Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) is made from thin steel plate which in turn are framed by the beams and columns of structural system. In recent year they are proved to be very effective and economical for resisting lateral loads such as earthquake and wind loads.The present work targets to study the behaviour of single frame SPSW with different plate thicknesses, rigid and non-rigid frame members...

Rolling noise from railways is significantly affected by the wheel–rail combined roughness and the dynamic properties of the track. To facilitate vibration and noise predictions it is desirable to be able to determine these parameters accurately from field measurements. In this study an inverse method to determine these parameters is adopted and enhanced. Use is made of a track model based on a...

Abstract. This paper presents an approximate method to predict the natural frequencies of thin-walled cylinders. By taking inspiration from a previous work one authors, starting point proposed approach is proper construction reasonable eigenfunctions. However, new simple tool based on principle virtual has been developed estimate and amplitude vibration without complex numerical resolution. Mor...

Three-dimensional spiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction are pinned to unexcitable heterogeneities. This pinning can prevent the collapse of scroll rings even if the heterogeneity does not extend along the entire wave filament. In the latter case, frequency differences create stationary gradients in the rotation phase. These twist patterns and their frequencies agree with algebraic s...

We study a class of micromanipulation experiments, exemplified by the pulling apart of the two strands of double-stranded DNA. When the pulling force is increased to a critical value, an "unzipping" transition occurs. For random DNA sequences with short-ranged correlations, we obtain exact results for the number of monomers liberated and the specific heat, including the critical behavior at the...

Digital image content authentication addresses the problem of detecting any illegitimate modification on the content of images. To cope with this problem, a novel semifragile watermarking scheme using the pinned sine transform (PST) is presented in this paper. The watermarking system can localize the portions of a watermarked image that have been tampered maliciously with high accuracy as well ...

I. MOTIVATION Models of terrestrial legged locomotion are almost invariably hybrid, containing a discontinuity in the equations of motion when feet land on the ground. While some animals are bipedal, the great majority of legged locomotion on land is done with 4, 6 or more legs. Poly-pedal gaits for moderate or high-speed locomotion usually include multiple legs striking the ground that once (o...

We analyse the occurrence of bistability and hysteretical behavior in the underdamped motion of a simple one-dimensional lubricated friction model inspired by the tribological problem of two incommensurate sliding surfaces with a thin sheet interposed. This system was recently found to possess exact velocity plateaus for large parameters intervals, showing a remarkable quantization of the cente...

The sequence of events leading to definitive adult hematopoiesis in the mouse has long been debated. The traditional notion that yolk-sac-derived stem cells seed the adult compartment has now been challenged by evidence that intra-embryonic stem cells play a crucial role.