Most of the existing buildings in seismic prone regions have been built before publication modern design provisions against earthquakes, resulting need for structural retrofitting. Furthermore, some those are also subjected to additional hazards that may be either triggered by earthquakes (e.g., landslides, soil liquefaction, tsunamis) or associated with other natural anthropogenic events, such...

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...

Shock is a pathological condition characterized by imbalance between oxygen demand and supply. Irrespective of the cause, shock leads to state energy failure due decrease in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, creation lactic acidosis, as consequence, multiple organ dysfunction [1].

Abstract This work was aimed at analysing the redundancy of hangers a steel arch bridge and resilient behaviour bridges when subjected to blast loading. Firstly, numerical models were created perform linear static analysis. Then, structure statically verified according Eurocode norms. Afterwards, analysis conducted by considering failure cases in symmetric asymmetric configurations. In each cas...

INTRODUCTION Preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis is a challenging problem following acetabular fracture. Progressive osteoarthritis is considered to be caused by an irregular articular surface of the acetabular roof or cartilage injury, but little is known about the pathogenesis of collapse of the femoral head after acetabular fracture. We report a case of post-traumatic osteoarthritis aft...

Hysteresis of the nasal airway pressure-flow relationship (PFR) is seen during hyperpnea, with lower nasal resistance during increasing inspiratory flow than during decreasing flow. We hypothesized that the nasal PFR hysteresis arose in the nasal vestibule airway because of progressive collapse during the inspiration. We measured the inspiratory transnasal and transvestibular PFR for one nasal ...

Growing Cell Structures (GCS) have been proven to be suitable for surface reconstruction from unstructured point clouds. The reconstructed triangle mesh can be represented compactly as a progressive mesh with integrated level of detail by storing only vertex split operations. However, half-edge collapse operations are used for GCS. In this paper, we present an improvement to a GCS-based surface...