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First of all, I must apologise for the interval between this VINE and the last. Unfortunately VINE's production cycle is growing longer as automated library systems become more complex, and consequently more time‐consuming to write up. Moreover, in this issue I have attempted in certain articles, for instance those on COM bureaux and the Telepen, to adopt a thematic approach to the subject, rather than reporting on individual projects. The process of cross‐checking the details of such articles with all the organisations concerned has been partly responsible for the delay in publishing VINE 17. Nevertheless in the long terms I still hope to increase the frequency with which VINE is published, thereby increasing its currency and decreasing the size of each individual issue.

Progress and future plans observed and discussed at fourteen libraries and centres (Library of Congress; Ohio College Library Center; Council on Library Resources; Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Illinois, Massachusetts, Northwestern, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, and Tulane University Libraries; Georgia Institute of Technology; and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries) are reported under the following headings: regional cooperation/networks; acquisitions systems; cataloguing systems; serials; music; circulation; COM; costs. The comprehensive automation programme at the University of Chicago Library is described. It is apparent that in many American libraries, automation is now part of the routine, no longer regarded as research or a localised activity.

VINE is produced at least four times a year with the object of providing up‐to‐date news of work being done in the automation of library housekeeping processes, principally in the UK. It is edited and substantially written by the Information Office for Library Automation based in Southampton University Library and supported by a grant from the British Library Research and Development Department. Copyright for VINE articles rests with the British Library Board, but opinions expressed in VINE do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the British Library. The subscription for 1981 and 1982 for VINE is £20 for UK subscribers and £23 for overseas subscribers — subscription year runs from January to December.

The purpose of mechanisation in libraries is to have basic records in machine readable form so that the processing capabilities of machines can be exploited, (a) to maximise access to and ease of use of the literature, and (b) to help relieve the problems produced in libraries by the ever increasing output of literature.

VINE is produced at least four times a year with the object of providing up‐to‐date news of work being done in the automation of library housekeeping processes, principally in the UK. It is edited and substantially written by the Information Officer for Library Automation based in Southampton University Library and supported by a grant from the British Library Research and Development Department. Copyright for VINE articles rests with the British Library Board, but opinions expressed in VINE do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the British Library. The subscription for VINE is £17 per annum and the period runs from January to December.

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The outbreak of the pandemic makes it more difficult to manage the safety or health of construction workers in infrastructure construction. Risk events in construction workers' material handling tasks are highly relevant to workers' work-related musculoskeletal disorders. However, there are still many problems to be resolved in recognizing risk events accurately. The purpose of this research is to propose an automatic and non-invasive recognition method for construction workers in material handling tasks during the pandemic based on smartphone and machine learning.

This research proposes a method to recognize and classify four different risk events by collecting specific acceleration and angular velocity patterns through built-in sensors of smartphones. The events were simulated with anterior handling and shoulder handling methods in the laboratory. After data segmentation and feature extraction, five different machine learning methods are used to recognize risk events and the classification performances are compared.

The classification result of the shoulder handling method was slightly better than the anterior handling method. By comparing the accuracy of five different classifiers, cross-validation results showed that the classification accuracy of the random forest algorithm was the highest (76.71% in anterior handling method and 80.13% in shoulder handling method) when the window size was 0.64 s.

Less attention has been paid to the risk events in workers' material handling tasks in previous studies, and most events are recorded by manual observation methods. This study provided a simple and objective way to judge the risk events in manual material handling tasks of construction workers based on smartphones, which can be used as a non-invasive way for managers to improve health and labor productivity during the pandemic.

The main function of the castellation process is making I-sections stiffer by increasing the height of web and supplying a higher moment capacity of primary axis than plain-webbed members of the same weight. In addition, it optimizes the use of heavy, costly constructional steel material and provides good services accessibility. The purpose of this study was to investigate the strength and buckling behavior of axially loaded castellated cruciform steel columns using finite element analysis. Although a significant body of research exists on the failure of different columns, there is no proper criterion introduced to determine the point of buckling in the equilibrium path of an imperfect column.

This paper considers a wide range of practical geometric dimensions and various end conditions using ANSYS software. Findings are reported for about 224 samples of castellated cruciform I-shaped sections, and a simplified approach to evaluate buckling capacity of castellated columns, using the slenderness-load curve, is developed. In addition, the axial compressive capacities of those steel sections are investigated numerically in the current study.

The results of nonlinear analyses of these columns revealed that the load-carrying capacity of castellated cruciform steel columns far outweighs and is more appropriate than that of the traditional cruciform steel columns. In the present paper, new geometric criteria have been introduced having the ability to cover different types of columns. It shows the critical load of columns in the range of elastic and inelastic behavior.

This study can provide a background for practical engineering applications and design specifications for steel structures with castellated sections. In the present paper, new geometric criteria have been introduced having the ability to cover different types of columns. It shows the critical load of columns showing both elastic and inelastic behavior. Because this method showed reliable performance, it can be used during experimental tests for detecting buckling point.

This study can provide background for practical engineering applications and design specifications for steel structures with castellated sections; also, a physical criterion has been defined for calculating the buckling load of real columns.

Gives a bibliographical review of the finite element methods (FEMs) applied for the linear and nonlinear, static and dynamic analyses of basic structural elements from the theoretical as well as practical points of view. The range of applications of FEMs in this area is wide and cannot be presented in a single paper; therefore aims to give the reader an encyclopaedic view on the subject. The bibliography at the end of the paper contains 2,025 references to papers, conference proceedings and theses/dissertations dealing with the analysis of beams, columns, rods, bars, cables, discs, blades, shafts, membranes, plates and shells that were published in 1992‐1995.