In tall buildings the reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall is one of the predominant structural components used to resist lateral loads induced by earthquakes around the world. Previous research demonstrated that shear walls displayed a sudden loss in lateral capacity due to the wall corner and web crushing in the plastic zone. In addition, it was found that large shear distortions in shear wall...

This paper gives an overview of our work for related entity finding which is proposed in TREC 2010 Entity Track. The goal of the Entity Track is to find the entities relevant to a given query from the web corpus. In this paper, we propose a bipartite graph reinforcement model for entity ranking. As is well known, the entities on the web are embedded not only in the natural language text, but al...

In this paper, the law of radial envelope forming (REF) thin wall cylinder with vertical reinforcements is studied by finite element numerical simulation. First, a model for REF established using Deform-3D software. Then, evolution and distribution strain metal flow velocity during are analyzed, growth reinforcement analyzed in detail. The results show that compression strain, circumferential t...

With the rapid development of web service technology, next generations of web service applications need to be able to predict problems, such as potential degradation scenarios, future erroneous behaviors and deviations from expected behaviors, and move towards resolving those problems not just reactively, but even proactively, i.e., before the problems occur. Service oriented applications are t...

We describe systems that use machine learning methods to retrieve and/or extract textual information from the Web. In particular, we present our Wisconsin Adaptive Web Assistant (WAWA), which constructs a Web agent by accepting user preferences in form of instructions and adapting the agent’s behavior as it encounters new information. Our approach enables WAWA to rapidly build instructable and ...