摘要：竹子自古就是建筑材料，但其使用因屋顶的荷载分布受到限制。竹建筑技术的标准化受制于不同地理和环境条件下竹子性能各有不同。另外，由于缺乏成本效益来确定竹结构的安全性，竹子不能大量用在建筑结构中。为解决这些缺点和对竹子作为建筑荷载构件的研究中不足，本试验研究评估了结构竹横梁的荷载能力，该实验是通过特别设计的测验设备来进行的。通过对横梁结构的荷载分析，取得了可喜的成果，从而证明竹子有极高可能用于建筑结构的荷载构件。将竹子大量用在建筑上不仅能提供更多的经济适用房，还可以解决环境问题。

摘要：The goal of this paper is to design and develop low conversion loss mixers at Ku Band (12 - 18 GHz) in microstrip line configuration. The Ku-band (Kurtz-under band) is primarily used for satellite Communications, particularly for editing and broadcasting satellite television. CAD tools (Agilent’s Advance Design System software) have been used for simulation and optimization of the circuits. 180 degree balanced mixer configuration has been adopted due to better RF to LO isolation requirement. The circuit is designed on microstrip line using RT Duroid (Dielectric Constant = 2.22). Initially a rat race coupler (180 degree hybrid) was designed and simulated and optimized for required performance successfully.