Comparison between seismic analysis of twisting and regular 52-story towers considering soil-structure interaction

A dynamic analysis of both twisting and regular towers is carried out to determine the results of considering soil-structure interaction(SSI)on high-rise buildings.In addition,the difference between the seismic performance of using twisting towers over regular ones is investigated.The twisting tower is a simulation of the Evolution Tower(Moscow).The towers’skeletons consist of RC elements and rest on a reinforced concrete piled-raft foundation.The soil model is considered as multi-layered with the same soil properties as the zone chosen for the analysis(New Mansoura City,Egypt).The only difference between both towers is their shape in elevation.The whole system is modelled and analyzed in a single step as one full 3D model,which is known as the direct approach in SSI.All analyses are carried out using finite-element software(Midas GTS NX).Dynamic output responses due to three records of seismic loads are proposed and presented in some graphs.Based on the results,it is concluded that SSI has a considerable effect on the dynamic response of tall buildings mainly because of the foundation flexibility,as it leads to lengthening the vibration period,increasing the story drift and the base shear for both cases.

Pursuing Excellence in the Biomedical Field:The Inspiring Story of Prof.Dr.Mike Chan——An Interview with Prof.Dr.Mike Chan,Scientist,Author and Founder of European Wellness Biomedical Group

From humble beginnings to global influence,Prof.Dr.Mike K.S.Chan's story is a remarkable tale of passion,perseverance,and groundbreaking innovation in the biomedical field.As the co-owner and founder of the European Wellness Biomedical Group,he has dedicated his life to advancing biotechnology,stem cell research,and regenerative medicine,profoundly impacting lives across the globe.

英语绘本融入Story time板块的教学尝试

英语绘本作为一种教学资源,因其图片鲜活、语料丰富、文化多元、内涵深刻而成为Story time板块强有力的补充。英语绘本融入Story time板块的教学,需要从六要素着眼,找准“融合点”;以主题情境助力,调整“匹配度”;以人物线串起任务,捕捉“突破点”。

基于主题意义的Story time板块课后作业设计

对主题意义的探究是小学英语教学的核心,而基于主题意义的作业设计是对课堂教学的补充和延伸。教师要基于主题意义探索Story time板块的课后作业设计,设计主题化、趣味化、生活化、层次化、实践化的课后作业,并通过合作与评价的方式,培养和激发学生对英语学习的兴趣,帮助学生深化对主题意义的理解,提高学生的综合语言运用能力,发展学生的思维品质,促进学生核心素养的形成和发展。

基于英语核心素养的“Story time”教学新尝试

“Story time”板块是英语教材各单元的核心。教师结合“Story time”板块的特点,以课堂教学为载体来发展学生的语言能力、培养学生的思维品质、提升学生的学习能力、增强学生的文化意识,是提升学生英语学科核心素养的一项重要内容,也是当今小学英语课堂教学的新趋势。

Writing the Silenced Female Body, Scrutinizing the Grand Narrative of Colonization and Decolonization: The Body in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story

David’s Story by Zoë Wicomb addresses the complexities of representing female suffering and the limitations of traditional historical narratives in capturing the experiences of marginalized bodies.It challenges the grand narratives of national history by emphasizing the indispensable role of women’s experiences.Through characters like Dulcie and Rachael,Wicomb portrays the female body as a site of resistance and resilience,highlighting the need for more nuanced and inclusive ways of documenting history.Underscoring the inexpressibility of trauma and the limitations of language and representation,the novel self-reflexively acknowledges its own aporia of completing the narrative,embodying the ongoing struggle to capture the full breadth of human experience.

Story Map在高中英语读后续写教学实践中的应用——以2023年全国高考新课标Ⅰ卷读后续写为例

读后续写作为新高考英语写作的新题型,可以有效地考查学生的阅读能力和写作水平,而使用Story Map有助于培养学生的续写思维和写作能力。英语教师应深入分析读后续写题型,认真探索以Story Map促进高中英语叙事文本类读后续写教学的途径,采取绘制Story Map、挖掘续写突破点、合理想象续编故事、明确标准以评促写等做法,帮助学生出色完成续写。

Study on the Influence of Aspect Ratio on the Seismic Response and Overturning Resistance of a New Staggered Story Isolated Structure

