An experiment investigating the elastic local buckling response of trough girders composed of thin profiled steel sheeting has been undertaken Beam tests were performed to promote initial local buckling in a region of constant moment in the elastic range of structural response. The results of the experiments were compared with an elastic complex semi-analytical finite strip method of analysis, ...

The electrical response of molecular chains is dramatically overestimated by local and semilocal density functionals. We show that Kohn-Sham density-functional theory yields accurate linear and nonlinear polarizabilities when the exact exchange energy is employed together with the corresponding exact Kohn-Sham potential upsilonx(r). We further show that approximations to upsilonx(r) that are ve...

We apply the time-dependent local-spin-density approximation as general theory to describe ground states and spin-density oscillations in the linear response regime of two-dimensional nanostructures of arbitrary shape. For this purpose, a frequency analysis of the simulated real-time evolution is performed. The effect on the response of the recently proposed spin-density waves in the ground sta...

Regarding the importance of the prevention of hazards and adverse environmental impacts in industrial and populated areas such as southern parts of Tehran city, the response of impulsive period ground-supported tanks were assessed. Having considered the study area's soil properties, the response of ground-supported tanks was modelled. Regarding the soil properties of southern parts of Tehran, t...

With good time-frequency discrimination ability and flexible time-frequency windows, wavelet transform is now widely used to analysis various signals in time and frequency domain simultaneously. Because of the simple relation between wavelet spectra and local (evolutionary) power spectra of a signal, a new method based on wavelet transform to estimate the local power spectra of earthquake groun...

the destructions caused by many recent earthquakes shows that the subsurface structure directly affects the ground motions. especially in areas with possible seismic hazard expectation, expansion of cities has come up with detailed vulnerability analysis. therefore, site response investigation is a key step in every microzonation study. one of the best approaches for understanding the geologica...

In many studies, the alternative load path method (APM) has been used for progressive collapse analysis. In this method, one or several columns of the building are removed and the building response is investigated. This method ignores the initial local failure cause of building and this can affect the structural response. Investigation of ignoring the initial local failure cause of steel braced...

Background Prior experience and the persisting threat of influenza pandemic indicate the need for global and local preparedness and public health response capacity. The pandemic of 2009 highlighted the importance of such planning and the value of prior efforts at all levels. Our review of the public health response to this pandemic in Pune, India, considers the challenges of integrating global ...