Displacement-based methods are recognized as appropriate approaches to reach the goals of performance-based seismic design method. In the direct displacement-based seismic design method, the seismic yield displacement is applied as one of the important design parameters. In this paper, a new relation is suggested to determine the lateral displacement pattern at first yielding of eccentrically b...

abstract the decisions and personal preferences of the designer are vital for all aspects and stages of the design. to elaborate, the designer has the central role in creation, development, detailing and construction of the built forms. also, the scientific/engineering evaluations of the design models are carried out under the directions and decisions of the designer. the paper explores the con...

Elevated water tanks supported by the reinforced concrete (RC) Staging are classified as inverted pendulum structures. These are considered as structures of high post-earthquake importance and should remain functional after the seismic events. National codes of various countries recommend Force-Based Design (FBD) procedure for water tank staging, which does not ensure nonlinear performance leve...

The increasing integration of system-chips is leading to a widening gap in the size and complexity of the chip-level design and the design capabilities. A number of advances in high-level modeling and validation have been proposed over the past decade in an attempt to bridge the gap in design productivity. Prominent among these are advances in Abstraction and Reuse and structured design methods...

Recently, the transaction-level modeling is widely referred to in system level design literature. However, the transactionlevel models(TLMs) are not well defined and the usages of TLM in the existing design approaches, namely system synthesis, platform-based design, and component-based design, are not systematically developed. In order to efficiently use TLMs in above design approaches, this re...

Component-based design is a well known engineering design method that uses prefabricated components with known properties to design larger systems. We propose a new language called CFSMcharts for component-based design of microprocessor based systems. In this domain, there exists a vast library of programmable devices, which may be used during design synthesis for cheap bulk production of these...

System-level design techniques promise a way to lessen the productivity gap between fabrication and design. Unfortunately, these techniques have been slow to catch on, in part because they do little to help designers optimize hardware. This paper presents a brief summary of three system-level design techniques, Platform-based design, SystemC, and Chip-in-a-day, in order to propose that more sys...

This paper discusses practical development of business rules (BR) systems. The main conceptual foundations of BR are discussed, and selected tools for BR design and implementation are described. An application of a rule-based systems design tool (Mirella Designer) for BR design is proposed. Business rules visual representation using XTT in Mirella Designer is both transparent and compact. The u...

Low-energy protocol processing is a crucial issue in nextgeneration wireless systems. In modern wireless system design, this problem is tightly coupled with the signal processing needs. Fierce market competition and inventive wireless applications are imposing stricter design requirements in energy consumption, cost, size, and flexibility. To deal with these unique constraints, we incorporate t...