In this study, the design of a flexible cable–strut tensile structure was optimised according to the importance of elements to achieve high structural robustness. First, the importance coefficients of elements were determined by comparing their...
This paper focuses on the problem of finding a particular data recommendation strategy based on the user preference and a system expected revenue. To this end, we formulate this problem as an optimization by designing the recommendation mechanism as...
Theoretical or numerical progressive collapse analysis is necessary for important civil structures in case of unforeseen accidents. However, currently, most analytical research is carried out under the assumption of material elasticity for problem si...
It is necessary to perform the robustness design for the progressive collapse resistance of grid structures. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive index to evaluate the member importance. An evaluation method on element importances is proposed...
With the increasing penetration of new energy sources, the volatility and uncertainty of new energy output can lead to interruptions or fluctuations in the supply of electricity. Power cuts to critical loads can have a significant impact on public sa...
The current literature lacks an effective progressive collapse analysis of a cable dome structure induced by joint damage. In this study, a dynamic analysis was performed using actual construction cases, an ANSYS LS-DYNA analysis platform, and a full...
In this study, using in-house code I-COSTA, importance analyses are performed on the phenomenological parameters in the aerosol dynamics using International Standard Problem No. 44. The analyses consider twelve parameters used in multicomponent secti...
Assessing the importance of nodes in urban rail transit systems helps enhance their ability to respond to emergencies and improve reliability in view of the fact that most of the existing methods for evaluating the importance of rail transit nodes ig...
The geometrical and topological features of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) play an important role in determining their ability to capture and store methane (CH4). Methane is a greenhouse gas that has been shown to be more dangerous in terms of contr...
Given the growing concerns over water scarcity and the state’s emphasis on livestock sector development, this study aims to evaluate the effect of variations in livestock units (camels, cattle, goats, and sheep) on domestic red meat production...
Multi-criteria decision-making methods based on reference points and distances from them are essential for evaluating alternatives across multiple criteria. These methods provide structured approaches to comparing and ranking alternatives relative to...
Enhancing the durability and tribological performance of babbitt alloys is critical for high-stress applications in automotive, marine, and industrial machinery. The present study explores the electrodeposition of chromium coatings on SnSb11Cu6 alloy...
Modern industrial machine applications often contain data collection functions through automation systems or external sensors. Yet, while the different data collection mechanisms might be effortless to construct, it is advised to have a well-balanced...
Repellents play a fundamental role in vector control and prevention to keep mosquitoes away from humans. Available in limited numbers, it is absolutely necessary to find new repellents for preventing problems of resistance. QSAR (Quantitative Structu...
Oxygen impurity transport in the typical discharges of the Aditya tokamak was investigated using emissivity radial profile of emissivity of the spectral line (2p3p 3D3–2p3d 3F4) at 650.024 nm from the Be-like oxygen ion. This O4+ spectral line...
This paper mainly focuses on the problem of lossy compression storage based on the data value that represents the subjective assessment of users when the storage size is still not enough after the conventional lossless data compression. To this end,...
Mining relatively important nodes with respect to known significant nodes in complex networks is a pivotal branch of node importance research, with promising applications ranging from epidemic risk inference to disease-gene prioritization. Among exis...
Facing the problem of massive unlabeled data and limited labeled samples, semi-supervised learning is favored, especially co-training. Standard co-training requires sufficiently redundant and conditionally independent dual views; however, in fact, fe...
The lack of skid resistance performance is a crucial factor leading to road traffic accidents. The pavement surface friction is an essential indicator for measuring the skid resistance. The surface texture structure significantly affects the friction...
Robustness and vulnerability are important evaluation criteria for structural safety to improve progressive collapse resistance. Modeling rapid evaluation on important elements in the conceptual analysis stage is an essential and efficient way to ens...
Culture is an irreplaceable means of transferring information between generations. The development of culture, the cultural environment, and the effect of culture exist over the long term. The results are not shown immediately, whereas the economics...
Facility location is one of the critical strategic decisions for any organization. It not only carries the organization’s identity but also connects the point of origin and point of consumption. In the case of higher educational institutions, specifi...
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), predominantly driven by cyanobacteria, pose significant risks to water quality, public health, and aquatic ecosystems. Lake Erie, particularly its western basin, has been severely impacted by HABs, largely due to nutrient...
This study aimed to determine the actual crop evapotranspiration (ETc act) and the crop coefficient (Kc) of economically important fruit crops in the Amazon, under both irrigated and non-irrigated conditions. The ETc act was determined using the soil...
In this study, the progressive collapse behaviour of a cable dome structure was analysed and evaluated according to the importance of element. First, the dynamic response and collapse mode caused by the removal of different types of cables and struts...
