Browsing by Author "Vinel, Aleksandr"

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Biopolymers for enhancing the engineering properties of soil

Soldo, Antonio (2020-05-12)

The need for constant construction rapidly expands the built environment which often spreads over areas with unfavorable site conditions. In such events, soil stabilization is an inevitable process. Increasing soil strength ...

Container Handling and Layout Optimization in Empty Container Depots

Karakaya, Erhan (2020-11-13)

In this dissertation, we explore shipping container depot layout with particular emphasis on empty container depots with material handling provided by top-lifters. Top lifters are the most common handling equipment used ...

Design Optimization of Lightweight Structures for Additive Manufacturing

Toragay, Oguz (2022-07-26)

Lightweight structures have many applications in different engineering areas, such as automotive, aerospace, or medical industries, among many others. Optimal design of lightweight structures deals with finding the most ...

Machine learning-based additive manufacturing process optimization and quality prediction with photomicrography and tomography

Ye, Jiafeng (2023-08-03) ETD File Embargoed

Process optimization and quality prediction are essential for promoting manufacturing quality and improving product reliability in Additive manufacturing (AM). However, the complex multi-physics processes of AM, involving ...

Optimization of Off-grid Photovoltaic Systems

Cho, Dongjin (2020-04-17)

Among various renewable energy sources, solar energy is considered one of the most effective solutions because it is abundant, eco-friendly, sustainable energy resources to address the energy shortage of the present and ...

Portfolio Risk-Return Decision Optimization Using AI

Yang, Junyao (2023-12-04)

Academia and businesses have extensively studied portfolio decision-making under uncertainty and risk. Prediction-based portfolio models usually forecast either the portfolio's future return or risk. On the other hand, ...

Using pre-deployment planning for maintaining network connectivity in MANET models

Chapman, Jarrett (2019-06-13)

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) allow communication with little or no network infrastructure. Assuming no infrastructure is available, user nodes are defined as service demanding and agent nodes as service providing, ...

A Web-Based Personal Driving Assistant Using Real-Time Data and a Dynamic Programming Model

Alamdar Yazdi, Mohammad Ali (2018-07-24)

Eco-driving and eco-routing have recently attracted paramount attention from both academia and transportation industry. Multiple studies have approached this problem from a variety of angles. The goal of the first two parts ...