The research addressed in the paper is aimed at calibrating a numerical model developed by using free open-source finite-element code for assessment of structural performances historical masonry buildings strengthened textile-reinforced mortar (TRM) technique. TRM near-surface-mounted system, which couples inorganic matrices with fiber-based textile or meshes. main purpose to develop multiple-l...

Phase 2 of the Distributed Model Intercomparison Project (DMIP 2) was formulated primarily as a mechanism to help guide the US National Weather Service (NWS) as it expands its use of spatially distributed watershed models for operational river, flash flood, and water resources forecasting. The overall purpose of DMIP 2 was to test many distributed models with operational quality data with a vie...

Existing heritage buildings are often composed of diverse materials and structural typologies, representing a challenge for analysis tasks. This work investigates the combined use simple Lumped Plasticity Models (LPM) macro-mechanical Finite Element (FE) approaches to evaluate seismic response structures timber frames masonry walls. The calibration these engineering models is derived from wide ...

The glucose metabolic rate of the human brain can be measured with labeled deoxyglucose, using positron emission tomography, provided certain conditions are fulfilled. The original method assumed irreversible trapping of deoxyglucose metabolites in brain during the experimental period, and it further requires that a conversion factor between deoxyglucose and glucose, the "lumped constant," be k...

A condensed version of the SAPRC-07 mechanism (Carter, 2008) was implemented in a 3-D air quality model and applied to the Los Angeles area as part of the present review. The CIT airshed model was used; see Martien et al. (2003 and 2006) for description of model input data. The summer 1997 emission inventory was used here. Martien et al. used an extended version of SAPRC-99 that had many indivi...

The response of back-supported buffer plates comprising a solid face sheet and foam core backing impacted by a column of high velocity particles (sand slug) is investigated via a lumped parameter model and coupled discrete/continuum simulations. The buffer plate is either resting on (unattached) or attached to a rigid stationary foundation. The lumped parameter model is used to construct maps o...