With the construction of supertall buildings such as high earth dams, linear envelope Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) failure criterion fitted to lower confined pressure would significantly underestimate loading capacity foundations, causing a huge increase in amount earthwork. Given that M-C has dominated stability analysis geotechnical structures, it is proposed this study remain invariant form but cohesi...

conclusions parametric models may provide complementary data for clinicians and researchers about how risks vary over time. the weibull model seemed to show the best fit among the parametric models of the survival of hemodialysis patients. results the results of a multivariate analysis of the variables in the parametric models showed that the mean serum albumin and the clinic attended were the ...

A factorization theorem is proved in the Hardy spaces Hp of the bi-upper half plane, 0 < p ≤ 1. The proof is based on some fundamental work of Chang-Fefferman on atomic decompositions of Hp.

BACKGROUND Furosemide is the only loop diuretic recommended by the ACVIM consensus guidelines for treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF) in dogs related to degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD). Torasemide is another potent loop diuretic with a longer half-life and a higher bioavailability. OBJECTIVES (1) To demonstrate that torasemide given once a day (q24h) is noninferior to furosem...

We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women’s labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood, Seshadri, and Yorukoglu (2005) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms’ pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the price of home appliances is determined endogenously by the laws of supply and demand ra...

A numerical procedure for the design of impact damage resistant composite laminated structures is proposed in the present paper. This procedure, based on probabilistic analyses, is able to support the design of complex composite laminated structures by accounting for the scatter in composite materials’ mechanical properties (related to the mutable environmental conditions experienced by an airc...

In the present work, a novel cohesive discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) method is proposed to model interfacial failure of brittle materials. Before failure, an incomplete interior penalty (IIPG) variant (DG) family applied for linear elasticity. Once criterion met, extrinsic zone (CZ) captures behavior interface. Through application DG in combination with reduced integration on boundary terms, lock...

Akaike’s criterion is often used to test composite hypotheses; for example to determine the order of a priori unknown Auto-Regressive and/or Moving Average models. Objections are formulated against Akaike’s criterion and some modifications are proposed. The application of the theory leads to a general technique for AR-model order estimation based on testing pairs of composite hypotheses. This t...

Delamination is one of the most common failure modes in composite structures. In the case of in-plane compressional loading, delamination of a layered flat structure can cause a local buckling in delaminated area which subsequently affects the overall stiffness of the initial structure. This leads to an early failure of the overall structure. Moreover, with an increase in load, the delaminated ...