Abstract: Image-based simulation plays a pivotal role in diverse engineering applications, integrating both image and numerical variables as inputs to predict design performance, understand system behaviors, and drive discovery. ...

Abstract: A novel method is proposed to obtain the optimum configuration of dynamic vibration absorber (i.e., DVA) attached to an undamped or damped primary structure. The performance index, i.e., the ...

Abstract: A large number of vertical profiles of horizontal current were observed during the last two years in the Florida Straits. For a two-week set of observations, it is found that westward meandering of the Florida Current is ...

Abstract: Inverse simulation is an inverse process of a direct simulation. During the process, unknown simulation input variables are identified for a given set of known simulation output variables. Uncertainties such as random ...

Abstract: Finite-point (FP) methods are novel meshless numerical approaches for solving partial differential equations. Only the nodal data and a description of the domain boundary geometry are necessary. As no element or grid ...

Abstract: A good balance between accuracy and efficiency is essential for reliability-based design (RBD). For this reason, sequential-loops formulations combined with the first-order reliability method (FORM) ...

Abstract: This work develops an envelope approach to timedependent mechanism reliability defined in a period of time where a certain motion output is required. Since the envelope function of the motion error is not explicitly related ...

Abstract: Two types of uncertainty exist in engineering. Aleatory uncertainty comes from inherent variations while epistemic uncertainty derives from ignorance or incomplete information. The former is usually ...

Abstract: Quality characteristics are often treated as constants in robust design, while many of them actually vary over time. It is desirable to define new robustness metrics for time-dependent quality ...

Abstract: Observations of the equatorial current system have revealed that its structure is subject to considerable variations. To clarify the nature of these variations and their dependence on the surface winds, measurements on a ...