The Direct Strength Method (DSM) is a well-known formulation presented in the Brazilian standard ABNT NBR 14762:2010, that estimates strength capacity of cold-formed steel (CFS) members. However, this requires elastic critical buckling loads as point departure, regarding local (L), distortional (D) and global (G) modes, which can be obtained by (i) analysis or (ii) available direct equations. p...

Discrete tomography deals with image reconstruction of an object with finitely many gray levels (such as two). Different approaches are used to model the raw detector reading. The most popular models are line projection with a lattice of points and strip projection with a lattice of pixels/cells. The line-based projection model fits some applications but involves a major approximation since the...

Waveguides in non-destructive evaluation (NDE) applications are commonly of a regular geometry (e.g., circular and ring cross section) for which analytical solutions exist. In this paper, wave propagation in infinitely long strips of large rectangular aspect ratio is discussed. Due to the finite width of strips, a large number of modes exist within the structure. This complicates the analysis a...

The sliding mode technique is used to control the deformation of a membrane mirror strip augmented with two macrofiber composite bimorphs located near the ends of the strip. The first bimorph is actuated in bending and the second is actuated axially. The structure is modeled as an Euler–Bernoulli beam under tensile load and the macrofiber composite patches are modeled as monolithic piezoceramic...

The planar and linear substructures of a threedimensional icosahedral AmmannKramer-Penrose quasilattice have been analysed. Infinitely many families of planes and rows are existing such that each family covers all vertices of the quasilattice. The members of a family of parallel planes are separated by at least three but a finite number of different distances, whose sequence is quasiperiodic an...