Deep beams are commonly used in tall buildings, offshore structures, and foundations. According to many codes and standards, strut-and-tie model (STM) is recommended as a rational approach for deep beam analyses. This research focuses on the STM recommended by ACI 318-11 and AASHTO LRFD and uses experimental results to modify the strut effectiveness factor in STM for reinforced concrete (RC) de...

Reinforced concrete horizontally curved beams are extensively used in many fields, such as in the construction of modern highway intersections, elevated freeways, the rounded corners of buildings, circular balconies,....etc. In some of these cases, large depths are needed for curved beams in order to resist high loads or to fulfill some aesthetic purposes. The analytical analysis of such member...

This is an author produced version of a paper published in Medical Physics. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. "Prediction of stopping-power ratios in flattening-filter free beams." Abstract 25 Purpose: In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in flattening-filter free (FFF) beams. However, since the ...

Equations governing thermoelastic loss in vibrating thin plates are derived, generalizing Zener’s theory of thermoelastic loss in beams. The mechanism for the loss of mechanical energy is thermal diffusion caused by inhomogeneous deformation, flexure in thin plates. It is shown that a critical plate thickness, h∗, exists which separates two distinct types of response, which may be called therma...

In this article, nonuniformity effects on free vibration analysis of functionally graded beams is discussed. variation in material properties is modeled after Powerlaw and exponential models and the non-uniformity is assumed to be exponentially varying in the width along the beams with constant thickness. Analytical solution is achieved for free vibration with simply supported conditions. It is...

A phase-sensitive setup for near-field acoustic holography was established in order to determine the characteristic resonance modes of a vibrating membrane. The experiment was carried out using a frame drum as the vibrating system of interest. By exciting the membrane at certain fundamental frequencies and recording the complex signals from the pressure and particle velocity fields across the d...

purpose– analysis of non-prismatic beams has been focused of attention due to wide use in complex structures such as aircraft, turbine blades and space vehicles. apart from aesthetic aspect, optimization of strength and weight is achieved in use of this type of structures. the purpose of this paper is to present new shape functions, namely 3-node basic displacement functions (bdfs) for derivati...

motion analysis and quality assessment of human sperm cell is of great importance for clinical applications of male infertility. sperm tracking is quite complex due to cell collision, occlusion and missed detection. the goal of this study is simultaneous tracking of multiple human sperm cells. in the first step in this research the frame difference algorithm is used for background subtraction. ...

this study compared the use of five different models to describe the growth from birth to 20 weeks of age of kids from both genders of nondescript goats. fifty nine (59) nondescript kids were weighed weekly at the university of maiduguri livestock teaching and research farm, nigeria and the live weights were modeled. biologically relevant variables were estimated for each kid from the logistic,...