this study aims to develop seismic fragility curves for a typical pile-supported wharf. fragility curve is one of the popular tools in seismic performance evaluation of a structure. the software flac2d was used to simulate the seismic performance of the wharf structure. using eight time history records, occurred in past, as seismic loading, incremental dynamic analysis (ida) was applied for sei...

Due to several uncertainties  which  affect structural responses of Reinforced concrete (RC) frames,  it is sensibly required  to  apply  a vulnerability analysis tool such as fragility curve. To  construct an analytical fragility curve, the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method has been extensively used as an applicable seismic analysis too...

Soft storey building is popular due to the functional and aesthetic purpose, despite its weakness in resisting seismic excitation. Nonlinear Static (Pushover) Analysis (POA) is a time saving and simple assessment procedure prosposed in Eurocode 8 (EC8). However, its reliability in designing structure still remains a question. At the first stage, seismic performance of several building models us...

LABORATORY DATA biochemical markers metabolic defect chromosomal assignment chromosome X localization chromosome Xq localization chromosome Xq27 localization chromosomal disorders chromosomal fragility, instability, breakage chromosome breakage syndromes foetal-amniotic biochemical data hypoxanthine-guanine phpsphoribosyltransferase defect (foetal) gene, structural-functional anomalies gene ana...

Mechanisms by which microtubule plus ends interact with regions of cell-cell contact during tissue development and morphogenesis are not fully understood. We characterize a previously unreported interaction between the microtubule binding protein end-binding 1 (EB1) and the desmosomal protein desmoplakin (DP), and demonstrate that DP-EB1 interactions enable DP to modify microtubule organization...

UNLABELLED Introduction. Patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis (HD) undergo many dermatological signs and symptoms during treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of skin manifestations among the patients on maintenance HD in the HD center of Boo Ali-Sina Hospital (Qazvin, Iran) and compare them with the general population. METHODS From June 2012...

The fragility of Chinese banking system is of a complex mixed-type. It is a special mixture of the fragility that comes from the friction between a general fragility and the system of the systematic transition. This paper measures the degree and distribution of the fragility of Chinese banking system form 1985 to 2006 by macroscopic economic rules and makes an empirical analysis of the factors ...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between respiratory tuberculosis (RT) and incident fragility fracture and osteoporosis/fragility fracture in the general population is not well determined; therefore, we conducted a nationwide cohort study to investigate this relationship. METHODS We used the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan to identify 6612 newly diagnosed patients with RT (RT ...