Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a localized dilatation of the aortic wall. The lack of an accurate AAA rupture risk index remains an important problem in the clinical management of the disease. To accurately estimate AAA rupture risk, detailed information on patient-specific wall stress distribution and aortic wall tissue yield stress is required. A complete fluid structure interaction (FSI)...

This paper presents a new domain decomposition method for nonlinear finite element analysis introducing the concept of dual partition super-elements. The method extends ideas from the displacement frame method and is ideally suited for parallel nonlinear static/dynamic analysis of structural systems. In the new method, domain decomposition is realised by replacing one or more subdomains in a ‘p...

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised hybrid framework for protein sequence clustering and classification which incorporates protein structural motif information. The proposed framework consists of three stages: protein structural motif scan, hybrid clustering, and sequence classification. The incorporation of protein structural motif detected by ScanProsite service provides a better measur...

the distribution behavior of ofloxacin enantiomers was examined in the aqueous and organic solvent of a two-phase system containing chiral selector l-tartarate. the effect of extraction equilibrium time, buffer ph, organic solvents and length of alkyl chain of l-tartarate on the partition coefficients and enantioselectivity of racemic ofloxacin were investigated, respectively. the l-tartarate f...

In this present work, a cost optimization has been done for r/c structural system by genetic algorithm method. In the optimization problem the shear-wall dimensions has been considered as design variables and it has been aimed at searching the optimum shear-wall dimensions that minimize total material cost of shear-wall. The constraints of structural optimization problem are constructed accordi...

Positional analysis is considered an important tool in the analysis of social networks. It involves partitioning of the set of actors into subsets such that actors in a subset are similar in their structural relationships with other actors. Traditional methods of positional analysis such as structural equivalence, regular equivalence, and equitable partitions are either too strict or too generi...

despite the rapid growth of engineering science especially in the modern structural engineering and application of new materials in civil engineering, a significant percentage of world population in different countries are living in adobe buildings made from mud-bricks. in this paper, by performing experimental study on scaled mud-brick walls under monotonic load, in-plane behavior of the walls...