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The recent Marathon City Council session became contentious and highly charged almost immediately as the five-member contingency debated the worthiness of continuing the tax funding for Fishermen’s Community Hospital through
The code, which was repealed after a 6-0 vote, is primarily being changed for legal reasons.
New architectural design requirements under carbon neutrality goals With rapid urban and economic development, energy consumption is increasingly posing threats to the natural environment while the quantity and intensity of energy use in buildings are growing. As the Paris Agreement is leading a...
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This study pioneers the application of machine learning (ML) for predicting the bearing strength of double shear bolted connections in structural steel. For the first time, a comprehensive database comprising 443 experimental datasets was compiled, with input features including the normalized end distance, edge distance, bolt pitch along and transverse to the loading directions of the connection, ultimate-to-yield strength ratio of the steel plate, number of bolt rows, connection configuration and normalized bearing capacity. Eleven ML techniques were explored for this application. Feature imp...