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Path-dependent three-dimensional constitutive laws of reinforced concrete -formulation and experimental verifications-

  • Maekawa, Koichi;Irawan, Paulus;Okamura, Hajime
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.743-754
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    • 1997
  • A three-dimensional constitutive modeling for reinforced concrete is presented for finite element nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete. The targets of interest to the authors are columns confined by lateral steel hoops, RC thin shells subjected to combined in-plane and out-of-plane actions and massive structures of three-dimensional (3D) extent in shear. The elasto-plastic and continuum fracture law is applied to pre-cracked solid concrete. For post cracking formulation, fixed multi-directional smeared crack model is adopted for RC domains of 3D geometry subjected to monotonic and reversed cyclic actions. The authors propose a new scheme of decomposing stress strain fields into sub-planes on which 2D constitutive laws can be applied. The proposed model for 3D reinforced concrete is experimentally verified in both member and structural levels under cyclic actions.

Experimental Study on the Stability of Dredged Soil Bed under Cyclic Wave Actions (파랑작용에 의한 준설토 지반의 안정성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kang, Yoon-Koo
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4 s.71
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2006
  • Detailed investigations were carried out on the stability of the dredged soil bed against wave actions, aimedat establishing the design method of artificial tidal flats using dredged soil. The soil was dredged at Nagoya port, Japan, and has a mean grain size of 0.013mm. Basic features of artificial dredged soil bed against wave actions were explained from a series of model experiments in a wave flume. The two types of section shapes were employed; one is a horizontal bed and the other is a sloped one. Changes of the bed profile, shear strength, grain size distribution and water content, according to the wave actions, were measured in detail. The cumulative effect of the wave actions, over about one week, was investigated. A dredged soil bed moves withthe wave actions with relatively small wave height. It should be especially. noted that the clay component is dissolved and flown out, away from the surface layer, and consequently the surface layer hardens, as if it is covered with sand. Wren the wave height is gradually increased, the bed is not liquefied and the shear strength of the dredged bed is increased by a wave-induced dissipation of pore pressures in the bed and a decrease of clay component by the wave-induced leakage.

Equivalence of Cyclic p-squared Actions on Handlebodies

  • Prince-Lubawy, Jesse
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.58 no.3
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    • pp.573-581
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    • 2018
  • In this paper we consider all orientation-preserving ${\mathbb{Z}}_{p^2}$-actions on 3-dimensional handlebodies $V_g$ of genus g > 0 for p an odd prime. To do so, we examine particular graphs of groups (${\Gamma}(v)$, G(v)) in canonical form for some 5-tuple v = (r, s, t, m, n) with r + s + t + m > 0. These graphs of groups correspond to the handlebody orbifolds V (${\Gamma}(v)$, G(v)) that are homeomorphic to the quotient spaces $V_g/{\mathbb{Z}}_{p^2}$ of genus less than or equal to g. This algebraic characterization is used to enumerate the total number of ${\mathbb{Z}}_{p^2}$-actions on such handlebodies, up to equivalence.

Modeling of non-seismically detailed columns subjected to reversed cyclic loadings

  • Tran, Cao Thanh Ngoc
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.163-178
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    • 2012
  • A strut-and-tie model is introduced in this paper to predict the ultimate shear strength of non-seismically detailed columns. The validity and applicability of the proposed strut-and-tie model are evaluated by comparison with available experimental data. The model was developed based on visible crack patterns observed on the test specimens. The concrete contribution is integrated into the strut-and-tie model through a concept of equivalent transverse reinforcement. To further validate the model a full-scale non-seismically detailed reinforced concrete column was tested to investigate its seismic behavior. The specimen was tested under the combination of a constant axial load, $0.30f_c{^{\prime}}A_g$ and quasi-static cyclic loadings simulating earthquake actions. Quasi-static cyclic loadings simulating earthquake actions were applied to the specimen until it could not sustain the applied axial load. The analytical results reveal that the strut-and-tie method is capable of modeling to a satisfactory accuracy the ultimate shear strength of non-seismically detailed columns subjected to reserved cyclic loadings.

FREE CYCLIC ACTIONS OF THE 3-DIMENSIONAL NILMANIFOLD

  • Shin, Joonkook;Goo, Daehwan;Park, Eunmi
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2001
  • We shall deal with ten cases out of 15 distinct almost Bieberbach groups up to Seifert local invariant. In those cases we will show that if G is a finite abelian group acting freely on the standard nilmanifold, then G is cyclic, up to topological conjugacy.

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Human Action Recognition Based on 3D Human Modeling and Cyclic HMMs

  • Ke, Shian-Ru;Thuc, Hoang Le Uyen;Hwang, Jenq-Neng;Yoo, Jang-Hee;Choi, Kyoung-Ho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.662-672
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    • 2014
  • Human action recognition is used in areas such as surveillance, entertainment, and healthcare. This paper proposes a system to recognize both single and continuous human actions from monocular video sequences, based on 3D human modeling and cyclic hidden Markov models (CHMMs). First, for each frame in a monocular video sequence, the 3D coordinates of joints belonging to a human object, through actions of multiple cycles, are extracted using 3D human modeling techniques. The 3D coordinates are then converted into a set of geometrical relational features (GRFs) for dimensionality reduction and discrimination increase. For further dimensionality reduction, k-means clustering is applied to the GRFs to generate clustered feature vectors. These vectors are used to train CHMMs separately for different types of actions, based on the Baum-Welch re-estimation algorithm. For recognition of continuous actions that are concatenated from several distinct types of actions, a designed graphical model is used to systematically concatenate different separately trained CHMMs. The experimental results show the effective performance of our proposed system in both single and continuous action recognition problems.

Equivalence of ℤ4-actions on Handlebodies of Genus g

  • Prince-Lubawy, Jesse
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.56 no.2
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    • pp.577-582
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    • 2016
  • In this paper we consider all orientation-preserving ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$-actions on 3-dimensional handlebodies $V_g$ of genus g > 0. We study the graph of groups (${\Gamma}(v)$, G(v)), which determines a handlebody orbifold $V({\Gamma}(v),G(v)){\simeq}V_g/{\mathbb{Z}}_4$. This algebraic characterization is used to enumerate the total number of ${\mathbb{Z}}_4$ group actions on such handlebodies, up to equivalence.

A CYCLIC GROUP ACTION ON THE NILMANIFOLD

  • Shin, Joonkook;Kim, Jong-Il
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.71-79
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    • 2001
  • We study only free actions of finite abelian groups G on the 3-dimensional nilmanifold, up to topological conjugacy. we shall deal with only one out of 15 distinct almost Bieberbach groups up to Seifert local invariant.

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