Structural consolidation of historic monuments by interlocking cast glass components: A computational analysis of interlocking cast glass brickwork

The search for a transparent, reversible, and reusable consolidation system for monuments led to the ambition to test possible cast glass interlocking brick designs using numerical calculations. The focus of this research is hence the design, simulation and evaluation of a possible cast glass interlocking geometry using Finite Element Analysis ...

Mapping Elements of Reinforcement Learning to Human Emotions

Considerable overlap exists between emotion and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Emotion influences action selection while RL selects actions based on their anticipated result. Emotions also provide feedback on a situation, reflecting if the situation is desirable or not. The same type of feedback is given in RL based on the results of a state...