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Reducing waste material plays an essential role for engineers in the current world. Nowadays, recycled materials are going to be used in order to manufacture concrete beams. Previous studies concluded that the currently proposed formulas to predict the flexural and shear behavior of the reinforced concrete beams were not appropriate for those manufactured by recycled materials. This study aims to employ the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm to suggest the flexural and shear performance of recycled material reinforced concrete beams. For this purpose, the previous experimental outcomes are utilized, and new equations are established to anticipate both flexural and shear behavior of the recycled material concrete beams. Consequently, all findings are compared with those achieved experimentally. The attained significances of this study show that the proposed formulas have high accuracy for the experimental data.

Increasing the number of cores to enhance computing power of processors leads to an increase in temperature for multicore systems. Thermal management is significant challenge in these processors. A proactive dynamic thermal management uses a thermal model to predict the temperature before processor temperature reaches the threshold. In this paper, some appropriate features for thermal model are read by using system measurement tools. Other features as historical and control features are created using the proposed processes. An online thermal model based on several thermal phase is proposed. For each phase, a neural network is used to forecast temperature. Different thermal phases are identified according to the parameters affecting the processor temperature using the adaptive resonance theory network. For each of the neural networks, the minimum number of proper features is selected based on the mutual information between the features. The proposed thermal model is able to detect new thermal phase at run time. Then, appropriate neural network is created for new phase. The proposed model has been evaluated to predict temperature for different time distances. The results shows the mean absolute error is less than 1 °C.