Dynamic Load Sharing of Combined Pile Raft Foundation (CPRF) for Reinforced Concrete Structures

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Soubhagya Karmakar ◽  
Rajiv Ranjan ◽  
Vedula Srinivasa Phanikanth
Keyword(s):  
Clayey Soil ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Load Sharing ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Centrifuge Testing ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Raft Foundation ◽  
Simplifying Assumptions ◽  
Dynamic Load Sharing ◽  
Measured Response

Combined pile raft foundation (CPRF) is one of the emerging concepts for providing a cost-effective and efficient solutions for heavily-loaded structures. However, predicting the behaviour of such foundations, especially the load sharing between raft and pile is a challenge due to its inherent complex interactions. Existing analysis methods are either bound within a range of simplifying assumptions or sometimes computationally demanding. Hence, an attempt has been made to evolve a simple and easily implementable methodology, considering non-linear degrading behaviour of soil in a rational manner. The approach has first been validated with measured response during an experimental centrifuge testing of a CPRF in soft Malaysian kaolin clay and an instrumented bridge (Impulsora) founded in soft clayey soil. Subsequently, a range of comparative parametric evaluation of load sharing and settlement characterstics has been carried out which has indicated the importance of pile layout, length and numbers to arrive at a safe and economic design.

scholarly journals DEFORMATION ANALYSES OF PILED RAFT FOUNDATION IN TERMS OF SETTLEMENT REDUCTION AND LOAD SHARING RATIO

2005 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Toshihiro NODA ◽  
Mutsumi TASHIRO ◽  
Toshihiro TAKAINE ◽  
Akira ASAOKA
Keyword(s):  
Load Sharing ◽  
Piled Raft ◽  
Piled Raft Foundation ◽  
Raft Foundation

Wireless Heartrate Monitoring Along Prioritized Alert Notification Using Mobile Techniques

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-243
Author(s):  
Rajasekaran Rajkumar
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Hospital Database ◽  
Clinical Records ◽  
The Cost ◽  
New System

The increasing number of problems that need to be addressed in the hospital sector calls for innovation in this field. It brings us the need to find cost-effective and memory-efficient solutions to handle the vast data and sector it into essential information to operate on the patient. There used to be many systems to manage clinical records which are fixed at a place. It is quite complicated to get the information and make this data available at a patient's bedside. This leads to a considerable amount of wasted time in moving to those storage PCs and also the cost afforded is comparatively high. A computer system that controls and accomplishes all the data in the hospital database to provide effective healthcare is called hospital information system (HIS). The introduction of HIS made billing and inventor easier for the staff. This paper discusses diverse methods that improve the cost, demands of HIS, and provide techniques to function efficiently using wireless networks. Also, the paper gives a comparative study on different aspects such as cost, quality of service, transportation, and security. A new system is proposed by combining the wireless healthcare system along prioritized alert notification.

scholarly journals Model Testing of Complex Embedded Systems Using EAST-ADL and Energy-Aware Mutations

Designs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Eduard Paul Enoiu ◽  
Cristina Seceleanu
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Model Testing ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Architectural Models ◽  
Architecture Description

Nowadays, embedded systems are increasingly complex, meaning that traditional testing methods are costly to use and infeasible to directly apply due to the complex interactions between hardware and software. Modern embedded systems are also demanded to function based on low-energy computing. Hence, testing the energy usage is increasingly important. Artifacts produced during the development of embedded systems, such as architectural descriptions, are beneficial abstractions of the system’s complex structure and behavior. Electronic Architecture and Software Tools Architecture Description Language (EAST-ADL) is one such example of a domain-specific architectural language targeting the automotive industry. In this paper, we propose a method for testing design models using EAST-ADL architecture mutations. We show how fault-based testing can be used to generate, execute and select tests using energy-aware mutants—syntactic changes in the architectural description, used to mimic naturally occurring energy faults. Our goal is to improve testing of complex embedded systems by moving the testing bulk from the actual systems to models of their behaviors and non-functional requirements. We combine statistical model-checking, increasingly used in quality assurance of embedded systems, with EAST-ADL architectural models and mutation testing to drive the search for faults. We show the results of applying this method on an industrial-sized system developed by Volvo GTT. The results indicate that model testing of EAST-ADL architectural models can reduce testing complexity by bringing early and cost-effective automation.

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