Seasonal casual labour migration in India has conventionally been understood as the result of extreme poverty whereby villagers are forced to become migrants for the dry six months to subsist or merely survive. This article draws on fieldwork in a village in Jharkhand and a brick kiln in West Bengal to argue that migrants do not understand their movement in economic terms alone. Many see the br...

Brick and Mortar Chip Fabrication Martha Allen Kim Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Mark Oskin Computer Science and Engineering While Moore’s Law has advanced the semiconductor and technology industries, it has simultaneously driven up the cost of engineering a chip in a modern silicon process. The result is that fewer and fewer chips are produced in larger and larger volumes, stif...

Masonry structures constitute an important part of the built environment and architectural heritage in seismic areas. A large number these old showed inadequate performance suffered substantial damage under past earthquakes. Realistic numerical models are required for accurate response predictions addressing implementation effective strengthening solutions. comprehensive mesoscale modeling stra...

The upgrade of the ATLAS hadronic tile-calorimeter (TileCal) Low-Voltage Power Supply (LVPS) falls under high-luminosity LHC project. This article serves to provide an overview development a burn-in test station for Phase-II LVPS component known as Brick. These Bricks are radiation hard transformer-coupled buck converters that function step-down bulk 200 V DC power 10 required by on-detector el...

This paper summarizes recent investigations into the structural and material response of ambient-dry wet clay-brick lime-mortar masonry elements, with focus on those used in heritage structures Historic Cairo. In addition to cyclic tests large-scale walls subjected lateral displacement compressive gravity loads, studies included complementary small scale panels specimens. It is shown that moist...

Most models of consumer purchase process that are used in operations focus on purchases from a single channel, typically the offline brick-and-mortar store [3]. However, there has been a proliferation of multiple retail channels, such as online and mobile. This proliferation has created the need for operational decisions to model consumer switching between different channels during the purchase...

Semi-buried structures are most commonly used at first line of defense along the border between two countries. This demands investigation of their dynamic behaviour under blast loading. Herein, a semi-buried structure with foam sandwiched walls and buttresses to reduce the effect of blast is analysed. The effect of provision of different configurations of buttresses and foam core between two la...

The service life of real construction elements is usually long, so the study behavior cement-based materials with new pozzolanic additions in very long term, after several hardening years, could be interesting. Here, influence using waste brick powder as 10% and 20% clinker substitution microstructure durability-related parameters mortars 1500 days (approximately 4 years) has been studied. Acco...

We prove that every minimal brick on n vertices has at least n/9 vertices of degree at most 4.