Deployable tension strut structures concept, structural behaviour and implementation

... frequencies and mode shapes ……………… …………… 99 5.5 Effects of pre-tensioning on structural behaviour of tension- strut structures 105 5.5.1 Effects of pre-tensioning on existing tension- strut structures ... engineering, and architectural aesthetics In this thesis, Deployable Tension- Strut Structures (DTSS) is proposed to inherit the advantages of both tension- strut...

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... standing cable systems Since in recent years, some deployable cable strut systems based on free standing cable strut systems have been proposed and studied, free standing cable strut systems can ... or not, cable strut systems can be broadly classified into two categories: tension cable strut systems and free standing cable strut systems Each cate...

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... deposit, a thorough chemical and structural analysis at the nanoscale has been performed by means of EELS and HRTEM Together with the chemical analysis of the inner part of each deposit, spatially ... quantification of the relative amounts of each element, with a collection angle of 24 mrad and a convergence angle of 7.5 mrad Both types of experiments had an ac...

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... state DMS = Deployable membrane structures DCSMS = Deployable Cable-Strut Membrane Structures DSTMS = Deployable Strut-Tension Membrane Structures DTMS = Deployable Tensegrity Membrane Structures ... (DSTMS) and Butterfly-wing structures, which exploit the advantages of both membrane and deployable structures Structural morphology of the proposed deployable...

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... Pleistocene humans + ++ Fruit 106 Neanderthals and Modern Humans This immediately suggests a difference in habitat use between Moderns and Neanderthals There is a range of habitats utilised by Moderns ... family and kinship ties would fit the Neanderthal model and thus advocates a preModern evolution The different lifestyles of Neanderthals and Moderns and the manne...

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... recipient‟s name such as Dear Mss Marry, Dear Mr William,… 23 CHAPTER 2: A STUDY ON WRITTEN STRUCTURES, PERSONAL PRONOUN, DECISION AND ATTITUDE EXPRESSIONS IN COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE A, A study on written ... of Commercial Correspondence as mentioned above What is focused on this study is that written structures, personal pronoun, decisi...

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... beliefs, and values about HIV and AIDS and about HIVrelated practices and behaviours (KAP) Sexual behaviour Drug and alcohol use Exposure to HIV behavioural-change communication Social norms and values ... about HIV transmission by MARPs, South Africa 2002, 2005 and 2008 57 Table 3.31: Reach of HIV and AIDS communication by age, South Africa 2005 and 200...

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... RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR AND OWNERSHIP IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY: THE SPANISH EVIDENCE Abstract: This paper analyses the determinants of risk-taking in the Spanish financial intermediaries ... or Anderson and Fraser (2000) analyse the link between managerial ownership and risk-taking Demsetz and Strahan (1997) analyse the link between size and bank r...

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... “Multiplier analysis of the effect of monetary policy on money supply ) The supply of money – bank behaviour and the implications for monetary analysis See Brunner, K and Meltzer, A., Money Supply , ... on the traditional “originate -and- hold” model of banking, underlining the importance of the money and credit nexus for gauging the...

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... C, Nardone AM, Columbaro M, Scarano G, Mattioli E, Sabatelli P, et al (2005) Alterations of nuclear envelope and chromatin organization in mandibuloacral dysplasia, a rare form of laminopathy ... mutations in lamin A, we have also observed major changes in chromosome positioning, away from the nuclear periphery, however, these cells appear to have A- type lamins as part of the...

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... that of C jejuni In summary, we have presented the complete structures of the LOS and capsule polysaccharide of the genome sequenced strain C jejuni NCTC 11168 The outer core LOS of NCTC 11168 ... L-glycero-D-mannoheptopyranose in the LOS core and 6-O-Me-Hep in the capsule polysaccharide in this study We are currently characterizing the he...

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... ortholog of HRPC2 (91% amino acid identity) Shinmyo et al [64] have studied the promoter activity and wound-induction of HRPC and -E types, and of AtPCa and AtPEa Most remarkably, C2, and only C2, ... (2001) Differential activity and structure of highly similar peroxidases Spectroscopic, crystallographic, and enzymatic analyses of lignifying Arabidopsis thaliana p...

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... of Mathematics, 166 (2007), 77–93 Projective structures with degenerate holonomy and the Bers density conjecture By K Bromberg* Abstract We prove the Bers density conjecture for singly degenerate ... of the first two behaviors Understanding such structures is a motivating problem in hyperbolic 3-manifolds and Kleinian groups Bers made the following conj...

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