This article deals with compression of binary sequences with a given number of ones, which can also be considered as a list of indexes of a given length. The first part of the article shows that the entropy H of random n-element binary sequences with...
Soil consolidation, particularly in fine-grained soils like clay, is crucial in predicting settlement and ensuring the stability of structures. Additionally, the compressibility of fine-grained soils is of critical importance not only in civil engine...
The compression index (Cc) serves as a crucial parameter in predicting consolidation settlement in fine-grained soils, representing the slope of the void ratio logarithmic effective stress curve obtained from oedometer tests. However, traditional con...
Accurate prediction of the compression index (cc) is essential for geotechnical infrastructure design, especially in clay-rich coastal regions. Traditional methods for determining cc are often time-consuming and inconsistent due to regional variabili...
As large cities are continually being developed around coastal areas, structural damage due to the consolidation settlement of soft ground is becoming more of a problem. Estimating consolidation settlement requires calculating an accurate compressive...
The accurate prediction of the compression index (Cc) is crucial for understanding the settlement behavior of clayey soils, which is a key factor in geotechnical design. Traditional empirical models, while widely used, often fail to generalize across...
The compression index (Cc) is a critical soil parameter that is used to estimate the consolidation settlement of ground. In this study, the compression index, typically obtained through consolidation tests, was predicted using machine learning techni...
The modified primary compression index (MPCI) of municipal solid waste (MSW) is an important parameter for describing the primary consolidation settlement of MSW. It is beneficial to calculate the settlement and storage capacity of landfills accurate...
In construction projects, estimation of the settlement of fine-grained soils is of critical importance, and yet is a challenging task. The coefficient of consolidation for the compression index (Cc) is a key parameter in modeling the settlement of fi...
A compressed full-text self-index for a text T is a data structure requiring reduced space and able to search for patterns P in T. It can also reproduce any substring of T, thus actually replacing T. Despite the recent explosion of interest on compre...
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the use of the envelope difference index (EDI) and log-likelihood ratio (LLR) to quantify the independent and interactive effects of wide dynamic range compression, digital noise reduction and directionali...
Agro-synthetic stabilization of high-plastic clay is trending due to its vital role in sustainable geotechnical construction and maintenance of clay subgrade. Remoulded samples of high plastic clay (C), ameliorated by optimal doses of 1.2% polyester...
In the process of data services, compressing and indexing data can reduce storage costs, improve query efficiency, and thus enhance the quality of data services. However, different service requirements have diverse demands for data precision. Traditi...
Determining the uniaxial compressive strength of intact rock is the primary objective of a geomechanical project, and a reliable estimate in the early phases saves time and costs for more sophisticated laboratory tests. The problem is knowing which o...
In the field of data analysis and mining, adopting efficient data indexing and compression techniques to spatiotemporal data can significantly reduce computational and storage overhead for the abilities to control the volume of data and exploit the s...
The coefficient of consolidation is traditionally considered as a constant value in soil consolidation calculations. This paper uses compression and recompression indexes to calculate the solution-dependent nonlinear compressibility, thus overconsoli...
Proteins regulate various cellular processes and are of great biological interest. The protein search engine is a crucial tool in proteomics research, used to analyze high-throughput tandem mass spectrometry data and to identify protein sequence info...
In this paper a new concept for control and performance assessment of compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems in a hybrid energy system is introduced. The proposed criterion, based on the concept of energy harvest index (HEI), measures the capab...
Density, viscosity, refractive index, and ultrasonic velocity were measured for the pure materials anisole, methanol, and toluene, and for the binary mixtures: methanol—anisole and methanol—toluene. Excess molar volume VE, isobaric therma...
Artificial cementation of granular soils results in improved stabilization, increased stiffness, and greater mechanical strength. The porosity index and volumetric cement content η/Civa is presented as a key measure to study the evolution of diff...
Uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of rocks is one of the main parameters required in the design of geotechnical projects such as tunnels, dams, or rock slopes. According to the literature, there are a large number of predictive regression equations...
Third-generation (3G) rice pellets were obtained using rice flour (RF) and rice grits (RG), raw materials of similar compositions but different particle sizes. The samples were mixed with water to 25% moisture and extruded using a laboratory single-s...
Introduction: Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) pose a considerable healthcare burden and are linked to elevated morbidity and mortality. Despite available anti-osteoporotic treatments (AOTs), guideline adherence is lacking. This study aims to e...
The calculation of the influx index is one of the most contentious issues in dynamic reserve evaluation of gas reservoirs’ development. For the influx index, it is key to obtain information on the pore compressibility coefficient under realisti...
We aimed to investigate the association between preoperative body mass index (BMI) and postoperative long-term mortality in patients who underwent a vertebroplasty. We retrospectively enrolled patients with a vertebral compression fracture who underw...
