The seismic events that occurred in the last decades have highlighted importance of a correct design structures areas and inadequacy large part built heritage. Modern codes are still lacking terms prescriptions for evaluation performance existing buildings. present work proposes simplified method demand plastic rotation short links steel Eccentrically Braced Frames (EBFs). A relationship demand...

conclusions lv twist, torsion and untwist and also rate of them are significantly impaired in dcm and this impairment is well-related to lv global systolic and diastolic dysfunction. vvi is a new noninvasive technique that can be used to evaluate lv torsional parameters. results lv twist value (5.54 ± 1.94° in dcm vs. 11.5 ± 2.45° in control group) and also lv torsion (0.71 ± 0.28°/cm in dcm vs...

As demonstrated for some time, the reduction of greenhouse gases in atmosphere can also take place using agroforestry biomass. Short-rotation coppice (SRC) is one sources woody biomass production. In our work, supply was considered by examining four different cutting shifts (2, 3, 4 and 5 years) and, each, Global Warming Potential (GWP) evaluated according to IPCC 2007 method. Regarding rotatio...