Design spectrum is known as an essential tool in earthquake engineering for calculation of maximum (design) responses in a structural system. Soil-structure interaction (SSI), as a phenomenon of coupling of responses of a structure and its underlying soil, was explored after introduction of design spectra and has not been taken into account in developing a design spectrum traditionally. To cons...

the coupling of tetrazotised 1,8-diaminonaphthalene with 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds [acetylacetone,methylacetoacetate and acetoacetanilide] yielded a new series of tetradentate ligand systems. analytical, ir,1h nmr and mass spectral data indicate that the compounds exist in the intramolecularly hydrogen bondeddihydrazone form. dibasic tetradentate n2o2 coordination of these compounds in their [ml...

This paper employs one-dimensional numerical ground response analysis models to investigate seismic response of shallow cohesive and non-cohesive soil deposits on vertical propagation of horizontal shear waves. Soil response is modelled by traditional equivalent-linear (EL) frequency-domain analysis using DEEPSOIL software and nonlinear (NL) time-domain analysis using OPENSEES software. The ana...

Simultaneous laser induced- breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and acoustic response techniques as well as Laser induced fluorescence (LIF) are applied to investigate the abnormal lymph tissues due to Hodgkin disease. The spectral shift in the emissive fluorescence of the cancerous tissues has been observed respect to the normal ones. Regarding LIBS, the concentrations of Ca and Na trace elements ha...

Static properties, relatively intensity noise and intensity modulation response in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) studied theoretically in this paper. The present rate equations model consists of three equations for the electrons density in the conduction band and one equation for photons density in cavity length. Two equations were derived to calculate the noise and modulation response. Calcula...

Formal extensions of the response spectrum method to include spatial seismic effects are reviewed. Two approaches are described in detail: the first based on random vibrations of a simple oscillator under two-component excitations, and the second analyzing multi-column building seismic response. The subjective choice of these two complementing approaches aims at analyzing the phenomenon of spat...

The common modeling assumptions in analyses of structural response considering the effects of soil-structure interaction are discussed, as well as their consequences. Issues such as spatial variability of strong ground motion and flexibility of building foundations are specifically addressed. Results are shown for the case when spatial variability is considered, but inertia interaction and kine...

As it is stated in the ISO 18431-4 Standard, a Shock Response Spectrum is defined as the response to a given acceleration acting at a set of mass-damper-spring oscillators, which are adjusted to the different resonance frequencies while their resonance gains (Q-factor) are equal to the same value. The maximum of the absolute value of the calculated responses as a function of the resonance frequ...