Also investigated herein are the difference of design philosophy between the design provisions, the failure mode of the tested specimens, the column strength interaction diagram, and the effect of steel ratio on the accuracy of the strength predictions.
The accuracy of shear strength parameters is crucial for the analysis of slope failures or the design of new slopes, earth dams, etc.
On the other hand, the influence of the CZM shape can be neglected when using brittle adhesives, without compromising too much the accuracy of the strength predictions.
The accuracy of source strength reconstruction (in the presence of noise which contaminates the measured pressures) is crucially dependent on the conditioning of the matrix to be inverted.
Ultrasonic extrusion increased the accuracy of the strength tests of construction ceramics, indicating the prospect of ultrasonic die development for industrial extruders for bricks, facing tiles and roof tiles.
Cohesive Zone Models (CZM) are an accurate design method for bonded structures but, depending on the adhesive type and specimen's geometry, the accuracy of the strength predictions may be highly compromised by the choice of the cohesive laws.
The objective of this study is to investigate the difference between these two approaches and to evaluate the accuracy of their strength predictions by comparing to 78 physical test results done by previous researchers.
Instead, the accuracy of the strength correction factors is determined by a weighted regression analysis of ratios of observed-to-predicted values which accounts for the non-uniform variances of the dependent and independent variables.
A preliminary investigation is also presented of methods such as Tikhonov regularization and singular value discarding which can improve the accuracy of source strength reconstruction in poorly conditioned cases.
Based on this probabilistic model, LP (Linear Programming -based methods were develoProgramming -basedn et al. imethods the accuracy of interaction strength prediction by APM (Association Probabilistic Method) [ 12].
