This study was conducted to determine the thickness map of eleven retinal layers in normal subjects by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and evaluate their association with sex and age. Mean regional retinal thickness of 11 retinal layers was obtained by automatic three-dimensional diffusion map based method in 112 normal eyes of 76 Iranian subjects. We applied our previousl...

STUDY DESIGN A normative, single-group study was conducted. OBJECTIVE To investigate the flexion relaxation phenomenon in the thoraco-lumbopelvic muscles among a pain-free population when moving from an upright to a slump sitting posture. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The presence of the flexion relaxation phenomenon (FRP) of the back muscles is well documented at end-range spinal flexion when...

The importance of developing innovative support structure for underground mines has drawn much attention with the depletion shallow resources. This paper presents a hybrid tubular standing consisting an exterior container made polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) while infill is coal rejects based backfill material. FRP jacket featured high strength-to-weight ratio attach...

An important application of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is to provide confinement to reinforced concrete (RC) columns to enhance their loadcarrying capacity. However, this application is generally restricted to short columns as existing design guidelines do not contain provisions for the design of FRP jackets for slender columns. This situation has been due to both the scarcity of...

This work deals with the development of a mechanics-based shear model for reinforced concrete (RC) elements strengthened in shear with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) and a design/assessment procedure capable of predicting the failure sequence of resisting elements: the yielding of existing transverse steel ties and the debonding of FRP sheets/strips, while checking the corresponding compressive...

Corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the main durability problems facing reinforced concrete infrastructures worldwide. This paper will summarize the results of a multi-phase experimental program undertaken at the University of Waterloo to investigate the viability of using externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) laminates to rehabilitate corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete bea...

most geologic changes have a seismic response but sometimes this is expressed only in certain spectral ranges hidden within the broadband data. spectral decomposition is one of the methods which can be utilized to help interpreting such cases. there are several time-frequency methods including: short-time fourier transform (stft), continuous wavelet transform (cwt), wigner-ville distribution (w...

Functional reactive programming (FRP) is an emerging paradigm which allows the management of input/output and state within the confines of a purely functional language. The functional nature of FRP promises to make formal verification of functional reactive systems more tractable than that of their imperative counterparts. I propose to substantiate this claim by formally modeling FRP systems an...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of composite materials using Guided Ultrasonic Wave (GUW) represent a central research topic with large range application fields. One major concern in this context is the detection hidden inter-laminar damage such as delaminations composites, these cannot be detected by visual inspection [1]. Fiber Metal Laminate (FML) consist different layers metal (e.g. stee...

One of the goals that the Innovative Bridge Research and Construction (IRBC) program, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), wishes to achieve through sponsored research projects is the concept of an economical, durable, short-span bridge that reduces construction time. Delaware County, Iowa took a step in that direction through the construction of a 64 ft. long bridge comprise...