At last, the ultimate compressive load-carrying capacity of the DPCS-BRB is found to be directly proportional to its restraining ratio, and there exists a lower limit of the restraining ratio which ensures the core could reach its full cross-sectional yield load without overall instability of the DPCS-BRB.
In addition, the load-carrying capacity of the TTC-BRB under cyclic loading is found to be proportional to the restraining ratio, and there exists a lower limit of the restraining ratio which ensures the core could reach its full cross-sectional yield load before overall instability failure of the TTC-BRB.
The two cross-sectional studies yield an elevated relative risk for peri-implantitis of 1.9 and 4.1 caused by diabetes [11, 12].
Despite the limited numbers of studies in this area, we found that cross-sectional studies yield estimates of the pooled effect of metabolic syndrome on bone fractures were in agreement with those from prospective cohort studies.
There is no cohort mortality evidence available in China, but earlier cross-sectional studies yielded C-R functions roughly comparable to those from the U.S. cohort studies (Levy and Greco 2007).
where Ap and fpy are the cross-sectional area and yield stress of UPVC tube, repectively; and Ac and fck are the area and compressive strength of the core concrete respectively.
Cross-sectional studies can yield important information about the association between physical activity and cardiometabolic risk, since physical activity patterns are reasonably stable over time in children [ 35] and many of the important potential effects of physical activity on cardiometabolic risk are short-term.
The concrete compressive strength of 55 MPa, PT load of 50 kN, stub beam weight of 5 kN; and unbonded PT bar with the length of h c + 800 (mm), cross sectional area of 314.4 mm2, yield strength of 901 MPa, ultimate strength of 1102 MPa and elastic modulus of 200 GPa were considered for the control specimen.
Three factors contributing to the internal energy dissipation are accounted for, including the extension of reinforcing bars and steel beams, the additional bending moment induced from membrane forces in the slab and tensile forces in beams, and sectional bending moment along yield lines of the slab.
Further, fLCI signals can be processed to yield cross sectional images of samples, as in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) [ 13], thereby enabling co-registration of the structural information with the spectroscopic analysis.
