the pile-raft foundation is a combination of a raft foundation with piles. pile-raft foundation has been widely designed, assuming all structure loads to be transferred to piles without considering contribution of the load taken by contact surface between raft and soil. methods of analysis currently used in practice are based upon relatively conservative assumptions of soil behavior or on the l...

the main objective of this study is to swing krull intersection theorem in primary decomposition of rings and modules to the primary decomposition of soft rings and soft modules. to fulfill this aim several notions like soft prime ideals, soft maximal ideals, soft primary ideals, and soft radical ideals are introduced for a soft ring over a given unitary commutative ring. consequently, the p...

Railway structures are one of the most important structures in transportation. So the lack of precise study of their dynamic behavior leads to irreparable damages. The significant factors contributing to the accurate analysis of the dynamic behavior of railways are the type of load and foundation used in it. In this study, an Euler-Bernoulli beam subjected to a moving load on a finite depth fou...

The lack of predictable in vitro methods to analyze antimicrobial activity could play a role in the development of resistance to antibiotics. Current used methods analyze planktonic cells but for the method to be clinically relevant, biofilm in in vivo like conditions ought to be studied. Hence, our group has developed a qualitative and quantitative method with in vivo like 3D tissue for predic...

There have been some experimental tests on hollow curved-steel struts with thin-walled square sections, in order to investigate their general behavior, particularly their capacity for bearing differing loads. One set of square tubes are cold-formed into segments of circular arcs with curvature radii, equal to 4000 mm. Different lengths of curved struts are fabricated so as to cover a practical ...

In this paper, an enhanced soft handoff algorithm is proposed to improve system capacity for multi-rate DS-CDMA cellular systems. In the algorithm, we first propose a load-based power allocation scheme for serving soft handoff users in the forward link; we next develop two kinds of active set determination mechanism: a quality-based active set control (QBASC) scheme and fuzzy active set control...

The pressure grouted helical anchor is an innovative soil-cement using the simultaneous drilling and grouting technique. This paper presents a field study numerical simulation to analyze load-displacement behavior of single anchored in marine soft soil deposit. Three full-scale anchors were tested under monotonic tension loading analysis effect Influence helix plates configuration on lifting ca...

This letter presents a novel topology for a buck dc– dc converter with soft-switching capability, which operates under a zero-current-switching condition at turn on and a zero-voltage switching condition at turn off. In order to realize soft switching, based on a basic buck converter, the proposed converter added a small inductor, a diode, and an inductor coupled with the main inductor. Because...

In a code-division multiple-access cellular system, the soft handoff with macrodiversity is known to increase the number of available channels in each cell from the interference-reduced radio environment. This capability, however, also incurs extra load on the system due to the increase in the number of channels occupied and reserved for macrodiversity. The objective is to evaluate the associat...