Design of steel and concrete composite beams according to NBR8800:2008 using pygad genetic algorithm and python implementation by Paula Cristina de Lima Bastos, Francisco de Assis das Neves, Walliston dos Santos Fernandes

“…Important parameters, such as bending inertia, weight, elastic modulus, radius of gyration and simple bending were used in a weighting function, consisting of a linear combination of these parameters and weights. …”
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Influence of the Mesoscopic Viscoelastic Contact Model on Characterizing the Rheological Behavior of Asphalt Concrete in the DEM Simulation by Jiaolong Ren, Zhe Liu, Jinshun Xue, Yinshan Xu

“…The results will be beneficial to select the appropriate mesoscopic contact model for the DEM modeling of asphalt concrete according to the loading conditions.…”
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Study on axial compressive behavior and mesoscopic structural evolution of FRP confined coal gangue concrete. by Qingwen Li, Mengjiao Xu, Chuangchuang Pan, Lei Zhang, Yuqi Zhong, Wenxia Li, Shuhan Gu, Mengmeng Yu

“…This study is of great significance for selecting the appropriate type of FRP confinement for concrete under different coal gangue replacement rates.…”
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Physicochemical and Mechanical Characterization of Raffia vinifera Pith by N. R. Sikame Tagne, T. E. Mbou, O. Harzallah, D. Ndapeu, W. Huisken, D. Nkemaja, E. Njeugna, M. Fogue, J-Y. Drean

“…RVP has better specific properties, and the results of the matrix properties show that we can easily select another matrix which has better properties than the case studied during the elaboration of composites.…”
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Surface Relief Gratings of Slide-Ring Hydrogels for Label-Free Biosensing by Aitor Cubells-Gómez, María Isabel Lucío, María-José Bañuls, Ángel Maquieira

“…These hydrogels, functionalized with bovine serum albumin and goat anti-rabbit antibodies, demonstrated excellent selectivity and sensitivity toward anti-bovine serum albumin and rabbit IgGs in blood serum, evaluated using a label-free format. …”
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Finite Element Model Updating of Large-Span-Cable-Stayed Bridge Based on Response Surface by Yanjun Lv, Juchao Wu, Junlong Li, Wei Wang, Tongning Wang, Ye Yuan, Jianing Wang

“…This paper presents a case study of a cable-stayed bridge in which the FE model is refined using the response surface method based on experimental data from dead load and dynamic load tests. The elastic modulus and density of the main girder, tower, and cables are selected as the parameters to be updated, while the mid-span deflection and the first three vertical natural frequencies serve as the responses. …”
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Study on in-situ mechanical response and energy evolution law of water-immersed mudstone by Chenhong PAN, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Yulong JIANG, Kai WANG, Jian HOU, Jixin CHEN, Wenwei WANG

“…The experimental results show that water immersion significantly degrades the peak strength and elastic modulus of the mudstone, and this degradation exhibits apparent time-dependent effects. …”
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Effect of Indenter Angle on Bearing Performance of Coal and Accompanying Rocks Under Point Load and Characterization of Mechanical Parameters by Qian Wang, Yujiang Zhang, Delong Cui, Guorui Feng, Yunlou Du, Shuai Zhang, Haojie Cheng, Zhengjun Zhang

“…ABSTRACT Coal, mudstone, sandstone, and limestone, which are common in coal mines, were selected as research objects, and 60°, 90°, and 120° indenters were used to conduct point load tests to study the deformation and failure laws of rocks under point loads. …”
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Multiscale mechanical analysis for biomimetic implant design based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) lattices: Application to partial replacement of femoral bone by Chrysoula Chatzigeorgiou, Boris Piotrowski, Fodil Meraghni, Yves Chemisky

“…The use of TPMS-based lattice structures with smooth junctions offers the potential to tailor the apparent modulus of an implant while minimizing stress concentration throughout the microstructure. …”
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Tuning and validation of a virtual mechanical testing pipeline for condylar stress fracture risk assessment in Thoroughbred racehorses by Soroush Irandoust, Chris Whitton, Corinne Henak, Peter Muir

“…Twelve (n = 12) MC3 condyles with available ex vivo strain were selected. Half of the specimens were used for tuning Young’s modulus in fatigue sites, and the other half were used to evaluate the validity of the pipeline in predicting PSG strain. …”
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On-demand prediction of low-frequency average sound absorption coefficient of underwater coating using machine learning by Nansha Gao, Mou Wang, Xiao Liang, Guang Pan

