This paper examines the effectiveness of using carbon fabric-reinforced matrix (C-FRM) composites to improve shear response reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams. Ten RC beams were tested. Test variables included presence internal steel stirrups, number C-FRM layers, angle inclination second layer C-FRM, and type matrix. In absence minimum use one with cementitious geopolymeric matrices resulted ...

This paper explains the history, the idea as well as usages and problems of traditional IP multicast. Furthermore, in this paper I discuss the very recent idea of IP multicast, FRM (Free Riding Multicast), which has been suggested in 2006.

Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) efficiently reduce total shrinkage and cracking susceptibility of fibre reinforced mortars (FRM). This paper discusses the effects SAPs on microstructure mechanical properties FRM containing fly ash (FA) ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) during a period 180 days. Three types cement including CEM I, II/B-V III/A three SAP with different chemical compositi...

The strongest point about damage identification based on the dynamic measurements, is ability perform structural health evaluation globally. Researchers in last few years payed more attention to indicators modal analysis using either frequencies, mode shapes, or Frequency Response Functions (FRFs). This paper presents a new application of cross-ply (0°/90°/0°) laminated composite plate Force Re...

In this paper, we present a novel and efficient method for the design of a sharp, two dimensional (2D) wideband, circularly symmetric, FIR filter. First of all, a sharp one dimensional (1D) infinite precision FIR filter is designed using the Frequency Response Masking (FRM) technique. This filter is converted into a multiplier-less filter by representing it in the Canonic Signed Digit (CSD) spa...

Y. Xiao,1,* Y. Su,2 H.-F. Li,1,3 C. M. N. Kumar,1 R. Mittal,2,4 J. Persson,1 A. Senyshyn,5,6 K. Gross,1 and Th. Brueckel1,2 1Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich, Germany 2Juelich Centre for Neutron Science, IFF, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Outstation at FRM II, Lichtenbergstraße 1, D-85747 Garching, Germany 3Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and...

Within Flood Risk Management (FRM) decision making, there is a growing interest in participatory approaches to engage and integrate stakeholder expertise. Decision support tools are becoming common features in the FRM ‘toolkit’, yet there is a limited application of participatory methodologies in the construction of such tools. This paper reports on completed FRMRC research (Flood Risk Manageme...

The presence of noise and absence of contrast in electron micrographs lead to a reduced resolution of the final 3D reconstruction, due to the inherent limitations of single-particle image alignment. The fast rotational matching (FRM) algorithm was introduced recently for an accurate alignment of 2D images under such challenging conditions. Here, we implemented this algorithm for the first time ...

One of the efficient and most popular technique for designing sharp 1-D linear phase FIR filters is the Frequency Response Masking (FRM) approach. It is an effective method for the design of high speed , low power, sharp FIR digital filters with a small number of non-zero coefficients. Very recently, a modified McClellan transformation(T1 and T2) is proposed (JieCherng Liu and Yang-Lung Tai, 20...

Two authors of this paper have shown that by using the frequency-response masking (FRM) technique for designing finite-impulse response (FIR) filters building a two-channel filterbank (FB) with rational sampling factors, the implementation complexity can be reduced compared with the use of direct-form filters for this purpose. In this paper, for designing FBs, a modified version of the FRM tech...