Malaysians were reported to have the most number of Facebook friends, spend more time on Facebook and might be addicted to Facebook as well. This paper explored Facebook usage pattern, motivations and psycho logical/behavioural factors affecting the users. A focus group study was first conducted to explo re motives to use Facebook and symptoms related to excessive Facebook usage. The themes eme...

This article deals with the dynamic behavior of highly contrasted stratified (HCS) plate made elastic or visco-elastic, symmetric non-symmetric, layers. Such composite structures may correspond to laminates plates sandwich panels often use in engineering. The study is based on synthetic analytical HCS model derived by asymptotic approach (Boutin and Viverge 2016). physical mechanisms within are...

Three models with different footing types were used to clarify the effect of heave plates on hydrodynamic behavior elastic response a flexible multicolumn floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT). The tested under regular waves, whose added mass, damping, and motion results compared numerical simulations by NK-UTWind WAMIT codes. As whole, attachment was responsible for increasing mass damping lev...

Abstract—This paper focuses on parametric analysis of reinforced concrete structures equipped with supplemental damping braces. Practitioners still luck sufficient data for current design of damper added structures and often reduce the real model to a pure damper braced structure even if this assumption is neither realistic nor conservative. In the present study, the damping brace is modelled a...