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This paper investigates the optimization of 2D and 3D composite structures using machine learning (ML) techniques, focusing on fracture toughness and crack propagation in the Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) test. By exploring the intricate…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Mohammad Naqizadeh Jahromi , Mohammad Ravandi

We test and simulate the mesoscopic cracking behavior of specimens made of a standard concrete mixture. To this end, we combine stable wedge-splitting fracture experiments performed during X-ray tomography, their analysis with digital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Akanksha Mishra , Pietro Carrara , Michele Griffa , Laura De Lorenzis

Muon radiography is an innovative and non-destructive technique for internal density structure imaging, based on measuring the attenuation of cosmic-ray muons after they penetrate the target. Due to the strong penetration ability of muons,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Xin Mao , Zhiwei Li , Shuning Dong , Jingtai Li , Jianming Zhang , Jie Pang , Yaping Cheng , Bin Liao , Xiaoping Ouyang , Ran Han

We present a Machine Learning-based method for tomographic reconstruction of dense layered objects, with range of projection angles limited to $\pm $10$^\circ$. Whereas previous approaches to phase tomography generally require two steps,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Alexandre Goy , Girish Rughoobur , Shuai Li , Kwabena Arthur , Akintunde I. Akinwande , George Barbastathis

Reconstructing the structural geology and mineral composition of the first few kilometers of the Earth's subsurface from sparse or indirect surface observations remains a long-standing challenge with critical applications in mineral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Simon Ghyselincks , Valeriia Okhmak , Stefano Zampini , George Turkiyyah , David Keyes , Eldad Haber

Muon imaging, especially muon scattering tomography (MST), has recently garnered significant attention. MST measures the magnitude of muon scattering angles inside an object, which depends not only on the material properties but also on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-17 Pei Yu , Ziwen Pan , Jiajia Zhai , Yu Xu , Li Deng , Zhengyang He , Zhe Chen , Zechao Kang , Yuhong Yu , Xueheng Zhang , Liangwen Chen , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Electron microscopy is widely used to explore defects in crystal structures, but human detecting of defects is often time-consuming, error-prone, and unreliable, and is not scalable to large numbers of images or real-time analysis. In this…

Both muon tomography and gravimetry are geophysical methods that provide information on the density structure of the Earth's subsurface. Muon tomography measures the natural flux of cosmic muons and its attenuation produced by the screening…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-04-10 Kevin Jourde , Dominique Gibert , Jacques Marteau

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis is gradually deployed to review and analyze medical images. However, this paradigm is restricted in real-world clinical applications due to the poor robustness and generalization. The issue is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yurong Chen

The contribution of Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) to muon reconstruction in CMS has been studied on a sample of muons collected in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV at the LHC in 2011. Muon reconstruction is performed using the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Min Suk Kim

In recent years, there have been ongoing efforts to improve screening technologies to improve security and prevent terrorist threats. The most widely used technologies for scanning shipping containers are gamma and x-ray radiography, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-19 A. Georgadze

In this study, we demonstrate that compared with traditional centroid-based methods, machine learning methods (particularly transformer-based architectures) achieve superior subpixel position and therefore angular resolution in discretized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-25 Matthew Mark Romano , Zhengzhi Liu , JungHyun Bae

Deep neural networks are a powerful technique that have found ample applications in several branches of Physics. In this work, we apply machine learning algorithms to a specific problem of Cosmic Ray Physics: the estimation of the muon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 A. Guillen , A. Bueno , J. M. Carceller , J. C. Martinez-Velazquez , G. Rubio , C. J. Todero Peixoto , P. Sanchez-Lucas

Reliable assessment of concrete degradation is critical for ensuring structural safety and longevity of engineering structures. This study proposes a self-supervised domain adaptation framework for robust concrete damage classification…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chen Xu , Giao Vu , Ba Trung Cao , Zhen Liu , Fabian Diewald , Yong Yuan , Günther Meschke

Multi-modality (or multi-channel) imaging is becoming increasingly important and more widely available, e.g. hyperspectral imaging in remote sensing, spectral CT in material sciences as well as multi-contrast MRI and PET-MR in medicine.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Leon Bungert , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Low-dose positron emission tomography (PET) image reconstruction methods have potential to significantly improve PET as an imaging modality. Deep learning provides a promising means of incorporating prior information into the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Cameron Dennis Pain , Yasmeen George , Alex Fornito , Gary Egan , Zhaolin Chen

In this report, we assess muon multiple scattering tomography as a non-destructive inspection technique in several typical areas of interest to the nuclear power industry, including monitoring concrete degradation, gate valve conditions,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-27 J. M. Durham , E. Guardincerri , C. L. Morris , J. Bacon , J. Fabritius , S. Fellows , K. Plaud-Ramos , D. Poulson , J. Renshaw

Understanding structure-property relationships in complex materials requires integrating complementary measurements across multiple length scales. Here we propose an interpretable "multimodal" machine learning framework that unifies…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-03 Shun Muroga , Hideaki Nakajima , Taiyo Shimizu , Kazufumi Kobashi , Kenji Hata