strengthening of bridge girders using cfrp laminates

... aluminum alloy and CFRP laminates As seen in the comparison, the out -of- plane tensile strength obtained from unidirectional tensile tests in the out -of- plane direction of CFRP laminates is drastically ... that of aluminum alloy, rendering low-velocity impact a threat to CFRP laminates Figure Comparisons of tensile strength obtained from unidirectional tensile tests of aluminum alloy and CFRP laminates ... the purpose of CAI strength prediction vii Overview of Research Figure Overview of research viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Overview of research viii Figure Impact energy of dropped tools...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:04

... writing of the thesis i Acknowledgments Lastly, I offer my regards and blessings to all of those who supported me in any respect during the completion of the project ii Table of Contents Table of ... capacity of the strengthening system, but were largely independent of the loading direction vii List of Figures List of Figures Fig 1-1 : Repointing steps in masonry Fig 1-2: Confinement of ... characteristics of AR-fibreglass TRM with addition of short fibers (Hinzen and Brameshuber 2007) 22 Fig 2-11: Crack pattern of tensile specimen of AR-fibreglass TRM with addition of short fibers...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... the Experimental Animals Laboratory of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine The purpose of using rats is easy availability, safety, and the high ratio of repeating the experiment Design ... Adhesions were scored as shown below: A) Length of adhesion: The length of adhesion before the first thoracotomy incision (mm) B) Scoring of the intensity of adhesion between the parietal pleura and ... intensities of adhesion among Groups A, B and C Number of rats Group A (n=4) Group B (n=8) Ethics The study was approved by a local ethics board of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... effect of dark reaction (the effect of adsorption of TCE on the TiO2 powder), as well as the photolysis of TCE by solar radiation only in the absence of TiO2 Figure showed the degradation ratio of ... instead of simply transferring them to another medium (Ahmed et al., 1984; Glaze et al., 1993) The purpose of our study is to investigate the feasibility of the solar detoxification using TiO2 ... carried out by injecting a sampling of TCE into the slurry of TiO2 to given a final solution of 50 ppm TCE The run in the dark condition (TiO2 alone) showed about 20% of TCE degradation after hours,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 3, Issue 6, 2012, pp.871-880 polyethylene and most of them is in the form of containers and packaging materials The extent of conversion of plastics ... An interesting method of polymers utilization is cracking, similar to the visbreaking of vacuum residue [8] or catalytic cracking of vacuum gas oil (VGO) in the presence of various zeolites containing ... Application of new fuel produced from waste plastics and heavy oil to diesel engine Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2001; 67:2618-24 [2] M Mani, G Nagarajan, Influence of injection...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... inclusion of PCMs depend on the melting temperature of the PCM, the type of PCM, the percentage of PCM used inside the conventional material, the climate, design and orientation of construction of the ... Professor at the Department of Architecture, Thiagarajar college of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India Her field of research is Thermal Performance Evaluation of residential buildings of ... inches of annual precipitation” and either has 3,000 or more hours of 67˚F temperature or 1,500 or more hours of 73 ˚F temperature during the warmest six months of the year In this type of climate,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... quarter of the resonance period of L and C of the MERS, vmers, becomes sinusoidal, consequently the terminal voltage,vterm, also becomes sinusoidal Fig shows simulated waveforms of 'dc-offset ... Applications of voltage control of induction motor were investigated Stability problem because of self-excitation of series com- 924 Authorized licensed use limited to: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ... configurations of half -bridge types of MERS (a)Vertical type (b)Horizontal type Vterm o 20 10 20 30 40 20 30 40 10 -Vners 0, -10- -20 o time (ms) 0 a Fig power Fig i Simulated waveforms of current...

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2013, 16:10

... of the real part of G(jω) versus the imaginary part of G(jω) Pole of a Transfer Function: The root (solution) of the (characteristic) equation obtained by setting the denominator polynomial of ... system’s equations of motion are rewritten as a system of first-order differential equations, each of these differential equations consists of the time derivative of the one of the state variables ... logarithm of the magnitude of the transfer function is plotted versus the logarithm of ω, the frequency The phase, φ, of the transfer function is separately plotted versus the logarithm of the frequency...

