A timber-concrete composite (TCC) slab composed of nail-laminated timber (NLT) and topping concrete (TC) was developed for flooring applications. The NLT laminated alternately with lumber plywood. To investigate the nonstructural dimensional behavior TCC slab, temperature, relative humidity (RH), changes exposed to outdoor air were monitored 205 days. Temperature change transmitted directly bot...

This paper presents research on robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) in the presence of impulsive noise, which is usually caused by transmission errors or packet loss in network-based delivery of speech signals. A soft decision strategy is proposed by analyzing the degraded observation probabilities caused by impulsive noise. Based on the soft decision results, two compensation methods are...

Residential foundation selection is critical for the lifetime performance of project, but type selected can depend on cost. This study aims to compare new construction costs residential slab-on-fill and four types crawl space foundations projects by quantifying material quantities each exploring effect building characteristics total costs. The are size (139 m 2 , 186 232 ), footprint aspect rat...

Preliminary clinical findings suggest that compliant flooring may reduce the incidence and severity of fallrelated injuries in long-term care (Knoefel et al., 2013) and acute-care settings (Drahota et al., 2013). However, there is concern that manoeuvring wheeled equipment on compliant flooring could expose care staff to potentially harmful pushing forces (Drahota et al., 2013; Wynn et al., 201...

The objective of this study was to conduct a kinetic analysis of manual wheelchair propulsion during start-up on select indoor and outdoor surfaces. Eleven manual wheelchairs were fitted with a SMART(Wheel) and their users were asked to push on a course consisting of high- and low-pile carpet, indoor tile, interlocking concrete pavers, smooth level concrete, grass, hardwood flooring, and a side...

The problem of bamboo’s strength depends on the length used. From past experiments, it was found that physical properties bamboo have thickness at bottom and a tapered end, resulting in each part being different. can resist more compression than tip, which corresponds to characteristics bamboo. To use for main construction, such as columns, many select raw measures approximately 3 m from ground...