Damage Curves Derived from Hurricane Ike in the West of Galveston Bay Based on Insurance Claims and Hydrodynamic Simulations

Hurricane Ike, which struck the United States in September 2008, was the ninth most expensive hurricane in terms of damages. It caused nearly USD 30 billion in damage after making landfall on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. We used the Delft3d-FM/SWAN hydrodynamic and spectral wave model to simulate the storm surge inundation around Galveston...

EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing

This paper presents EMGSense, a low-effort self-supervised domain adaptation framework for sensing applications based on Electromyography (EMG). EMGSense addresses one of the fundamental challenges in EMG cross-user sensing—the significant performance degradation caused by time-varying biological heterogeneity—in a low-effort (data-efficient and...

Direct microbial electron uptake as a mechanism for stainless steel corrosion in aerobic environments

Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is an attractive model microbe for elucidating the biofilm-metal interactions that contribute to the billions of dollars in corrosion damage to industrial applications each year. Multiple mechanisms for S. oneidensis-enhanced corrosion have been proposed, but none of these mechanisms have previously been rigorously...

On the use of transfer modeling to design new steels with excellent rotating bending fatigue resistance even in the case of very small calibration datasets

In this research a machine learning model for predicting the rotating bending fatigue strength and the high-throughput design of fatigue resistant steels is proposed. In this transfer prediction framework, machine learning models are first trained to estimate tensile properties (yield strength, tensile strength and elongation) on the basis of...

Quantitative analyses of ageing status of dam concrete for a 25-year-old dam

In order to evaluate the aging status of the dam concrete for a 25-years-old concrete dam, the internal concrete and surface layer of the dam were tested by elastic wave computerized tomography (CT) and spectral analysis of surface wave (SASW). Also mechanical strength and elastic wave velocity were tested for the concrete cores from the dam....

Long-lived charge separation following pump-wavelength–dependent ultrafast charge transfer in graphene/WS₂ heterostructures

Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides have shown great promise for optoelectronic applications. However, an in-depth understanding of the critical processes for device operation, namely, interfacial charge transfer (CT) and recombination, has so far remained elusive. Here, we investigate...

A time series forecasting based on cloud model similarity measurement

In this paper, a local cloud model similarity measurement (CMSM) is proposed as a novel method to measure the similarity of time series. Time series similarity measurement is an indispensable part for improving the efficiency and accuracy of prediction. The randomness and uncertainty of series data are critical problems in the processing of...