Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Computers & Industrial Engineering 54 (2008) 513–525 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw An integrated AHP–DEA methodology for bridge risk assessment q Ying-Ming Wang a b a‚* ‚ Jun Liu b‚ Taha M.S. Elhag c c Institute of Soft Science‚ Fuzhou University‚ Fuzhou 350002‚ PR China School of Computing and Mathematics‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Ulster at Jordanstown‚ Shore Road‚ Newtownabbey‚ Co. Antrim BT37 0QB‚ Northern Ireland‚ UK
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the issues about how bridges collapse in just one glimpse. The first failure of a bridge happened August 29 by the year 1907‚ The Bridge was in Quebec and it killed 86 people. This is one of the most remarkable catastrophes in the field of Civil Engineering. Through this tragedy‚ aren’t the engineers and the people involved in construction never learned their lessons? And still record of failure of bridges still soar and one of the latest failures of a bridge was the India Bridge killing more than 45
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction A bridge consists of super structure of steel or reinforced concrete member that is supported on one or more points by cables extending from one or more tower is known as cable stayed bridge. The cable-stayed bridge is one of the most modern bridges. It consists of a continuous strong beam (girder) with one or more pillars or towers (pylons) in the middle Cables stretch diagonally between these pylons and the beam‚ these cables forms intermediate supports
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INTRODUCTION A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller that was first staged on 1955. At the beginning was considered as a one-act verse drama but then it subsequently revised the play to contain two acts. The Drama presents different society taboos that happened at that time in the United States such as migration‚ sex-war‚ maleness and homosexuality. ANALYSIS It is set in 1950s‚ in an American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge NY; where most of the European
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Mammadova Section T Critical Analysis Essay - Detailed Outline 23rd of October 2016 The Gift of Language "Monkey Bridge"‚ Cao’s first novel‚ tells the tale of a Vietnamese mother and little girl who leave their country soon after the Vietnam War to move to the United States‚ where they face difficulties of dealing with other cultures and generations‚ and in addition to mysteries from their own particular family’s past. Mai is the essential storyteller of Monkey Bridge‚ Cao utilizes the gadget of
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Tragic Pattern of Hardy’s Female Characters: Externality of Ideology Contradiction Proposal Thomas Hardy‚ known as one of the most important literary figures in Victorian Age‚ holds a significant position in English literary history. Dale Kramer once claimed that‚ “it is fair and accurate to say that‚ apart from Dickens‚ no novelist’s writing in English has appealed to so many different readers for so many differing reasons.”(Kramer‚ 1979: 2) Hardy is highly known for his adeptness in
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Abstract- The development of De-Sauty’s bridge for capacitance measurement has been followed by various modifications and improvements in the original circuit. Lately Schering bridge and transformer ratio arm bridge have been used for measurement of capacitance in a circuit.Today there is instrumentation available that makes use of these bridges in real life such as that can measure the quality of electrical insulation at power frequency as well as in touch-sensitive sensors. This paper
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“The Old Man at the Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway An old man with steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes sat by the side of the road. There was a pontoon bridge across the river and carts‚ trucks‚ and men‚ women and children were crossing it. The mule- drawn carts staggered up the steep bank from the bridge with soldiers helping push against the spokes of the wheels. The trucks ground up and away heading out of it all and the peasants plodded along in the ankle deep dust. But the old man
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What becomes apparent from researching Thomas Hardy’s life is the multitude of experiences and influences that may have had some bearing on how he wrote and the content of these works. Obviously‚ his early life in Dorset and the bearing upon which this had on his early works is apparent through vivid descriptions and the recounting of certain episodes - so much so that it is impossible to ignore the inspiration that he derived from his birthplace. For example‚ the portrayal of the heath in ’The Return
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Truss bridges are recognizable because of their numerous‚ relatively small interconnected triangles. This framework of triangles is used for is strength to withstand tension and compression forces. They are considered a light-weight yet a very stiff form of construction. At first they were built of wood‚ then with the discovery of welding they began to build then using iron‚ then steel. Occasionally‚ a combination of the materials may be used. There are actually 30 different kinds of truss bridges
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