This paper presents the development and experimental validation of a multizard bridge pier concept, i.e., a bridge pier system capable of providing an adequate level of protection against collapse under seismic and blast loading but not acting simultaneously . A multicolumn pier-bent with concrete-filled steel tube CFST columns is the proposed concept, and the adequacy of this system is experim...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the flexural response non-load bearing precast concrete insulated partially-composite wall panels fabricated with varying layouts ductile shear ties. The out-of-plane, one-way, single span load-displacement relationship is obtained for each panel via pseudo-static testing using a water bladder apparatus. Panel specimens constructed several tie a...

BLAST is an efficient heuristic algorithm used for comparing biological sequences, such as amino-acids or nucleotides and identifying similarities between them. However, extensive genetic mapping projects feed sequence databases continuously, forcing them to grow steadily, turning execution time into a potential constraint to sequential implementations of the algorithm and driving the search fo...

We present a parallel approach to analyzing sequence similarity in a set of genomes that employs dynamic load balancing to address the variation in execution time for genes of different lengths and complexity, the variation in processor power in different nodes of the computer cluster, and the variation in other load on the nodes. Our approach executes using MPI on a cluster of computers. We pr...

This paper investigates the response of steel columns to combined pre-cursor thermal and long duration blast loads. Blast waves are primary damage mechanism from explosive events. However, events also emit Depending upon size standoff distance, effective load can reach a structure prior arrival blast. An structures such that total is different to, or greater than alone. There limited research d...