The aspect ratio of the structure has a significant impact on the overall stability of the ultra high-rise building. A large aspect ratio of the structure increases the risk of overturning and reduces the lateral stiffness of the structure, leading to significant tensile and compressive stresses in the isolated bearings. To study the effect of aspect ratio on the seismic response and overturning resistance of a new staggered story isolated structure, three models with different aspect ratios were established. Nonlinear time-history analysis of the three models was conducted using ETABS finite element software. The results indicate that the overturning moment and overturning resistance moment of the superstructure in the new staggered story isolated structure increase with an increasing aspect ratio. However, the increase in the overturning moment of the superstructure is much greater than the increase in the overturning resistance moment, resulting in a decrease in the overturning resistance ratio of the superstructure with an increasing aspect ratio. The overturning moment and overturning resistance moment of the substructure in the new staggered story isolated structure decrease with an increasing aspect ratio. However, the decrease in the overturning moment of the substructure is greater than the decrease in the overturning resistance moment, leading to an increase in the overturning resistance ratio of the substructure with an increasing aspect ratio. The decrease in the overturning resistance ratio of the superstructure in the new staggered story isolated structure is much greater than the increase in the overturning resistance ratio of the substructure. Therefore, as the aspect ratio of the overall structure increases, the overturning resistance ratio of the superstructure and the entire structure decreases.

Progressive Collapse Resistance of a New Staggered Story Isolated System

A new staggered isolated system developed from the mid-story isolated system is the new staggered story isolated system. There are not many studies on this structure currently. In this study, an 18-story new staggered story isolated system model is established using SAP2000. The dynamic nonlinear dynamic alternate method is used to analyze the structure against progressive collapse. Results show that the structure has good resistance to progressive collapse, and there is no progressive collapse under each working condition. The progressive collapse does not occur for the case of removing only one vertical structural member of the new staggered of isolated system. The side column has big influence on this isolated structures’ progressive collapse;the removal of vertical structural member of the isolation layer has less impact on the structure than the removal of the bottom vertical structural member. After the removing of the member, the internal force of the structure will be redistributed, and the axial force of the adjacent columns will change obviously, showing a trend of “near large and far small”.

Qualia Role-Based Quantity Relation Extraction for Solving Algebra Story Problems

A qualia role-based entity-dependency graph(EDG)is proposed to represent and extract quantity relations for solving algebra story problems stated in Chinese.Traditional neural solvers use end-to-end models to translate problem texts into math expressions,which lack quantity relation acquisition in sophisticated scenarios.To address the problem,the proposed method leverages EDG to represent quantity relations hidden in qualia roles of math objects.Algorithms were designed for EDG generation and quantity relation extraction for solving algebra story problems.Experimental result shows that the proposedmethod achieved an average accuracy of 82.2%on quantity relation extraction compared to 74.5%of baseline method.Another prompt learning result shows a 5%increase obtained in problem solving by injecting the extracted quantity relations into the baseline neural solvers.

Teaching Intercultural Competence Using Critical Incident and Cultural Story Telling

Intercultural literacy is attached increasingly great importance in this interconnected world.People from diversified cultural backgrounds need to interact with each other for various purposes.Schools and organizations offer courses to improve people’s intercultural competence.This paper examines two effective techniques to teach intercultural competence in the classroom setting:critical incident activity and cultural story telling.These two strategies can help achieve the desired objectives of Michael Byram’s intercultural communication model.

A Corpus-Based Study on the Translators’Styles in the English Versions of The True Story of Ah-Q

The True Story of Ah-Q written by Lu Xun has been translated into forty different languages,making great contributions to the external dissemination of Chinese culture.This paper adopts the corpus stylistics method to analyze the translators’styles presented by William A.Lyell and Julia Lovell’s translations of Ah-Q.Based on the self-built comparable corpus of the two translations,the paper investigates and analyzes them from the lexical and sentence level.In terms of vocabulary,the translations are statistically analyzed from the standardized type-token ratio,word frequency,word length and vocabulary density;at the sentence level,the article studies the average sentence lengths and sentence complexity.The first major finding is that Lovell’s vocabulary is richer than that of Lyell,and Lovell’s average word length is longer.Also,the average sentence length of both translations exceeds the original text,and Lovell has the highest average sentence length.Secondly,Lovell prefers to use simple sentences while Lyell prefers complex sentences.Nevertheless,both of them strive to make Lu Xun’s works understandable to foreign readers,thus understanding Chinese culture better.

