This paper aims to develop a deteriorated bridge maintenance strategy that ensures the safe operation of steel structures and minimizes total risk. Five common failure modes are considered for bridge: flexure, shear, deflection, fatigue girder, chloride attack concrete deck. Time-dependent system reliability analyses carried out find probability under these modes. Risk-cost optimization is then...

his paper introduces a test methodology to examine the urability of surface mount interconnects under impact oading when a portable electronic product is dropped. onventional testing approaches that consider the agnitude of loading (total impact energy, impact direction, nd number of impacts) as the governing criterion for amage accumulation, typically report difficulties in orrelating with imp...

We report a rare case of late staple-line recurrence arising 10 years after functional end-to-end anastomosis for splenic flexure colon cancer. An 80-year-old man, who underwent partial colectomy with functional end-to-end anastomosis for splenic flexure colon cancer 10 years earlier, presented with a chief complaint of anorexia. Complete blood count showed anemia, and the fecal occult blood te...

This article presents the analysis of experimental values regarding cracking pattern, specific strains and deformability for reinforced high strength concrete beams. The beams have the concrete class C80/95 and a longitudinal reinforcement ratio of 2.01%, respectively 3.39%. The elements were subjected to flexure under static short-term and long-term loading. The experimental values are compare...

in this work, the waste stone sludge obtained from the granite and marble stone processing factories was used for the manufacture of artificial stones using vibratory compaction in a vacuum environment. the results obtained showed that water absorption and density increased, and the flexure, compressive, and tensile strengths decreased with increase in the content of the waste stone sludge. the...

The absorbing "ricepile" model with stochastic toppling rules has been numerically studied. Local limited, local unlimited, nonlocal limited, and nonlocal unlimited versions of the absorbing model have been investigated. Transport properties and different dynamical regimes of all of the models have been analyzed, from the point of view of self-organized criticality. Phase transitions between di...

FIG. 1.-Case 1. Radiograph of abdomen showing immense faecal distension of caecum, ascending colon, and hepatic flexure. The collapsed bowel distal to the colostomy has been outlined by barium for comparison. FIG. 2.-Case 2. Radiograph showing faecal distension of hepatic flexure. FIG. 3.-Case 3. Radiograph of abdomen showing multiple fluid levels throughout small bowel together with marked fae...