As a fair deck pavement material of its kind used in steel bridge, the epoxy asphalt concrete is considered much more superior to ordinary asphalt concrete in terms of road performance, while still greatly subject to the level of design and construction. Starting from a practical case of the epoxy asphalt concrete that has been applied in the deck pavement of Pingsheng Steel Bridge, this paper ...

A modified k-deck of a graph G is obtained by removing k edges of G in all possible ways, and adding k (not necessarily new) edges in all possible ways. Krasikov and Roditty asked if it was possible to construct the usual k-edge deck of a graph from its modified k-deck. Earlier I solved this problem for the case when k = 1. In this paper, the problem is completely solved for arbitrary k. The pr...

In this paper, I present an introduction to Markov chains, basic tools to analyze them, and an example, the top-to-random shuffle. I cover the existence and uniqueness of stationary distributions, the Convergence Theorem, total variation distance, mixing time, and strong stationary times. Using these tools, I show that the top-to-random shuffle on a deck of n cards mixes the deck in approximate...

This report gives account of the seminar on Logic Databases and The Meaning of Change, held at the marvelous conference and research center of Dagstuhl, in the last week of September 1996. The seminar attracted a total of 36 invited researchers in the eld, from 14 countries. Each of the participants contributed to the seminar by giving talks, demonstrations and/or participating in lively discus...

In an event related potential (ERP) experiment using written language materials only, we investigated a potential modulation of the N400 by the modality switch effect. The modality switch effect occurs when a first sentence, describing a fact grounded in one modality, is followed by a second sentence describing a second fact grounded in a different modality. For example, "A cellar is dark" (vis...

This paper introduces recent experience of Ramboll Finland bridge inspectors and NDTexperts in condition evaluation of road bridges deck surface structure by using state of the art NDTtechniques.This paper focuses on possible benefits of applying NDTtechniques in condition evaluation of road bridge deck surface structures. In addition, examples from several actual test cases are reviewed. Only ...

We show that winning the game New Age Solitaire only depends on the number of rising sequences in the deck used. The probability of winning for the special case of a new deck that is shuffled using the GSR-shuffle (and two variants) are studied. We show that this game pinpoints the Achilles heel of the GSR-shuffle as is demonstrated using the variation distance.

The prediction of extreme crest elevations is fundamental to the design of marine structures, irrespective of whether they are intended for deep-water offshore locations or shallow-water coastal locations. In undertaking design extreme crest elevations, specified in terms of either a 1 in 100 year or 1 in 10,000 year event, are relevant to both the overall geometry of the structure, particularl...