The aim of this paper is to research new thermally-efficient concrete walls, analyzing the mechanical behavior of a self-compacting concrete to manufacture an uncoated solid structural panel, with the incorporation of a micro-encapsulated phase change material as additive. Different dosages are tested and mechanical properties of the product obtained from the molding of concrete specimens are e...

The study presents the behaviour of wood ash / OPC concrete. Chemical analysis of wood ash, bulk density, sieve analysis and specific gravity of wood ash and aggregates, consistency, setting time and slump test of the fresh paste were conducted to determine the suitability of the materials for concrete making. Mix ratio of 1:2:4 and percentage replacement level of 0, 10, 20, 30 and 40 percents ...

The model based on Method of Finite Elements (MFE) which simulates the radon diffusion through the concrete sample in the form of cylinder, is defined in the present work. The diffusion process with concurrent radioactive decay of radon is considered in the model. Differential equations which describes the diffusion and other involved processes were replaced by a system of linear equations of f...

Concrete pump robots are used for very wi le operating ranges, so elastic deformations of the links must be taken into account . Concrete pumps demand actuators with a high power density, able to produce large forces which can be achieved by the use of hydraulically driven actuators . Hydrostatic differer tial cylinders are widely used because of their simple construction. For multilink flexil ...

This Engineer Technical Letter (ETL) discusses the special problem areas and concerns related to RCC construction in order to assure that the concrete properties required are ultimately realized in the completed structure. A quality RCC product requires a coordinated effort between the structural designer, the materials engineer, the materials laboratory, and those responsible for field quality...

Signature schemes that are derived from three move identification schemes such as the Fiat-Shamir, Schnorr and modified ElGamal schemes are a typical class of the most practical signature schemes. The random oracle paradigm [1,2,12] is useful to prove the security of such a class of signature schemes [4,12]. This paper presents a new key technique, “ID reduction”, to show the concrete security ...

In recent work, Ishai, Prabhakaran and Sahai (CRYPTO 2008) presented a new compiler (hereafter the IPS compiler) for constructing protocols that are secure in the presence of malicious adversaries without an honest majority from protocols that are only secure in the presence of semi-honest adversaries. The IPS compiler has many important properties: it provides a radically different way of obta...

We present the results of an experiment examining the extent to which individuals will tolerate delays when told that such delays are for security purposes. In our experiment, we asked 800 Amazon Mechanical Turk users to count the total number of times a certain term was repeated in a multipage document. The task was designed to be conducive to cheating. We assigned subjects to eight between-su...

Imaging techniques are high in demand for modern nondestructive evaluation of large-scale concrete structures. The travel-time tomography (TTT) technique, which is based on the principle of mapping the change of propagation velocity of transient elastic waves in a measured object, has found increasing application for assessing in situ concrete structures. The primary aim of this technique is to...

AES-128, the NIST P-256 elliptic curve, DSA-3072, RSA3072, and various higher-level protocols are frequently conjectured to provide a security level of 2. Extensive cryptanalysis of these primitives appears to have stabilized sufficiently to support such conjectures. In the literature on provable concrete security it is standard to define 2 security as the nonexistence of high-probability attac...