Dam-break flow may cause severe damages on land and population locateddownstream due to flush flooding. In addition to the complexity inherent in dam break flow,existence of buildings changes the rapidly varying flow pattern ...

The events of September 11 – 2001 introduced to the world new challenges including challenges to our educational system regarding the pedagogical communication and the advent of the new era called “information apartheid”. ...

The concept of inner product lays an important role in functional analysis and in its applications. Starting from its axiomatic, many researches have made various modifications passing in its generalization, such as ...

Lately, energy efficency in architecture and urbanism has played a crucial role. Wind and facade exposure to sun, being important elements of energy efficency particularly in the sense of energy renewability, might produce ...

This paper deals with a class of algebraic hyperstructures called ternarysemihypergroups, which are a generalization of ternary semigroups. In this paper weintroduce some special classes of hyperideals in ternary ...

Conceived as an agent to the spatial experience in the architectural design, style constitutes an important means of architectural modeling. Exceedingly the spatial organizations are tempted to be reached through three ...

In this paper we discuss flexibility and applicability of deployable dome structures in contemporary architecture. A deployable dome is a spatial structure derived from appropriately connected planar polygonal panels. ...

The aim of this paper is to present new analytical and computational approaches for assessing the structural safety of “false vaults” structures like Trulli, and more generally for corbelled structures. In particular, the ...

The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older ...