DXF Cleaner is a geometry-preparation and meshing workflow developed for real-world structural drawings, where slab boundaries, voids, drops, bands, recesses, toppings, columns, and walls may not connect perfectly. Before meshing, the tool can detect and repair small gaps, narrow strips, disconnected endpoints, and near-coincident geometry within a user-defined tolerance. Structural reference objects such as columns and walls can remain fixed while surrounding slab or region

Adisorn Owatsiriwong ALPS CONSULTANTS Introduction For many structural engineers, preparing column schedules is one of the most repetitive and time-consuming tasks after analysis and design. Although ETABS provides excellent modeling, analysis, and design capabilities, producing a complete column schedule suitable for construction drawings often requires substantial manual work. This becomes even more challenging when projects contain numerous custom Section Designer columns

Figure. Rotated Pilecaps and Non-orthogonal strap beam grid (alps consultants, 2026) Introduction to PILE-GRID™ Overview PILE-GRID™ is an automated finite element analysis and design platform developed by ALPS CONSULTANTS to support the assessment, verification, and remedial design of pile foundation systems affected by pile construction deviations. The software was specifically created to address a practical gap in foundation engineering, where pile installation tolerances

Most swarm intelligence algorithms allow parallelization when computing the objective function. Each particle can be assigned to each worker to call the solver and return the individual objective value. The algorithm can be explained: MATLAB parfor function [x,f] = jaya_parallel(x,f,lb,ub,nPop,nVar,maxIt) for it = 1:maxIt % --- Step 1: find best/worst [f_best, idx_best] = min(f); [f_worst, idx_worst] = max(f); x_best = x(idx_best,:); x_worst = x(idx_worst,:); newx = z

When writing scientific codes or optimization solvers like PT-OP, you will quickly face one design decision: Should this piece of logic be written as a subroutine, a function, or wrapped in a module? At first, these terms can seem similar — but understanding their roles is the foundation of clean, safe, and efficient Fortran programming. 🔹 1. Subroutine vs Function Type Purpose Returns a value? Called by Subroutine Performs an action (procedure) ❌ No call my_sub(a, b, c) Fun

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Adisorn Owatsiriwong Introduction In structural engineering, accurately determining the compressive strength of concrete is crucial for...

1. Explanation Bayes Theorem: To find the probability of event B, given A occurs P(D|T) = P(T|D)*P(D)/P(T) * One may think that T is a...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong To fully understand the relationship between the neural network or deep learning and optimization problems, we can...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong, D.Eng. Introduction: Naive Bayes (NB) classification is a supervised Machine Learning (ML) technique used to...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong Practical Approach: Converting a serial to parallel for loop must ensure each worker (cpu) handles an independent...

Adisorn Owatsiriwong Parallel programming in MATLAB enables us to perform multiple computations simultaneously by dividing tasks into...

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