Although the benefits of using timber in midand high-rise construction are undisputed, there are perceived shortcomings with respect to the ductility needed to provide seismic resistance and a corresponding lack of appropriate design guidance. Overcoming these perceived shortcomings will allow timber, and its wood product derivatives, to further expand into the multi-storey construction sector,...

Focuses on the benchmark control problems for seismically excited nonlinear buildings defined by Ohtori et al. (2000). This benchmark study focuses on three typical steel structures, 3-, 9and 20-storey buildings designed for the SAC project for Los Angeles in the California region. The first stage of applying the fuzzy controller to this benchmark study for the 3-storey building is reported. Th...

We use the bootstrap procedure proposed by Storey (2002) and Storey, Taylor, and Siegmund (2004) to estimate the proportion of zero-alpha funds in the population, 0. This resampling approach chooses from the data such that an estimate of the Mean Squared Error ( ) of b0 ( ) dened as (b0 ( ) 0) is minimized. First, we compute b0 ( ) using equation (5) of the paper across a range of values ( = 0...

A method to predict the column size for displacement based design of reinforced concrete frame buildings with higher target inter storey drift is reported here. The column depth derived from empirical relation as a function of given beam section, target inter-story drift, building plan features and common displacement based design parameters is used. Regarding the high drift requirement, a mini...

The feedback-related negativity (FRN) is thought to index activity within the midbrain dopaminergic reward-learning system, with larger FRN magnitudes observed when outcomes are worse than expected. This view holds that the FRN is an index of neural activity coding for prediction errors, and reflects activity that can be used to adaptively alter future performance. Untested to date, however, is...

In processing raster digital elevation models (DEMs) it is often necessary to assign drainage directions over flats—that is, over regions with no local elevation gradient. This paper presents an approach to drainage direction assignment which is not restricted by a flat’s shape, number of outlets, or surrounding topography. Flow is modeled by superimposing a gradient away from higher terrain wi...