Last September the CIA confirmed the existence of a 20-year, $20 million research program in "remote viewing," a subvariety of extrasensory perception. On October 29, a Jack Anderson column added more details, and Ted Koppel of ABC's Nightline weighed in with a program on November 28, by which time many newspapers and wire services had picked up the story. By December, a number of pundits began...

This study aims to investigate the impact of soil-structure interaction (SSI) on seismic behavior reinforced concrete buildings. An advanced numerical model for SSI was developed and verified using ABAQUS software. The response a 12-story building four types soil (rock, dense soil, stiff soft soil) examined Normalized Response Spectra based Moroccan paraseismic regulation RPS 2011. global later...

In this study, through series of shaking table tests and statistical analysis, the efficiency of Uniform Tuned Liquid Column Damper (UTLCD) in structures resting on loose soils, considering soil-structure interaction was investigated. The soil beneath the structure is loose sandy soil. The Laminar Shear Box (LSB) as a soil container was adopted and the scaled form of the prototype structure nam...

The construction methods currently adopted for multi-story concrete buildings resorts the strategy to cast columns and slabs with high normal compressive strength, respectively. intersection region affects load transfer performance of columns, causing expressive confinement stress in interior columns. However, when is only provided by two sides, as corner it not enough increase lateral stress. ...

To study the design method of sectional area and initial tension of wire rope brace of the prestressed braced steel moment frame structure system, theoretical analysis of this structure system is conducted in this paper. The lateral stiffness formula is derived. It reveals the lateral stiffness is related to the lateral stiffness of bare steel moment frame, story height, the distance between co...