... effective length factor = unbraced length of column, in = radius of gyration of steel shape in plane of buckling, LoadandResistanceFactorDesign (LRFD) ofComposite Columns To qualify as a composite ... set of tables is presented in Part to assist the designer in the rapid selection of the most economical section to resist required values of factored loadand moment PART 1: USE ANDDESIGNOFCOMPOSITE ... ANDDESIGNOFCOMPOSITE COLUMNS Composite Frame Construction Practical Uses ofComposite Columns Advantages, Disadvantages, and Limitations Practical Design Considerations Fire Resistance...
... This probability is most often measured in terms of the reliability index, β In the development of a LRFD code, a target value of β is set, anddesign factors for loadandresistance are selected ... as the Basis for Design Codes 1.3.3.1 Working Stress Design 1.3.3.2 LoadandResistanceFactorDesign 1.3.3.3 Advantages ofLRFD 10 1.3.4 Current Design Guidelines ... Statistical data characterizing the loadandresistance variables 14 Methods for defining nominal or design values ofloadandresistance Definition of applicable limit states and models for structural...
... specifications, and technical booklets Best known and most widely used are the Manuals of Steel Construction, LRFD (Load andResistanceFactor Design) and ASD (Allowable Stress Design) , which ... activities of the Institute make possible the publishing of this Second Edition of the LoadandResistanceFactorDesign Manual of Steel Construction The Institute’s objectives are to improve and advance ... LoadandResistanceFactorDesignof Single-Angle Members, December 1, 1993 Seismic Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings, June 15, 1992 Code of Standard Practice for Steel Buildings and Bridges,...
... hydraulic forces (Handley and Davy, 2002) In their study, Handley and Davy (2002) suggested that the size of substrate particles and closeness of packing were likely to affect the rooting of aquatic ... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 Increase in number of rhizome nodes compactness of the substrate brought about by the combined effects of the high density of ACS and ... sea water - 92 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 (SEALIFE, 30‰) at 20oC with a light regime of 12 h light and 12 h dark and light intensity of 250-280 μmol photon...
... etanercept, one with auranofin, one with azathioprin, one with anakinra, one with a combination of sulfasalazine and methotrexate, and two with a combination of infliximal and methotrexate Seven ... read and approved the final manuscript JR participated in the designof the study, helped with the statistical analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved of the ... WB: Increased expression of Fcgamma receptors II and III on macrophages of rheumatoid arthritis patients results in higher production of tumor necrosis factor alpha and matrix metalloproteinase...
... MEMORIES OF MARTYRDOM AND LANDSCAPES OF TERROR: FEAR ANDRESISTANCE AMONG THE MALAYS OF SOUTHERN THAILAND MUHAMMAD ARAFAT BIN MOHAMAD (B.A. (Hons.), NUS) ... southern Thailand, their social environment is full of symbols of danger; burnt buildings, shootings, and bombings; soldiers on beat, soldier-manned roadblocks, and even the sight of a convoy of military ... 227) 22 Rumors, anonymity of perpetrators, perceived random targeting of victims, and some dodgy policies of the government create and sustain people’s fears Rumors One of the dilemmas that quickly...
... 60 m) bridges, and steel box girders with orthotropic decks are often used for longer-span bridges This chapter will focus on straight steel–concrete composite box -girder bridges Steel box girders ... be designed for not less than the larger of the following: • The average of the flexure moment, the shear, or axial force due to the factored loading and corresponding factored resistanceof member, ... References AASHTO, AASHTO LRFDBridgeDesign Specifications, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Of cials, Washington, D.C., 1994 AASHTO, AASHTO LRFDBridgeDesign Specifications,...
... social networks Composite hubs Figure of Analysis the essentiality of hubs andcomposite hubs Analysis of the essentiality of hubs andcomposite hubs (a) Comparison of the percentages of essential ... cell uses transcription factors (TFs) to regulate and coordinate the expression of thousands of genes in response to internal and external stimuli [8,19-21] Through examining composite motifs, we ... significance of the differences between the observed overlaps and the random expectation The random expectation was calculated as described in Materials and methods P values in this figure and all...
... Failure of Specimen H1 and H2 Figure 3.10(b) View after Failure of Tension Bolt of Specimen H1 and H2 viii Figure 3.11 Moment-Rotation Curve of H1 and H2 Figure 3.12 View after Failure of H3 and ... Failure of H9 Figure 3.24 Moment-Rotation Curve of H9 Figure 3.25 Premature Failure of H10 Figure 3.26 Comparison of Load- Displacement Curve of H2,H4 and H6 Figure 3.27 Comparison of Load- Displacement ... Moment Resistanceof Haunch Section Mhu = Moment capacity ofcomposite haunch connection Mn = Negative moment Mnc = Negative moment resistanceof the composite beam Mp = Design moment resistance...
