Throughout history, nature has exposed humans to destructive phenomena such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and tropical and marine storms. The large scale of damages and casualties caused ...

Some civil engineering-based infrastructures are planned for the structural health monitoring (SHM) system based on their importance. Identifiction and detecting damage automatically at the right time are one of the major ...

The integer word-length optimization known as range analysis (RA) of the fixed-point designs is a challenging problem in high level synthesis and optimization of linear-time-invariant (LTI) systems. The analysis has ...

Bitcoin as the current leader in cryptocurrencies is a new asset class receiving significant attention in the financial and investment community and presents an interesting time series prediction problem. In this paper, ...

This study concentrates on designing a medical waste management system with a hierarchical structure, including a local government and a waste management planner. The upper-level seeks to design and control the waste ...

The properties of Carbon Fiber–Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) are greatly affected under extreme environmental conditions. This paper reports  an experimental study to determine the response of IM7-carbon/977-2 cycom epoxy ...

Today, during the life of an open pit mine, million tons of materials, including waste and ore, are displaced by truck fleets. In the case of a shallow ore deposit, which is located up to 300 meters to the ground surface, ...

For the past decades researchers are showing immense interest to investigate the natural advantage of preparation of composites from minerals such as bauxite particles, and proved their effectiveness as cost effective ...

In spite of excellent corrosion resistance, good ductility and low cost of AISI 316 austenitic stainless steel, the low hardness and poor mechanical characteristic of material restricts its applicability in several industrial ...

The construction project is a business full of risk in every process due to its complexity, changes, and involvement from various stakeholders. One of the critical risks in the construction project is in the supply chain. ...

Granular Pile Anchor (GPA) considers one of the solution foundation techniques, designed to mitigate the lifting of the sole resulting from expansive soils. This study work is to investigate the uplift movement response ...

In this paper, a combination of channel, receiver frequency-dependent IQ imbalance, and carrier frequency offset estimation under short cyclic prefix length is considered in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system. ...

Efficient parallelization of genetic algorithms (GAs) on state-of-the-art multi-threading or many-threading platforms is a challenge due to the difficulty of scheduling hardware resources regarding the concurrency of ...

In order to study the dynamic meshing characteristics of the elliptic cylinder gear and obtain the meshing error of the gear transmission system, the two-dimensional static contact analysis of the gear tooth surface is ...

This work presents a technique for the analysis of facial electromyogram signal activities to classify five different facial expressions for computer-muscle interfacing applications. Facial electromyogram (FEMG) is a ...

Trust establishment is one of the significant resources to enhance the scalability and reliability of resources on cloud environments. To establish a novel trust model on SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud resources and ...

Today, with the growth of technology, monitoring processes by the use of video and satellite sensors have been more expanded, due to their rich and valuable information. Recently, some researchers have used sequential ...

The shaft deflection is one of critical factors that deteriorate the grease lubrication state inside the tapered roller bearings (TRBs). So, in this paper, on the premise of the TRB subjected to the combined loads and the ...

The classification of various document image classes is considered an important step towards building a modern digital library or office automation system. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifiers trained with ...

The inevitable depletion of mineral resources, the constant deterioration of the geological and mining conditions for the development of mineral deposits and the restoration of raw materials from mining waste by recycling ...