Abstract: The expensive computational cost is always a major concern for reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) of complex problems. The performance of RBDO can be lowered by the inaccuracy of reliability analysis (RA) which ...

Abstract: In the context of the Internet of Things, there is a growing demand for real-time monitoring of water distribution systems (WDS). Among the various leak detection methods, acoustic leak detection is considered to be a ...

Abstract: This study used a two-stage method to derive an analytical solution for assessing the vertical displacement of an existing pipeline caused by the undercrossing construction of a shield tunnel. The aim was to evaluate the ...

Abstract: The estimation of the statistical moments is widely involved in the industrial application, whose accuracy affects the reliability analysis result considerably. In this study, a novel hybrid dimension-reduction method based ...

Abstract: Oxygen-consuming fuel tank inerting technology is a novel technology with a simple structure and a high efficiency for tank explosion suppression based on flameless catalytic combustion. To verify the feasibility of the ...