运用KWL模式优化英语教材Story time板块教学的探究

阐述KWL的内涵及其对教学的意义。结合PEP小学英语教材的教学案例,探究KWL模式在Story time板块教学中的具体运用。指出在小学英语Story time板块教学中,教师应有效运用KWL模式,在K环节创设语境,引入主题;在W环节问题导学,探究主题;在L环节迁移拓展,升华主题,从而促进学生对知识的整体关联,实现Story time板块阅读教学的优化。

基于主题意义探究的Story time语篇教学细节处理--以译林版《英语》四年级下册Unit 8第一课时为例

教师通过结合教学实践探讨主题意义探究的具体做法,即:语篇学习前,多重铺垫,激活主题;语篇学习中,分层活动,深研主题;语篇学习后,迁移语境,聚焦主题。以此来提升语篇教学质量,促进学生的英语学科核心素养的培养。

Application of laminated vierendeel truss in high-position transfer story structure

To meet the demands for large space and flexible compartmentation ofbuildings, laminated vierendeel trasses are adopted in high-position transfer story structures.First the bearing characteristics are analyzed, in which reasonable stiffness ratio of the upperchord, middle chord, and lower chord is derived. Then combined with an actual engineering model (1:8similar ratio), the static loading and pseudo-dynamic tests of two models for laminated vierendeeltrass used in transfer story structures are conducted, in which one model adopts reinforcedconcrete, and the other adopts prestressed concrete and shape steel concrete. Seismic behaviors areanalyzed, including inter-story displacement, base shear-displacement skeleton curves, andequivalent viscosity-damping curves. A program is programmed to carry out the elasto-plastic dynamicanalysis, and displacement time-history curves of the two models are derived. The test and analysisresults show that the laminated vierendeel trass with prestressed concrete and shape steel concretehas excellent seismic behaviors. It can solve the disadvantages of laminated vierendeel trussesused in transfer story structures. Finally, some design suggestions are put forward, which can bereferenced by similar engineering.

人教版小学英语PEP中“Story time”专栏教学策略探究

人教版小学英语教材中的"Story time"专栏是教材内容的一个亮点。该专栏中的故事紧密联系单元主题,贴近学生日常生活,情节生动活泼、富有知识性、价值性和趣味性,具有独特的教学价值。该专栏内容的教学应讲求"听"、"读"、"演"、"研"等策略。

On Ambrose Bierce's Supernatural Story

An influential writer in the 19th century in America, Ambrose Bierce is noted for his devotion to the ghost story. The supernatural in his stories, like Poe, mirrors human psychology. Generally there are three groups of the supernatural in his short story: the Supernatural Gothic, the psychic story, and the story of ironic terror. This article, through text reading, tries to prove that these three groups, from different angles, reflect Bierce’s belief that when confronting with the ultimate existential plights, a person reveals the nature of his character through his psychological words.

“Storyful”们——社交媒体时代的把关人

Storyful和类似的工具被冠上了不同名称。或称之为"聚合",或称它为"筛选"。本文依据把关人概念,并结合笔者的体验,进行论证,从而得出自己的结论,即"Storyful"们是社交媒体时代下信息的把关人。

SEISMIC DAMAGE PREDICTION ON MULTI-STORYBRIOK BUILDINGS WITH TWO FRAME-SHEAR-WALL-SUPPORTED STORIES

This paper presents a method for searching the weak story by using the ultimate shear force coefficient on the multi-story brick buildings with two frame-shear-wall-supported stories. The method of seismic damage prediction is discussed according to different weak stories. When the first story is t theweak one,the damage state of the building can be determined by the displacement ratio. The prediction method is also used in a practical engineering project.

基于学情前测的小学英语Story time板块的教学思考与实践

Story time板块是以故事为载体,让学生在阅读、学习、演译故事的过程中,激发学习兴趣,掌握英语知识,并在潜移默化中提高阅读和会话能力。但在现实教学中,我们也遇到了一系列的问题与困惑：模式化的流程给教学带来便捷的同时也限制了教师与学生的创造性;在实施教学的过程中,学生有时吃不饱,有时“嚼不烂”;虽然重视阅读教学,但阅读始终是学生难以逾越的最大障碍……