The present study deals with the finite element modelling of control RC slabs and strengthened slabs with the help of ANSYS. ANSYS is software that is based on FE method in which modelling of RC structures is done. In this study, a control slab was modelled and the results were analysed and then strengthened slabs were modelled and analysed. The results of the control and strengthened slabs wer...

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) material is currently being produced in different configurations and widely used to strengthen and retrofit concrete structures and bridges. It is also possible to apply other strengthening methods without changing the appearance or the dimensions of the structure. Near Surface Mounted (NSM) is a recent strengthening method using CFRP bars (rods or laminate strips...

Constitutive mutations were sought and found in the N-terminal arm of the Escherichia coli regulatory protein of the arabinose operon, AraC protein. A new mutation, N16D, was of particular interest. Asn-16 is not seen in the crystal structure of the AraC dimerization domain determined in the absence of arabinose, because the N-terminal arm 18 residues are disordered, but in the presence of arab...

It has been known for more than half a century that crystals can be made stronger by introducing defects into them, i.e., by strain-hardening. As the number of defects increases, their movement and multiplication is impeded, thus strengthening the material. In the present work we show hardening by dislocation starvation, a fundamentally different strengthening mechanism based on the elimination...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 2Department of Construction and Information Engineering, Guangxi Modern Vocational Technology College, Hechi, Guangxi 547000, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract We derive a strengthenment of a Hardy-Hilbert type inequality by using the Euler-Maclaurin expansion for the zeta function and estimating the weight...

The present study examined functional connectivity (FC) between functional MRI (fMRI) signals of the primary motor cortex (M1) and each of the three subcortical neural structures, cerebellum (CB), basal ganglia (BG), and thalamus (TL), during muscle fatigue using the quantile regression technique. Understanding activation relation between the subcortical structures and the M1 during prolonged m...

This paper presents an analytical approach to describe the behavior and mode of failure of infill masonry structures strengthened with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) materials. The approach is used to simulate the response of strengthened infill masonry walls under the effect of out-of-plane uniformly distributed pressure simulating wind pressure. The approach includes a finite element analysis...