Structural damage can be controlled in performance based seismic design (PBSD) according to the requirement under a certain hazard level. During strong ground motion (GM) such buildings suffer minor to major damages depending on the shaking level of GM. The available damage assessment methods are complex, tedious and time-consuming procedure. In the present study, a simplified empirical model h...

It is conventional to assume that the role of soil-structure interaction (SSI) beneficial buildings under seismic loading. However, lessons learned from recent earthquakes revealed this assumption could be misleading, and SSI may have different effects on response structural systems. In study, an enhanced numerical model developed verified using ABAQUS software assess impact high-rise frame-cor...

Sandeep Purao • Veda C. Storey • Taedong Han School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania 16802 Department of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Box 4015, Atlanta, Georgia 30302 Department of Management Information Systems, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,...

Following the Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm shown in Figure 1, service providers register services and corresponding descriptions in registries. Service consumers can then find services in the registry, bind to the services that best fit their needs, and finally execute them. Web services (Weerawarana, Curbera, Leymann, Storey, & Ferguson, 2005) are one widely adopted realization...

The widespread brittle failure of welded beam-to-column connections caused by the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe earthquakes highlighted the need for retrofitting measures effective in reducing the strength demand imposed on connections under cyclic loading. Researchers presented the reduced beam section (RBS) as a viable option to create a weak zone away from the connection, aiding the preventi...

Departing from the hypothesis that R&D within ICT plays an essential role in the transformation of the construction sector from a traditional to an industrialised process, a joint Swedish and French project has been carried out (to be completed in April 2007) to assess the short and medium term possibilities to improve efficiency and quality in multi-storey house-building. This paper describes ...

Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. Br Med J 2010;340:c332. 8. Yusuf S, Wittes J, Probstfield J, Tyroler HA. Analysis and interpretation of treatment effects in subgroups of patients in randomized trials. JAMA 1991;266:93–98. 9. Sun X, Briel M, Buss JW, You JJ, Akl EA, Mejza F, Bala MM, Bassler D, Mertz D, Diaz-Granados N, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Srinatha...

A 132.70-m-high tower (above foundation) has been successfully completed at Tenerife Island. The foundation of the tower, a 2-mthick reinforced concrete slab, is supported by jointed, vesicular and weathered basalt, and scoria. A three-dimensional, elastic finite element program has permitted to calculate the displacements of the tower and the stresses in the slab. The installation of rod exten...

In the present study, friction damper, an energy dissipating passive device is explored to reduce response of open ground storey building under lateral loading due earthquake. This damper installed in selected bays so that reduced. The masonry infill wall macro-modeled form compression only diagonal members. Three different types bracing system were along with Pall – single tension brace cross ...

background: a field study on the transfer of primordial radionuclides 238u, 232th, 40k and fallout radionuclides 210po in different plant species in tropical forest of western ghats environment is presented. material and methods: the top storey, second storey, shrubs and epiphytic plant species were chosen and concentration of these radionuclides in plant and soil were measured by employing gam...