For topic tracking where data is collected over an extended period of time, the discussion of a topic, i.e. the in a story changes over time. This paper focuses on subject drift and presents a method for topic tracking on broadcast news stories to handle subject drift. The basic idea is to automatically extract the optimal positive training data of the target topic so as to include only the dat...

The Faculty of Nursing building is one the administrative buildings at Andalas University. This was designed by a planning consultant and began construction in 2013. However, during period, it found that concrete quality very low, fc'=14.32 MPa, so could not be continued because accordance with quality, fc' =22.39 MPa. Therefore, necessary to evaluate feasibility structure before continued. In ...

Shaking table tests on the 1/4th-scale three-story reinforced concrete frames were carried out to investigate the effects of bidirectional earthquake motions on overall nonlinear response of reinforced concrete frame buildings. Two identical models were constructed and one was subjected to bidirectional horizontal earthquake motions and the other was subjected to unidirectional one. A series of...

Abstract This paper examines the optimal placement, numbers, and shape of Buckling Restrained Braces (BRB) for a 3D shear-wall frame building structure based on linear static analysis utilizing ETABS software. The total amount BRBs referred to as number are considered design variables objective function be minimized is maximum story displacement inter-story drift. diagonal (D), X-shape (X), V-s...

In recent years, destructive earthquakes have shown the deficiencies of the existing buildings. One of the most effective mechanisms for dissipating the earthquake energy is inelastic deformation of the steel components. The objective of this research is to study the application of metallic dampers for dissipation of the earthquake energy and to investigate the behavior of concrete structures i...

Recent developments in engineered timber products, and their availability, durability, renewability, have led to taller more flexible buildings. However, these buildings may experience excessive vibrations, resulting safety serviceability issues due wind or earthquake loads. This paper presents a dynamic analysis of 42-story-tall hybrid-timber building, along with comparative study the performa...

Most regional seismic damage assessment (RSDA) methods are based on the rigid-base assumption to ensure evaluating efficiency, while these practices introduce factual errors due neglecting soil–structure interaction (SSI). Predicting influence of SSI responses regionwide structure portfolios remains a challenging undertaking, as it requires developing numerous high-fidelity, integrated models c...