Reinforced concrete (RC) as a material is most commonly used for buildings construction. Several floor systems are available following the structural and architectural requirements. The current research study provides cost input energy comparisons of RC office different systems. Conventional solid, ribbed, flat plate slab considered in study. Building models three-dimensional using extended ana...

By conducting low-reversed cyclic loading tests, this paper explores the load-bearing performance of frame-supported multi-ribbed lightweight wall structures. The finite-element software (OpenSees) is used to simulate the process with the shear wall width (at the frame-supported layer) and different hole opening approaches (for multi-ribbed lightweight walls) as variables. The conclusions refle...

Charles Perry’s monumental sculpture Solstice is analyzed and its generative geometrical logic based on a twisted toroidal sweep is captured in a computer program with interactively adjustable control parameters. This program is then used to generate other models of ribbed sculptures based on one or more interlinked torus knots. From this family of sculptures related to Perry’s Solstice we deri...

A STUDY OF IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD IN A RIBBED DUCT FOR THE INTERNAL COOLING OF TURBINE BLADES Long He Abstract In this dissertation, Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is evaluated in ribbed duct geometries to show the potential of simulating complex geometry with a simple structured grid. IBM is first investigated in well-accepted benchmark cases: channel flow and pipe flow with circular crossse...

Until recently, two surface-dwelling species of multi-ribbed brook salamanders (i.e., the metamorphic Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster [Graybelly Salamander], and the strictly paedomorphic E. tynerensis [Oklahoma Salamander]) were recognized as living in the Missouri Ozarks. The current understanding is that a single species (Oklahoma Salamander) is resident in the Ozarks, and that this specie...

The focus of this article is toward the development of hybrid analytic-numerical mode-matching methods for model problems involving three-dimensional ducts of rectangular cross-section and with flexible walls. Such methods require first closed form analytic expressions for the natural fluid-structure coupled waveforms that propagate in each duct section and second the corresponding orthogonalit...

In this paper, convection heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid turbulent flow through internally ribbed tubes with different rib shapes (rectangular, trapezoidal and semi-circular) is numerically investigated. For each rib shape, the optimum geometric ratio and volume fraction were calculated using entropy generation minimization technique. The governing equations in...

The three-dimensional architecture of the rat exocrine pancreas was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with the HCl digestion method. The treatment with HCl effectively removed connective tissue elements enclosing the ducts and the acini. Thus their shapes and relations were clearly revealed under the SEM. Furthermore fine surface features of the acinar or ductal cells were also demo...