Full base shear seismic demand analyses with calculated examples for heavy stone masonry buildings are not present in the literature. To address this shortcoming, and calculations performed on nominally reinforced rubble house school designs, as typically built Nepal. The codes literally applied countries where technique is still allowed (Nepal, India, China, Tajikistan, Iran, Croatia), or shou...

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods employ discontinuous piecewise polynomials to approximate the solutions of differential equations with boundary conditions and interelement continuity weakly imposed through bilinear forms. Examples of these schemes include the Bassy-Rebay method, the Local Discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods, the Oden-Babuška-Baumann (OBB-DG) method and interior penalty Gal...

Polymer modification of mortar and concrete can lead to improved transport and mechanical properties and thus its potential for an inhibiting effect on ASR or on resulting damage was investigated. An accelerated mortar bar test in a NaOH solution bath at 80 oC had already been established as inadequate to assess the behaviour of polymer-cement mortars (PCMs) under ASR, but compared to that of a...

The click-and-mortar issue has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Many diverse arguments and viewpoints have been proposed to reinforce comprehension of seamless integration, but there has been little empirical research on how to develop an effective seamless strategy for consolidating the click-and-mortar environment. It is known that business capital is often scarce and differe...

This paper presents part of a research into the small scale modelling of masonry. Small scale testing of masonry has been carried out by many authors, but few have attempted a systematic determination of the parameters that affect masonry at a small scale. The effect of increasing mortar strength and different sand gradings under compression were investigated. The results show masonry strength ...

This paper presents part of a research into the small scale modelling of masonry. Small scale testing of masonry has been carried out by many authors, but few have attempted a systematic determination of the parameters that affect masonry at a small scale. The effect of increasing mortar strength and different sand gradings under compression were investigated. The results show masonry strength ...

Environmental restoration is not simply a practical matter. The topic carries with it immense of metaphysical and aesthetic interest. In the same way that the science of ecology and cultural phenomenon of environmental politics are inseparable, restoration of the environment is inextricably tied to and informed by several areas of discourse: ecology, cultural ecology, human ecology, environment...

The evolutions of practices of seismic slope stability analysis of earth embankment/dam are discussed in this paper. The basic concepts of various methods, salient features, advantages and limitations of each of them are elucidate. Methods for both stability analysis and deformation calculation are presented. Methods for calculation of deformation of post liquefaction stage are also briefed.

introduction & objective: after urinary tract infection and prostatic disorders , the urine stones are the third common genitourinary diseases. demographic, environmental and genetic factors affect urine stone formation. the aim of our study is to survey epidemiologic factors in patients with urinary stones referring to educational hospitals of hamadan during 2010-2013.      materials & methods...