Steel bracing members are widely used in steel structures to reduce lateral displacement and dissipate energy during earthquake motions. Concentric steel bracing provide an excellent approach for strengthening and stiffening steel buildings. Using these braces the designer can hardly adjust the stiffness together with ductility as needed because of buckling of braces in compression. In this stu...

Concrete filled tubes (CFTs) composite columns have many economical and esthetic advantages, but the behavior of their connections is complicated. Through this study, it is aimed to investigate the performance and behavior of different connection configurations between concrete filled steel tube columns and bracing diagonals through an experimental program. The study included 12 connection suba...

This paper presents findings from shake table experiments on cable-braced and unbraced welded hospital piping systems. The research identifies the capacity characteristics of a hospital piping system with and without bracings as well as the system’s weak points. The system was tested to the ICBO AC156 acceptance criteria for nonstructural components. The input motion of 1g was amplified to almo...

Both the Super-Elastic and Shape Memory Effect has been taken into account in this study by using SMA with high activation temperature. A Thermo-Mechanical SMA phenomenological constitutive model is used to simulate the SMA behaviour. The dynamic response data of a frame structure has been obtained from FE analysis by using the nonlinear FE software program MSC Marc. Then the frame is braced an...

The successful fund raising appeals of the March of Dimes employed images of cute crippled children standing on braces and forearm crutches, sitting in wheelchairs, or confined to iron lungs. Those who had to use these devices as a result of polio, however, were often stigmatized as cripples. American cultural antipathy to these assistive devices meant that polio survivors often had to overcome...

This research analyzed the effect of bilateral hinged knee braces on a healthy knee from a biomechanical frame in vivo. This was accomplished by fitting a knee brace with two customized wireless force/torque (F/T) sensors that could readily record force and torque during live motion, while the kinetics at the knee were computed using the inverse dynamics of the motion capture and force plate da...

Self-ligating braces offer shorter orthodontic treatment, more comfortable follow-up and less chair time. Passive are preferred in self-ligating systems as they cause friction. Damon system is also one of the most popular passive braces. In addition to protrusion incisors, it important advantages this bracket that provides expansion dental arches. The purpose these case reports present treatmen...

Adhesive tape is often used to help athletes recover from ligament sprains ofthe ankle or to prevent further injury. The choice of taping technique or material is often decided by personal preference, superstition, or anecdote. More recently, the use of ankle braces has become more prevalent, but reasons for their use are similarly variable. As ankle sprains are a major cause ofan athlete's dis...

A retrospective review was done of 20 children with spastic cerebral palsy who had had a total of 25 triple arthrodeses at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital. The average age at the time of surgery was 15.5 years and average follow-up was 4.5 years. Indications for surgery were progressive deformity (15) and relief of pain (five). The deformities was planovalgus (12), equinovalgus (six), equinovarus (s...

Adhesive tape is often used to help athletes recover from ligament sprains of the ankle or to prevent further injury. The choice of taping technique or material is often decided by personal preference, superstition, or anecdote. More recently, the use of ankle braces has become more prevalent, but reasons for their use are similarly variable. As ankle sprains are a major cause of an athlete's d...