experiments were carried out to observe the influence of loading type on concrete beam specimens. beam specimens made of similar concrete mixture with the same geometry were tested under three point static loading and low velocity drop weight impact loading. load – displacement behavior, absorbed energy dissipation capacity, stiffnesses, failure modes of beam specimens were obtained and discuss...

The work presented herein sets out to investigate experimentally, via drop-weight testing, the behavior of slender reinforced concrete (RC) beam specimens under impact loading. During each specimen is established through combined use conventional instrumentation and a high-speed video camera. primary objective this reasons that trigger observed shift in (compared from static tests) with increas...

background drop-out (discontinuing treatment after the first visit) is one of the main causes of failure in obesity treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the pattern of drop-out in overweight or obese outpatients in ahvaz, iran. material and methods a total of 575 overweight or obese individuals (female: 469, male: 106) aged 18 – 65 attending an outpatient dietician office for the...

BACKGROUND Although rare, the relationship between peroneal nerve palsy and weight loss has been well documented over the last decades. Of the 160 patients operated for persisting foot drop in our institution, weight loss was considered to be the major contributing factor for 78 patients (43.5%). METHODS We compared patients who developed a foot drop after bariatric surgery with a control gro...

The optimal perceptual decision making strategy for weighting serially presented information depends on the degree of sample dependence. Uniform weighting produces optimal estimates from independent samples, but increases in autocorrelation should be matched by increasing and symmetric overweighting of early and late samples in order to maintain optimal performance. In the current experiment, p...