In regions exposed to floods followed by cold weather, brick masonry as a structural basis of the building envelope can be damaged due accompanying phenomenon freezing and thawing. The main purpose article is development mathematical model able predict chosen mechanical parameters damage index wallets for given number freeze-thaw cycles. For this, statistical derived from experimental data used...

The fragility of Chinese banking system is of a complex mixed-type. It is a special mixture of the fragility that comes from the friction between a general fragility and the system of the systematic transition. This paper measures the degree and distribution of the fragility of Chinese banking system form 1985 to 2006 by macroscopic economic rules and makes an empirical analysis of the factors ...

This study aimed to investigate whether the seismic fragility and performance of interaction soil-pile-structure (ISPS) were affected by different parameters: axial load, a section pile, longitudinal steel ratio pile implanted in type sand (loose, medium, dense). In order better understand ISPS phenomena, series nonlinear static analysis have been conducted for two cases, namely: (i) fixed syst...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between respiratory tuberculosis (RT) and incident fragility fracture and osteoporosis/fragility fracture in the general population is not well determined; therefore, we conducted a nationwide cohort study to investigate this relationship. METHODS We used the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan to identify 6612 newly diagnosed patients with RT (RT ...

Improving protection against fluvial floods requires a better estimation of levee failure. We developed an assessment method failure probabilities for sliding, backward erosion, and overflowing each represented by fragility curves. tested two approaches to aggregate those curves into global curve respectively using: enveloping Monte-Carlo simulations. implemented this approach earthen reliabili...

in vitro antioxidant and erythrocyte protecting activities by aqueous extract of ficus thonningii leaves on blood cells were studied in acetaminophen treated rats. the extract was safe at limit dose of 5000 mg kg-1body weight. the extract demonstrated dose dependent antihemolytic effect at dose levels between 50 and 200 mg kg-1 body weight. the lowest antihemolytic effect was observed at dose l...

This paper focuses on the exposure and fragility/vulnerability of residential, mixed residential/commercial, public building stock city Isfahan, in Central Iran, constitutes first part a seismic risk assessment study for that city. To determine assets at risk, we summarize details population from available georeferenced 2011 Census data. From this dataset local survey city, categorize taxonomy ...