seismic design code P100-1-2013). behaviour studied further investigated by detailed nonlinear st...

We investigate the validity and failure of Liouville theorems and Harnack inequalities for parabolic and elliptic operators with low regularity coefficients. We are particularly interested in operators of the form ∂t−∆+ b ·∇ resp. −∆+ b ·∇ with a divergence-free drift b. We prove the Liouville theorem and Harnack inequality when b ∈ L∞(BMO) resp. b ∈ BMO−1 and provide a counterexample demonstra...

This paper presents a subword normalized cut (N-cut) approach to automatic story segmentation of Chinese broadcast news (BN). We represent a speech recognition transcript using a weighted undirected graph, where the nodes correspond to sentences and the weights of edges describe inter-sentence similarities. Story segmentation is formalized as a graph-partitioning problem under the N-cut criteri...

Introduction: Eolian sedimentary deposits are important because they provide a record of the direction and strength of winds on Mars and the type and flux of sediments transported by the winds. While Martian sand dunes and transverse aeolian ridges ("TARs") have been thoroughly studied, the sedimentary deposits left behind by blowing dust have received comparatively little attention to date. Wi...