Moment-resisting frames have extensive usage in earthquake-prone areas and high ability in energy dissipation.After the earthquake in Northridge 1994,Kobe 1995 fixed connections of steel structures have shown poor performance and generally they were caught brittle fracture of beam flange weld to the column.In order to remedy to avoid similar situations in future earthquakes,researchers introduc...

Kinematical definitions of deformations with and without microslip are presented. Transformation properties for such deformations are shown to follow directly from their definitions, and Burgers vector is related to the deformation without microslip. A limit procedure provides a concept of stress without microslip and leads to a natural concept of elastic response. Various decompositions of loc...

the development of yielded or failure zone due to an engineering construction is a subject of study in different disciplines. in petroleum engineering, depletion from and injection of gas into a porous rock can cause development of a yield zone around the reservoir. studying this phenomenon requires elasto-plastic analysis of geomaterial, in this case the porous rocks. in this study, which is a...

Attempts to encourage widespread use of plastic embedding to improve morphological detail in human bone marrow biopsy specimens have failed because the procedures were too time-consuming and laborious to replace the simpler and more expeditious procedures for paraffin embedding. We have systematically investigated a variety of fixation and embedding procedures and arrived at a method that allow...

Introduction to Special Edition of Pediatric Plastic Surgery Normally, when parents bring their infant or child for evaluation and management of a birth defect, congenital anomaly, or acquired deformity, they seek a plastic surgeon with expertise in the field of pediatric plastic surgery. Challenges for the plastic surgeon can involve relatively routine clinical problems, ranging from a congeni...

A new bulk severe plastic deformation method based on repetitive forging (RF) using inclined punches is proposed. This process consists of two half cycles. In the first half cycle, a square cross section deforms to parallelogram by forging with two inclined punches, and the parallelogram cross section is forged back to square using two flat punches in the second half cycle. This method was appl...

The anesthesiologist must be aware of the causes, diagnosis and treatment of venous air embolism and adopt the practice patterns to prevent its occurrence. Although venous air embolism is a known complication of cesarean section, we describe an unusual inattention that causes iatrogenic near fatal venous air embolism during a cesarean section under spinal anesthesia. One of the reasons for usin...