Effects of LECA Content on the Behavior of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete at High Temperature by Lafta Ghassan M., Ali Ahmed S.

“…This paper examines how steel fiber and the amount of lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) affect the mechanical and microstructural properties of geopolymer concrete (GPC) made from fly ash after being heated. …”
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Study on Vibration Control and Parameters Influence of Cable Inerter Viscous Damping System by Ruoyu Zhang, Meigen Cao

“…The research shows that the additional mass and damping of CIVD can be amplified hundreds of times through the rotation, so as to realize the lightweight and high efficiency of the damper and make up for the engineering defects of the traditional TMD system. …”
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DM-YOLO: improved YOLOv9 model for tomato leaf disease detection by Abudukelimu Abulizi, Junxiang Ye, Halidanmu Abudukelimu, Wenqiang Guo

“…Specifically, firstly, lightweight dynamic up-sampling DySample is incorporated into the feature fusion backbone network to enhance the ability to extract features of small lesions and suppress the interference from the background environment; secondly, the MPDIoU loss function is used to enhance the learning of the details of overlapping lesion margins in order to improve the accuracy of localizing overlapping lesion margins. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Impact of the Stirrer Design in the Stir Casting Route to Produce Metal Matrix Composites by Farooq Muhammad, Shawnam Jalal

“…Aluminum matrix composites are widely utilized in many sectors, and their popularity is rising due to their ability to combine high mechanical characteristics with their lightweight. Stir casting is typically achieved in a closed crucible with an invisible flow pattern to produce aluminum alloy matrix composites. …”
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Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls by E. Shahabpoor, A. Pavic

“…By using a similar analogy for lightweight floor structures, it is shown that ignoring the dynamics of floors in the contact model can result in an up to 35% overestimation of the peak force experienced by a falling human. …”
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Real-Time Identification of Nonstandard Thermal Inkjet Codes on the Surface of Hot-Rolled Steel Sheets in Complex Environments by Xing-Hua Wang, Le Liang, Hong-Wei Sun, Wei-Bin Chen, Can-Can Wang, Yang-Yang Sun

“…Most of the existing mainstream identification methods rely on manual visual observation and traditional image recognition to obtain them, with low recognition efficiency and poor recognition effect. In this paper, a lightweight YOLO with ResNet18 as the backbone network is used as the detection and recognition framework, and deformable convolution and text feature extraction techniques are purposefully added to detect the location of thermal inkjet codes images to achieve accurate and fast positioning and segmentation of thermal spray codes. …”
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Effect of pre-tensioning force on behavior of Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) supported by double pre-tensioning system by Mohamed Selim, Muhammad E. Kamel, Eman Elshamy, Mohamed Emara

“…The results showed a 66% improvement in bearing capacity, with the external restraining case thickness reduced to 20 mm, making it lightweight, economical, and easy to maintain. The specimens with a pre-tensioning force of 70 kN, 50 kN and 40 kN providing a 31%, 51% and 73.2 % for steel 37, 44 and 52 respectively over than the design specimen without pre-tensioning system.…”
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Titanium/FRP hybrid sandwich: in-plane flexural behaviour of short beam specimens by C. Bellini, V. Di Cocco, F. Iacoviello, L.P. Mocanu, L. Sorrentino, R. Borrelli, S. Franchitti

“…Adopting novel sandwich structures with FRP (Fibre Reinforced Polymer) skins and a metallic lattice core, both of which have high specific strength and stiffness, is one way to achieve better mechanical performance while remaining lightweight. Flexural stress is a load pattern that frequently occurs in the structural frame components of automobiles; nonetheless, while the in-plane load scheme has scarcely been examined, the out-of-plane load one has. …”
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Semantic‐aware visual consistency network for fused image harmonisation by Huayan Yu, Hai Huang, Yueyan Zhu, Aoran Chen

