This paper presents a subword normalized cut (N-cut) approach to automatic story segmentation of Chinese broadcast news (BN). We represent a speech recognition transcript using a weighted undirected graph, where the nodes correspond to sentences and the weights of edges describe inter-sentence similarities. Story segmentation is formalized as a graph-partitioning problem under the N-cut criteri...

The former Imperial County Services Building was a six-story reinforced concrete structure in the El Centro, California, severely damaged by the 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake. It represents a rare case of an instrumented building that has been damaged, and thus can serve as a full-scale benchmark to evaluate and further develop structural health monitoring methods. This paper presents an anal...

The European goal to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 has further put the focus on construction sector, which is responsible for great impacts environment, and new sustainable solutions renovate existing building stock are currently under development. In this paper, AdESA (Adeguamento Energetico Sismico ed Architettonico, Italian) system, a holistic retrofit technique integrated renovation of bu...

In design steel frames, combining semi-rigid and rigid connections can result in better structural performance, particularly seismic locations. this study, the effects of beam-to-column located on performance frame structures are investigated. The analysis uses six twelve-story moment resisting frames (MRSF) with rigid, semi-rigid, dual beam-column connections. These designed according to Egypt...

Friction-based dampers are a valid solution for non-invasive seismic retrofitting interventions of existing structures, particularly reinforced-concrete (RC) structures. The design friction-based is challenging: underestimating the slip force prevents full use potential device, which attains maximum admissible displacement earlier than expected. By contrast, overestimating may cause delayed tri...

In this study, loading tests were conducted on RC structural frame with LGS partition wall and steel door as test specimens. the test, damage observation was to understand doors for each story drifts. Among observed ones thought be caused by residual deformation of seismic frame. It also found that when drift angle exceeds 1/200, required force more than 100N open it 1/100, could not opened.

This study was conducted to the redistribution of internal force and development plastic hinge an MBS with foundations at two different elevations considering torsional effect. The results indicate that base shear is evident embedding ends, story on floors also took place. columns upper- lower-embedding sides, more prominent along slope direction. Consequently, should be considered in practical...

To analyze the multidimensional elastic–plastic response of frame structure with magnetorheological (MR) dampers under strong seismic excitations, test MRD was performed, location matrix in derived, and calculation models without an were established based on three-segment variable stiffness beam. Taking a five-story reinforced concrete (RC) as example, developed by MATLAB software dynamic time ...