We study a class of stochastic flows connected to the coalescent processes that have been studied recently by Möhle, Pitman, Sagitov and Schweinsberg in connection with asymptotic models for the genealogy of populations with a large fixed size. We define a bridge to be a rightcontinuous process (B(r), r ∈ [0, 1]) with nondecreasing paths and exchangeable increments, such that B(0) = 0 and B(1) ...

Bridges built from any material and having any special shape  will eventually show signs of wearing off; therefore, there are several factors in the kind and rate of such wearing off and its expansion such as atmosphere, flood, earthquake, overload, design quality, execution and kind of materials that will all reduce the functionality of the structures. Thus, maintaining processes and repairing...

Purpose – The potential threats of extreme events to highway bridges have received increased attention from government agencies, the engineering and construction communities, and the traveling public. These events include terrorist attacks as well as human-induced and natural hazards such as earthquakes, explosions, fires, floods, and hurricanes. To respond to the potential threats on highway b...

PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS S. P. Schwenzer 1 , M. A. Bullock 2 , J. C. Bridges 3 , C. L. Chavez 4 , J. Filiberto 5 , L. J. Hicks 3 , S. P. Kelley 1 , M. A. Miller 6 , J. M. Moore 4 , H. D. Smith 4 , T. D. Swindle 7 , A. H. Treiman 8 – 1 The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK; 2 Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St., Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302 (bullock@bou...

1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3 Department of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 4 School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute o...

There is the work by Bridges et al (1999) on the key features of a constructive proof of the implicit function theorem, including some applications to physics and mechanics. For mixtures of logistic distributions such information is lacking, although a special instance of the implicit function theorem prevails therein. The theorem is needed to see that the ridgeline function, which carries info...