This paper in essence presents comparative experimental data on the mechanical performance of steel and synthetic fibre-reinforced concrete under compression, tensile split and flexure. URW1050 steel fibre and HPP45 synthetic fibre, both with the same concrete design mix, have been used to make cube specimens for a compression test, cylinders for a tensile split test and beam specimens for a fl...

Primary splenic flexure volvulus is a rare entity. We report an acute presentation of primary splenic flexure volvulus with gangrene in a 24-year-old man. Radiograph showed a massively-dilated large bowel loop with a coffee-bean sign. At emergency laparotomy, a distended and gangrenous splenic flexure was found, with absence of all three ligamentous attachments of the splenic flexure.

In this study, experiments were performed on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) retrofitted postfire concrete (RC) beams, followed by theoretical analyzes. Experiments conducted eleven RC which exposed to different fire durations and with CFRP in flexure shear. The experimental results indicated that shifted the failure flexure-shear of beams. beams experienced progressive peeling-off failu...

By Timothy Phillips Vaughan, MS. Washington State University May 2010 Chair: David I. McLean This research evaluated the structural performance of reinforced masonry shear walls conforming to requirements given in the 2008 MSJC Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures under cyclic lateral loading. Seismic design provisions in the 2008 MSJC provide prescriptive requirements for three di...

This study presents experimental and numerical investigations to understand the response failure of hybrid RC continuous T-beams reinforced in flexure by both Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) bars steel at sagging hogging regions. Three were constructed experimentally studied discuss three parameters which are type reinforcement material, relation between reinforcement, moment redistribut...

It is observed that, reinforced concrete beams failed due to flexure but in case of deep beam failure occur due to shear. Deep beams may be defined as the beam where shear span to depth ratio less than 2. A number of researchers already proposed various approach to predict the ultimate strength of deep beams. In this study a newer approach is developed to calculate the ultimate shear strength o...

A new approach is proposed to solve the blocking artifact problem that results from block transform-based image compression at very low bit-rates. In our approach, we attempt to recover from the quantization noise for the transform coefficients by adding uniform random noise to them. This results in a decompressed image that is corrupted by noise of the AGWN type, rather than a blocky image. Th...

Background and study aims  A 70-year-old-man underwent an esophagectomy and posterior mediastinal reconstruction for esophageal cancer that was curatively resected. Although the patient was allowed to eat after surgery, he repeatedly vomited after drinking water or eating meals and required continuous hospitalization. An upper gastrointestinal series and endoscopic examination revealed an obstr...

Abstract The analyzed electrohydraulic servo valve is jet pipe type, is one of the mechatronics component used for precision flow control application. It consists of several precision and delicate components. For the analysis the jet pipe assembly of servovalve is identified and conducted a direct-solution steady-state dynamic analysis to study the response of the system for harmonic excitation...