Abstract: It is desirable to predict product reliability accurately in the early design stage, but the lack of information usually leads to the use of independent component failure assumption. This assumption makes the system ...

Abstract: Random variables are commonly encountered in engineering applications, and their distributions are required for analysis and design, especially for reliability prediction during the design process. Distribution parameters ...

Abstract: Incomplete component information may lead to wide bounds for system reliability prediction, making decisions difficult in the system design stage. The missing information is often the component dependence, which is a crucial ...

Abstract: Diverging diamond interchanges (DDIs) are widely recognized to be capable of reducing conflict points, number of stops, and consequently average traffic delay. However, the design of their crossover spacing and signal ...

Abstract: River width is an essential physical variable for the simulation of rainfall-runoff processes using distributed hydrologic models. In this paper, a model of river width integrating the effects of an upstream drainage area ...

Abstract: A distributed rainfall-runoff model, Grid-Xinanjiang model based on the topographical information of each grid cell extracted from the digital elevation model (DEM), was developed to simulate the hydrologic processes within ...

Abstract: When applying a back-propagation neural network (BPNN) model in hydrological simulation, researchers generally face three problems. The first one is that real-time correction mode must be adopted when forecasting basin ...

Abstract: This paper analyzed the deterioration model of concrete in dry–wet cycles and sodium sulfate solution. The calculation method of stress transformation from dry–wet cycle and salt crystallization was established from the ...