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Models for predicting degradation and non-performance caused by decay are functions of arbitrary climate history of combined moisture content and temperature.
Apart from delivering the U* and Kg parameters as a function of the transformed fraction, this method allows to predict the crystallization course for an arbitrary thermal history.
Starting from the previous work of the authors which focused on pulse-type excitations, the paper offers an alternative, yet physically motivated, way to present the response of yielding and pounding structures under excitations with arbitrary time history.
The first five terms of the solution are derived, for both plane and spherical deterministic waveforms, for the boundary value problem of an arbitrary time history at the origin.
A dose response model is proposed by which onset of mould growth can be predicted for an arbitrary climate history of combined relative humidity ϕ and temperature T. The model is calibrated and verified against a comprehensive set of experimental data published by Viitanen et al.
As a first step in the development of a model for predicting the noise transmission of sonic booms inside buildings, a numerical solution for the transmission of a shock wave with an arbitrary time history into a rectangular room with a plaster wood wall is investigated.
Koh et al. (1995) studied the behaviour of rectangular liquid dampers under horizontal acceleration of arbitrary time history.
The model is developed such that it can describe any arbitrary deformation history because it uses the time-dependent strain as an input.
