The focus of this research is the stress laminated timber cellular deck. The testing program has involved application of loads that modelled both the design serviceability and design ultimate conditions, and identified slip and load redistribution mechanisms, which occur at the limit state of linear composite behaviour. This paper presents a summary of the results of this testing and discusses ...

This paper provides a very high level overview of a software and hardware architecture for a Reliability Availability and Serviceability system. One of the primary goals of this architecture is portability. The design of the architecture is intentionally modular to provide the extensibility necessary to allow the portions of the system that are not directly portable to be easily added or modifi...

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Introduced by the U.S. Navy more than a decade ago, the concept of Power Electronic Building Blocks (PEBBs) has been successfully applied in various applications. It is well accepted within the power electronics arena that this concept offers the potential to achieve increased levels of modularity and compactness. This approach is thus ideally suited for applications where easy serviceability a...

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The behavior of externally prestressed composite beams under short term loading has been studied. A computer program developed originally by Oukaili to evaluate curvature is modified the deflection beam flexural load. analysis model based on deformation compatibility entire structure that allows determine full history strain and stress distribution along cross section depth, increment in extern...

lateral and anterior displacements of mandible may cause malocclusion. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of these displacements in a population of 597 childrens age 12 in mashhad secondary schools. displacment of mandible was shown to be in 11.8 percent of the population (6.2 percent anterior and 5.6 percent lateral displacement).anterior displacement of mandible was diagnos...

Lifeline structures such as hospital buildings need to be specifically designed that they experience reduced vibrations when subjected earthquake excitations because it will difficult vacate under the event of any earthquake. Therefore, ensure operational condition in an existing building, present study utilizes flexible unbonded fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators (UFREIs) for its seismic i...