Browsing by Subject "Buildings"
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Analysis of expired air of fasting male monks at Mount Athos
(2006)Expired air chemical analysis is investigated as a search and locate method for the early detection of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings after an earthquake. Fasting individuals were examined as a ...
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Assessing the effect of inherent nonlinearities in the analysis and design of a low-rise base isolated steel building
(2013)Seismic isolation is an effective method for the protection of buildings and their contents during strong earthquakes. This research work aims to assess the appropriateness of the linear and nonlinear models that can be ...
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Breaking the walls: Scene partitioning and portal creation
(IEEE Computer Society, 2003)In this paper, we revisit the cells-and-portals visibility methods, originally developed for the special case of architectural interiors. We define an effectiveness measure for a cells-and-portals partitioning, and introduce ...
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Discriminant Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds data related to a new location method of entrapped people in collapsed buildings of an earthquake
(2006)Discriminant Analysis is used as a part of a research, which aims at using expired air analysis for the early location of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings in an earthquake. This work focuses on the ...
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An efficient methodology for simulating earthquake-induced 3D pounding of buildings
(2014)The current paper presents an efficient methodology for numerically simulating in three dimensions adjacent buildings that may experience pounding during strong earthquakes. In particular, a new approach to the numerical ...
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Indoor radon (222Rn) concentration measurements in Cyprus using high-sensitivity portable detectors
(2003)Using high-sensitivity radon (222Rn) portable detectors (passive electronic devices of the type RADIM3), the airborne 222Rn concentration in the interior of various Cypriot buildings and dwellings was measured. For each ...
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A nonlinear impact model for simulating the use of rubber shock absorbers for mitigating the effects of structural pounding during earthquakes
(2013)SUMMARY During strong earthquakes, structural poundings may occur between adjacent buildings because of the limited separation distance and the deformations of their stories. A potential mitigation measure for this problem ...
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Simulation of the earthquake-induced pounding of seismically isolated buildings
(2008)Seismic isolation can significantly reduce the induced seismic loads to a relatively stiff building by inserting flexibility at its base to avoid resonance with the predominant frequencies of common earthquakes. Sometimes ...
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Simulation of the response of ancient columns under harmonic and earthquake excitations
(2008)In this paper, the seismic behavior of ancient monumental structures with monolithic or multi-drum classical columns is investigated. In particular, the Discrete Element Methods (DEM) are utilized in the study of ancient ...