Inclined cables are essential structural elements that are used most prominently in cable stayed bridges. When the bridge deck oscillates due to an external force, such as passing traffic, cable vibrations can arise not only in the plane of excitation but also in the perpendicular plane. This undesirable phenomenon can be modelled as an auto-parametric resonance between the in-plane and out-of-...

We evaluated the potential of a fiber optic cable connected to distributed temperature sensing (DTS) technology to withstand wildland fire conditions and quantify fire behavior parameters. We used a custom-made 'fire cable' consisting of three optical fibers coated with three different materials-acrylate, copper and polyimide. The 150-m cable was deployed in grasslands and burned in three presc...

Cable-stayed bridges are one of the most popular types of long-span bridges. The structural behaviour of cable-stayed bridges is sensitive to the load distribution between the girder, pylons, and cables. The determination of pretensioning cable stresses is critical in the cable-stayed bridge design procedure. By finding the optimum stresses in cables, the load and moment distribution of the bri...

Cable bacteria induce long-distance electron transport in the seafloor and can exert a powerful control on the elemental cycling in marine sediments by creating extreme excursions in porewater pH. Yet, the natural distribution of cable bacteria is still largely unknown, and so their role in coastal biogeochemical cycling remains poorly quantified. Here we show that cable bacteria can be abundan...

Semiconductor manufacturing facilities are very complex. To obtain a fundamental understanding of the effects of dispatch and lot release rules on the factory performance based on a full factory model is difficult. In this paper, we therefore present a simple factory model that is intended to show essentially the same behavior as the complete factory. The model consists of the bottleneck workce...

In this paper, based on Key Performance Indicator (KPI) and Key Activity Indicator (KAI) as the fundamental data for calculating defined factory performance function, evaluation system of factory performance is discussed by following four phases. 1) Designing framework for evaluation system of factory performance, 2) Constructing structure of KPI/KAI database, 3) Formulating evaluation of facto...

Acanthamoeba are infected by a remarkable diversity of large dsDNA viruses, the infectious cycles of which have been characterized using genomics, transcriptomics and electron microscopy. Given their gene content and the persistence of the host nucleus throughout their infectious cycle, the Marseilleviridae were initially assumed to fully replicate in the cytoplasm. Unexpectedly, we find that t...

Anti-patterns, one of the reasons for software design problems, can be solved by applying proper design patterns. If anti-patterns are discovered in the design phase, this should lead an early pattern recommendation by using relationships between antiand design patterns. This paper presents an idea called Antipattern based Design Pattern Recommender (ADPR), that uses design diagrams i.e. class ...

The abstract factory design pattern is a well known and widely applied design in the construction of object-oriented software. An amendment to the abstract factory is presented based on the \envelope/letter" idiom. This results in factory products being instantiated in application code in a manner apparently independent of the factory pattern. Application code can thus forget about the factory,...