Tag: structural engineering

A comparative study of nine optimization algorithms shows that evolutionary methods like NSGA-II and NSGA-III, combined with surrogate modeling, can ...

A 330-model finite element study of composite steel-concrete beams reveals that circular web openings outperform all other shapes, while opening ...

A new review in Mechanical Sciences surveys analytical, numerical, statistical, and AI-based methods for predicting how ice and wind hazards ...

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers found that wave-shaped wall and roof surfaces can reduce peak hurricane wind pressures on low-rise ...

New experiments show that rockwool, though non-combustible, can lose over 90 percent of its mechanical strength after high-temperature exposure, while ...

A new study shows that machine learning models, particularly Support Vector Machines, predict the shear strength of recycled aggregate concrete ...

A new quasi-adaptive pushover framework called IOPER uses hysteretic energy dissipation to redistribute seismic forces between analysis iterations, matching dynamic ...

Researchers have developed a strut-and-tie model that accurately predicts the shear strength of squat shear walls locally reinforced with ultra-high ...

Researchers built an XGBoost-based surrogate model, trained on over a thousand simulated column tests, that predicts the residual hysteretic behavior ...

New experiments show that columns built around salvaged concrete components, with nearly half their volume made of recycled material, can ...