Funding agencies such as the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of The National Academies make their online grant databases publicly ...

Construction Management (CM) has to deal with a variety of uncertainties related to Time, Cost, Quality and Safety, to name a few. Such uncertainties make the entire construction process highly unpredictable. It therefore ...

Assessment of wear rate is an inseparable section of the sawability of dimension stone and an essential task to optimization in diamond wire saw performance. The aim of this research is to provide an accurate, practical ...

Recently the design of RC building to mitigate seismic loads has received a great attention. Since Saudi Arabia has low to moderate seismicity, most of buildings were designed only for gravity load. The objective of this ...

The purpose of this paper is to perform a structural optimisation of a flat thermoplastic plate (tile). This task is developed computationally through the interface between an optimisation algorithm and the finite element ...

The aim of this paper is determination of the shear strength of fiber reinforced polymer reinforced concrete flexural members without stirrups. For this purpose, neural network approach was used. The weights and biases of ...

This paper presents a model for calculation of torsion capacity of the reinforced concrete beams using the artificial neural network. Considering the complex reaction of reinforced concrete beams under torsion moments, ...