[PDF] Top 20 Strengthening of structures damaged by the Azores earthquake of 1998

... using the Newmark method, and considering the Rayleigh formulation for the viscous-type structural damping, with a damping factor of about ...determine the walls’ stresses and internal ... See full document

... Scouring of shallow foundations caused a number of buildings to ...were damaged by soil failure induced by tsunami inundation and ...fluidization of backfill during tsunami ... See full document

... behaviour of axially loaded reinforced concrete members under biaxial bending moment reversals is generally recognized as a very important topic, for a number of relevant ...On the one hand ... See full document

... covers the seismic behaviour modelling and numerical analysis of two church structures on Pico Island, Azores, affected by the Faial earthquake on July 9, ...1998. ... See full document

... measure of structural robustness is used to characterize the effect of aftershocks on the seismic safety of ...triggered by mainshocks, a structure is said to be more or less ... See full document

... adjacent structures that do not have appropriate distance and hit each other, that is called ...impact. The difference between dynamic properties (mass, hardness and height) of adjacent ... See full document

... calculating the capillary density, detecting the expression of VEGF and HIF- 1a, we found that DFO may stimulate angiogenesis via increasing HIF-1a level, which consequently leads to the ... See full document

... shows the experimental setup used to measure the beam profile of the light emerging from the ...structures. The light of a semiconductor laser at 635 nm collimated ... See full document

... Frustrated by the lack of progress towards the reconstruction of the me- dieval city of l'Aquila after the earthquake of 6th April 2009, the ... See full document

... Summary. The paper contains an assessment of basic effectiveness indicators of wood processing and extraction in a 28-year-old pine stand, after a wide-area wind ...damage. The assessment was ... See full document

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... from the deeper layers (Fig. 8, Table 2). The disks in the lower sliding block formed a disordered pattern because of collision or being collided by the upper slide ...distance ... See full document

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... interception of PAR, as well as photosynthesis process, occurs predominantly in ...relate the evolution of leaf area index (LAI) and PAR interception ...In the case of canola; however, ... See full document

... within the solar activity cycle are communicated to the outer heliosphere as complicated time-variabilities, but repeating its typical form with the activity period of about 11 ...regions, ... See full document

... is the significant rise in the proportion of units of blood screened for HIV, HBV, HCV, and ...in the past four years. As a vital element, the Regional Program for External ... See full document

... reveal the importance of screening all units of blood collected by blood banks for transfusion-transmitted ...in the English-speaking Caribbean, six in Latin America, Canada and ... See full document

... O estudo permite ainda, a partir da análise de clusters, identificar quatro grupos relacionados de forma diferenciada com o planeamento estratégico de marketing, tendo-se associado o p[r] ... See full document

... length of stay has been relatively short, explained mostly by the fact that the predominant tourists were from mainland Portugal, who routinely took regular flights, mostly over the ... See full document