... E.coli and Klebsiella spp (rho:-0.395, p=0.332 and rho:-0.627, p=0.037, respectively) Inspite of increased consumption of piperacillin-tazobactam after the NARP, the resistance rates of E.coli and ... policies the utilisation of many of the restricted antibiotics was decreased and the trend ofresistance rates became downwards after implementation of NARP The amount of money saved increased ... different parts of world [21, 22] The shift toward unrestricted antibiotics changes the antimicrobial resistance patterns of certain pathogens Since parenteral forms of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin...
... operation and performance of turbines, and can cause dangerous hydropneumatic effects, such as noise and vibrations 1.4 Draft tube and tailrace Another challenge is to understand the hydrodynamic of ... (BEP) Figure Change of the runner speed and the frequency of vortex at the draft tube of a Francis turbine One of the most important concerns on turbine runner and blades design is to guarantee ... longitudinal section of a ball valve Graph Ball valve opening angle of 45º - velocity (v/vo) (a) and pressure (p/po) profiles Graph shows the layout of the velocity and pressure profiles along stretches...
... working medium of the refrigerator The frequency of the thermal phonons of the hot and cold reservoirs are ωh and ωc , respectively, and the creation and annihilation operators of ˆ+ ˆ− ˆ+ ˆ− ... of harmonic and spin-1/2 quantum refrigeration cycles, many authors studied the performance of quantum refrigerator using ideal quantum Bose and Fermi gases [36-38] Bartana and Kosloff [39] and ... for given temperatures of hot and cold reservoirs and other parameters As the result of effects of internal friction and heat leakage, the maximum dimensionless cooling load ( R Rmax,µ =0,Ce =...
... ischemic and still viable region of the brain called the ‘penumbra’ [14] Therefore, degree of angiogenesis appears to correlate with rate of recovery from stroke A variety of angiogenic factors ... the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, a grant from the program ‘Research for the Future’ of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the program ... toxicity, and patterns of recurrence Neurology 70, 779–787 Zuniga RM, Torcuator R, Jain R, Anderson J, Doyle T, Ellika S, Schultz L & Mikkelsen T (2009) Efficacy, safety and patterns of response and...
... hydrogen and hydrophobic contacts between TC and the ligand ensured a very strong retention of Cbl Additionally, a His residue substituted for water of H2OCbl, which added to protection of the ligand ... Competitive binding of CBC and Cbl, calculation of k+ We have tested the application of the uorescent analogue CBC as a tool for investigation of the binding kinetics of nonuorescent ligands Cyano-cobalamin ... presentation of IF interaction with the ligands and the receptor Both CBC and Cbl (lled circles) bind preferentially to IF20 domain, thus inducing assembly of IF20S and IF30 units into a composite...
... the threshold of information overload and allow users to increase their level of co.-.unication activity and the amount of information with which they can deal meaningfully The goal of being able ... the style of writing in this medium of co~mluicaticn differs from other uses of the written or spoken version of natural language First of all, there is a strong tendency to be concise and to outline ... "collective intelligence" and one hopes that the apprcpriate designof a communication structure will allow a group of humans to pool their intelligence into something greater than any of its par~s If...
... cofactor is likely to affect the kinetics of catalysis of either the reductive or oxidative half-reaction, or both Such an effect could be either due to altered redox power of the cofactor and ... head domain of up to 4.3 A, andof exposed parts of the Rossmann domain of up to 2.7 A, are observed For the rest of the homotetrameric assembly, only smaller backbone displacements of up to ... Data processing and evaluation were performed using the origin 7.5 software Crystallization, data collection and renement of the E542K and L537G mutants Crystals of the E542K, L537G and E542K L537W...
... American debt crises of the 1980s, the Mexican crisis of the first half of the 1990s and the East Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s On average, more than 85 percent of the fall in output ... sector and the flows of labor and capital across sectors Section performs some robustness checks and Section concludes Benjamin and Meza (2009) analyze the real effects of Korea’s 1997 sudden stop and ... share in labor and capital While the pace of the decline in the share of labor slowed, and the share of capital increased after about two years, no large and immediate reallocation of resources...
... MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS OFCOMPOSITE MATERIALS MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS OFCOMPOSITE MATERIALS Valery V Vasiliev Professor of Aerospace Composite Structures Director of School of Mechanics andDesign ... mechanics ofcomposite materials, design, analysis, fabrication, and application ofcomposite structures According to the list of books on composites presented in Mechanics of Fibrous Composites ... which usually cover not only mechanics of materials but also include analysis ofcomposite beams, plates and shells, joints, and elements ofdesignofcomposite structures that, being also important,...
... amount of transcription factors used in (A), with or without lg of IRF-1 or of an IRF3/7 mix and 0.75 lg of CBP; 4X, 2X and 1X correspond to decrease of the amount used in 8X by factors of 2, and ... and C2-regions of p300, and to the N- and C2-regions of CBP Thus, the bulk of the interaction between NF-jB and p300/CBP is mediated by the p65 subunit through the N- and C-terminal regions of ... production of IFN and targeting of IRF-3 [45] or IRF-7 [46], the existence of some redundancy in the function of IRF-3 and IRF-7 might help minimize the influence of this later class of virulence factors...