The question of material consumption is one of the most important issues in seismic design of multi-story frames. The paper illustrates how material consumption can be reduced by utilizing shear wall according to the Performance-Based Seismic Design (PBSD). For this purpose, different story frames with and without shear walls are designed In addition, a simple algorithm is proposed for monitori...

With the advent of social networking, sharing of multimedia has gained tremendous amount of importance and is the widely used form of communication worldwide. In the process of discovering knowledge from videos, challenge is to process huge amount of information which is resourceintensive. One way to minimize the cost of computations is to reduce the amount of information that undergoes process...

We propose a new method for extracting key frames from a motion capture sequence. Our proposed approach consists of two steps. In the first step, we propose a new metric, curve saliency, for motion curves that specifies the important frames of the motion. In the second step, we detect the final key frames by clustering the computed important frames. As a result of our experimental results, on t...

an experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. the first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. the second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. the last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. these three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. di...

Key frame extraction has been recognized as one of the important research issues in video information retrieval. Although progress has been made in key frame extraction, the existing approaches are either computationally expensive or ine ective in capturing salient visual content. In this paper, we rst discuss the importance of key frame selection; and then brie y review and evaluate the existi...

An experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. The first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. The second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. The last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. These three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. Di...