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Nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete structures under seismic excitation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Exploring nonlinear behavior of structures through structural analysis software can be time and computer processing intensive especially with complicated structural models. This paper will explore the nonlinear behavior ...
Efficient, low-distortion switch-mode power amplifier for amplitude modulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Amplitude modulation systems are used in many areas of engineering, especially communication based disciplines. Typical systems have low-level signals which encode the desired information to be transmitted. These low-level ...
Accelerated clustering through locality-sensitive hashing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
We obtain improved running times for two algorithms for clustering data: the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and Lloyd's algorithm. The EM algorithm is a heuristic for finding a mixture of k normal distributions ...
Distributed data as a choice in PetaBricks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Traditionally, programming for large computer systems requires programmers to hand place the data and computation across all system components such as memory, processors, and GPUs. As each system can have sufficiently ...
Influence of soil parameters on the motion of rocking walls
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Introduced as a system in earthquake engineering in 2004 [6], rocking walls are a fairly new system in earthquake engineering. Their performance has been proven, both in research as in practice. However, a few uncertainties ...
Interoperable software for parametric structural analysis and optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The advent of building information modeling in the structural engineering profession has brought forth new challenges to the traditional methods of design and analysis. The need for faster, more robust analyses to mitigate ...
Stability of elastic grid shells
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The elastic grid shell is a solution that combines double curvature and ease of mounting. This structural system, based on the deformation of an initially at grid without shear stiffness was invented more than fifty years ...
Review : integration of EMI technique with global vibration technique
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In the last decade, the development of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been skyrocketing because of the serious consequences that come with structural failure. Traditional damage detection techniques, also known as ...
SIFT feature extraction on a Smartphone GPU using OpenGL ES2.0
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
SIFT describes local features in image used for object recognition in a vast array of application, such as augmented reality, panorama stitching. These applications are becoming very popular on Smartphones but also require ...
Simulation and verification of autonomous route planning behavior
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis presents a new dynamic traffic simulator called DUST, used to investigate new foundational theory for autonomously reconfigurable cyber-physical systems in the presence of unexpected disruptions. We focus on ...