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The increasing adoption of electric vehicles has introduced challenges in maintaining grid stability, energy efficiency, and economic optimization. Advanced control strategies are required to ensure seamless integration while enhancing system reliabi...

The automatic character recognition of historic documents gained more attention from scholars recently, due to the big improvements in computer vision, image processing, and digitization. While Neural Networks, the current state-of-the-art models use...

This study presents a methodology to optimize concrete mixtures by integrating machine learning (ML) and genetic algorithms. ML models are used to predict compressive strength, while genetic algorithms optimize the mixture cost under quality constrai...

In traditional slope stability analysis, it is assumed that some “average” or appropriately “conservative” properties operate over the entire region of interest. This kind of deterministic conservative analysis often results i...

This systematic review investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in cost estimation within project management, focusing on its impact on accuracy and efficiency compared to traditional methods. This study synthesizes findings from...

A novel concrete-filled corrugated steel tubular (CFCST) column composed of corner steel bars and corrugated steel plates filled with concrete has been proposed recently. Columns with large height-to-width ratios are commonly used in practice, where...

Mechanical metamaterials have become a critical research focus across various engineering fields. Recent advancements have pushed the development of reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials to achieve adaptive mechanical behaviours against external st...

Our objective in this work is to demonstrate how physics-informed neural networks, a type of deep learning technology, can be utilized to examine the mechanical properties of a helicopter blade. The blade is regarded as a one-dimensional prismatic ca...

The reliable and repeatable fabrication of complex geometries with predetermined homogeneous properties is still a major challenge in electron beam powder bed fusion (PBF-EB). Although previous research identified a variety of process parameter&ndash...

A This paper proposes a modified real-time transient modelling (MRTTM) framework to address the critical challenge of leak detection and localization in pipeline transmission systems. Pipelines are essential infrastructure for transporting liquids an...

Friction has long been an important issue in multibody dynamics. Static friction models apply appropriate regularization techniques to convert the stick inequality and the non-smooth stick–slip transition of Coulomb’s approach into a cont...

In 2020, 37% of global CO₂eq. emissions were attributed to the construction sector. The major effort to reduce this share of emissions has been focused on reducing the operational carbon of buildings. Recently, awareness has also been raised on the r...

This study investigates the transformative impact of smart intelligence, leveraging the Internet of Things and edge-cloud platforms in smart urban development. Smart urban development, by integrating diverse digital technologies, generates substantia...

This paper presents a novel integrated control architecture for automotive battery management systems (BMSs). The primary focus is on estimating the state of charge (SoC) and the state of health (SoH) of a battery pack made of sixteen parallel-connec...

A frequency-reconfigurable MIMO antenna with high gain, low mutual coupling and highly suppressed side lobe level (SLL) for applications in 24 GHz ISM band sensing and automotive radar systems was designed, modeled, and simulated. The reconfigurabili...

In this paper, we address the modeling, simulation, and control of a rotary inverted pendulum (RIP). The RIP model assembled via the MATLAB (Matlab 2021a)^®/Simulink (Simulink 10.3) Simscape (Simscape 7.3)™ environment demonstrates a high de...

Metal creep has been a subject of extensive study for more than 110 years because it affects the useful life of engineering components operating at high temperatures. This is even more true with ever-increasing operating temperatures of propulsion/po...

Manufacturing defects, such as porosity and inclusions, can significantly compromise the structural integrity and performance of additively manufactured parts by acting as stress concentrators and potential initiation sites for failure. This paper in...

Public organizations must provide high-quality services at a lower cost. In order to accomplish this goal, they need to apply well accepted cost methods and evaluate the efficiency of their processes using Business Process Management (BPM). However,...

Aqueous sources like salt lake brines and seawater are the most abundant source for lithium ions and might contribute to the growing demand for lithium for energy storage. By coupling with the increasingly relevant reverse osmosis systems, nanofiltra...

We have developed a three-dimensional hybrid finite-discrete element model to investigate the mode I tensile opening failure of alumina ceramic. This model implicitly considers the flaw system in the material and explicitly shows the macroscopic fail...

Due to the tool-less fabrication of parts and the high degree of geometric design freedom, additive manufacturing is experiencing increasing relevance for various industrial applications. In particular, the powder bed fusion of metals using a laser b...

A roadway path is most commonly perceived as a 3-D element structure placed within its surrounding environment either within or outside urban areas. Design guidelines are usually strictly followed to ensure safe and comfort transportation of people a...

Efficient management of hospital evacuations and pharmaceutical supply chains is a critical challenge in modern healthcare, particularly during emergencies. This study addresses these challenges by proposing a novel bi-objective optimization framewor...

Complex engineering models are typically computationally demanding and defined by a high-dimensional parameter space challenging the comprehensive exploration of parameter effects and design optimization. To overcome this curse of dimensionality and...

