A new neural network structure developed at Northwestern Engineering can predict the plasticity of materials, considering a material’s microstructure better and faster than traditional approaches.

Recent advances have provided evidence that the loss of pre-existing synapses and the assembly and retention of new synapses may be integral components of behavioural learning and memory processes.

AS the author rightly claims in the preface, the chief reason for writing a book on the theory of plasticity is to direct attention to its importance—from the engineering point of view equal to that ...