The aim of this paper is to present results of testing a full scale reinforced concrete T connection by static loading. The connection is a T connection representing a beam-column connection. The beam and column had a square cross section with a 300 mm dimension. The height of the column was 2.9 m and the clear beam length was 1.4 m. The connection was initially tested to failure. Galvanised st...

Astronauts need a strong yet portable home design to live on Mars. This paper proposes using an inflatable with carbon fiber internal truss structure covered by thick silica aerogel tarp house the astronauts. The is inflatable, i.e., bar cylinder that contains central cord, and therefore, it has variable stiffness in tension compression where depends pressure of bar. Thus, we introduced alpha r...

Anew set-up is proposed to perform high strain rate tension experiments on sheet metal using a compression Hopkinson bar system on the input side.With the help of a custommade load inversion device, the compression loading pulse is converted into tensile loading of the specimen boundary. A tensile output bar is used to measure the tensile force acting on the specimen boundaries. A high speed ca...

Tension stiffening is a characteristic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams which is directly affected by the bond-slip property of steel bar and concrete interfaces. A beam strengthened with a near-surface mounted (NSM) technique would be even more affected by tension stiffening, as the NSM reinforcement also possess a bond-slip property. Yet assessing how much the tension stiffening of ...

We study colored Higgsino-mediated proton decay (dimension-five decay) in a model based on the flipped $SU(5)$ GUT. In model, GUT-breaking ${\bf10}$, ${\bf \overline{10}}$ fields have GUT-scale mass term and gain VEVs through higher-dimensional operators, which induces an effective between color triplets 5}$, \bar{5}}$ Higgs that is not much smaller than GUT scale. This structure gives rise to ...

BACKGROUND Elevated pressure, elevated oxygen tension (DOT) and elevated carbon dioxide tension (DCT) are readily encountered at the bottom of large industrial bioreactors and during bioprocesses where pressure is applied for enhancing the oxygen transfer. Yet information about their effect on bacteria and on the gene expression thereof is scarce. To shed light on the cellular functions affecte...