Presented is a study of the tripping strength of asymmetrical longitudinal plate stiffeners subjected to a combination of axial and lateral loads. The loaded edges were taken to be simply supported. The method of analysis is based on the principle of minimum total potential, and ten displacement functions were used to describe the deformations of the plate and stiffeners. First yielding was use...

This study examined acute hormone and force responses and strength and endurance performance and muscle hypertrophy before and after 24 weeks of same-session combined strength and endurance training in previously untrained women. Subjects were assigned 1 of 2 training orders: endurance preceding strength (E + S, n = 15) or vice versa (S + E, n = 14). Acute force and hormone responses to a combi...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Juha Karppinen Name of the doctoral dissertation Reliability assessment of electronic assemblies under multiple interacting loading conditions Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Electronics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 19/2013 Field of research Electronics integra...

This paper formulates the 3D containership loading planning problem (3D CLPP) and also proposes a new and compact representation to efficiently solve it. The key objective of stowage planning is to minimise the number of container movements and also the ship’s instability. The binary formulation of this problem is properly described and an alternative formulation called Representation by Rules ...

T his paper explains a novel design approach to improve the performance of the system by compressing the database. The denormalization method joins a group of virtual records from one table into a single physical record. By making the tables and indexes smaller, this method reduces physical I/O operations during loading and querying data. A denormalized table resembles the physical layout of da...

The damage accumulation condition expressed in terms of traction components on a physical plane is considered for both monotonic and cyclic loading conditions. The crack initiation is assumed to correspond to a critical value of damage parameter on a maximum damage plane. A non-local condition is formulated for singular stress or strain regimes. The model is applied to predict damage distributi...

The role of the kidney in combating metabolic acidosis has been a subject of considerable interest for many years. The present study was aimed to determine whether there is an altered regulation of renal acid base transporters in acute and chronic acid loading. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. Metabolic acidosis was induced by administration of NH(4)Cl for 2 days (acute) and for 7days (chron...

The objective of this work is to study the influence of the moulding conditions of manufacture on the mechanical behaviour of the composites, when which they are submitted to mechanical loading. In order to evaluate the quality of interfacial adhesion, two non-destructive testing procedures were combined. Laser ultrasonic was employed to evaluate the state of the composite microstructure depend...

The algorithmic consistency conditions are derived which yield the plastic loading index for the combined isotropic– kinematic hardening plasticity with the Armstrong–Frederick evolution equation for the back stress. Rate-independent elastic–plastic, and rate-dependent viscoelastic–plastic and elastic–viscoplastic material models are all encompassed by the analysis. The directions of the plasti...