Publications by Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

A virtual microstructure generator for 3D stone masonry walls

Detailed micromodel simulations of stone masonry walls require as input a 3D mesh that represents a realistic arrangement of stones in the masonry wall. In this paper, we constructed the first 3D masonry microstructures to derive 2D and 3D finite or discre ...

ELSEVIER2022

Geometrical Treatise on the Modelling of 3D Particulate Inclusion-Matrix Microstructures with an Application to Historical Stone Masonry Walls

Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

As historical stone masonry structures are vulnerable and prone to damage in earthquakes, investigating their structural integrity is important to reduce injuries and casualties while preserving their historical value. Stone masonry is a composite material ...

EPFL2022

Pareto-like sequential sampling heuristic for global optimisation

Katrin Beyer, Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

In this paper, we propose a simple global optimisation algorithm inspired by Pareto’s principle. This algorithm samples most of its solutions within prominent search domains and is equipped with a self-adaptive mechanism to control the dynamic tightening o ...

2021

Spherical cap harmonic analysis (SCHA) for characterising the morphology of rough surface patches

Katrin Beyer, Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

We use spherical cap harmonic (SCH) basis functions to analyse and reconstruct the morphology of scanned genus-0 rough surface patches with open edges. We first develop a novel one-to-one conformal mapping algorithm with minimal area distortion for paramet ...

2021

Codes: Modified parameter-setting-free harmony search (PSFHS) algorithm for optimizing the design of reinforced concrete beams

Mahmoud S. M. Shaqfa

This code is part of the research paper: "Modified parameter-setting-free harmony search (PSFHS) algorithm for optimizing the design of reinforced concrete beams". C++14, Python 3.7 and Matlab codes for the modified PSFHS algorithm. Those files are placed ...

2018