3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (449+ words) Precast concrete frame joints in coastal atmospheric environments are susceptible to mechanical performance degradation caused by chloride-induced corrosion, yet joint-scale numerical studies incorporating multi-indicator time-dependent mechanical responses remain limited. This paper presents a coupled framework that integrates chloride diffusion, corrosion,…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (558+ words) This paper proposes an urban-scale dynamic screening method for the preliminary seismic-risk prioritization of masonry buildings. The method is based on the integration of rapid surveys, relational databases, geographic information systems, and accelerometric data recorded during seismic events. It is…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (475+ words) The consideration of consecutive seismic events remains a notable deficiency within current seismic design practices for engineering structures. The progressive accumulation of damage from an earthquake sequence poses a significant risk to the structural integrity of buildings, even those designed…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) Adder neural networks remove multiplication from convolution, yet their direct L1-distance datapath still requires subtraction, absolute-value generation, and wide accumulation. We address this cost by mapping the online L1 operation to minimum selection and time-domain accumulation. The proposed accelerator processes a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (754+ words) Branch prediction errors can reduce superscalar throughput by more than the error frequency alone suggests because a single misprediction can trigger redirect, squash, refetch, refill, and window recovery, which collectively disrupt sustained instruction-level parallelism. This paper presents a quantitative framework…...