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Kun Zhang, Jianyao Yao, Wenxiang Zhu, Zhifu Cao, Teng Li and Jianqiang Xin
The thermal protection system (TPS) represents one of the most critical subsystems for vehicle re-entry. However, due to uncertainties in thermal loads, material properties, and manufacturing deviations, the thermal response of the TPS exhibits significa...
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Roman Rybka, Yury Davydov, Danila Vlasov, Alexey Serenko, Alexander Sboev and Vyacheslav Ilyin
Developing a spiking neural network architecture that could prospectively be trained on energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware to solve various data analysis tasks requires satisfying the limitations of prospective analog or digital hardware, i.e., local...
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Saroj Maharjan, Antoine Poujol, Christophe Martin, Gabriele Ameri, David Baumont, Kiana Hashemi, Yacine Benjelloun and Hussein Shible
Nepal is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, as highlighted by the recent devastating 2015, Mw~7.8 Gorkha earthquake, and a robust assessment of seismic hazard is paramount for the design of earthquake-resistant structures. In this s...
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Jian-Xiong Gao, Fei Heng, Yi-Ping Yuan and Yuan-Yuan Liu
Fatigue damage accumulation will not only cause the degradation of material performance but also lead to the growth of effective stress and critical stiffness. However, the existing fatigue reliability models usually ignore the effective stress growth an...
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Noah J. Bagazinski and Faez Ahmed
Ship design is a years-long process that requires balancing complex design trade-offs to create a ship that is efficient and effective. Finding new ways to improve the ship design process could lead to significant cost savings in the time and effort requ...
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Alessandro Rasulo, Sofia Nardoianni, Azzurra Evangelisti and Mauro D?Apuzzo
Transportation networks are one of the most vulnerable civil infrastructures during an earthquake and an estimation of traffic impacts in the post-earthquake scenario is a crucial aspect in the context of risk assessment and evaluation of remedial measur...
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Michal Juszczyk
Analyses of efficiency are vital for planning and monitoring the duration and costs of construction works, as well as the entire construction project. This paper introduces a combined quantitative (probabilistic) and qualitative (machine learning-based) ...
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Utkarsh Bhardwaj, Angelo Palos Teixeira and C. Guedes Soares
This paper assesses the uncertainty of the partial safety factors for the design of corroded pipelines against burst failure due to the variability associated with the strength model selection. First, 10 calibrated burst pressure prediction models for co...
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Mario Castaneda-Lopez, Thomas Lenoir, Jean-Pierre Sanfratello and Luc Thorel
The indirect tensile strength of two geomaterials treated with variable cement contents, degrees of compaction and water contents were tested after several curing times. A statistical review through an analysis of variance allows for identifying the sign...
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Simone Ciccolella, Gianluca Della Vedova, Vladimir Filipovic and Mauricio Soto Gomez
Being able to infer the clonal evolution and progression of cancer makes it possible to devise targeted therapies to treat the disease. As discussed in several studies, understanding the history of accumulation and the evolution of mutations during cance...
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