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Basing the displacement-capacity design method and capacity spectrum method, a new rigid-plastic seismic design procedure is proposed to describe the behavior of shear wall structure under strong earthquakes. Firstly the concept of rigid-plastic hinge is used to choose a collapse mechanism of shear wall, then according to the dynamic performance criterion the yield load of structure is determined through rigid-plastic response spectrum. This procedure is used in 11-story reinforced structure shear wall design, the results of comparison with refined Non-Linear Time-History Analysis showing good agreement.

In this work, we consider a recently proposed entropy S defined by a variational relationship as a measure of uncertainty of random variable x. The entropy defined in this way underlies an extension of virtual work principle leading to the maximum entropy . This paper presents an analytical investigation of this maximizable entropy for several distributions such as the stretched exponential distribution, κ-exponential distribution, and Cauchy distribution.

A systematic methodology for solving the inverse dynamics of a 6-PRRS parallel robot is presented. Based on the principle of virtual work and the Lagrange approach, a methodology for deriving the dynamical equations of motion is developed. To resolve the inconsistency between complications of established dynamic model and real-time control, a simplifying strategy of the dynamic model is presented. The dynamic character of the 6-PRRS parallel robot is analyzed by example calculation, and a full and precise dynamic model using simulation software is established. Verification results show the validity of the presented algorithm, and the simplifying strategies are practical and efficient.

Basing the displacement-capacity design method and capacity spectrum method, a new rigid-plastic seismic design procedure is proposed to describe the behavior of shear wall structure under strong earthquakes. Firstly the concept of rigid-plastic hinge is used to choose a collapse mechanism of shear wall, then according to the dynamic performance criterion the yield load of structure is determined through rigid-plastic response spectrum. This procedure is used in 11-story reinforced structure shear wall design, the results of comparison with refined Non-Linear Time-History Analysis showing good agreement.