The Cost of Quality (COQ) is widely recognized in manufacturing as a critical performance metric, yet its application in the construction industry remains less established due to fundamental ...

Abstract: A study utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNN) has been conducted to detect and classify invisible debonding-type defects in reinforced structures. Training data for these defects is ...

The airport’s location right by the ocean posed geotechnical challenges including extreme amounts of groundwater.

Abstract: In this work, a finite element method (FEM)-based numerical framework is proposed to effectively calculate the drift-diffusion equations and compiled into a parallel computing device ...