Many existing reinforced concrete structures were constructed with substandard characteristics. Low quality concrete, poor transverse reinforcement details and insufficient flexural strength are among the most common deficiencies. While substandard structures are in need of retrofitting, particularly in seismic areas, problems such as high costs and disturbance to occupants are major obstacles ...

Recent advances in software testing introduced parameterized unit tests (PUT), which accept parameters, unlike conventional unit tests (CUT), which do not accept parameters. PUTs are more beneficial than CUTs with regards to fault-detection capability, since PUTs help describe the behaviors of methods under test for all test arguments. In general, existing applications often include manually wr...

How can we take householders from being disengaged passive energy consumers towards being highly motivated retrofitting energy saving masters? In this paper the ”Power law of engagement model for energy saving” is introduced, which breaks down the process of engaging householders into 8 defined stages. The model is based on the householder’s level of engagement and commitment, but applies Fogg’...

Sustainable HCI has seen a large growth in the amount of research taking place in the field. However, are we taking the most effective route to generating sustainable sustainability? In the Sustainable HCI community, a large focus of the research has been on persuasive psychological techniques to change individuals’ behaviours to be sustainable. Nevertheless, individual behaviour change has lim...

Component & connector architecture description languages (C&C ADLs) provide hierarchical decomposition of system functionality into components and their interaction. Most ADLs fix interaction configurations at design time while some express dynamic reconfiguration of components to adapt to runtime changes. Implementing dynamic reconfiguration in a static C&C ADL by encoding it into component be...

This paper presents work on retrofitting of high-tech systems (HTS) in land-based aquaculture system for improving production efficiency. The objective is to develop architecture for an automated system for aquaculture farming. We call this development an automated expert system architecture (AESA). The article has been organized into four parts. First, it reviews the background and business op...

One of the challenges of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking and mediation is generating a μ term consistent with the requirements of electro-weak symmetry breaking. The most common approach to the problem is to generate the μ term through a SUSY breaking F-term. Often these models produce unacceptably large Bμ terms as a result. We will present an alternate approach, where the μ term is generated di...

The restoration of strength and stiffness of damaged reinforced concrete beams with deficient reinforcements, through retrofitting, was experimentally and numerically studied. Retrofitting is carried out by wrapping glass fiber strips using cement-based composite binders. Six beams of size 1500mm (length) x100mm (width) x 150mm (depth) have been tested in four-point bending. Three beams are use...

ABSTRACT: The absence of explicit guidelines for the rehabilitation of existing pole structures was the motivation to investigate the effectiveness of steel jacketing for the retrofitting of self-supporting steel and reinforced concrete telecommunication poles. The present study describes a numerical simulation of preand post-retrofitted conditions of the pole structures subjected to seismic ha...

Adaptation of evidence-based interventions upon implementation into new practice settings is universal, yet poorly understood. During a cross-site evaluation of the implementation of a proven intervention for pediatric asthma care coordination into 4 resource-challenged settings, we conducted in-depth interviews with site representatives, who reported how and why they modified intervention comp...