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1	Statnamic Lateral Loading Testing of Full-Scale 15 and 9 Group Piles in Clay Broderick, Rick Davon 26 March 2007 (has links) (PDF) Studies of seismic and impact loading on foundation piles is an important and a focused interest in the engineering world today. Because of seismic and other natural events are unpredictable, uncontrollable and potentially unsafe it is a vital study to understand the behavior and relationship structures in motion have on there foundation. Statnamic Loading has become a popular method of studying this relationship in a controlled environment. Two groups of 9 and 15 driven hollow pipe piles were tested in saturated clay at the Salt Lake City Airport in July of 2002. The 9-pile group (3x3 configuration) was separated at 5.65 pile diameters and the 15-pile group (3x5 configuration) was separated at 3.92 pile diameters. The testing consisted of five target deflections. Each target deflection consisted of 15 cyclic lateral static loadings and a 16th lateral statnamic load. This study focuses on the statnamic loading. Damping ratios ranged from 23 to 50 percent for the 15-pile group and 29 to 49 percent for the 9-pile group. Both pile groups increased in damping as the deflections increased. The optimized mass in motion for the entire system was found to be roughly 21,000kg for the 15-pile group and 14,000 kg for the 9-pile group. Stiffness for the 15-pile group started at 50kN/mm and ended at 21kN/mm. The 9-pile group ranged from 28kN/mm to 12kN/mm. statnamic piles pile lateral foundation dynamic full-scale Broderick Rollins BYU thesis engineering damping stiffness Civil and Environmental Engineering
2	Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction Long, Bruce Raymond January 2009 (has links) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) / Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information. Science Fiction Information Theory Informationism Anti-simulacra Simulacra Information Types Veridical information Literary theory Pseudo-information William Gibson Iain M Banks Neal Stephenson Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction Theory Novum Pseudo-novum Character-novum Auto-novum Pseudo novum character novum Darko Suvin N. Katherine Hayles William Paulson High information Claude E Shannon Adrian Moles Hyperreal Hyperreality Hyperreal information Samuel R Delany Damien Broderick David Lewis Transrealism Transrealist Manifesto SF Mega-text SF Codon Thomas Pynchon Information Synthesis Synthesis Multivariate nexus Heterogeneous information profile Cognitive Aesthetic Complexity Aesthetic of Complexity
3	Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction Long, Bruce Raymond January 2009 (has links) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) / Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information. Science Fiction Information Theory Informationism Anti-simulacra Simulacra Information Types Veridical information Literary theory Pseudo-information William Gibson Iain M Banks Neal Stephenson Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction Theory Novum Pseudo-novum Character-novum Auto-novum Pseudo novum character novum Darko Suvin N. Katherine Hayles William Paulson High information Claude E Shannon Adrian Moles Hyperreal Hyperreality Hyperreal information Samuel R Delany Damien Broderick David Lewis Transrealism Transrealist Manifesto SF Mega-text SF Codon Thomas Pynchon Information Synthesis Synthesis Multivariate nexus Heterogeneous information profile Cognitive Aesthetic Complexity Aesthetic of Complexity

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