To understand the seismic damage characteristics of bottom frame-wall buildings and to study their seismic performance, the seismic damage outcomes of  bottom frame-wall structures in Du jiang weir by the Wen chuan earthquake on May 12,2008, China were field observed and studied. The assesment of the seismic damage to the bottom frame-wall masonry in Du jiang weir urban showed that the damage t...

This article offers various mathematical contributions to the behavior of thin films. The common thread is view film as variational limit a three-dimensional domain with related when thickness that vanishes. After short review in Section 1 regimes can arise such an asymptotic process performed classical elastic case, giving rise well-known models plate theory (membrane, bending, Von Karmann, et...

We consider graphs parameterized on a portion X⊂Zd×{1,…,M}k of cylindrical subset the lattice Zd×Zk, and perform discrete-to-continuum dimension-reduction process for energies defined X quadratic type. Our only assumptions are that be connected as graph periodic in first d-directions. show that, upon scaling domain by small parameter ɛ, scaled converge to d-dimensional limit energy. The main te...

Prefabricated modular housing structures have become a promising alternative to site-built structures with equal or higher engineering quality and durability. Major advantages of this technology are fast and cost-efficient construction, reduced labor requirements, and superior quality control due to factory production. The modular design of these prefabricated structures offers the opportunity ...

The Euclidean action is calculated in the thin-wall approximation for a first-order vacuum phase transition in which the bubble appears symmetrically around either a global monopole or a gauge cosmic string. The bubble is assumed to be much larger than the core size of the monopole or string. In both cases the value of the Euclidean action is shown to be reduced below the O(4) symmetric action ...

A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Fourier transform approach to obtain frequency response function (FRF) is presented in this paper. The aim in this paper is to eliminate the need for the classical impact experimental approach used in extracting structure’s FRF. The numerical and experimental FRFs have been used to obtain stable regions in machining of thin walled structures, which gives a go...

This article reviews our recent experimental studies of domain wall (DW) resistivity in epitaxial transition metal ferromagnetic thin film microstructures with stripe domains. The results are presented and analysed in the context of models of DW scattering and conventional magnetoresistance (MR) effects in ferromagnetic metals. Microstructures of progressively higher magnetic anisotropy and thu...