There has been a rapid advancement in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology in the past decade and its application in structural monitoring has been the focus of several research projects. The evaluation of the newly developed hardware platform and software system is an important aspect of such research efforts. Although much of this evaluation is done in the laboratories and using generic s...

The behavior of steel structures subjected to seismic actions depends directly on the connections behavior. There are two current tendencies for ensuring the structural ductility: allowing the formation of plastic hinges in the beams by using reduced beam sections or reduced web sections or by ensuring the plastic hinge formation in the connection by using dissipative elements. This paper prese...

An alternating sign matrix is a square matrix such that (i) all entries are 1,-1, or 0, (ii) every row and column has sum 1, and (iii) in every row and column the nonzero entries alternate in sign. Striking numerical evidence of a connection between these matrices and the descending plane partitions introduced by Andrews (Invent. Math. 53 (1979), 193-225) have been discovered, but attempts to p...

There is wide use of beam-column joint with gusset plate angle connection in engineering, however, the mechanical properties these joints are still lack complete theoretical and experimental research. This kind often simplified as an articulated or other types connections design. In this paper, study finite element analysis carried out to flexural behavior connection. The used analyze differenc...