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 present study, the effects of optimization on seismic energy spectra including input energy, damping energy and yielding hysteretic energy are parametrically discussed. To this end, 12 generic steel moment-resisting frames having fundamental periods ranging from 0.3 to 3s are optimized by using uniform damage and deformation approaches subjected to a series of 40 non-pule strong ground motio...

Abstract A mechanochemical model is proposed to investigate the non-uniform oxidation of thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) that involves large inelastic deformation and nonlinear reaction kinetics. The large-deformation theory incorporates higher-order term geometric nonlinearity for a more precise description stress evolution in an oxide layer. effect stresses on kinetics considered, which expre...

In this study, impacts of residual stress and shear deformation are investigated on 2D steel frames using a new fiber plastic hinge method. Geometry material nonlinearities, stress, deformation, imperfections considered simultaneously in the nonlinear analysis. The proposed method is efficient computational efforts since one-element modeling used for analysis by employing stability functions ca...

Non-geometric string backgrounds were proposed to be related to a nonassociative deformation of the space-time geometry. In the flux formulation of double field theory (DFT), the structure of mathematically possible non-associative deformations is analyzed in detail. It is argued that on-shell there should not be any violation of associativity in the effective DFT action. For imposing either th...

The current trend in microelectronics towards miniaturization has pushed for an interest in theories intended to explain the behavior of materials at small scales. In particular, an increase in yield strength with decreasing size has been experimentally observed in several materials and under different loading conditions. A class of non-classical continuum mechanics theories has been recently e...

In a cooling gas of rigid particles interacting with a constant coefficient of restitution, groups of particles within the gas may experience an infinite number of collisions in a finite time. This singularity, named inelastic collapse, is a shortcoming of the mathematical model, and it hampers the efforts of simulating a freely evolving, cooling granular system. After a brief review of previou...

Abstract A straight elastic fibre is usually perceived as a one-dimensional structural component, and its similarity with cylindrical rod makes concept analogous, if not equivalent the of an spring. This analogy enables this communication to match response relevant viscoelastic that spring and, hence, describe behaviour in light new, generalised model. The model shares simultaneously properties...

In this study, the effective parameters on the inelastic response of asymmetric buildings is evaluated for an ensemble of real Iranian earthquake records by considering soil-structure interaction. Then, the design eccentricity obtained from the inelastic dynamic soil-structure analysis is compared with the design eccentricity of seisimic codes of Iran, ATC-3, New Zeland, Canada, Mexico, Austral...

Mechanical resonance dispersion is the inelastic response of a solid to a periodic shear stress. Instead of the elastic Young's Modulus, the phenomenon is described by both a real J', and an imaginary J'' component of complex shear compliance, corresponding to in phase and out of phase strain responses, respectively. The experimental results are plots of J' and J'' vs. frequency, which are typi...