suhrawardi’s logic of the hikmat al-ishraq is basically modal. so to understand his modal logic one first has to know the non-modal part upon which his modal logic is built. in my previous paper ‘suhrawardi on syllogisms’(3) i discussed the former in detail. the present paper is an exposition of his treatment of modal syllogisms. on the basis of some reasonable existential presuppositions and a...

nonlinear static procedure (nsp) is a common technique to predict seismic demands on various building structures by subjecting a monotonically increasing horizontal loading (pushover) to the structure. therefore, the pushover analysis is an important part of each nsp. accordingly, the current paper aims at investigating the efficiencyof various algorithms of lateral load patterns applied to the...

Some engineering applications, for instance related to fluid dynamics in pipe or channel networks, feature a dominant spatial direction along which the most relevant dynamics develop. Nevertheless, local features of the problem depending on the other directions, that we call transverse, can be locally relevant to the whole problem. We propose in the context of elliptic problems such as advectio...

Some engineering applications, for instance related to fluid dynamics in pipe or channel networks, feature a dominant spatial direction along which the most relevant dynamics develop. Nevertheless, local features of the problem depending on the other directions, that we call transverse, can be locally relevant to the whole problem. We propose in the context of elliptic problems such as advectio...

We present the dynamic velocity profiles of a Newtonian fluid (glycerol) and a viscoelastic Maxwell fluid (CPyCl-NaSal in water) driven by an oscillating pressure gradient in a vertical cylindrical pipe. The frequency range explored has been chosen to include the first three resonance peaks of the dynamic permeability of the viscoelastic-fluid--pipe system. Three different optical measurement t...

Breathy phonation has a high open quotient compared to modal phonation which results in greater influence of the subglottal cavity on the estimated short-time spectrum. This is reflected as an increase in spectral density at frequencies below the first resonance of the vocal tract around the glottal formant. On the contrary, pressed phonation has lesser influence of the subglottal cavity, and h...

the nonlinear static pushover analysis technique is mostly used in the performance-based design of structures and it is favored over nonlinear response history analysis. however, the pushover analysis with fema load distributions losses its accuracy in estimating seismic responses of long period structures when higher mode effects are important. some procedures have been offered to consider thi...