University of Sannio

About: University of Sannio is a education organization based out in Benevento, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The organization has 1278 authors who have published 6125 publications receiving 167577 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli Studi del Sannio & Universita degli Studi del Sannio.

Assessment of a bond strength model for FRP reinforcement externally bonded over masonry blocks

Abstract: According to recent design Codes and Recommendations, verification against debonding is imperative in the design of strengthening interventions with Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP). In FRP – reinforced masonry elements, debonding at reinforcement extremities (end debonding) must be avoided by limiting the maximum force achievable by the strengthening system. This paper proposes design criteria against debonding in masonry elements externally strengthened by FRP sheets. Results of more than 250 bond tests, reported in the literature and carried out over different masonry supports, clay bricks and natural stones, are collected and examined. Formulas for fracture energy of interface bond law and debonding load are assessed starting from the experimental database. In order to provide design formulas according to the Partial Safety Factor Method for Ultimate Limit State verification, mean and characteristic values of the debonding load are determined through statistical methods.

Social interactions around cross-system bug fixings: the case of FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Abstract: Cross-system bug fixing propagation is frequent among systems having similar characteristics, using a common framework, or, in general, systems with cloned source code fragments. While previous studies showed that clones tend to be properly maintained within a single system, very little is known about cross-system bug management.This paper describes an approach to mine explicitly documented cross-system bug fixings, and to relate their occurrences to social characteristics of contributors discussing through the project mailing lists--e.g., degree, betweenness, and brokerage--as well as to the contributors' activity on source code.The paper reports results of an empirical study carried out on FreeBSD and OpenBSD kernels. The study shows that the phenomenon of cross-system bug fixing between these two projects occurs often, despite the limited overlap of contributors. The study also shows that cross-system bug fixings mainly involve contributors with the highest degree, betweenness and brokerage level, as well as contributors that change the source code more than others.

Combined effect of variable viscosity and thermal conductivity on mixed convection flow of a viscous fluid in a vertical channel in the presence of first order chemical reaction

Abstract: An analysis has been carried out to obtain the flow, heat and mass transfer characteristics of a viscous fluid having temperature dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity in a vertical channel. The energy equation accounts for viscous dissipation, while the first order homogeneous chemical reaction between the fluid and diffusing species is included in the mass diffusion equation. The walls of the channel are maintained at constant but different temperatures. The non-dimensional coupled nonlinear ordinary differential equations are solved analytically using perturbation method and numerically using Runge–Kutta shooting method. The velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are obtained numerically and presented through graphs. Skin friction coefficient and Nusselt number at the walls of the channel are derived and discussed and their numerical values for various values of physical parameters are presented through tables.