Buried flexible pipes are allowed to deflect up to 2–5% of the pipe diameter, which can become problematic for the connected direct-bury, large-diameter butterfly valves. The complex behavior of the pipe–valve–soil system makes it d...

The behaviour of polymeric pipes in transient flows has been proved to be viscoelastic. Generalized Kelvin–Voigt (GKV) models perform very well when simulating the experimental pressure. However, in the literature, no general indications on the...

Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) is a broad domain with publications covering interrelated subdisciplines and considered a key source of knowledge sharing. Previous studies used scientometric methods to assess the current impact of CEM p...

A new technique is proposed to increase the prediction accuracy of artificial neural networks (ANNs). This technique applies a stepwise regression (SR) procedure to the input data variables, which adds nonlinear terms into the input data in a way tha...

In reliability studies, we are interested in the behaviour of a system when it interacts with its surrounding environment. To assess the system’s behaviour in a reliability sense, we can take the system’s intrinsic quality as strength and...

In the realm of advanced material science, multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) have emerged as a focal point due to their exceptional mechanical properties and adaptability for high-performance applications. This study embarks on an extensive inve...

The prediction of the equilibrium and metastable morphologies during the solidification of Ni-based superalloys on the mesoscopic scale can be performed using phase-field modeling. In the present paper, we apply the phase-field model to simulate the...

This study investigates the seismic performance of two-, four-, and six-story composite buildings equipped with viscous wall dampers, focusing on structures with concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns and steel beams. Through nonlinear time his...

Agriculture drones face important challenges regarding autonomy and construction, as flying time below the 9-minute mark is the norm, and their manufacture requires several tests and research before reaching proper flight dynamics. Therefore, correct...

This study introduces an innovative technique that merges computer vision with topology optimization to advance additive manufacturing. Employing advanced photogrammetry software, we obtain high-resolution images of the design domain, which are then...

The purpose of this work is a comparative analysis of the workpiece shape, and parameters of the stress-strain state during deformation on two radial-shear rolling mills with different roll configurations to determine the most suitable scheme for obt...

Healthcare systems in low-resource settings need effective methods for managing their scant resources, especially people and equipment. Digital technologies may provide means for circumventing the constraints hindering low-income economies from impro...

Effective sound absorption is crucial in environments like schools and hospitals. This study evaluates open-pore polyurethane foam and perforated onyx panels, which attenuate noise via distinct mechanisms: porous materials convert sound energy to hea...

We consider the problem of system-level balanced scheduling in a pediatric hospital setting. A hospital clinic has a queue for patients needing care. After being seen in clinic, many require follow-up surgery, for which they also wait in a queue. The...

This study presents an experimental and numerical investigation into the stress field in cylinders manufactured from photosensitive resin using the Masked Stereolithography (MSLA) technique. For material characterization, tensile and bending test dat...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a widespread evolutionary technique that has successfully solved diverse optimization problems across various application fields. However, when dealing with more complex optimization problems, PSO can suffer from...

Social media users often express their emotions through text in posts and tweets, and these can be used for sentiment analysis, identifying text as positive or negative. Sentiment analysis is critical for different fields such as politics, tourism, e...

Mutual exclusion algorithms are at the heart of concurrent/parallel and distributed systems. It is well known that such algorithms are very difficult to analyze, and in the literature, different conjectures about starvation freedom and the number of...

The structural health monitoring (SHM) technique is a highly competent operative process dedicated to improving the resilience of an infrastructure by evaluating its system state. SHM is performed to identify any modification in the dynamic propertie...

The transportation industry’s transition to carbon neutrality is essential for addressing sustainability concerns. This study details a model for calculating the carbon footprint of the transportation sector as it progresses towards carbon neut...

Perforated steel members (PSMs) are now frequently used in building construction due to their beneficial features, including their proven blast-resistance abilities. To safeguard against structural failures from explosions and terrorist threats, perf...

Understanding and analyzing the search intent of a user semantically based on their input query has emerged as an intriguing challenge in recent years. It suffers from small-scale human-labeled training data that produce a very poor hypothesis of rar...

The remarkable growth of process mining applications in care pathway monitoring is undeniable. One of the sub-emerging case studies is the use of patients’ location data in process mining analyses. While the streamlining of published works is f...

Socio-cyber-physical systems (SCPSs) have emerged as networked heterogeneous systems that incorporate social components (e.g., business processes and social networks) along with physical (e.g., Internet-of-Things devices) and software components. Mod...

Subsea pipelines and cables placed in ice-prone regions may be at risk of iceberg damage. In particular, pipes that are not buried may come in direct contact with iceberg keels. Knowing the range of interaction forces helps to assess the types and ma...