Abstract: Reliability is an important engineering requirement for consistently delivering acceptable product performance through time. As time progresses, the product may fail due to time phenomena such as ...

Abstract: Global Climate Models (GCMs) are critical tools for understanding and projecting climate variability and change, yet the performance of these models is notoriously weak over much of tropical Africa. To improve this situation, ...

Abstract: The problem involving mitigation of wave energy by trench-type structure, in particular, a pair of trenches imposed on the seabed in the absence and presence of a vertical wall, is examined for its solution. The problem ...

Abstract: The variational asymptotic method (VAM) was used to analyze the deformation behavior of bidirectional functionally graded material (FGM) beams under transverse loading. Gradation was provided in the longitudinal as well ...

Abstract: A closed-form analytical solution is developed for a planar inhomogeneous beam subjected to transverse loading, using a variational asymptotic method (VAM). The VAM decouples the problem into a cross-sectional and an ...

Abstract: Timedependent reliability is the probability that a system will perform its intended function successfully for a specified time. Unless many and often unrealistic assumptions are made, the accuracy and efficiency of ...

Abstract: Mobility prediction of off-road autonomous ground vehicles (AGV) in uncertain environments is essential for their model-based mission planning, especially in the early design stage. While surrogate modeling methods have ...

Abstract: Reversible polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells have attracted

Abstract: Identifying a reliable path in uncertain environments is essential for designing reliable off-road autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) considering postdesign operations. This article presents a novel bio-inspired approach ...