This paper presents a study on the in-plane shear response of partially-grouted reinforced masonry walls with bond-beam reinforcement. A database 95 tests made concrete hollow blocks was compiled from experimental studies reported in literature to characterize capacity and damageability subjected lateral loading. The has been used evaluate accuracy existing design strength equations for walls. ...

Discarded waste rubber has become a major problem to the environment due increase of usage in modern world. As solution, can be embedded rubberized concrete by partially replacing fine and coarse aggregates. Due nature rubber, there is high potential for have impact absorbent properties. Most firing rang walls are made with normal bricks Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study focuses on investigating...

Thermo-active structures exchange heat with the ground to provide thermal energy buildings. Consequently, is subjected changes in temperature, inducing thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) interactions within soil. To insights into origin and manifestations of main mechanisms taking place complex fully THM-coupled finite element (FE) analyses, simple, one-dimensional problems are firstly analysed this...

T4 phage lysozyme is an inverting glycoside hydrolase that degrades the murein of bacterial cell walls by cleaving the β-1,4-glycosidic bond. The substitution of the catalytic Thr26 residue to a histidine converts the wild type from an inverting to a retaining enzyme, which implies that the original general acid Glu11 can also act as an acid/base catalyst in the hydrolysis. Here, we have determ...

An extract of frozen and thawed soybean (Glycine max L. Merr. cv. Wayne) stems is active, in wounded soybean cotyledons, as a heat-labile elicitor of phytoalexins. The elicitor activity of the extract is destroyed by heating to 95 degrees C for 10 minutes. The fraction that contains heat-labile elicitor activity releases heat-stable elicitor-active molecules from purified soybean cell walls. He...