This Engineer Technical Letter (ETL) discusses the special problem areas and concerns related to RCC construction in order to assure that the concrete properties required are ultimately realized in the completed structure. A quality RCC product requires a coordinated effort between the structural designer, the materials engineer, the materials laboratory, and those responsible for field quality...

Signature schemes that are derived from three move identification schemes such as the Fiat-Shamir, Schnorr and modified ElGamal schemes are a typical class of the most practical signature schemes. The random oracle paradigm [1,2,12] is useful to prove the security of such a class of signature schemes [4,12]. This paper presents a new key technique, “ID reduction”, to show the concrete security ...

In recent work, Ishai, Prabhakaran and Sahai (CRYPTO 2008) presented a new compiler (hereafter the IPS compiler) for constructing protocols that are secure in the presence of malicious adversaries without an honest majority from protocols that are only secure in the presence of semi-honest adversaries. The IPS compiler has many important properties: it provides a radically different way of obta...

We present the results of an experiment examining the extent to which individuals will tolerate delays when told that such delays are for security purposes. In our experiment, we asked 800 Amazon Mechanical Turk users to count the total number of times a certain term was repeated in a multipage document. The task was designed to be conducive to cheating. We assigned subjects to eight between-su...

Imaging techniques are high in demand for modern nondestructive evaluation of large-scale concrete structures. The travel-time tomography (TTT) technique, which is based on the principle of mapping the change of propagation velocity of transient elastic waves in a measured object, has found increasing application for assessing in situ concrete structures. The primary aim of this technique is to...

AES-128, the NIST P-256 elliptic curve, DSA-3072, RSA3072, and various higher-level protocols are frequently conjectured to provide a security level of 2. Extensive cryptanalysis of these primitives appears to have stabilized sufficiently to support such conjectures. In the literature on provable concrete security it is standard to define 2 security as the nonexistence of high-probability attac...

This note describes continued studies at Fermilab of the long term stability of a small water Cerenkov tank. The water tank, bag liner, water, photomultiplier tube, and data acquisition software were unchanged for the additional measurements from June to November, 1999. However, some details of the geometry of the trigger counters relative to the tank and of the electronics may have differed. T...

When the crisscross baffles and logarithmic spiral baffles are placed on the bottom of the stirred tank with elliptic bottom, using CFD software FLUENT simulates the velocity field of the stirred tank with elliptic bottom and bottom baffles. Compare the velocity field of stirred tank with bottom crisscross baffle to the velocity field of stirred tank without bottom baffle and analysis the flow ...

On-site wastewater treatment systems (OWTS) work by first storing the wastewater in a septic tank before releasing it to soils for treatment that is generally effective and sustainable. However, it is not clear how the abundance of E. coli changes during its passage through the tank. In this study, which was conducted under the UGA young Scholar Program in summer of 2010, we examined the change...

Initial results of an ongoing Navier-Stokes Computational Fluid Dynamics study of horizontal axis tidal current turbine hydrodynamics are presented. Part of the underlying motivation is assessing the effects of the Reynolds number on turbine performance and loads in steady and unsteady flow regimes. The study aims at a) providing initial verification and validation of Navier-Stokes CFD for stea...