The article is aimed at the statistical and sensitivity analysis of the ultimate limit state of steel frames. Load–carrying capacity is calculated for steel plane frames with columns loaded in tesion or compression. The Monte Carlo based procedures are used for statistical analysis and for computing the full set of first order and second order sensitivity indices of the model. System imperfecti...

A beam-column element based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory is researched for nonlinear dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete (RC) structural element. Stiffness matrix of this element is obtained by using rigidity method. A solution technique that included nonlinear dynamic substructure procedure is developed for dynamic analyses of RC frames. A predicted-corrected form of the Bossak-α met...

A hardware architecture is presented of a wavelet based multiple line addressing driving scheme for passive matrix displays using the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), which will be integrated in the scalable video coding architecture. The incoming compressed video data stream will then directly be transformed to the required column voltages by the hardware architecture without the need of...

In this paper a comprehensive approach is presented to improve power swings damping based on direct Lyapunov method. The approach combines superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system with static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). Considering the energy absorption/injection ability of SMES, in transient states the combination exchanges both active and reactive powers with power system....

The significance of incorporating soil-structure interaction effect in the analysis and design of RC frame buildings is increasingly recognized but still not penetrated to the grass root level owing to various complexities involved. It is well established fact that the soil-structure interaction effect considerably influence the design of multi-storey buildings subjected to lateral seismic load...

Abstract This research investigates the impact of thermal loads on reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in Saudi Arabia and how they behave sloped terrain. The study analyzed effects different types support systems (hinged fixed supports) strengthening (with without bracings) using software ETABS-V20. Ground + 9 typical floors frame RC models terrain subjected to seismic were used for investigati...

One of the methods for retrofitting reinforced concrete moment frames is the use of steel braces. In this research, the seismic performance of a double-skinned concrete framing system reinforced with two concentric (CBF) and eccentric (EBF) steel bracing, was investigated under seven near-fault earthquake records of varying intensity. For this purpose, two ten-story concrete frames with five sp...

In the last two decades many researchers focused on development of innovative building structures with aim achieving seismic resilience. Among others, steel Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) equipped friction devices in beam-to-column joints have emerged as an effective solution able to dissipate input energy while also ensuring damage-free behaviour system. However, date, little attention has bee...

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is an algorithm to find out the similarity between two temporal sequences of varying length. Previous works in this field can be traced back to as early as [1], for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Although this technique became obsolete for ASR with the advent of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) [2] and Deep Neural Network (DNN) based hybrid models [3], [4], DTW was fou...

This study carried out comparative seismic performance of reinforced concrete frames infilled by masonry walls with different heights. Partial and fully infilled reinforced concrete frames were modeled for the research objectives and the analysis model for a bare reinforced concrete frame was also established for comparison. Non–linear static analyses for the studied frames were performed to in...