An experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. The first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. The second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. The last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. These three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. Di...

We show that a convex body can pass through a triangular hole iff it can do so by a translation along a line perpendicular to the hole. As an application, we determine the minimum size of an equilateral triangular hole through which a regular tetrahedron with unit edge can pass. The minimum edge length of the hole is (1+ √ 2)/ √ 6 ≈ 0.9856. One of the key facts for the proof is that no triangul...

Existing plows do not provide high-quality tillage between rows of orchards and vineyards. The purpose the study is to develop justify parameters plow for cultivating soil gardens tractors class 0.9 kN. A design scheme a single-body smooth, rowless plowing garden aisles has been developed. proposed consists movable fixed frame, disc knife, screw body with hostage. research uses laws agricultura...

In this paper we present a new real-time cloth simulation. The usual bottleneck in cloth simulation is collision detection, which becomes more difficult to solve, with good frame rates, when a complex geometry, like a human body, is involved. Recent collision image based methods, that use depth images to detect collisions, usually relays on CPU for collision correction. In our case we implement...

ABSTRACT There are various useful metrics for finding the distance between two points in Euclidean space. Metrics for finding the distance between two rigid body locations in Euclidean space depend on both the coordinate frame and units used. A metric independent of these choices is desirable. This paper presents a metric for a finite set of rigid body displacements. The methodology uses the pr...

To react efficiently to potentially threatening stimuli, we have to be able to localize these stimuli in space. In daily life we are constantly moving so that our limbs can be positioned at the opposite side of space. Therefore, a somatotopic frame of reference is insufficient to localize nociceptive stimuli. Here we investigated whether nociceptive stimuli are mapped into a spatiotopic frame o...

This paper deals with continuous frames and continuous Riesz bases. We introduce continuous Riesz bases and give some equivalent conditions for a continuous frame to be a continuous Riesz basis. It is certainly possible for a continuous frame to have only one dual. Such a continuous frame is called a Riesz-type frame [13]. We show that a continuous frame is Riesz-type if and only if it is a con...