In the Himalayan region of Nepal, stone masonry has been used for centuries as primary building material structures with or without mud mortar. three distinct remote rural villages, a thorough structural survey approximately 223 buildings was conducted an emphasis on their irregularities. The thickness walls frequently varied between floors, which caused mass Openings in front wall were not sym...

The development and differentiation of the body wall musculature in Drosophila are accompanied by changes in gene expression and cellular architecture. We isolated a Drosophila gene, termed rolling stone (rost), which, when mutated, specifically blocks the fusion of mononucleated cells to myotubes in the body wall musculature. beta 3 tubulin, which is an early marker for the onset of mesoderm d...

In this work, a simple and effective Rigid Beam Model recently introduced for studying the dynamic behaviour of ancient freestanding stone columns is extended to case cantilever unreinforced masonry walls, considered along their thickness subjected out-of-plane loading. Both monolithic multi-block walls were investigated. The proposed model assumes each block wall as rigid beam element interfac...

Abstract The impact of dewatering on lime mortars modified using brick dust was studied, as it is particular importance in conservation applications. Dewatering takes place when freshly mixed come into contact with a porous substrate, such or stone, during site construction. Since the process between mortar and its substrate can modify properties, understanding enables pozzolan-modified hydrate...

Three patients were reinspected by ureteroscopy after repeat ESWL. Ureteroscopy initially did not disclose an intraluminal stone and only visualized a severe inflammatory reaction of the ureteric wall and a boss of the ureter at the level of the fluoroscopically suspected stone location. An intact stone in all 3 cases was finally exposed by tactile contact at the top of the ureteroscope after p...

Performance based design (PBD) is an iterative exercise in which a preliminary trial design of the building structure is selected and if the selected trial design of the building structure does not conform to the desired performance objective, the trial design is revised. In this context, development of a fundamental approach for performance based seismic design of masonry infilled frames with ...

The evolution of the damage mechanic properties for un-reinforced masonry panels under dynamic loads is critical in a time-domain analysis of masonry shear walls. This research project experimentally investigates the evolution of the properties of the damage variable for unreinforced masonry panels, subject to dynamic in-plane displacement controlled strain. This paper presents the theoretical ...

At present, many of the historic masonry structures in the most important seismic zone of Argentina present damages due to the actions to which they have been subjected. Therefore, it is necessary to study the behavior of walls of ceramic masonry of great thickness. This work presents the comparison between the results obtained from the numerical simulation of ceramic masonry walls subjected to...