In the present study, ten steel-moment resisting frames (SMRFs) having different numbers of stories ranging from 3 to 20 stories and fundamental periods of vibration ranging from 0.3 to 3.0 second were optimized subjected to a set of earthquake ground motions using the concept of uniform damage distribution along the height of the structures. Based on the step-by-step optimization algorithm dev...

We present theoretical period magnitude relationships for Cepheids in different filters for fundamental and first overtone pulsators, completing the work by Alibert et al. (1999). The results are provided for different metallicities characteristic of the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. In contrast to the fundamental mode, we find a small metallicity effect on the period luminosity relation...

This paper describes a pattern recognition algorithm for the location of the points of vocal fold closure in a noisy speech signal. The algorithm uses a multi-layer perceptron (MU) classifier with inputs from a window on the speech signal, and an output signifying the presence of a vocal fold closure at the centre of the window. The location of the vocal fold closures, or the fundamental period...

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

An on-going extensive research on multi-level and matrix converters requires physically meaningful easy-to-calculate criteria to compare numerous suggested converter topologies and voltage modulation strategies. Frequency domain voltage Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) criterion approach is too complicated and non-transparent as it involves multiple Fourier integral and results in multiple serie...