Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited disease caused by the dysfunction of photoreceptor cells in the retina. Effective management and therapy are crucial to delaying or preventing vision loss and blindness, makin...
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited disease caused by the dysfunction of photoreceptor cells in the retina. Effective management and therapy are crucial to delaying or preventing vision loss and blindness, making RP a leading cause of inherited retinal disorders globally. This study is the first to utilize maps of P1 wave amplitudes from multifocal electroretinography for the automatic identification and staging of RP. We enhanced raw data with image preprocessing, traditional image augmentation, and generative adversarial networks (GAN) to create comprehensive datasets, followed by classification using five transfer learning models. Initial results indicated overfitting, mitigated through advanced preprocessing and augmentation. Performance metrics showed that the Deep Convolutional GAN model effectively eliminated overfitting. ResNet50 achieved the highest performance in four-class classification with 95.2% recall, 95.2% precision, 94.9% accuracy, 98.2% specificity and 95.2% F1 score. These results suggest that maps of P1 wave amplitudes are valuable indicators for differentiating RP stages, highlighting their potential for improving RP diagnosis and management.
Increasing threats to global water resources from climate change emphasize the importance of comprehending its impacts on hydrology for effective water management. This article quantifies climate input uncertainty in ...
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Large-span steel moment frames are used as the main structure in many gymnasiums. Several studies pointed out that significant deflection in such moment frames was caused by inelastic seismic response for horizontal e...
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Large-span steel moment frames are used as the main structure in many gymnasiums. Several studies pointed out that significant deflection in such moment frames was caused by inelastic seismic response for horizontal earthquake ground motion. This paper explains how horizontal excitation causes large accumulated deflection, and theoretically formulates the relations between vertical deflection and inelastic deformation. The moment frames made of H-shaped steel is considered herein, where shear yield of panel zones occur in advance to forming flexural yield hinges. Since gymnasiums are used as shelters in earthquake disaster, we need a method to evaluate the structural damage quantitatively, by inspecting and measuring the deformed gymnasium. By measuring the deflection after earthquake, we might be able to estimate the plastic deformation. In this paper, the possibility is discussed using FE dynamic response analysis. The mechanism how horizontal deformation causes accumulated deflection is summarized as follows. In elastic behavior, the moment distribution in the beam for horizontal load is antisymmetric. After forming two yield hinges at two ends of the beam, the moment distribution does not change and is also antisymmetric. In the both cases, the deflection does not increase. However, when only one yield hinge is formed at the leeward side, the deflection increases with the horizontal load due to the change of moment distribution until two hinges are formed. In this paper, bi-linear constitutive relation between the shear strain and moment acting on the panel zone is assumed and theoretical solution on the behavior is derived. The theoretical solution was verified by pushover FE analysis and good agreement was observed. By applying the derived theoretical formulas, ductility factor on the both panels can be estimated from the deflection. Dynamic response analysis was also performed to verify the estimation. This could be a useful method to estimate structural dama
In this paper, a simple and practical method is proposed which enables formfinding analysis of a timber three-way latticed kagome shells and following buckling analysis, using general-purpose FE software without using...
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The present paper demonstrates and discusses a potential of steel latticed plates to use as seismic walls, through experimental study. Cyclic shear load tests of five steel latticed plates, composed of equilateral tri...
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The present paper demonstrates and discusses a potential of steel latticed plates to use as seismic walls, through experimental study. Cyclic shear load tests of five steel latticed plates, composed of equilateral triangular grids, were conducted to investigate buckling and post-buckling strength and ductility. Three of five plates yield out-of-plane overall buckling and the rest in-plane member buckling as predicted. The buckling and post-buckling strengths can be approximated using the generalized slenderness calculated by linear buckling analysis and its function for inelastic strength, regardless to the buckling mode. Moreover, these latticed plates show good ductility and energy dissipation capacity But a disadvantage that the buckling deformation is too observable is also exposed.
This study demonstrates a method for seismic response evaluation of large-span cantilevered roofs excited by horizontal seismic input. Firstly we identified the vibration characteristics of an actual cantilevered roof...
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Latticed shells made of H-shaped steel have been constructed all over the world. This study investigates elastic buckling of spherical latticed shells made of H-shaped steel. Out-of-plane shell-like buckling and in-pl...
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Latticed shells made of H-shaped steel have been constructed all over the world. This study investigates elastic buckling of spherical latticed shells made of H-shaped steel. Out-of-plane shell-like buckling and in-plane member buckling dominantly occur in the elastic buckling of rigidly jointed latticed shells. An H-shaped section has strong and weak axes. Since bending stiffness on the strong axis is several times of that on the weak axis, in-plane member buckling is more likely to occur than the buckling of the shells made of pipes. In the present study the latticed shells for study were on the square plan of 20m × 20m. The shells were relatively flat where the rise-span ratios of the two central arcs were between 0.075 and 0.125. In the linear-buckling (eigenvalue) analysis, in-plane member buckling appears in the 1st buckling mode in all the FE models. The depth, area and second moment of inertia on the strong axis were uniformly set to 20cm, 25cm2 and 2000cm4, respectively. On the other hand, the second moment of inertia on the weak axis was parametrically changed so that the higher order linear buckling load where shell-like buckling firstly appeared was 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 times of the 1st linear member buckling load. In addition, two boundary conditions, pin and roller were assumed since roller is often used in actually constructed shells. The higher order linear buckling loads agreed well with the classical shell-like buckling loads calculated using the continuum analogy. To estimate member buckling load itself, the buckling length is required. The buckling length calculated using the linear buckling analysis, is 0.7 and 0.5 times of the member length for the roller and pin supported shells, respectively. In the pin-supported shells, uniform compression is realized but in the roller-supported shells, compression and tension mix especially on the peripheral where the member buckling occurs. The tensioned members connected to the compressed member interfere the
The present paper demonstrates and discusses elastic bucking characteristics of single layer latticed shells composed of hexagonal grids. A conventional method to calculate linear buckling loads, based on continuum an...
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The present paper demonstrates and discusses elastic bucking characteristics of single layer latticed shells composed of hexagonal grids. A conventional method to calculate linear buckling loads, based on continuum analogy is found to be also effective like other grid patterns. The bucking mode yields long overall buckling waves and is found to be non-extensional. The range of knockdown factors, the ratios of an elastic buckling load where the analysis considers geometric nonlinear effect to the linear buckling, is also investigated by nonlinear FE analysis. The lowest value is reduced to slightly above 0.5 even without geometric imperfection. The knockdown factor and its reduction due to geometric imperfection are mainly affected by the geometry and slenderness. After all, the range of knockdown factors is found to be above 0.5, based on the elastic nonlinear FE analyses in which the maximum imperfection amplitude is set to 1/500 of the span. The knockdown factors are also compared with the calculations by the reduced stiffness buckling theory.
In the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, many roof bearings in large span facilities, connecting steel roof to the lower RC frame, suffered severe damages. Based on an experimental study, we constructed...
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This paper finds and discusses the features of buckling and inelastic response on steel hexagonally latticed plates for cyclic shear deformation. Cyclic tests of four steel latticed plates with various hexagonal shape...
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