Text indexing is a classical algorithmic problem that has been studied for over four decades: given a text T, pre-process it off-line so that, later, we can quickly count and locate the occurrences of any string (the query pattern) in T in time propo...
In this study, we successfully address a significant research and engineering gap by quantitatively assessing the impact of varying compressive loading rates on the mechanical behavior of four popular thermoplastic polymers in material-extrusion-base...
Efficient utilization of biomass requires conversion into forms that can be optimally applied in energy generation. Briquetting involves the compaction of biomass into solid blocks that are more efficient than raw biomass, and provides ease of transp...
An improved hydraulic servo structure testing machine has been used to conduct biaxial dynamic compression tests on eight types of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) with lateral pressure levels of 0, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 (the r...
Due to the widespread use of heavy machinery, improper soil tillage practices, and insufficient soil organic materials input, soil compaction has become a major issue affecting soil function in modern agriculture and the sustainability of the environ...
With the development of the information age, all walks of life are inseparable from the internet. Every day, huge amounts of data are transmitted and stored on the internet. Therefore, to improve transmission efficiency and reduce storage occupancy,...
Deep learning-based image compression achieves remarkable average rate-distortion performance but is prone to failure on noisy, high-frequency, or high-entropy inputs. This work systematically investigates these failure cases and proposes a noise-awa...
Ground settlement resulting from consolidation may lead to tilted buildings, cracks in the pavement, damage to underground utilities, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the consolidation behaviors (including primary consolidation and seconda...
Fly oil shale ash (FOSA) is a waste material known for its pozzolanic activity. This study intends to investigate the optimum thermal treatment conditions to use FOSA efficiently as a cement replacement material. FOSA samples were burned in an electr...
Artificial neural network models, crucial for accurate predictions, should be meticulously designed for specific problems using deep learning-based algorithms. In this study, we compare four distinct deep learning-based artificial neural network arch...
Artificial sand cementation improves stability, stiffness, and mechanical strength, making it a critical process in geotechnical applications. This study analyzes the capability of the porosity–water/binding agent index (ηCw/Biv) to predict...
Exploring the compressibility of the deeply buried marine shale matrix and its controlling factors can help achieve efficient petroleum production. Taking ten sets of deeply buried marine shale core samples from Ning228 wells in the Yanjin area as an...
To investigate the static characteristics of aerostatic journal bearings with porous bushing, the flow model—in which the compressibility of lubricating gas is considered—is established based on the Reynolds lubrication equation, Darcy eq...
In engineering practice, unsaturated compacted loess is often utilized as a filling material in the loess regions. The loess inevitably undergoes one-dimensional compressibility and creep deformation due to the long-term effects of the upper soil lay...
This paper presents a finite element analysis (FEA) of and reliability study on concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) members under the combined effects of corrosion and compressive loading. First, a stochastic-based FE model is established through the p...
To investigate the effects of long-term freeze–thaw cycles on the physical and mechanical properties as well as the attenuation trend of rocks, this study conducted saturated freeze–thaw tests on coarse sandstone and fine sandstone sample...
In order to investigate the compression damage characteristics of the “interface section coal pillar–backfill body (ICPF)” composite structure formed after coal pillar excavation and gangue material backfill in the key technologies...
Machine-harvested seed cotton was taken as the research object to further clarify its creep performance, minimize its power consumption during the loading process, and obtain a better loading method. The uniaxial compression creep test was carried ou...
Under undrained monotonic static loading, saturated loose granular materials may undergo static liquefaction. Tailings, a kind of granular material, pose particularly serious hazards after static liquefaction. To understand the effects of the initial...
To study the impact of limestone powder (LP) fineness on the physical and mechanical characteristics of concrete, a total of 88 sets of LP concrete mixtures were designed, in which the LP content (0~35% of the mass of cementitious materials), LP-spec...
The porosity-to-cement index (η/Civ) has been extensively applied to study the evolution of different types of soil stabilization. However, this index has still not been used to characterize soils cemented with crushed limestone waste (CLW). In t...
Three-dimensional printing is finding increasing applications in today’s world. Due to the accuracy and the possibility of rapid production, the CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) technology has become the most desired...
The massive amount of plastic waste in our natural environment is a global concern. In this study, recycling plastic waste to partially replace natural sand in concrete is investigated. The performance of Resin8, a unique combination of all types of...
Modern boosted spark-ignition (SI) engines and emerging advanced compression ignition (ACI) engines operate under conditions that deviate substantially from the conditions of conventional autoignition metrics, namely the research and motor octane num...
Interface pressure applied by compression bandages is the therapeutic action of the treatment of some venous or lymphatic pathologies. The so-called Static Stiffness Index, which quantifies the pressure increase from supine to standing position, is u...
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