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Çelik bağlantı sistemleri için yeni hibrit bir sönümleyici geliştirilmesi.
No full textA new hybrid energy dissipation device named as “Backbone Damper” is introduced. The device assembly is composed of two main components: a viscoelastic (VE) unit and an internal displacement amplification mechanism. Energy dissipation is generated through deformations of the VE unit and friction within the mechanism. The mechanism is designed to remain elastic. The effectiveness of the device is verified through numerical simulations of tests of full-size prototypes. A comprehensive three-dimensional solid model of the device is developed to produce the parts of the assembly. The manufactured prototypes are tested under reversed sinusoidal cycles of displacement inputs over a range of frequencies and displacements. The test results evidence a promising device with significant energy dissipation capacity and stable behavior. Prototype tests are used to monitor the device response under different dynamic motions to quantify the design parameters of expected prevalent effect on the Backbone damper performance. vi The device demonstrates a stable hysteretic performance, satisfactory energy dissipation capacity and no damage after 100 cycles of reversed loading. Neither strength nor stiffness degradation are observed in the device performance. Numerical simulations are performed to monitor some of the parameters that are not measured during tests. To this aim, detailed three-dimensional numerical models of a prototype are developed in ABAQUS finite element analysis software. The numerical model is verified against the test results of the device. The test results are also studied to analyze the device behavior and provide estimates for the upper and lower bound values of device modelling parameters. Finally, the response of five buildings equipped with Backbone dampers under an ensemble of strong ground motions is analyzed. A significant improvement of structural response is recorded. The final aim and contribution of the research can be divided in three modules: (1) introduction of a new patented passive energy dissipation device; (2) assessment of its performance and (3) setting design parameters to control its response.Ph.D. - Doctoral Progra
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Merkezleme Özelliği Olan Yenilikçi Bir Sönüm Cihazının Deneysel İncelenmesi
No full textPatent başvurusu yapılmış olan merkezleme özelliğine sahip yenilikçi bir sönüm cihazı deneysel olarak incelenecektir. Geliştirilen sönümleyici cihaz birden fazla yararlı ve yenilikçi özelliğe sahiptir: içerdiği büyütücü mekanizma ile artan verim, merkezleme özelliği, sönüm ve rijitlik arasındaki hassas dengenin pratik bir yöntemle ayarlanabilmesi (dolayısıyla artan verimlilik), maliyet verimliliği, uygulama kolaylığı. Bu özellikleriyle, geliştirilen cihaz mevcut sönümleyici teknolojilerinin bir adım önüne geçerek yenilikçi bir çözüm ve pratik bir uygulama sunmaktadır. Proje kapsamında, geliştirilen bu cihazın özelliklerinin ve sağladığı yararın deneysel çalışmalar sonucunda belirlenmesi öngörülmktedir. Deneyler için Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi İnşaat Mühendisliği Bölümü Yapı Mekaniği Laboratuvarındaki mevcut düzenek ve teçhizatlar kullanılacaktır
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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