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Corrugated steel plate and simple steel plate shear wall construction is a widely accepted and efficient lateral force resisting construction. The widespread use is motivated by the large initial stiffness, high level of energy absorption, and ability to accommodate openings. There is a dearth of information regarding the detailed nonlinear, inelastic behavior of corrugated steel plate shear walls, particularly walls with openings. Presented here are the results of a detailed, numerical parametric study comparing corrugated steel plate and simple steel plate shear walls, with and without openings. Parameters studied are plate thickness, angle of corrugation, opening size, and opening... 

We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model for predicting human behavior in repeated games. The model is the first deep neural network presented on repeated games that is able to be trained on games with arbitrary size of payoff matrices. Our neural network takes the players’ payoff matrices and the history of the play as input, and outputs the predicted action picked by the first player in the next round. To evaluate the model’s performance, we apply it to some experimental games played by humans and measure the rate of correctly predicted actions. The results show that our model obtains an average prediction accuracy of about 63% across all the studied games, which...