an evolutionary structural optimization (eso) method is used for plastic design of frames. based on safe theorems some criteria are derived and made an effort to satisfy them during the optimization process. in this regard, equilibrium is checked and yield condition is gradually satisfied during the optimization process. in this method, the amount of used material and the stiffness for each ele...

We consider a mixed finite element method for finding approximations of the displacement and moments in a thin elastic-perfectly plastic plate. Under some weak assumptions concerning the regularity of the exact solution, we prove an error estimate for the moments.

Bubbles, droplets or particles in flowing complex media such as foams, emulsions or suspensions follow highly complex paths, with the relative motion of the constituents setting the energy dissipation rate. What is their dynamics, and how is this connected to the global rheology? To address these questions, we probe the statistics and spatio-temporal organization of the local particle motion an...

This is one of two companion papers presenting new procedures for the efficient largedisplacement analysis of steel frames in the elasto-plastic range. Emphasis is given in this paper to the development and improvement of a plastic hinge approach utilizing the concept of adaptive mesh refinement. In the companion paper, such a concept is discussed in the context of a more accurate approach acco...

New Zernike velocity moments have been developed to describe an object, not only by its shape , but also by its motion throughout an image sequence. These are an extended form of the orthogonal Zernike moment set and include velocity information introduced via centralised moments. Initial analysis shows that they perform well when applied to analysing gait sequences resulting in a good recognit...

This paper proposed a method that combines Polar Fourier Transform, color moments, and vein features to retrieve leaf images based on a leaf image. The method is very useful to help people in recognizing foliage plants. Foliage plants are plants that have various colors and unique patterns in the leaf. Therefore, the colors and its patterns are information that should be counted on in the proce...

Abstract A numerical procedure is proposed for asymmetrical plastic shear diagrams in punching control perimeters. Asymmetrical occur edge and corner columns internal with biaxial unbalanced moments. The intends to support the use of NBR 6118, which covers distributions due moments columns. study different positions slab proves robustness efficiency proposal. practical application tested agains...

We introduce a new micro/macro decomposition of collisional kinetic equations which naturally incorporates the exact space boundary conditions. The idea is to write the distribution fonction f in all its domain as the sum of a Maxwellian adapted to the boundary (which is not the usual Maxwellian associated with f) and a reminder kinetic part. This Maxwellian is defined such that its ’incoming’ ...

During earthquake excitations, reinforced concrete bridge columns can be subjected to a combination of axial load, shear force, flexural moments, and torsional moments. The torsional moment can be much more significant in columns of bridges that are skewed, curved, have unequal spans, or unequal column heights. Combined loading including torsion can result in complex flexural and shear failure ...