A comprehensive program for the evaluation and enhancement of seismic safety of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant was started in 1993 and now is in progress. In the first two years of the program the urgent and quickly realizable fixes were performed, seismic instrumentation was installed, and a procedure was elaborated for the activities to be performed after a possible earthquake. Re-evaluation of...

Seismic isolation systems for buildings design are not as popular in the seismically active developing countries they developed ones. Several factors contribute to this, namely lack of knowledge on benefits seismic systems, unfamiliarity with procedure, and absence relevant building codes that provide guideline using system such countries. Recently, Indonesian code has been updated included str...

• Large-scale field experiments demonstrate the ultra-wide first bandgap. Achieve a bandgap with relative bandwidth of 1.17. Study characteristic by using complex band structures. Seismic metamaterials (SMs) are expected to assist or replace traditional isolation systems owing their strong attenuation seismic waves. In this work, one-dimensional inverted T-shaped SM (1D ITSM) composed arrays st...

This study examines revenue management in terms of a framework adapted from Maguire and Rouse (2004). This framework is used to analyse the way revenue management is organised at a large broadcasting organisation. The aim of this analysis is to investigate the structuring of the revenue and cost management efforts. When selling a product or service revenue and cost are usually known and hence t...

This paper analyzes and compares the responses of a two-storied steel structure to 1994 Northridge earthquake in California. Response modal nonlinear time-history dynamic analysis was especially used on with fixed-base base-isolated systems show realistic behavior structure. Intuitively, best choice for seismic isolation technique is use flexible element, or an isolator, at structure’s base, wh...

This paper is not meant as a treatise on the use of IT in education, in particular rural primary/elementary schools. However, as the title suggests, the paper does want to open up for discussion some of the following issues. 1. How is IT being used or might be used as an effective learning tool in school education, and rural primary/elementary schools specifically? 2. What are the barriers, if ...

When 2 or more people believe that they are having an identical subjective experience, they believe that they “I-share.” I-sharing fosters connectedness (Pinel, Long, Landau, Alexander, & Pyszczynski, 2006), overcomes group boundaries (Pinel & Long, 2012), and facilitates prosocial behaviors (Huneke & Pinel, 2015; Johnson, Pinel, & Long, 2014). After reviewing the construct of I-sharing, the re...

This paper aims to investigate the effects of motion duration on the structural seismic demands, seeking potential correlations between motion durations and structural responses at several seismic intensity levels. Three seismic intensity levels with 100years, 475years, and 2475years earthquake return periods (RPs) are first considered for correlation computations. Spectrally matched ground mot...

Seismic-protection measures make it possible to significantly decrease economical losses. Seismic shock absorption systems and seismic insulation of foundations and buildings can generally increase the reliability of structures. Calculations by Ja. M. Ajzenberg showed that relative horizontal seismic shifts of floors in seismically insulated buildings are significantly lower than in noninsulate...