“…The sound absorption coefficient, surface characteristic impedance, equivalent volume longitudinal wave modulus, and equivalent sound velocity are calculated and solved. …”
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Experimental Study on Soil Hardening Model Parameters of First-stage Terrace of Yangtze River in Wuhan by LI Guang-cheng, SHAO Yong, Yi Pan-pan, WANG Lu, CHEN Ming, MA Lu-han

“…Using experimental data, adjusted experimental data, and empirical data from other regions in China, the relationships among different modulus parameters of typical soil layers in this region were analyzed. …”
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Viscoelastic Properties of Electrospray‐Deposited Polymer Shells via Quartz Crystal Microbalance With Dissipation (QCM‐D) by Robert A. Green‐Warren, Noah M. McAllister, Parameshwaran Pasupathy, Assimina A. Pelegri, Jonathan P. Singer, N. Sanjeeva Murthy

“…Although the shear moduli for ESD films calculated from Voigt models is only 0.08%–0.20% of the bulk PS modulus, the stiffness ratio of spray‐coated PS to a single shell is (5.00–13.3) × 103 m−1, due to shell–shell and shell–substrate interactions. …”
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Experimental Research and Sensitivity Analysis of Mudstone Similar Materials Based on Orthogonal Design by Caoxuan Wen, Shanpo Jia, Xiaofei Fu, Lingdong Meng, Zhenyun Zhao

“…The results indicate that the selected raw materials and their proportion are feasible, which can meet similar requirements and can be a reference for similar material experimental research of target mudstone.…”
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Analysis of Requirements and the Feasible Limit for Error Reduction in Two-Parameter Magnetic Determination of Steels’ Hardness by S. G. Sandomirski

“…It was found that reduction of σF is most pronounced when x1 and x2 are inversely correlated with the maximum modulus |R| of the correlation coefficient R between them. …”
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A comparative performance study on the development of hybrid extreme gradient boosting models for predicting rock layer subsidence in subsea gold mine by Weijun Liu, Zhixiang Liu, Meng Wang, Shuangxia Zhang

“…Twelve influencing factors were selected as input variables, including days, drilling depth, tunnel depth, tunnel angle, density, Poisson's ratio, compressive strength, elastic modulus, tensile strength, softening coefficient, cohesion force, and internal friction angle, and the rock layer subsidence displacement was chosen as the output variable. …”
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The Graft of ANN-FEM Technique in Macro-mechanics of Multi-oriented Natural Fiber/Polyester Laminates by Christian Emeka Okafor, Christopher Chukwutoo Ihueze

“…On the whole, there was steady reduction in laminates elastic modulus which points to compromised stiffness in material principal axis arising from gradual failure of the plies, this trend continued until the last ply failure occurred in ply 3 and 4 at 90 degrees in tensile mode of transverse direction. …”
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Data-driven axial compressive strength investigation of FRP-confined coral aggregate concrete by Chang Zhou, Kai-Di Peng, Yu-Lei Bai

“…A dataset comprising 115 samples is created, and eight input features are selected for developing and evaluating ML models. Besides, six empirical formulae are used to compare their performance against the ML models. …”
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EFFECT OF WATER-CEMENT RATIO ON RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF FOAM CONCRETE MADE OF LOCAL RAW MATERIALS by Kamil A. Otsokov

“…During the experimental work, the following materials were used: M500 cement, siliceous filler (quartz sand from the deposit in the Kumtorkalinsky district of the Republic of Dagestan with a low modulus of grain size, various synthetic foaming agents), perlite sand, ground expanded clay sand (Kizilyurt, Republic of Dagestan), stone crushing screenings (Kizilyurt, Republic of Dagestan). …”
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Mechanical behavior and energy absorption capability of trigonometric function curved rod cell-based lattice structures under compressive loading by Linlin Zhang, Junwei Wu, Yuejing Zhao, Zhiying Qin

“…The TCRC-ipv configuration exhibits optimal comprehensive mechanical properties: compared with the reference BCC structure, it achieves 39.2% enhancement in elastic modulus, 59.4% increase in peak compressive strength, and 46.1% improvement in yield strength. …”
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