Compressive strength and deformation characteristics of concrete block masonry made with different mortars, blocks and mortar beddings types

Concrete hollow block masonry is widely used in North American and Australasian countries because it enables to accommodate grouting and reinforcement to resist higher axial and lateral actions, where it ultimately facilitates to construct high-rise masonry buildings. Subsequently only certain grades of mortars are recommended for the concrete block masonry in the standards mainly due to durability concerns. However, there is a lack of knowledge on the characteristics of concrete masonry with different grades of mortars and significant variations are found among the design standards. Therefore, in this research, an attempt has been made to investigate the compressive strength and deformation characteristics of concrete block masonry using different mortar grades, mortar bedding types and block types. In total, 40 concrete block masonry prisms were constructed and tested with three different types of mortars, two mortar bedding types and two types of concrete blocks. From the experimental results, the failure modes, compressive strength and stress-strain curves are derived and discussed. The experimental results revealed that the lower grade mortared prisms failed by mortar crushing and block splitting, whereas the other mortared prisms mainly failed by tensile splitting in the blocks. The compressive strength of concrete masonry was not significantly compromised for lower grade mortared prisms in comparison to other mortared prism combinations. The deformations and failure phenomenon of the mortar joints, blocks and prisms were investigated in detail using a non-contact digital image correlation (DIC) method. The experimental results were also verified through the finite element analyses and were compared with the predictions of four different masonry design standards. Discrepancies in the prediction of compressive strengths of concrete block masonry between the design standards were noted.</p

Patient and physician delay in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in Turkey.

AIM: The early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer are important for the prognosis of patients with lung cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate patient and doctor delays in the diagnosis and treatment of NSCLC and the factors affecting these delays. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 1016 patients, including 926 (91.1%) males and 90 (8.9%) females with a mean age of 61.5±10.1 years, were enrolled prospectively in this study between May 2010 and May 2011 from 17 sites in various Turkish provinces. RESULTS: The patient delay was found to be 49.9±96.9 days, doctor delay was found to be 87.7±99.6 days, and total delay was found to be 131.3±135.2 days. The referral delay was found to be 61.6±127.2 days, diagnostic delay was found to be 20.4±44.5 days, and treatment delay was found to be 24.4±54.9 days. When the major factors responsible for these delays were examined, patient delay was found to be more frequent in workers, while referral delay was found to be more frequent in patients living in villages (p<0.05). We determined that referral delay, doctor delay, and total delay increased as the number of doctors who were consulted by patients increased (p<0.05). Additionally, we determined that diagnostic and treatment delays were more frequent at the early tumour stages in NSCLC patients (p<0.05). DISCUSSION: The extended length of patient delay underscores the necessity of educating people about lung cancer. To decrease doctor delay, education is a crucial first step. Additionally, to further reduce the diagnostic and treatment delays of chest specialists, multidisciplinary management and algorithms must be used regularly

Probing anomalous tq and tqg couplings via single top production in association with photon at FCC-hh

Senol, Abdulkadir/0000-0001-8782-4608; Yilmaz, Ali/0000-0001-5963-8306; CAKIR, Orhan/0000-0002-9016-138X; denizli, haluk/0000-0003-1570-0344; Oyulmaz, Kaan Yuksel/0000-0002-5533-9621WOS: 000457233200005We study the anomalous FCNC tq and tqg couplings via ppWb+X signal process including realistic detector effects for both leptonic and hadronic decay channels of the W boson at 100 TeV FCC-hh. The relevant backgrounds are considered in the cut based analysis to obtain not only limits on the anomalous and couplings but also branching ratios of tq and tqg decay channels. We find that the sensitivity to the branching ratio of tq channel is three order better than the available LHC experimental limits, and it is comparable for the branching ratio of the tqg decay channel with an integrated luminosity of 10 ab-1 at 2 sigma significance level.Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK)Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources - Turkey [2018TAEK(CERN)A5.H6.F2-20]; Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University Scientific Research Projects [2018.03.02.1286]This work was supported by Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) under the Grant No. 2018TAEK(CERN)A5.H6.F2-20. We acknowledge exciting discussion within the FCC-hh physics analysis meeting. The K.Y. O., A. S. and H. D. work partially supported by the Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University Scientific Research Projects under the Project No: 2018.03.02.1286