Launch and recovery helicopter wind envelope for a ship type was determined as the first step to the helicopter qualification program. Flight deck velocities data were obtained by means of a two components laser Doppler anemometer testing a 1/50 model in the wind tunnel stream. Full-scale flight deck measurements were obtained on board the ship using a sonic anemometer. Wind tunnel and full-sca...

A modified k-deck of a graph is obtained by removing k edges in all possible ways and adding k (not necessarily new) edges in all possible ways. Krasikov and Roditty used these decks to give an independent proof of Müller’s result on the edge reconstructibility of graphs. They asked if a k-edge deck could be constructed from its modified k-deck. In this paper, we solve the problem when k = 1. W...

A modified k-deck of a graph is obtained by removing k edges in all possible ways and adding k (not necessarily new) edges in all possible ways. Krasikov and Roditty used these decks to give an independent proof of Müller’s result on the edge reconstructibility of graphs. They asked if a k-edge deck could be constructed from its modified k-deck. In this paper, we solve the problem when k = 1. W...

Pile driveability analyses for offshore platforms require a unique set of criteria, which may not normally be associated with other pile foundation installations. The selected hammers, pile makeup details and soil profile must be carefully reviewed, as these factors will determine if pile installations will be successful. The most important of the variables to establish is the expected Soil Res...

Model tests were carried out in dry silica sand under pile loading and visualizing observation to investigate the behavior of a pile group. The pile group consisted of nine cylindrical model piles of 40 mm in diameter in most tests or three rectangular parallelepiped model piles in the visualizing observation. Pile spacings of 200 mm and 100 mm between pile centers were used in the models. Tact...

We discuss a simplified version of the well-known card game War in which the cards in the deck have a strict ranking from 1 to n and in which the winning card and losing card are immediately placed, in that order, at the bottom of the winning player’s deck. Under this variation of War we show that it is possible for a standard fifty-two card deck to cycle, and we exhibit such a cycle. This resu...

We show that the counting class LWPP [FFK94] remains unchanged even if one allows a polynomial number of gap values rather than one. On the other hand, we show that it is impossible to improve this from polynomially many gap values to a superpolynomial number of gap values by relativizable proof techniques. The first of these results implies that the Legitimate Deck Problem (from the study of g...

For pile foundations subjected to lateral loads, an analysis method should account for the response of the combined soil-pile system. Current practice for pile-soil interaction analysis usually employs a series of springs to model the lateral behavior of soil-pile interaction. In this method, the force (p) – deformation (y) function, widely known as p-y curve, of the spring characterizes the pi...

We discuss a simplified version of the well-known card game War in which the cards in the deck have a strict ranking from 1 to n and in which the winning card and losing card are immediately placed, in that order, at the bottom of the winning player’s deck. Under this variation of War we show that it is possible for a standard fifty-two card deck to cycle, and we exhibit such a cycle. This resu...

ABSTRACT This study presents an investigation of the interaction effect of one loaded pile on a neighboring pile under transient dynamic loadings. Analyses are carried for non homogeneous soils. The hybrid boundary element formulation is used to represent boundary integral representation of soil domain and pile equations represented by linear structural components. The formulation is presented ...