Browsing College of Engineering by Publisher "Academic Press"
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1D convolutional neural networks and applications: A survey
( Academic Press , 2021 , Article)During the last decade, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the de facto standard for various Computer Vision and Machine Learning operations. CNNs are feed-forward Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with ... -
A review of vibration-based damage detection in civil structures: From traditional methods to Machine Learning and Deep Learning applications
( Academic Press , 2021 , Article Review)Monitoring structural damage is extremely important for sustaining and preserving the service life of civil structures. While successful monitoring provides resolute and staunch information on the health, serviceability, ... -
A semi-analytical beam model for the vibration of railway tracks
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)The high frequency dynamic behaviour of railway tracks, in both vertical and lateral directions, strongly affects the generation of rolling noise as well as other phenomena such as rail corrugation. An improved semi-analytical ... -
A survey on service function chaining
( Academic Press , 2016 , Article)Cloud computing is gaining significant attention and virtualized datacenters are becoming popular as a cost-effective infrastructure. The network services are transitioning from a host-centric to a data-centric model moving ... -
Active vibration control of flexible cantilever plates using piezoelectric materials and artificial neural networks
( Academic Press , 2016 , Article)The study presented in this paper introduces a new intelligent methodology to mitigate the vibration response of flexible cantilever plates. The use of the piezoelectric sensor/actuator pairs for active control of plates ... -
An overview on trace CO2 removal by advanced physisorbent materials
( Academic Press , 2020 , Article)This review paper focuses on various gas processing technologies and materials that efficiently capture trace levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Fundamental separation mechanisms such as absorption, adsorption, and distillation ... -
Assessment and modeling of microalgae growth considering the effects OF CO2, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon and solar irradiation
( Academic Press , 2019 , Article)The present study assesses and models the growth of microalgae during the combined processes of concurrent eliminations of CO2 from off-gas and nutrients from wastewater. The growth of single (Spirulina platensis, SP.PL) ... -
Band gap characteristics of periodic gyroscopic systems
( Academic Press , 2018 , Article)The stop and pass bands (i.e. the band gaps) characteristics are determined for gyroscopic systems by developing an approach which is compatible with such class of systems which is based on the concept of Bloch wave ... -
CO<inf>2</inf> solubility in aqueous potassium lysinate solutions at absorber conditions
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)In this work, CO2 solubility in aqueous potassium lysinate solutions has been measured for the concentrations of (1.25–3.28) mol·kg−1 and at temperatures of (313–343) K. The vapour-liquid equilibrium data were correlated ... -
Collaborative hierarchical caching and transcoding in edge network with CE-D2D communication
( Academic Press , 2020 , Article)To support multimedia applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers offer storage and computing capacities to handle videos close to end-users. However, the high load in peak hours consumes the limited available bandwidth ... -
Collaborative joint caching and transcoding in mobile edge networks
( Academic Press , 2019 , Article)Video streaming has become a leading consumer of network resources in the last decade. Despite considerable developments, video content providers still face major challenges, which include minimizing data transfer from ... -
A comparative study of the treatment of ethylene plant spent caustic by neutralization and classical and advanced oxidation
( Academic Press , 2015 , Article)The treatment of spent caustic produced from an ethylene plant was investigated. In the case of neutralization alone it was found that the maximum removal of sulfide was at pH values below 5.5. The higher percentage removal ... -
Distributed in-network processing and resource optimization over mobile-health systems
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Advances in wireless and mobile communication technologies has promoted the development of Mobile-health (m-health) systems to find new ways to acquire, process, transport, and secure the medical data. M-health systems ... -
Dynamic workload patterns prediction for proactive auto-scaling of web applications
( Academic Press , 2018 , Article)Proactive auto-scaling methods dynamically manage the resources for an application according to the current and future load predictions to preserve the desired performance at a reduced cost. However, auto-scaling web ... -
Higher order statistical frequency domain decomposition for operational modal analysis
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Experimental methods based on modal analysis under ambient vibrational excitation are often employed to detect structural damages of mechanical systems. Many of such frequency domain methods, such as Basic Frequency Domain ... -
Image-based body mass prediction of heifers using deep neural networks
( Academic Press , 2021 , Article)Manual weighing of heifers is time-consuming, labour-intensive, expensive, and can be dangerous and risky for both humans and animals because it requires the animal to be stationary. To overcome this problem, automated ... -
Impact of time synchronization error on the mode-shape identification and damage detection/localization in WSNs for structural health monitoring
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a critical challenge for any distributed system such as WSNs for structural health monitoring (SHM). In SHM, mode shape identification, damage detection and damage ... -
Insights into the isotherm and kinetic models for the coadsorption of pharmaceuticals in the absence and presence of metal ions: A review
( Academic Press , 2019 , Article Review)Pharmaceuticals are a wide class of emerging pollutants due to their continuous and the increasing consumption of users. These pollutants are usually found in the real environment as mixtures alone or with metal ions. Thus, ... -
Investigation of the performance of biocompatible gas hydrate inhibitors via combined experimental and DFT methods
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)In this work, three ionic liquids (ILs) from the bio-compatible family of choline cations attached to anions of varying hydrophobicity namely: choline acetate (ChOAc), choline bistriflamide (ChNtf2), and choline chloride ... -
LaCoDa: Layered connected topology for massive data centers
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)One of the fundamental challenges of existing data centers is to design a network that interconnects massive number of servers, and therefore providing an efficient and fault-tolerant routing service to upper-layer ...