the rapidly developing systematic connections between FPT and useful heuristic algorithms | a new and exciting bridge between the theory of computing and computing in practice. The organizers of the seminar strongly believe that knowledge of parameterized complexity techniques and results belongs

the electroencephalogram (EEG) during MRI experiments, small tubular salt bridges (0.8 mm i.d.) were implanted in small holes through the skull that were located inside the area encircled by the surface coil used for NMR signal detection. Care was taken not to break the dura. Magnetic Resonance Microimaging. Gradient

This paper summarizes the various methods that have been used to excite bridge structures during dynamic testing. The excitation methods fall into the general categories of ambient excitation methods and measuredinput excitation methods. During ambient excitation the input to the bridge

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amplitude but with a time delay that is arbitrary. When the time delay is a ‘worst case ’ , pedestrians act as a source of negative damping. This theory supports the adoption of a non-dimensional number which measures the susceptibility of a bridge to pedestrian excitation. Although currently

The unexpected pedestrian-excited vibration of London’s Millennium Bridge was caused by its low damping and high live load. Several other examples of bridges which vibrate significantly when carrying a crowd of people have since come to light. This paper reviews results for the dynamic loading

During strong ground motion, it is expected that bridge structures are subjected to excitation that is non-uniform along their longitudinal axis in terms of amplitude, frequency content and arrival time, a fact primarily attributed to the wave arrival delay, their loss of coherency and the effect

The self-excited loads due to the response of a suspension bridge are critical to the stability of the motion. Although buffeting loads due to the random components of the wind enter into the mean square of the response, the response is dominated by the inherent instability of the system near

Abstract. In this paper, a numerical approach to the reliability analysis of prestressed reinforced concrete long span bridges is presented. A bridge is modeled by nite element software and the analysis is performed in time domain by considering the bridge material nonlinearity. The considered

Eurocode 8 Pt 2 recommends that bridges longer than 400m, or bridges built on significantly varying ground types, should be assessed under the effects of multiple support excitation (MSE). However, previous analytical work has suggested that for shorter bridges MSE can also have an effect