the main cause of structural damage in buildings subjected to seismic actions is lateral drift. in almost all reinforced concrete (rc) structures, whether designed with walls or frames, it is likely to be the code drift limits that control the design drift. the design drift limits and their contribution to damage may be represented indirectly through the material strain limits. the aim of this ...

1. Overview This paper talks about that monotone circuit is P-Complete. Decision problem that include P-Complete is mapping that classify input with a similar property. Therefore equivalence relation of input value is important for computation. But monotone circuit cannot compute the equivalence relation of the value because monotone circuit can compute only monotone function. Therefore, I make...

The incident angle of ground motion is one of the sources of uncertainty in the seismic response of buildings. Moreover, understanding the structural response to the impose ground motion may cause significant changes in the maximum response of buildings. In order to investigate the effect of the spatial distribution of orthogonal components of earthquake strong motion on the structural response...

We characterize the size of monotone span programs computing certain “structured” boolean functions by the Nullstellensatz degree of a related unsatisfiable Boolean formula. This yields the first exponential lower bounds for monotone span programs over arbitrary fields, the first exponential separations between monotone span programs over fields of different characteristic, and the first expone...

This paper deals with monotone relaxation iterates for solving nonlinear monotone difference schemes of elliptic type. The monotone ω-Jacobi and SUR (Successive Under-Relaxation) methods are constructed. The monotone methods solve only linear discrete systems at each iterative step and converge monotonically to the exact solution of the nonlinear monotone difference schemes. Convergent rates of...

We provide sufficient conditions for a monotone function with finite set of outcomes to be cyclically monotone. Using these conditions, we show that any defined on the domain gross substitutes is The result also extends generalized and complements.

This paper provides an expository introduction to monotone and near-monotone biochemical network structures. Monotone systems respond in a predictable fashion to perturbations, and have very robust dynamical characteristics. This makes them reliable components of more complex networks, and suggests that natural biological systems may have evolved to be, if not monotone, at least close to monoto...