Abstract

Jacketing of reinforced concrete columns is a common and useful strengthening method. This method substantially improves mechanical properties of the column, such as flexural strength as well as shear and ductility. In this paper, the behavior of confined reinforced concrete columns are investigated. The results indicate that the method is more effective for slender columns in the region of the...

This paper investigates the application of semi-active inerter in semi-active suspension. A semi-active inerter is defined as an inerter whose inertance can be adjusted within a finite bandwidth by on-line control actions. A force-tracking approach to designing semi-active suspension with a semi-active inerter and a semi-active damper is proposed, where the target active control force derived b...

It is shown that every commutative arithmetic ring R has λ-dimension ≤ 3. An example of a commutative Kaplansky ring with λ-dimension 3 is given. Moreover, if R satisfies one of the following conditions, semi-local, semi-prime, self f p-injective, zero-Krull dimensional, CF or FSI then λ-dim(R) ≤ 2. It is also shown that every zero-Krull dimensional commu-tative arithmetic ring is a Kaplansky r...