Model of Tolerance of Intercultural Communication

In this paper a model of tolerance of intercultural communication as a methodology of solving sharp confessional, ethnic and natural conflicts of modernity is built. It's shown that the culture is a system of mental dominants at the level of being; the systems of mental dominants are qualitatively original because the cultures are unique and must be equal; the system of mental dominants and mental nucleus of culture determines intensity to maintenance of own identity; perception of cultural and civilizational phenomena of the other culture is limited by this intensity. So, the space of cultural tolerance opening the possibilities for prosperity and development of each culture and complementary interaction of cultures are possible on condition that each of them awares their own mental originality, status of mental nucleus as a limit of intercultural mutual influence and realizes own individuality and equality of all cultures

Commentary and Worked Examples to EN 1993-1-5 "Plated Structural Elements"

EN 1993-Eurocode 3 – Part 1-5 gives unified European design rules for plated structural elements made of steel which may be subject to shear lag and local and/or global plate buckling. As these rules may be novel to many designers who so far have worked with traditional national rules this report with a commentary and worked examples gives information and guidance on the “what”, the “why” and the “how” of the new European rules so that their implementation and use may be facilitated. The report may in particular be used to confirm choices of „Nationally Determined Parameters“ and as a basis for the further harmonisation and future development of the rules.JRC.G.5-European laboratory for structural assessmen

Are Designers Sufficiently Instructed to Make the Most Rewarding Use of the Latest Steel Codes?

peer reviewedSeries of comments stressing some points of Eurocode 3 which must be duly mastered to enable more economical design of steel structures

A simple approach for the design of steel and composite sway building frames

peer reviewedThe Merchant-Rankine approach is a practical design procedure which allows to predict the ultimate resistance of sway steel building frames with rigid structural joints. In the present paper the background and the traditional field of application of the Merchant-Rankine formula are first described. Its extension to the design of steel frames with so-called semi-rigid joints is then presented and justified. Finally its application to steel-concrete sway composite building frames is investigated and first conclusions of this work are drawn

Contribution to the design of sway composite frames

peer reviewedThis paper presents numerical and analytical studies carried out at Liège University, as part of a European research project, with the objective to investigate the in-plane behaviour of composite sway frames under static loading

Ultimate shear strength of plate girders fitted with closed section stiffeners.

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The concept of numerical admittance

The reconstruction of a discretized random distributed loading, as the wind pressure from some measurement taps, is usually performed by simple or advanced interpolation between the nodes of the mesh. This results in an overestimation of the coherence of the loading, especially in the high frequency range where the loading typically shows less coherence. An expensive way to circumvent this issue is to make the mesh denser. This is however not always possible, in particular in experimental testing where there is usually a limited number of available measurement spots. The concept of numerical admittance is introduced in order to rectify this inaccurate estimation of the resulting loading in the high-frequency range. It is actually introduced as a legitimate way of reducing the loading in accordance with the looseness of the discretisation mesh. Another major advantage of the concept is the opportunity to determine adequately the mesh size independently from the correlation length scale

Simple design method for sway frames with semi-rigid connections.

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Investigation by testing of the structural response of semi-rigid joints

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