The uplift of the raft foundation of reinforced concrete buildings, and the consequent partial loss of contact between soil and foundation, is a possible effect of an earthquake. Actually, reinforced concrete buildings with raft foundation are commonly used in nuclear power plants. In this context, some simplified approaches for uplift evaluation have been proposed in the past and are still use...

In the case of using pile technology in construction and reconstruction buildings structures, issue assessing settlement foundations arises quite sharp-ly. Modern regulatory documents do not reflect reliable methods for calculating pile-raft foundations, especially if short piles are used (with a length 3-10 m). The ar-ticle provides calculation methodology that makes it possible to assess taki...

A higher-order sandwich theory is implemented in conjunction with an equivalent mobility-based power flow progressive method to determine power flow for a sandwich configured floating raft vibration isolation system. The power spectrum changes in whole frequency range effectively when core materials’ properties change. It is also shown that the loss factors of the sandwich configured floating r...

Raft is a consensus algorithm for managing a replicated log. It produces a result equivalent to (multi-)Paxos, and it is as efficient as Paxos, but its structure is different from Paxos; this makes Raft more understandable than Paxos and also provides a better foundation for building practical systems. In order to enhance understandability, Raft separates the key elements of consensus, such as ...