Minbar is one of the most important additional architectural elements of any mosque. Its importance in emphasizing the Qiblah direction as well as the position of Imam in order to deliver sermon (khutba) leads to the flourish and interference of a fairly large number of handicrafts like wooden decorations and related features specific to the mosque architecture like tile works and stucco design...

Ultrasonic propagation velocity across wood fiber direction was measured in wooden bridges in order to investigate the possibility of nondestructive deterioration diagnosis of wooden bridges. The measurements were carried out for three different types of wooden bridges. The periodical measurement was also made for one of them to investigate its secular change. The results were : (1) The histogr...

This paper teases the wooden architectures at Yimianpo in the period of Chinese Eastern Railway, analyzes the construction of the wooden architectures, classifies them according to the wooden structure system, and uses relevant protection and repair technologies for research according to their characteristics, in order to find reasonable protection and repair technologies for the wooden archite...

Abstract: Changes in the U.S. hours of service policy in January 2004 argue for an assessment of the safety implications of the new policy. Time-dependent logistic regression and case-control sampling are applied to derive a sample of 231 crashes and 462 non-crashes during 2004 for three national-scale trucking companies. The analysis focuses on changes in crash risk associated with driving up ...

We report a patient with a wooden foreign body granuloma in the intervertebral disc space being symptomatic 17 years after a paraspinal penetrant trauma. According to the our result of the search for wooden foreign body granulomas, this is the first case suffered from a wooden foreign body granuloma in the intervertebral disc space that reported in the literature. In this report, we emphasized ...

In this research, the structural behavior of timber and concrete sleepers in a standard railway turnout is evaluated, in the case of raising speed. In approaching this evaluation, current practices in the structural analysis of sleepers are surveyed and then, the sensitivity analysis with ABAQUS software is made based on selected criteria (bending and shear stresses as well as contact pressure)...

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