Base isolation has been used in many classes of civil engineering structures to reduce the damage from earthquake attacks. The main idea behind this innovative technique is to shift the fundamental natural frequency of ...

The problem of channel estimation for spatially correlated fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels is considered. Based on the channel's second order statistic, the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) channel ...

This paper presents the performance of a semi-active stiffness damper in a Five-Storey Model under four benchmark earthquakes through simulation work. The system consists of a hydraulic damper that is connected to the ...

Tuned liquid damper (TLD) is a special type of auxiliary damping device which relies on the sloshing of a liquid (water) in a container to counteract the forces acting on the structure. In this paper a new kind ofTLD with ...

A study of color image segmentation with its dependence on color space representation is presented. Segmentation has been one of the basic procedures in image processing. Because of the three-fold increase in color signal ...

This paper reports on the study of winding asymmetries in small synchronous generators. These types of generator are commonly used in diesel generator or back-up systems and are usually no more than a few or few tens of ...

In this study, a ten storey moment resisting building frame, representing the conventional type of regular mid-rise building frames, resting on shallow foundation, is selected in conjunction with a clayey soil, representing ...

In this paper attempts have been made to find the effects of sequential loadings on the ultimate uplift capacity of a typical horizontal plate anchor loaded vertically. A series of finite element analyses was performed ...

Dynamic response of structures sitting on soft soils is influenced by the soil properties, and the response is significantly different to the fixed base condition owing to the interaction between the ground and the structure, ...

By using Semi-Definite Programming (SDP) as a tool, a new deign for Two-Dimensional (2-D) Diamond-Shaped (DS) filters is developed. Surprisingly, the diamond shape of the filter is exactly expressed by using simple 2-D ...