Seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings is strongly influenced by beam-column joints. Horizontal and vertical structural members converge in joints, as extremely delimited areas where the internal forces core reinforcing bars have elevated stress gradients. In order to fully understand seismic behavior RC related failures T- X-shaped joints (external corner internal-position...

every digital transmission system requires frame alignment. it is necessary to identify the varius signal componets and to bring receiver into phase with respect to the transmission format so that the digits can be properly assembled for demultiplexing. fast and reliable frame alignmant is important, and therefore has been a subject for study. this paper a comprehensive analysis of frame alignm...

in this paper, load and buckling mode of a smart column are presented. the theoretical model is a three-layer piezoelectric composite beam that behaves as an axial actuating mechanism. this actuator consists of an elastic core sandwiched between two piezoelectric active outer layers. the piezoelectric layers are polarized transversely, i.e., the polarization vector is parallel to the applied el...

Finite affine groups are given by groups of translations and di- lations on finite cyclic groups. For cyclic groups of prime order we develop a time-scale (wavelet) analysis and show that for a large class of non-zero window signals/vectors, the generated full cyclic wavelet system constitutes a frame whose canonical dual is a cyclic wavelet frame.

Lipovitellin II (Lv II), the major yolk protein of the anomuran crab Emerita asiatica, was purified using heparin-sepharose affinity column chromatography. The purified Lv II was a glycoprotein as it was stainable with periodic acid-Schiff's reagent. Quantitative analysis of sugars showed the presence of fucose, mannose, galactosamine, N-linked oligosaccharides, as well as O-linked oligosacchar...

This paper presents experimental and numerical investigations on progressive collapse behavior of a two-story glulam frame when the side column is exposed to ISO834 standard fire. The mechanism initiated by fire identified. results show that could be described for three stages, namely bending effect stage, catenary stage failure respectively. These stages are discussed in detail understand stru...

in this paper the rehabilitation of concrete structures with a new system is considered. in this system pre- stressed cables with energy dissipating viscous spring dampers at the end of each cable, are used to increase structure lateral stiffness. cable system can be replaced with other system due to their high tensile resistance, their easy replacement, high speed performance, economical matte...

This paper presents a parametric study conducted on five Steel Moment Frames (SMFs) varying in height (2-, 4-, 8-, 12-, and 20- story) to assess the interactive effect of column base hysteretic behavior, continuous gravity columns partially restrained beam-column connections their seismic performance. The frame response is examined through sophisticated Nonlinear Time History (NTH) Static Pusho...