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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Polypropylene Fibers on the Strength and Elastic Modulus of Soil-Cement
The effect of the content and types of polypropylene fibers which are mixed into the soil-cement mixtures on the strength and elastic modulus of soil-cement isare studied. The test result shows that the unconf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Atomistic-Information-Based Continuum Inhomogeneous Material Model for Metal Nanorod
Mechanical behaviors of materials and structures at nano scale are essentially different from those at macro scale, resulting from surface effect, size effect and time scale effect. To correctly predict the st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Search Algorithm for Global Optimisation
This paper investigates a global search optimisation technique, referred to as the repeated weighted boosting search. The proposed optimisation algorithm is extremely simple and easy to implement. Heuristic ex...