An experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. The first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. The second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. The last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. These three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. Di...

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to investigate the properties of planar, tubular and conical forms of silicon nanostructures. The evaluated parameters including averaged bond lengths, binding energies, gap energies and dipole moments were then evaluated for the optimized models of study. The results indicated that the bond lengths between silicon atoms are different ...

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were performed to investigate the properties of planar, tubular and conical forms of silicon nanostructures. The evaluated parameters including averaged bond lengths, binding energies, gap energies and dipole moments were then evaluated for the optimized models of study. The results indicated that the bond lengths between silicon atoms are different ...

1. Abstract In this paper, a genetic algorithm is proposed for discrete minimal weight design of steel planar frames with semi-rigid beam-tocolumn connections. The frame elements are constructed from a predetermined range of section profiles. Conventionally, the analysis of frame structures is based on the assumption that all connections are either frictionless pinned or fully rigid. Recent lim...

We propose a method for removing marked dynamic objects from videos captured with a free-moving camera, so long as the objects occlude parts of the scene with a static background. Our approach takes as input a video, a mask marking the object to be removed, and a mask marking the dynamic objects to remain in the scene. To inpaint a frame, we align other candidate frames in which parts of the mi...

Tight formation-based operations are critical in several emerging applications for robot collectives — ranging from cooperative payload transport to synchronized distributed data-collection. In this paper, we investigate the optimal relative layout for members of a team of Differentially-Driven Wheeled Mobile Robots (DD-WMRs) moving in formation for ultimate deployment in cooperative payload tr...

We generalize the notion of Jacobson graphs into $n$-array columns called $n$-array Jacobson graphs and determine their connectivities and diameters. Also, we will study forbidden structures of these graphs and determine when an $n$-array Jacobson graph is planar, outer planar, projective, perfect or domination perfect.

We consider three-dimensional elastic frames constructed out of Euler–Bernoulli beams and describe a simple process generating joint conditions the geometric description frame. The corresponding differential operator is shown to be self-adjoint. In special case planar frames, decomposes into direct sum two operators, one coupling out-of-plane displacement angular (torsional) other in-plane with...

UNLABELLED Pinhole SPECT (P-SPECT) has proven to be a high-resolution and sensitive method in both experimental and clinical studies. In this study, we investigated whether P-SPECT combined with conventional planar scintigraphy can give additional information in hyperfunctioning parathyroid gland detection in both primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) and secondary hyperparathyroidism (sHPT) since...