There is increasing interest in novel view reconstruction but less for new time-based views of moving objects as needed for gait biometric deployment. Our interests concern reconstructing moving shapes from their moment history with a view to constructing new temporal views. This paper shows how the moment description through an object sequence can be used to predict missing or intermediate fra...

Abstract Seismic activity in the last two decades validate urgent improvement requirement of ductile seismic design concept for MR RC frame structures. This necesity comes from unfavorable recorded response structures required to on-site actions. The same observations and conclusions (regarding soft storey ( G round F loor (GF) or C urrent (CF)) mechanism development energy dissipation process ...

Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) have advantages such as high elastic stiffness, stable hysteresis behavior, energy absorption capacity, and decent ductility. However, one of the main drawbacks SPSWs is their buckling under lateral loading. To address this issue, a simple practical solution in form using trapezoidal moment connection (PMC) narrow gap between infill columns presented. The PMC wil...

Accurate modeling of masonry has been a major concern of the researchers in the past decades. Besides reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures, masonry can be found in frame structures as infill panels which are used as partitions and/or external walls. These elements role as a part of structure and introduce a large degree of nonlinearity into the system. In this study, a micro-modeling ...

External installation of steel braces is an effective approach to increase the lateral load resistance moment-resisting frames. However, effects existence on robustness frames resist progressive collapse still not clear because little study has been carried out. To fill this gap, in paper, six multistory subframes (three bare and three braced frames) were fabricated tested. Test results indicat...

In recent years, destructive earthquakes have shown the deficiencies of the existing buildings. One of the most effective mechanisms for dissipating the earthquake energy is inelastic deformation of the steel components. The objective of this research is to study the application of metallic dampers for dissipation of the earthquake energy and to investigate the behavior of concrete structures i...

In this paper, the seismic collapse probability of special steel moment-resisting frame (SSMRF) structures under near fault pulse-like and far fault ordinary ground motions is evaluated through fragility analysis. For this purpose, five sample frames with 3 to 15 stories are designed and imposed to the ground motion excitations with different characteristics. Fragility curves are derived for th...

Composite RCS building frames integrate reinforced concrete columns with structural steel beams to provide an efficient solution for the design and construction of earthquake-resisting structures. In this paper, an optimization framework is developed for performance-based seismic design of planar RCS moment resisting frames. The objective functions are defined as minimizing the construction cos...