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Showing 1 to 20 of 553 for “"Monotonic"”.
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Analyticity as Expressive of Monotonic Material Inference
… substitutable for 'x' as materially monotonic. This interpretation demands that only explicating inference expressions are appropriately considered analytic: a demand defended in this paper. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that this interpretation is free from the objections levied at …
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Maximum entropy on-policy reinforcement learning with monotonic policy improvement
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2023-07-21 at 16:57.
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Behavior of pressure confined concrete in monotonic and cyclic loadings
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1987.
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Monotonic and Cyclic Performance of Long Shear Walls With Openings
… five wall configurations was tested using a: 1) monotonic displacement pattern and 2) sequential phased displacement pattern. A better understanding of the effect of monotonic and cyclic loading (and the relationship between the two loading types) on ultimate load capacity and stiffness for a …
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Monotonic and Cyclic Performance of Structurally Insulated Panel Shear Walls
… It is important to understand and quantify the monotonic and cyclic response of shear walls. In this study, twenty-three full-scale shear walls were tested under monotonic loading and sequential phased displacement cyclic loading. Four different wall configurations were examined. Monotonic and …
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Performance Characterization of Ceramic Matrix Composites through Uniaxial Monotonic Tensile Testing
… process refinement and component design. Monotonic, uniaxial tensile testing of an uncoated carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide ceramic at room temperature was performed following ASTM standard C1275 to measure ultimate tensile strength and elastic modulus. Equipment verification was …
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Observer Design for Non-Monotonic Nonlinear Systems and Interesting Contemporary Applications
… dissertation analyzes observer design for non-monotonic nonlinear systems and develops globally stable observer design techniques for such systems. Non-monotonic nonlinear systems are frequently encountered in many practical applications, including vehicle tracking, magnetic position …
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Stress-strain behaviour of granular soils under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions
… stress-strain behaviour of granular soils under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions and small lateral strains was studied in this work. A simple cubic triaxial apparatus (SCTA), originally developed at Leeds University for monotonic stress-strain studies of sand under controlled and small …
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Behavior of Deep Reinforced Concrete Beams under Monotonic and Reversed Cyclic Load
… of lightly-reinforced non-slender beams under monotonic and reversed cyclic loads, as particular consideration is given to the load-bearing mechanisms which occur in moderately-deep beams. The choice of this topic was motivated in part by verification studies which show that the current code …
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Monotonic and cyclic short-term performance of nailed and bolted timber connections
… to failure and the results were compared to a monotonic control set of specimens to determine if any reduction in connection capacity or ductility had occurred as a result of the cyclic loading. From the load-controlled cyclic testing, it was found that previous cyclic loading at load levels as …
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Predictions of Monotonic Tensile Stress-Strain Curves of Short Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
A method for predicting the non-linear monotonic tensile stress-strain curves of short fiber reinforced polymer composites with different fiber orientation distributions is developed.
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Monotonic and Cyclic Simulation of Screw-Fastened Connections for Cold-Formed Steel Framing
… thesis introduces an approach for modeling the monotonic and cyclic response of cold-formed steel framing screw-fastened connections in commercial finite element programs. The model proposed and verified herein lays the groundwork for seismic modeling of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing including …
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Monotonic and Cyclic Performance of Light-Frame Shear Walls with Various Sheathing Materials
… of light-frame shear walls subjected to monotonic and cyclic loading is the focus of this thesis. The sheathing materials investigated are oriented strandboard (OSB), hardboard, fiberboard, and gypsum wallboard. The objectives of this study were to (1) obtain and compare performance …
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Non-monotonic Lyapunov functions for stability of nonlinear and switched systems : theory and computation
… of a scalar function of the state that decreases monotonically along trajectories, still serves as the primary tool for establishing stability of nonlinear systems. Since the main challenge in stability analysis based on Lyapunov theory is always to nd a suitable Lyapunov function, weakening the …
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Exploration of Wood DCB Specimens Using Southern Yellow Pine for Monotonic and Cyclic Loading
… to failure than the previous crack length. Monotonically extending the crack length far from the fatigued region created a fresh crack that did not show the toughened behavior. But toughening did resume with subsequent crack lengths.
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