WHY BUILDINGS FAIL: ARE WE LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES?

Why Buildings Fail: Are We Learning From Our Mistakes?

Most building professionals have investigated or performed remedial designs for at least one architectural or engineering system failure during their careers.Other practitioners, especially those who work for forensic consultants or firms specializing in disaster response and repair, are more familiar with the variety and extent of building failure

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You are Ukrainians!

Since August 24, 1991, when my first article on the proclamation read more of a new Ukrainian state was published, I have already written 20 such articles.Over the years, from an ardent young man who was watching with amazement and joy from the gallery of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR for proclaiming independence, I turned into a middle-a

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Texture Identification and Object Recognition Using a Soft Robotic Hand Innervated Bio-Inspired Proprioception

In this study, we innervated bio-inspired proprioception into a soft hand, facilitating a robust here perception of textures and object shapes.The tendon-driven soft finger with three joints, inspired by the human finger, was detailed.With tension sensors embedded in the tendon that simulate the Golgi tendon organ of the human body, 17 types of tex

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