We present a theoretical and experimental approach for the characterization of the damage induced anisotropy superimposed to the constitutive anisotropy of fiber-reinforced composite materials. The proposed theoretical ...

The aim of the paper is to detect the damage of the bell tower of the Church “Santa Maria della Natività”, Noci (Bari, Italy) that in 2012 was hit by a lightning and to propose a retrofitting solution. The solution must ...

Non-Urban Ports is a research paper, which investigates revival of the negative elements of the city network into the positive ones. In the city structure objects of the past find themselves in the Digital Era, to which ...

This thesis examines the continuous increase of nonperforming loans in Albania. The Albanian economy is facing many challenges since the collapse of the communism system. One of the main factors affecting nonperforming ...

Due to the snow and ice on the roads in winter season, difficulties in transportation and accidents are unavoidable. Municipalities and residents put all their effort to clean up the streets and highways. Mechanical cleaning, ...

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 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 ...