The aim objective of this study is to investigate the effects of near-field earthquakes on the response of mid-rise buildings with tubular structure.  For this purpose, a 20-story building with a square plan of six by six bays, all with 6 m span, and story height of 3.70 m is considered.  Axial force of columns, shear lag, and inter-story drift values are used as the main response parameters. N...

In the present paper, active control system is used in different heights of the building and the most effective part was studied where the active control system is applied. The mathematical model of the building is established in MATLAB and in order to active control the system FLC method was used. Three different locations of the building are chosen to apply active control system, namely at th...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

In this paper, we present various procedures to support a ZUPT-based MEMS IMU navigation application by available external building models and photographs of evacuation plans. In detail, these are approaches for horizontal alignment of the track using the external building shell, for height correction by stair and elevator detection, for the extraction of the initial position and direction usin...

In this paper, we propose a new method of morphology classification considering the building height, density, etc. The characteristics of path loss, delay spread(DS), angular spread(AS) of Angle of Departure(AoD) and Angle of Arrival(AoA) for each morphology were investigated by analyzing the simulation results obtained by the ray-tracing technique and a statistical modelling of the building di...

The aim of the present work is to propose a model for the estimation of lead concentration in grasses using urban descriptors easily accessible and to study the specific effect of each descriptor on lead concentration. Six descriptors were considered: the density of vegetation, the vegetation height, wind velocity, height of building, distance of adjacent street, traffic volume. Lead concentrat...

This paper introduces a novel system for automatic detection and height estimation of buildings with polygonal shape roofs in singular satellite images. The system is capable of detecting multiple flat polygonal buildings with no angular constraints or shape priors. The proposed approach employs image primitives such as lines, and line intersections, and examines their relationships with each o...

LiDAR has become important data sources in urban modelling. Traditional methods of LiDAR data processing for building detection require high spatial resolution data and sophisticated methods. The aerial photos, on the other hand, provide continuous spectral information of buildings. But the segmentation of the aerial photos cannot distinguish between the road surfaces and the building roof. Thi...