Global car body stiffness is an important design attribute in vehicle design. Therefore accurate characterization of this stiffness is needed. The current industrial method for static stiffness determination has several downsides, amongst others its time consuming set-up preparation. Dynamic characterization by means of modal analysis on the other hand has high repeatability and a less time con...

Current literature offers a range of analyses of evidentials in natural language, which can be broadly grouped into two types: modal analyses (Kratzer 1991, Izvorski 1997, Ehrich 2001, Garrett 2001, Faller 2006, Matthewson et al. 2007, McCready and Asher 2006, McCready and Ogata 2007, Waldie et al. 2009, Peterson 2009, 2010, Lee this volume, among others), and non-modal analyses (Faller 2002, 2...

the nonlinear static procedures (nsps) proposed by design codes do not lead to reliable results especially for tall buildings. they generally provide inconsistent estimates of inelastic seismic demands, especially for the top floors due to their inabilities in considering the higher modes effects. in this paper, a new enhanced pushover procedure is proposed which is based on the envelope of the...

for the first time in the history of logic, abd al razzaq al-jili (d. 570/1174), in the treatise al-lame fi al-shakl al-rabe, dealt with the modal syllogisms of the fourth figure. previous to him, dinha, the priest, and ibn salah al-hamadani had discussed the non-modal moods of the fourth figure. jili’s treatise deals only with simple modalities and ignores the complex ones. his pupil, fakhr al...

Lieblein J. and Zelen A. conducted a study of the fatigue life deep groove ball bearings. This was based on data 4948 bearings as obtained from 5 companies 213 test groups. Among these is detailed report #3183, lot 73, consisting 23 failed states that Weibull slope this group 2.23, meaning distribution mono sloped. These were plotted by author bilinear scale plane, endurance versus bearing numb...

In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web and ontologies. For this reason, the problem of automated reasoning in modal and description logics has been thoroughly investigated. In particular, many app...

In previous work we defined the concept of x is all an agent knows about y by augmenting Levesque’s logic of only-knowing with appropriate modal operators. In this paper we demonstrate how various notions of relevance can be captured within such a logic of only-knowing-about. For example, we are able to formalize what it means for a sentence to be relevant to a subject matter (set of atomic pro...