An increased availability of information technology (IT) is currently influencing decisions to monitor structures more frequently. IT is invariably used to interpret structural behaviour from monitoring data. However, engineers remain frustrated with IT results. Engineers work with incomplete knowledge, problem specific characteristics, and context dependency. Although such conditions require i...

Any new concept must successfully transit two sequential ÒfiltersÓ between research initiation and application, a technical filter (does it work?) and a technological filter (does it make sense in the Òreal world?Ó). In general, the research community is not sufficiently knowledgeable regarding the myriad metrics of the technological filter and therefore Ònon (application) usefulÓ research is c...

This paper conceptualises the enhancement of technological capability by firms, following international technology transfer, as an evolutionary process. During this process, the existing technological, managerial and other complementary resources may require restructuring. Since China is in transition from central planning to market orientation, the organisational and managerial practices of Ch...

We revisit the notion of technological trajectories by means of a detailed case-study of the evolution of tank technology between 1915 and 1945. We use principal component analysis to analyze the distribution of technological characteristics and how they map into specific service characteristics. We find that, despite the existence of differences in technical leadership, tank designs of differe...

In the case presented herein, two three-dimensional rendering software products coexist without competing, though they present similar characteristics and rely on competitive technological architectures. The market configuration for these two software products thus appears largely determined by socio-technical elements, not just the technical characteristics of the software architecture. The so...

in this paper, the electrical consumption of a research center building is derived of the bills, then with defining of fuzzy bus thermal coefficient objective function for heating, the amount of available heat selling to research center building consumer that is produced by biomass solar hybrid source is calculated. with the capacity determination of biomass solar hybrid source to provide therm...

This paper extends the standard neoclassical model by considering a technology sector through which an economy with limited human capital attempts to catch up with a given “locomotive” pushing exogenously technical progress. In periods of technological stagnation, economies close enough to the frontier may find it optimal to not catch up, which reinforces worldwide technological sclerosis. Unde...