This paper discusses the forensic investigation of a fatality-involved catastrophic structure collapse and the special challenges faced when tasked with directing such an effort. While this paper discusses the investigation’s findings and the outcome of the event; this paper’s primary focus is on the challenges faced directing a forensic investigation that requires coordinating with governmenta...

Examining the effects of information sources on individual earning rates in the South Korean stock market Eunil Park & Sang Jib Kwon To cite this article: Eunil Park & Sang Jib Kwon (2015) Examining the effects of information sources on individual earning rates in the South Korean stock market, Economic ResearchEkonomska Istraživanja, 28:1, 650-667, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2015.1083878 To link to...

As he thumbed through his manual, my memory reverted to a cryptanalysis course that my fiancee had taken at Brooklyn College, given by Professor Jack Wolfe of the math department. She and I would sit in a sunny meadow in Prospect Park, and I helped with the frequency counts. My reverie was broken by the information that I was to be sent to Vint Hill Farms Station, near Warrenton, Virginia close...

In the last 10 years, community of La Mesa de Macaracas (central Panama) has experienced considerable aftershocks due to earthquakes magnitudes up 5.7 Mw. Although most consists single-storey houses, agricultural development in region led multistorey building projects. To determine whether characteristics soils could affect future construction study area, 16 stations were established measure am...

This paper presents numerical simulations of multi-storey reinforced concrete frames under progressive collapse scenarios. Reinforced with different storeys are modelled using DIANA. The load resistance and failure mode obtained from the simulation. Variations in axial force bending moment at beam end also determined analysed to shed light on transfer mechanism. Numerical results show that sing...

the aim of the present paper is to evaluate the influence of the soil- foundation- structure interaction (sfsi) effects on the component demand modifier factor of concrete gravity beams based on asce 41-06 standard. to this end, the beam on the nonlinear winkler foundation approach is employed which is a simple and efficient method. at first, four sets of 3-, 6-, 10- and 15-storey concrete mome...

The capacity of a structure can be assessed using inelastic analyses, requiring sophisticated numerical procedures such as pushover and incremental dynamic analyses. A simplified method for the evaluation seismic performance steel Concentrically Braced Frames (CBFs) to used in everyday practice immediate aftermath an earthquake has been recently proposed. This evaluates existing building employ...

an attempt has been made to explore the general trends in the seismic response of planasymmetric structures when subjected to near-fault and far-fault ground motions. systems with structural wall elements in both orthogonal directions considering actual and common nonlinear behavior under bi-directional excitation were studied. idealized single-storey models with uni-axial eccentricity were emp...