Abstract: Masonry infill is considered as a non-structural element in all type of buildings where masonry use. But, masonry infill walls are mainly used to increase initial stiffness and strength of reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings. This Open First storey is also termed as “Soft Storey”. The upper storeys have brick infilled wall panels with various opening percentage in it. In many cit...

The work  addressed in this paper is a comparative study between convergence of the  acceleration techniques, diagonal pad'{e} approximants and shanks transforms, on Homotopy analysis method  and Adomian decomposition method for solving  differential equations of integer and fractional orders.

Deteriorated concrete cover, e.g., spalling or delamination, especially when it occurs at the web of a reinforced (RC) beam within shear span, can reduce capacity beam. Patching this deteriorated area may be best option to recover affected. For purpose, unsaturated polyester resin mortar (UPR mortar) has been formulated. This research aims investigate efficacy UPR in limiting cracking and so re...

Different authors conducted studies on fiber reinforced concretes (FRC) with carbon fibres of different lengths and some results showed that concrete mix homogeneously distributed short in their volume have good strength ultra-strain compared to normal plain mix. However, this study is focused more 3-dimensional (3D) fibre plastic (epoxy) CFRP composite thin rods frame used as a reinforcement w...

Direct displacement based design (DDBD) is a conceptual framework that directly design a structure to achieve an expected performance level under specified seismic intensity. In this study, two important issues relevant to torsional response of mass eccentric 8-story RC building designed with DDBD approach are investigated. These issues are including the effects of unbalanced mass distribution ...

We investigate the steerability of two-qubit Bell-diagonal states under projective measurements by the steering party. In the simplest nontrivial scenario of two projective measurements, we solve this problem completely by virtue of the connection between the steering problem and the joint-measurement problem. A necessary and sufficient criterion is derived together with a simple geometrical in...

We study the classical game of peg solitaire when diagonal jumps are allowed. We prove that on many boards, one can begin from a full board with one peg missing, and finish with one peg anywhere on the board. We then consider the problem of finding solutions that minimize the number of moves (where a move is one or more jumps by the same peg), and find the shortest solution to the “central game...

This paper addresses extensions of the complex Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup to operator algebras in free probability theory. If a1, . . . , ak are ∗-free R-diagonal operators in a II1 factor, then Dt(ai1 · · · ain) = e −ntai1 · · · ain defines a dilation semigroup on the non-self-adjoint operator algebra generated by a1, . . . , ak. We show that Dt extends (in two different ways) to a semigroup...