Response modification factor (R factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to be considered in evaluating the performance of buildings during strong motions. This paper has tried to evaluate the response modification factor of concrete coupled shear wall structures with various length/depth ratios of spandrel beams. The effect of diagonal reinforcement of spandrel beam was also evaluated o...

modeling and analysis of future prices has been hot topic for economic analysts in recent years. traditionally, the complex movements in the prices are usually taken as random or stochastic process. however, they may be produced by a deterministic nonlinear process. accuracy and efficiency of economic models in the short period forecasting is strategic and crucial for business world. nonlinear ...

In this paper, Homotopy Analysis Method is used to analyze free non-linear vibrations of a beam simply supported by pinned ends under axial force. Mid-plane stretching is also considered for dynamic equation extracted for the beam. Galerkin decomposition technique is used to transform a partial dimensionless nonlinear differential equation of dynamic motion into an ordinary nonlinear differenti...

In this paper, a decentralized adaptive neural controller is proposed for a class of large-scale nonlinear systems with unknown nonlinear, non-affine subsystems and unknown nonlinear time-delay interconnections. The stability of the closed loop system is guaranteed through Lyapunov-Krasovskii stability analysis. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approache...

alternative legendre polynomials (alps) are used to approximate the solution of a class of nonlinear volterra-hammerstein integral equations. for this purpose, the operational matrices of integration and the product for alps are derived. then, using the collocation method, the considered problem is reduced into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations. the error analysis of the method is given an...

in this paper, nonlinear klein-gordon equation with quadratic term is solved by means of an analytic technique, namely the homotopy analysis method (ham).comparisons are made between the adomian decomposition method (adm), the exact solution and homotopy analysis method. the results reveal that the proposed method is very effective and simple.

in this paper, seismic behavior of the existing buildings equipped by friction dampers is studied. seismic performance of6-story, 9-story and 12-story steel buildings with damper and without damper were studied. the finite element modeling technique (sap2000 software) is used for analysis. time history analyzing was done to achieve this purpose. for nonlinear dynamic analysis, the responses of ...

verifying the behavior of shear walls in a tall building requires reliable response results. this paper examined nonlinear fiber element modeling of a slender reinforced concrete shear wall during large-scale shaking table testing. the goal was to understand and validate the inelastic responses given by fiber models using time history analysis. reasonable agreement was found between the numeric...

an asymptotically stable direct adaptive fuzzy pi sliding modecontroller is proposed for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. in contrast toother existing approaches of handling disturbances, the proposed approachdoes not require this bound to be known, only requiring that it exists.moreover, a pi control structure is used to attenuate chattering. the approachis applied to stabilize an open-...

Standard array data dependence techniques can only reason about linear constraints. There has also been work on analyzing some dependences involving polynomial constraints. Analyzing array data dependences in real-world programs requires handling many \unanalyzable" terms: subscript arrays, run-time tests, function calls. The standard approach to analyzing such programs has been to omit and ign...