the present research is concerned with the determination of ductility, over-strength and response modification factors of coupled steel shear wall frames. three structural models with various numbers of stories, bay width and coupling beam height were analyzed using static pushover and incremental nonlinear dynamic analyses. the ductility, over-strength and response modification factors for the...

in the present investigation surface modification of silica nanoparticles by alumina was carried out by sol-gel process. fourier transform infrared (ftir) and x-ray fluorescence (xrf) confirmed the synthesis of silica and the surface modification as alumina is anchored to silica surface. field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem) and transmission electron microscopy (tem) investigation...

This paper looks at the phenomena of licensing by modification, whereby an unacceptable noun phrase is redeemed by the presence of a modifier or an unavailable reading for a noun phrase is made available with the addition of a modifier. It argues that an optimal account of such phenomena should derive these effects from the interaction of the meanings of individual expressions in the sentence r...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we present a new modification of chebyshev-halley‎ ‎method‎, ‎free from second derivatives‎, ‎to solve nonlinear equations‎. ‎the convergence analysis shows that our modification is third-order‎ ‎convergent‎. ‎every iteration of this method requires one function and‎ ‎two first derivative evaluations‎. ‎so‎, ‎its efficiency index is‎ ‎$3^{1/3}=1.442$ that is better than that o...

kim and bishu (fuzzy sets and systems 100 (1998) 343-352) proposeda modification of fuzzy linear regression analysis. their modificationis based on a criterion of minimizing the difference of the fuzzy membershipvalues between the observed and estimated fuzzy numbers. we show that theirmethod often does not find acceptable fuzzy linear regression coefficients andto overcome this shortcoming, pr...

The third modification of the space-time geometry is considered. (The first modification is the spacial relativity, the second one is the general relativity.) After the third modification of the space-time geometry the motion of free particles become to be primordially stochastic (multivariant). This circumstance forces one to construct a multivariant dynamics. The multivariant dynamics is the ...