“…First, the authors modify a lightweight image harmonisation backbone and combined it with a pretrained segmentation model, in which the extracted semantic features were fed to both the encoder and decoder. …”
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Tiny Machine Learning Implementation for Guided Wave-Based Damage Localization by Jannik Henkmann, Vittorio Memmolo, Jochen Moll

“…This work leverages ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) to detect and localize damage in structures using lightweight Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. It investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to train the effects of the damage on UGWs to the model. …”
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Covalent Organic Frameworks for Membrane Separation by Yuan‐Hang Jin, Meng‐Hao Li, Ying‐Wei Yang

“…The ordered structures and customizable functionality provide COFs with a lightweight framework, large surface area, and tunable pore sizes, which have attracted increasing attention for their applications in membrane separations. …”
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Elephant Sound Classification Using Deep Learning Optimization by Hiruni Dewmini, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Perera

“…Our focus lies on exploring lightweight models suitable for deployment on resource-costrained edge devices, including MobileNet, YAMNET, and RawNet, alongside introducing a novel model termed ElephantCallerNet. …”
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Novel Framework for Secure Data Aggregation in Precision Agriculture with Extensive Energy Efficiency by G. S. Nagaraja, K. Vanishree, Farooque Azam

“…The prime purpose of the proposed study is to introduce a lightweight communication protocol that can ensure an adequate balance between energy efficiency and maximum-security demands to benefit the success of PA. …”
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A Study on Surface Modification of Al7075-T6 Alloy against Fretting Fatigue Phenomenon by E. Mohseni, E. Zalnezhad, Ahmed A. D. Sarhan, A. R. Bushroa

“…Aircraft engines, fuselage, automobile parts, and energy saving strategies in general have promoted the interest and research in the field of lightweight materials, typically on alloys based on aluminum. …”
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Face Alignment Algorithm Based on an Improved Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network by Xun Duan, Yuanshun Wang, Yun Wu

“…The algorithm steps are as follows: 3 groups of lightweight CNNs are designed; the first group takes facial images with face frame as input, trains 3 CNNs in parallel, and weighted outputs the facial images with 5 facial key points (anchor points). …”
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A small underwater object detection model with enhanced feature extraction and fusion by Tao Li, Yijin Gang, Sumin Li, Yizi Shang

“…First, a CSP for small object and lightweight (CSPSL) module is introduced to enhance feature retention and preserve essential details. …”
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Dynamic properties of low-density expandable polystyrene concrete materials by Jue Han, Hualin Fan

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Prediction of Mg Alloy Corrosion Based on Machine Learning Models by Zhenxin Lu, Shujing Si, Keying He, Yang Ren, Shuo Li, Shuman Zhang, Yi Fu, Qi Jia, Heng Bo Jiang, Haiying Song, Mailing Hao

“…Magnesium alloy is a potential biodegradable metallic material characterized by bone-like elastic modulus, which has great application prospects in medical, automotive, and aerospace industries owing to its bone-like elastic modulus, biocompatibility, and lightweight properties. However, the rapid corrosion rates of magnesium alloys seriously limit their applications. …”
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Fabrication of a Lead Head Made of the Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Composite for the Temporary Cardiac Pacemaker by Yucheng Zhou, Xuming Lin, Zhao Yang, Xiaotong Han, Meng Liu

“…Compared with traditional leads, carbon fiber composite leads have a series of advantages such as lightweight, soft texture, and high conductivity. In this experiment, we attempted to improve the existing carbon-fiber-based TTCP metal leads by using carbon-fiber-graphene-woven leads or conductive cloth, so as to solve a series of defects of TTCP metal leads commonly used in the clinical temporary cardiac pacemaker. …”
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Mechanical and Fractured surface characterization of epoxy/red mud/fly ash/ aluminium powder filled hybrid composites for automotive applications by K. C. Anil, A.B. Hemavathi, A. Adeebpasha

“… In recent decades, one can observe a great increase in the replacement of traditional materials with polymer composites in high-strength and lightweight applications. High fuel consumption by automobile and aerospace vehicles built from legacy alloys has been a great challenge to material engineers. …”
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