In this paper, high-fidelity finite element (FE) models were developed to investigate the behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beam-slab substructures resist progressive collapse under a corner column removal scenario. The numerical validated by test results. Then, FE employed structural different loading methods, including concentrated (CL) and uniformly distributed (UDL) methods. Moreover, mu...

Seismic performance of a building is commonly evaluated by applying same design ground motions at each foundation. However, local soil conditions beneath likely vary, and these variations could result in out-of-phased the foundation locations. In this study, building’s responses during earthquakes were analyzed compared using out-of-phase motions. The 10-story, 90m-wide, reinforced concrete str...

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This paper introduces the class of reflected number systems. Members of this class have the adjacency property, i.e. representations for consecutive numbers differ in only one digit and the magnitude of this difference is one. It shows that every number system based on a positional weighting scheme has a reflected analogue. It presents procedures to convert a number system to its reflected anal...

Abstract Recent devastating earthquakes worldwide pointed out the importance of seismic detailing and their influence on observed damage subsequent repairability reinforced concrete buildings. Several studies post-earthquake observations remarked role beam–column joints (BCJs) global building response effectiveness transverse reinforcement in increasing joint shear strength ultimate deformation...

Previous metaphor studies have paid much attention to nominal and predicative metaphors and little attention has been given to adjective metaphors. Although some studies have focused on adjective metaphors, they have only examined how the acceptability of adjective metaphors can be explained by the pairing of adjective modifier’s and head noun’s modalities and little attention has been given to...

This article discusses the difficulties that arose when attempting to specify and design a large scale digital learning environment for Scottish schools. This had a potential user base of about 1 million users and was intended to replace an existing, under-used system. We found that the potential system users were not interested in engaging with the project and that there were immense problems ...