Abstract: Engineering education has traditionally been imparted through the lecture-tutorial-laboratory paradigm. Education technology in the last few years has tried to make teaching more effective by supplementing the chalkboard ...

Abstract: The influence of steel fibers on the fatigue resistance of concrete in direct compression, based on experiments, and an assessment of it through neural network modeling have been presented. Both straight and hooked fibers ...

Abstract: Optimization of concrete structures at the conceptual design stage has been based so far on informal methods. The designer would use his expertise, which is often heuristic, to find optimum solutions. The optimization at ...

Abstract: The electromechanical impedance technique employs surface-bonded lead zirconate titanate piezoelectric ceramic patches as impedance transducers for structural health monitoring and nondestructive evaluation. The patches ...