The present paper investigates the effect of limit state selection ~strength versus serviceability! on bridge deck life-cycle costs and thus on optimal repair strategies. Such a comparison may then help determine whether safety or functionality ~or both! are important criteria when optimizing bridge life-cycle performance and costs. The structural element under consideration is a reinforced con...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.019 q Funding was provided in part by the Ohio Univer and the Ohio University Department of Psychology. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 740 755 7808; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.T. Buelow The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is commonly used to assess risky decision making in clinical and nonclini...

Previous studies have reported that trait anxiety (TA) affects decision making. However, results remain largely inconsistent across studies. The aim of the current study was to further address the interaction between TA and decision making. 304 subjects without depression from a sample consisting of 642 participants were grouped into high TA (HTA), medium TA (MTA) and low TA (LTA) groups based ...

We consider the following problem. A deck of 2n cards labeled consecutively from 1 on top to 2n on bottom is face down on the table. The deck is given k dovetail shuues and placed back on the table, face down. A guesser tries to guess at the cards one at a time, starting from top. The identity of the card guessed at is not revealed, nor is the guesser told whether a particular guess was correct...

An emerging Next Generation Air Transportation System concept Equivalent Visual Operations (EVO) can be achieved using an electronic means to provide sufficient visibility of the external world and other required flight references on flight deck displays that enable the safety, operational tempos, and visual flight rules (VFR)-like procedures for all weather conditions. Synthetic and enhanced f...

As Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is increasingly employed for assessing the condition of bridge decks, quantifying and controlling the quality of GPR data becomes an important challenge. This paper uses a methodology to assess the accuracy of deck condition measures, and demonstrates the methodology in a case study involving real data. The latter are generated during GPR applications on a larg...

Aircraft carrier deck operations present a complex and uncertain environment in which time-critical scheduling and planning must be done, and to date all course of action planning is done solely by human operators who rely on experience and training to safely negotiate off-nominal situations. A computer decision support system could provide the operator with both a vital resource in emergency s...

In this study, a system for monitoring the structural health of bridge deck and predicting various possible damages to this section was designed based on measuring the temperature and humidity with the use of wireless sensor networks, and then it was implemented and investigated. A scaled model of a conventional medium sized bridge (length of 50 meters, height of 10 meters, and with 2 piers) wa...

The extraction of oil and gas from deep water is one of the most important challenges of the oil and gas industry today. FPSO is one of the leading platforms for deep waters. This study discussed the performance of FPSO deck modules under loads exerted on the hull of the ship. Modeling of the studied module was executed by SACS software and the effect of support using neoprene in the function o...

This paper presents a performance evaluation of DECK (Distributed Execution and Communication Kernel), a multithreaded parallel programming environment for clusters of SMPs, with the parallel implementation of the classical Mandelbrot fractal generation and Laplace’s Equation algorithms. The applications have been run on Myrinet and SCI clusters and the results are compared to corresponding MPI...