Non-acceptance of natural African American hair is evident in mainstream media, and within the African American community. As a result, many Afi＇ican American women lack knowledge about how to care for their naturall...Non-acceptance of natural African American hair is evident in mainstream media, and within the African American community. As a result, many Afi＇ican American women lack knowledge about how to care for their naturally kinky hair because straightened hair has been the standard and norm. Therefore, women wearing natural hair had to seek support and education outside of their immediate community via social networking sites. Through a participatory culture framework via an Afrocentric lens, the results revealed that producers of these sites became the needed support and comfort that the natural hair community was missing. Through communication with these producers and their sites, a space was created where women began to appreciate and love their natural hair.展开更多
The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes （wide-flange steel shapes） that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ su...The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes （wide-flange steel shapes） that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ surface plots developed from detailed fiber element models of a W8x31 are used to develop a generalized material model for direct implementation in the virtual work method. A portal steel frame is used to illustrate the virtual work method with the nonlinear material model in a first-order, inelastic analysis implementation and in a second-order, inelastic analysis condition. The nonlinear modeling capabilities of MASTAN2 are used to verify the accuracy of the virtual work results and are found to be in very close agreement.展开更多
文摘Non-acceptance of natural African American hair is evident in mainstream media, and within the African American community. As a result, many Afi＇ican American women lack knowledge about how to care for their naturally kinky hair because straightened hair has been the standard and norm. Therefore, women wearing natural hair had to seek support and education outside of their immediate community via social networking sites. Through a participatory culture framework via an Afrocentric lens, the results revealed that producers of these sites became the needed support and comfort that the natural hair community was missing. Through communication with these producers and their sites, a space was created where women began to appreciate and love their natural hair.
文摘The stiffness reduction is studied in detail of compact W-Shapes （wide-flange steel shapes） that results from yielding of the cross-section due to uniaxial bending and axial compression. Three-dimensional m-p-τ surface plots developed from detailed fiber element models of a W8x31 are used to develop a generalized material model for direct implementation in the virtual work method. A portal steel frame is used to illustrate the virtual work method with the nonlinear material model in a first-order, inelastic analysis implementation and in a second-order, inelastic analysis condition. The nonlinear modeling capabilities of MASTAN2 are used to verify the accuracy of the virtual work results and are found to be in very close agreement.
