Monitoring and automatic control of building environment is a crucial application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in which maximizing network lifetime is a key challenge. Previous research into the performance of a network in a building environment has been concerned with radio propagation within a single floor. We investigate the link quality distribution to obtain full coverage of signal str...

Multi-storey steel buildings are usually designed with rigid connections between beams and columns or simple hinged a stiffening system. The paper focuses on the 3D structural design of multi-storey including floor slabs shear walls. method numerical modelling has been applied to investigate influence certain elements lateral stiffness building structure, when walls considered in design. Four h...

This paper presents research on a new type of fabricated steel–wood composite floor material in the style slab-embedded beam flange, using test methods and finite element numerical analysis to study flexural load-bearing performance slabs. Through experimental phenomena, failure process mechanism are analyzed, deformation ultimate bearing capacity assessed. model, influence connection mode beam...

[1] Numerical mantle convection models indicate that subducting slabs can reach the core-mantle boundary (CMB) for a wide range of assumed material properties and plate tectonic histories. An increase in lower mantle viscosity, a phase transition at 660 km depth, depth-dependent thermal expansivity, and depth-dependent thermal diffusivity do not preclude model slabs from reaching the CMB. We fi...

The Unreinforced Wall (URM) elements that are most susceptible to out-of-plane failure are wall elements of the upper storeys where the accelerations are largest. In modern URM buildings with reinforced concrete slabs, the out-of-plane mechanism involves typically a storey-high wall element, which is subjected at its base and top to the accelerations of the corresponding floor slabs. The accele...