This paper presents the effectiveness of strengthening slab–column connections against punching shear failure with near surface–mounted (NSM) carbon fiber–reinforced polymer (CFRP) bars. The experimental program consists preparing and testing eight samples, two control, six strengthened samples. main variables experiment are layout cross-sectional area CFRP results show that NSM increases ultim...

Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known dif culties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address. Several NAT traversal techniques are known, but their documentation is slim, and data about their robustness or relative merits is slimmer. This paper documents and analyzes one of the simplest but most robust and p...

The manufacture of parts made of metal sheet often includes two successive processes: the cutting process at which a guillotine shear cuts the sheet into strips, and the punching process at which a stamping press punches out the blanks from the strips. This paper presents an algorithm for generating optimal two-staged cutting patterns of strips for the cutting process. At the first stage the sh...

AbstrAct Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is focused on the optimal clearance design of micro-punching die by abductive network and SA method. Design/methodology/approach: The punching data (input) and wear size (output) were collected for a training database. In order to select proper clearance to evaluate the wear of die, the abductive network was used to establish an efficient rel...