Based on the complex network theory, we established a topological network of the Beijing subway under Space L, Space P, and Space C. Then, we analyzed the complex characteristics of the subway network under each topological network, proposed the glob...
Aiming at the problem that the current coefficient of restitution model cannot effectively predict energy dissipation in the multi-body system collision process, a coefficient of restitution model considering the yield strength is proposed in this ar...
In this study, China’s virtual water trade was measured on the basis of multi-region input/output tables, and its influencing factors of change were decomposed. The results revealed that virtual water export and import increased from 161.5 billion to...
Abstract: The natural gas receives universal attention and priority use around the world because of its high quality and cleanness. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries’ data on imports of natural gas are rich i...
In recent years, selecting appropriate learning models has become more important with the increased need to analyze learning systems, and many model selection methods have been developed. The learning coefficient in Bayesian estimation, which serves...
The logarithmic coefficients are very essential in the problems of univalent functions theory. The importance of the logarithmic coefficients is due to the fact that the bounds on logarithmic coefficients of f can transfer to the Taylor coefficients...
Since the literature lacks an effective analysis method of collapse mechanisms and optimisation design theory for progressive collapse resistance of cable dome structure, a structural performance-based optimisation approach was proposed to improve th...
Dispersion characteristics are important factors affecting groundwater solute transport in porous media. In marine environments, solute dispersion leads to the formation of freshwater aquifers under islands. In this study, a series of model tests wer...
As an important atmospheric component, aerosols play a very important role in the radiation budget balance of the earth–atmosphere system. To study the optical characteristics of aerosols, it is necessary to use an inversion algorithm to proces...
With the great leaps forward in the development of the railway, the importance of safe operation and maintenance has become increasingly prominent. Varistor is the key component insurge protective devices for railway communication and signaling equip...
This paper addresses the impact of mechanical vibrations of different frequencies on a particular type of valve. It has been shown that a neural network can be used to compress measurement data and determine the frequency range that is most important...
This study aimed to test the friction coefficient of cryogenic bearing lubrication materials. A ball-on-disc type friction tester was developed in our lab using air bearings that could simulate the movement of cryogenic bearings under sliding-rolling...
Wireless power transmission (WPT) is commonly used today in many important daily applications, such as electric vehicles, mobile phones, and implanted medical devices. The transmitter and receiver coils are essential elements in the WPT system, and t...
A gas cooler is one of the important parts of a carbon dioxide (CO2) heat pump water heater, and it must meet the needs of not only pressurization but also heat transfer. It is important to study gas coolers. In this paper, a heat exchanger with a sp...
In applied sciences, besides the importance of obtaining the analytical solutions of differential equations with constant coefficients, the qualitative analysis of the solutions of such equations is also very important. Due to this importance, in thi...
John L. Holland’s theory of vocational choice is one of the most prominent career theories and is used by both researchers and practitioners around the world. The theory states that people should seek work environments that fit their vocational...
The root residual stress during gear machining has a significant impact on the bending fatigue performance of the gear. The process parameters of gear hobbing (hob speed, axial feed speed, and radial cutting depth) directly affect the residual stress...
The Philippines is located in the typhoon belt region in the western side of the Pacific Ocean. Every year, an average of twenty typhoons pass through the country, resulting in the loss of life and property. As the design of the roofing is an importa...
Based on the consideration of the relative importance of sustainability-related objectives and the inherent nature of sustainable construction projects, this study proposes that the contractor can balance the levels of efforts and resources used to i...
In numerous geometric and physical applications of complex analysis, estimating the sharp bounds of coefficient-related problems of univalent functions is very important due to the fact that these coefficients describe the core inherent properties of...
Novel attempts to optimize the design and requalification of offshore structures draws attention to the importance of updating information about the environmental forces. One of the important steps to design or re-assess offshore structures is the re...
In this paper, we create a new subclass of convex functions given with tangent functions applying the combination of Babalola operators and Binomial series. Moreover, we obtain several important geometric results, including sharp coefficient bounds,...
Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) face persistent trade-cost disadvantages arising from distance, transit dependence, border frictions, and uneven logistics performance. This study reconstructs bilateral merchandise exports for 11 Asian LLDCs t...
Although the issue of corporate culture has been taken over and addressed in the literature from various perspectives, there are very few researchers about the role of leadership and motivation in it, respectively very few researchers have addressed...
The method of pseudo-static analysis has been widely used to perform seismic slope stability, in which a seismic coefficient is used to represent the earthquake shaking effect. However, it is important but difficult to select the magnitude of seismic...
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