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 18:43

... point of view, and the others often encounter convergence problems Moreover, only the mean value and the moments (often the variance only) are known, and since the density of probability of the ... convergence of the iterative scheme The smaller the spectral radius of |[G]|, the faster the convergence of the algorithm and the smaller the overestimation of the solution 4.2 TEST OF THE NEW ... Validated solutions of linear equations Technical Report 620, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 22 J Rohn and G Rex, feb 1996 Enclosing solutions of linear equations...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2014, 21:45

... mind ■ Software Engineering Development of large-scale software is a very complex task typically carried out by a team of software development professionals Although there are a number of different ... phase of software development in which the classes responsibility of testing (one of the most overlooked phases of defined in the design phase are development—just consider some of the software ... computer to other tasks Often software development environments are grouped under the category of systems software 14 ■ Software Development Environments There is one kind of program that doesn’t...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 06:20

... Pro/MECHANICA, assign aluminum as the wing material, and fix the largest end of cross section Run the modal analysis, and obtain modes of vibration ...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 05:20

... advantage of p53 mutation analysis, and a unique feature of this database, is the availability of the residual activity of the majority of p53 missense mutants The biological activity of mutant ... in 85% of cases and Table Effect of cut-off value on the prediction accuracy The prediction accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, number of mutants classified and MCC values on training data using ... have been developed recently [4–7] The major drawback of these analyses is the lack of information regarding the activity or loss of activity of the target protein, as only a few variants (< 100)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the of cial views of the ONC References Hal Daume III 2007 Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of ... Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL’07, pages 760–767 Anders Søgaard 2011 Semi-supervised condensed nearest neighbor for part -of- speech tagging ... Yoram Singer 2003 Feature-Rich Part-ofSpeech Tagging with a Cyclic Dependency Network In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... absence of S-S bonds and the low number of conserved residues in this part of the sequence Only later did the large N-terminal unit become involved in the binding of Cbl [13,14] Assembly of two ... 38873898 ê 2005 FEBS S N Fedosov et al Mapping of transcobalamin using antibodies Fig Binding of the antibodies to CNBr cleavage peptides of TCy CNBr peptides of TCy were fractionated by HPLC and subjected ... and 3891 Mapping of transcobalamin using antibodies S N Fedosov et al Fig Binding of antibodies to the proteolytic fragments of human TC from yeast and plants (a) Fragments of TCy (Left) Coomassie...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... the sum of the scores of all possible trees to counting the number of spanning trees in a graph, it can be shown that Zx is the determinant of the Kirchoff matrix K, which is constructed using ... → i (i.e yi = k), the score of any edge k → i such that k = k is set to The determinant of the resulting modified Kirchoff matrix Kk→i is then the sum of the scores of all trees that include the ... Kirchoff matrix Kk→i that requires the presence of that edge Then, the method of Smith and Smith (2007) can be used to compute the probability of every possible edge conditioned on the presence of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 07:20

... and covers 80% of their lists (our system does not find some of the lowprobability range verbs of Lapata and Lascarides) We compared the rankings of the two implementations in terms of Pearson correlation ... see(7)) was stored This means that sense of watch, sense of view and sense of see would be correct interpretations of the metonymic expression The obtained number of synsets ranges from 14 (try shampoo) ... defaults in the form of the qualia structure of the noun The qualia structure of a noun specifies the following aspects of its meaning: The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... algorithm to perform WSD on a set of polysemous English words They report an accuracy of 74% One of the most active researchers in identifying cognates between pairs of languages is Kondrak (2001; ... bootstrapping is a good combination for disambiguation They were using a set of pairs of Chinese and English words The two senses of the words were highly distinctive: e.g bass as fish or music; ... http://french.about.com/library/fauxamis/blfauxam_a.htm senses of cognate and false-friends for a wider variety of senses This task was done using a bilingual dictionary2 Table The ten pairs of partial cognates French par-...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... relations Over the set of semantic relations defined by Nastase and Szpakowicz (2003), they achieve an accuracy of 45.7% for the task of assigning one of semantic relations to each of the 600 modifier-noun ... motivation in this paper was twofold Firstly, we wanted to compare the performance of different machine learning algorithms on the task of mapping from a vector of web frequencies of paraphrases containing ... accuracy of 45.7%, where we achieve a maximum accuracy of 38.1% on this dataset using a nearest neighbor algorithm However, their technique uses the cosine of the angle between the vectors of web...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... effectiveness of using the longest period M and the shortest period N of learning data to distribution of P & R We notice that, when the period of learning data is longer (M) the number of words increases ... versus degree of scattering because of the arrangement of frequencies of words in rectangular coordinates as shown in Fig In such case, there will be some problems in the point of reliability ... period than that of straight line (2) The value of the slice of regression straight line (1) is also higher than that of regression straight line (2) So, we can decide that the words of the regression...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... bottom of the ring to maintain a minimum distance of cm between the bottom of the ultrasound chamber and the proximal portion of the scrotum Determining the true effective radiating area (ERA) of ... plane coincident with the bottom surface of the ultrasound chamber with the center of rotation offset mm from the center of the transducer face The movement of the transducer mimics its use as a ... bottom of this chamber was a single layer of acoustically transparent latex A single layer of acoustically transparent polypropylene mesh was held in place approximately cm above the bottom of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20