Progressive collapse is defined as the spread of an initial damage from one member to another, leading to extensive partial or total collapse of the structure. In this research, the potential of progressive collapse due to a sudden removal of vertical load-bearing elements in reinforced concrete buildings structures with different floor plans such as geometrical regular and irregular floor plan...

The design codes of building are mainly related to the strength of the building and there are no specific codes for the design of building with waffle floors for vibration sensitive equipment. The finite element model, ANSYS, is capable to consider the effects of floor thickness, the size of the bays and stiffness of the columns for analyzing the vibration of the waffle floors and vibration tra...

This work concerns neutron doses associated with the use of a Siemens Primus M5497 electron accelerator, which is operated in photon mode at 15 MV. The conditions offer situation within fraction bremsstrahlung emission energies exceed photoneutron threshold. For different field sizes, an investigation has been made dose equivalent values various measurement locations, including: (i) At treatmen...

In the article the following concepts were introduced: the set of integers (Z) and its elements (integers), congruences (i1 ≡ i2(mod i3)), the ceiling and floor functors (dxe and bxc), also the fraction part of a real number (frac), the integer division (÷) and remainder of integer division (mod). The following schemes were also included: the separation scheme (SepInt), the schemes of integer i...

We consider communication over binary memoryless symmetric channels using random elements from irregular low density parity check code (LDPC) ensembles, and belief propagation (BP) decoding. Under the assumption that the corresponding Tanner graph includes a non-vanishing fraction of degree 2 variable nodes, we determine the large blocklength behavior of the bit error rate for noise levels belo...

We have investigated depletion effects among dispersed, submicron, polystyrene spheres of two different sizes near a faceted silicon substrate. The larger spheres were confined to the corners where two silicon facets intersected (as where a wall meets a floor). The entropic confinement potential increased by 1.2kBT when the small-sphere volume fraction was increased by 14% to 0.37. Large-sphere...

Background: Normal vaginal delivery causes sexual dysfunction as well as urinary and fecal incontinence, which can threaten a person's quality of life. It is believed that pelvic floor muscle strength is the most important factor in improving sexual satisfaction and function and urinary control. Therefore, This study aimed to investigate the role of physiotherapy and pelvic floor exercises in r...