We study the creep rupture of bundles of viscoelastic fibers occurring under uniaxial constant tensile loading. A fiber bundle model is introduced that combines the viscoelastic constitutive behavior and the strain controlled breaking of fibers. Analytical and numerical calculations showed that above a critical external load the deformation of the system monotonically increases in time resultin...

In order to understand the load sharing and settlement reduction behaviour of piled raft resting on soft clay, 1g model tests were conducted on small-scale models. The parameters studied were the effect of pile length and number of piles. The load settlement behaviour obtained from the tests has been validated using simplified method (Polous & Davis). Equivalent pier concept of Poulos and Davis...

Previous work by the authors on the mathematical modelling of the lower extremities is extended in this paper to the prediction of muscle load sharing and the corresponding hip, knee and ankle joint reactions during walking when the motion pattern is known beforehand. Using the same criterion for muscle load sharing as in the previous work on leaning and squatting, the results show excellent ag...

The purpose of load sharing is to improve both the performance and readiness of non-interrupted continuous media delivery by redistributing workload among collaborating servers. We proposed and evaluate a few adaptive load sharing policies where simple scheduling schemes are derived. The objectives are: l ) to understand the potential load imbalance problem in distributed multimedia system, 2 )...

False sharing of data is an important phenomenon affecting performance in shared memory multiprocessors. False sharing results in unnecessary coherency overhead by causing invalidation of the shared cache line, and increasing the latency of the load accessing the cache line. As microprocessors incorporate increasingly large caches with large cache lines, false sharing will become more common, a...

In this paper we investigate further the performance of a fault tolerant load sharing replicated buffered banyan network switch design. We look at the effect increasing the Switch Element (SE) degree has on the performance of the system and propose a simple modification to the system to transmit priority traffic. These results highlight the excellent performance and flexibility that these load ...

The tibia index (TI) is commonly used to predict leg injury based on measurements taken by an anthropomorphic test device (ATD). The TI consists of an interaction formula that combines axial loading and bending plus a supplemental compressive force criterion. Current ATD lower limbs lack geometric biofidelity with regard to tibial curvature and fibular load-sharing. Due to differences in tibial...

AbstrAct Most current grid environments are established through collaboration among a group of participating sites which volunteer to provide free computing resources. Therefore, feasible load sharing policies that benefit all sites are an important incentive for attracting computing sites to join and stay in a grid environment. Moreover, a grid environment is usually heterogeneous in nature at...

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel Voice On Demand (VoD) architecture and implementation of an efficient load sharing algorithm to achieve Quality of Service (QoS). This scheme reduces the transmission cost from the Centralized Multimedia Sever (CMS) to Proxy Servers (PS) by sharing the videos among the proxy servers of the Local Proxy Servers Group [LPSG] and among the neighboring LPS...