zipper braced frames are an innovative bracing system for steel structures. conventional inverted-v-braced frames exhibit a design problem arising from the unbalanced vertical force generated by the lower story braces when one of them buckles. this adverse effect can be mitigated by adding zipper columns or vertical members connecting the intersection points of the braces above the first floor....

The devices calibrated most frequently by the acoustical measurement services at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) over the 50-year period from 1963 to 2012 were one-inch condenser microphones of three specific standard types: LS1Pn, LS1Po, and WS1P. Due to its long history of providing calibrations of such microphones to customers, NIST is in a unique position to analyz...

The sea wave causes excess resistance which is out of scope of calm water resistance. The total wave force in horizontal plane is divided into “Added Resistance” and “Drift Force”. In this study, based on Gerritsma and Beuckelman[3] hypothesis a computer program has been developed for calculation of added resistance and drift force at various ship speeds and various head...

The importance of explicitly resolving the Stokes drift in ocean surface modelling is demonstrated by comparing four models with 58,612 observational data points obtained from undrogued drifting buoys Estuary and Gulf St. Lawrence, Canada. Drift model inputs are regional atmosphere circulation, spectral wave models. control considers near-surface currents provided top grid cell circulation mode...

We present PARDISO, a new scalable parallel sparse direct linear solver on shared memory multiprocessors. In this paper, we describe the parallel fac-torization algorithm which utilizes the supernode structure of the matrix to reduce the number of memory references with Level 3 BLAS. We also propose enhancements that signiicantly reduce the communication rate for pipelining parallelism. The res...