In this study, Gene expression programming (GEP) is employed as a new method for estimating the side weir discharge coefficient. The accuracy of existing equations in evaluating the side weir discharge coefficient is first examined. Afterward, taking into consideration the dimensionless parameters that affect the estimation of this parameter and sensitivity analysis, five different models are p...

Abstract—This study was conducted to evaluate the seismic performance of weir structures using two different approaches: i) design response spectrum with respect to KBC 2009 in Korea and ii) acceleration of time history (PGA, 0.3011 g) obtained from 1994 Northridge earthquake. This paper provided the simple linear elastic 2D plane strain FE model with the material nonlinearity including soil-fo...

Weirs, as overflow structures, are extensively used for the measurement of flow, its diversion and control in the open canals. Labyrinth weir due to more effective length than conventional weirs, allows passing more discharge in narrow canals. Determination the design criteria for the practical application of these weirs need more investigation. Weir angle and its position relative to the flow ...

abstract weirs are the most common structures for discharge measurement in engineering research. streamline curvature, non hydrostatic pressure distribution on weir and nappe adherence to the weir lead to differences between calculated and measured discharges. thus discharge coefficient, which is the ratio of real and theoretic discharges, is usually less than unity. in circular weirs the press...

OBJECTIVE To report a patient with genetically proven DYT1 dystonia who shows dramatic improvement in symptoms while playing the piano. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Sobell Department for Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London, England. PATIENT A 49-year-old right-handed male civil servant. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The patient was videotap...

This paper presents our experiences with the use of feed forward neural networks for piano chord recognition and polyphonic piano music transcription. Our final goal is to build a transcription system that would transcribe polyphonic piano music over the entire piano range. The central part of our system uses neural networks acting as pattern recognisers and extracting notes from the source aud...

This letter reports basic acoustic phenomena related to part-pedaling in the piano. With part-pedaling, the piano tone can be divided into three distinct time intervals: initial free vibration, damper-string interaction, and final free vibration. Varying the distance of the damper from the string, the acoustic signal and the damper acceleration were measured for several piano tones. During the ...