We describe methodology for producing highly uniform, ordered and reproducible superstructures of surfactant-coated ZnS nanorod and nanowire assemblies, and propose a predictive multiscale ‘‘packing model’’ for superstructure formation based on electron microscopy and powder X-ray diffraction data on the superstructure, as well as on individual components of the nanostructured system. The studi...

Direct displacement-based design is a nonlinear static procedure and has to check the suitability of method against different types ground motions namely far field, near field forward directivity fling step. The applied for buildings supported on fixed base hysteretic isolation bearings. Seismic isolators are provided between foundation superstructure minimize influence motion superstructure. f...

The Christchurch Women's Hospital, completed in March 2005, is the only base-isolated building in the South Island of New Zealand. The displacement capacity of the base-isolation system and the superstructure ductility capacity are designed to meet 2000-year return-period demands. Detailed structural evaluations after the 2010 Darfield Earthquake revealed damage only to sacrificial non-structur...

ABSTRACT: The absence of explicit guidelines for the rehabilitation of existing pole structures was the motivation to investigate the effectiveness of steel jacketing for the retrofitting of self-supporting steel and reinforced concrete telecommunication poles. The present study describes a numerical simulation of preand post-retrofitted conditions of the pole structures subjected to seismic ha...

Networks C. A. Schweiger and C. A. Floudas1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263, USA Abstract{The synthesis of optimal reactor networks using a superstructure based approach is considered. The fundamental units in the superstructure are the continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and a cross ow reactor (CFR). The mathematical modeling leads to an op...

The objective of this contribution is to propose a multilevel-hierarchical approach to the MINLP synthesis of process flowsheets. Following a hierarchical strategy, the designer can postulate the superstructure at different levels of representation of flowsheet alternatives and model it at the corresponding level of aggregation and complexity. By the use of the prcscrcening procedure the supers...

Performance evaluation of a bridge is critical for determining the optimal maintenance strategy. An unsupervised bridge superstructure state assessment method is proposed in this paper based on fuzzy clustering and bridge field measured data. Firstly, the evaluation index system of bridge is constructed. Secondly, a certain number of bridge health monitoring data are selected as clustering samp...

The development of a general framework for robust reliability-based design of base-isolated structural systems under uncertain conditions is presented. The uncertainties about the structural parameters as well as the variability of future excitations are characterized in a probabilistic manner. Isolation elements composed of nonlinear lead rubber bearings are used to model the isolation system....