Analytical approach for improving damage equivalence factors

Analytical approach for improving damage equivalence factors

Keywords: Damage equivalence factors Fatigue load model Equivalent length Weigh-In-Motion Traffic load model Monte-Carlo simulation a b s t r a c t The fatigue design of bridges under variable amplitude traffic loads is not straightforward. To simplify the task, the current Eurocode provisions apply fatigue load model 3 and damage equivalence factors (k). However , the fatigue load model and th...

An analytical approach to improving physician performance.

Health care reform has strengthened the link between performance and reimbursement, exemplified by valuebased purchasing and accountable care organizations. This has led to a heightened responsibility for physician leaders to improve physician performance. However, providing actionable assessments of physician outcomes is not as straightforward as it may seem. The physician leader is faced with...

Secure Urban Design in Terms of Passive Defense Approach; Analytical Considerations for Improving Form-based Characteristics in Iranian Cities

Improving the Accessibility of SGML Documents A Content-analytical Approach

Document retrieval based on string searches typically returns either the whole document or just the occurrences of the searched words. What the user often is after, however, is microdocument: a part of the document that contains the occurrences and is reasonably self-contained. These microdocuments might, for instance, consist of several successive text paragraphs sharing a mutual subject. Sing...

Improving Analytical Delay Modeling for CMOS Inverters

Analytical methods for gate delay estimation are very useful to speedup timing analysis of digital integrated circuits. This work presents a novel approach to analytically estimate the CMOS inverter delay. The proposed method considers the influence of input slope, output load and I/O coupling capacitance, as well as relevant effects such as channel length modulation and drain induced barrier l...