‘Smelling’ diasporic: bargaining interactions and the problem of politeness

While post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe often are able to converse competently enough in Moroccan languages to bargain in shops during visits to Morocco, many report that they are not given the ‘local’, ‘right’ prices because they are ‘smelled’ as outsiders. During fieldwork following these diasporic visitors in Morocco, several participants strategically shopped for goods with a ‘local’ friend or family member who might negotiate on their behalf for the ‘right’ price. This strategy was seen as a way to circumvent or ameliorate the ways the diasporic client might be negatively categorized as an outsider, especially in terms of his or her language use. Yet, examining these events in recorded detail indicates that diasporic clients are often bargaining for themselves as competent speakers, but are sometimes not able to skillfully bargain politely. In these moments, proxy bargainers intervene when debate and tension increases during bargaining and diasporic visitors do not adequately perform politeness – specifically by deploying religious speech – to soften and minimize tension. Analysis of these interactions indicates how diasporic branching of linguistic practice contrasts communicative skills of mobile populations with subtle, place-based competences, and how the mismatch between these can negatively mark diasporic visitors.

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF GLOBAL-PROCESS TENSION ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FOR SUSPEND-DOME BASED ON ANSYS

Suspend-dome includes a single-layer latticed shell and the bottom tensegrity system. The overall stress state is closely related to the construction tension process. In order to provide guidance for safe construction of suspend-dome and trouble-free operation, an iterative method to determine initial strains of the bottom tensegrity system under zero state was proposed, and software for global-process tension analysis was developed based on ANSYS. A transform interface module was developed for rapid ANSYS parametric modeling. The optimization was conducted to achieve optimal prestress. A computational module was developed for the form-finding, force-finding, and construction tension analysis. The construction process of a suspend-dome with a span of 106 m was simulated by using the construction simulation method. It was shown that the iterative tension analysis method provided accurate and reliable simulations, which could be further used to determine the prestress and form of suspend-dome. The presuppositions and obtained computation sequences of the construction simulation method agree well with the practical construction process. This construction simulation method can be utilized for construction simulation.

Sag and Tension of 275 kV Transmission Line using Catenary

This research will develop a catenary method to determine the sag and tension analysis on the 275 kV transmission line conductors. The catenary method is dependent on the equation of the weight of the conductor, the maximum tensile stress of the conducting wire, the length of the span, and the maximum sag of the conductor. The method will be used in determining the value of sag and tension with the design of the model using software AutoCAD. The results of research for the same tower sag height of 6.86 m, with a tension of 4610.83 kg and a conductor length of 401.06 m, while sag for the tower is not the same height of 8.14 m, with a tension of 4612.84 kg, and changes in conductor length 401.06 m. The increase in current causes the sag value to increase, when the minimum current sag value is 6.9828 m, and the maximum current sag value increases to 8.44 m. While the tension will decrease along so that temperature is increased the current minimum pressure of 4531.27kg, and at the time of maximum tension of 3749.728kg. Sag and tension are also affected by ambient temperature when the minimum temperature is 20 ℃ sags are 6.8621 m and when the maximum temperature is 40 ℃ sag increases to 7.793492 m. Tension will decrease with each increase in temperature when the minimum temperature is 20 ℃ tension 4610.538 kg when the maximum temperature is 40 ℃ the tension is reduced to 4062.345 kg.