Fragility curves are very useful in quantifying the physical and economic damage of buildings that have undergone an earthquake. This paper presents the development of analytical fragility curves representative of mid-rise residential structures built with reinforced concrete, taking into account the specific structural characteristics of Algerian buildings. The derivation of the analytical fra...

Heat capacity curves as functions of temperature for classical atomic clusters bound by pairwise Lennard-Jones potentials were calculated for aggregate sizes 4 ≤ N ≤ 24 using Monte Carlo methods. J-walking (or jump-walking) was used to overcome convergence difficulties due to quasi-ergodicity in the solid-liquid transition region. The heat capacity curves were found to differ markedly and nonmo...

The maximum breathing capacity (M.B.C.) of an individual is defined as the greatest amount of air he can breathe in one minute. The test in which it is measured was introduced by Hermannsen (1933) as a test of the mechanical efficiency of the respiratory apparatus. Since then it has been widely accepted as fulfilling that purpose and has been quoted (Gray, Barnum, Matheson, and Spies, 1950) as ...

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the seismic performance of a reinforced concrete (RC) structural system exposed high temperatures. For purpose, RC structure with 4 floors and spacings was designed. First all, column beam elements were modeled by using ANSYS software then, thermal analysis performed assuming that they standard fire curve obtain temperature distributions in cross-sectio...

The objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for RC frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed N2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. A preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

In this paper, we apply performance evaluation and capacity allocation models to support decisions in the design (or redesign) and planning of a job-shop queueing network of a metallurgical plant. Approximate parametric decomposition methods are used to evaluate system performance measures, such as the expected work-in-process (WIP) and production leadtimes. Based on these methods, optimization...

Six men handling barley were followed up over two working days and their flow volume curves were measured every two hours. All experienced falls in ventilatory capacity of up to 800 ml with changes in the shape of the flow volume curve in five men. Five volunteers not previously exposed to barley dust sat in a silo for two hours. Decreases in ventilatory capacity ranging from 200 ml to 800 ml w...

The sorption of thorium and uranium ions by functionalized SBA–15 mesoporous silica materials with Schiff base ligating groups N–propylsalicylaldimine (SBA/SA) and ethylenediaminepropylesalicylaldimine (SBA/EnSA) from aqueous solution was investigated in fixed-bed column method. The TEMPeffect of pH, sample solution volume, and the column design parameters such as sample and eluent flow rat...