The final aim of teaching students subjects, such as structural mechanics, reinforced concrete, and steel structures is to teach them how structures work in a given building as well as to provide them with skills enabling them to calculate and design structures. The behavioral model of the structure, contrary to the architectural model, which focuses mainly on the external form of the building, shows workings from both the static...

Enzymy organizmów żywych katalizują wiele reakcji stosowanych w przemyśle chemicznym. Przykładem potencjalnego zastosowania enzymu w produkcji jest synteza L-Dopy przy udziale tyrozynazy. Ze względu na możliwe praktyczne zastosowanie w katalizie, otrzymano i opisano wiele prostych modeli miejsc aktywnych enzymów. W artykule opisano niektóre modele białek zawierających miedź.

Earthquake-induced ground motions are the most severe and unpredictable threats to the structures all around the world. Therefore, designing earthquake protective systems has become an extremely challenging problem in civil engineering. Base isolation is one of the most popular and widely adopted methods of protecting structures against earthquake forces. The present paper reports the results obtained from the shaking table experimental...

The work presents testing methods of sensitivity and reliability of mechanical or structural systems. All computations concerned the case of Zigler column, a simple model of a compressed column involving two random variables only. A conclusion was drawn that the standard Monte Carlo method, its reduction variants and the response surface method allow to assess the sensitivity of structural response to the variation of random structural...