Abstract: Clearance is unavoidable in many engineering structures due to the manufacturing and installation errors. These clearances can cause intense impact and wear of the contacting pairs, which may change the dynamic response ...

Abstract: Rodent models of acute spinal cord injury (SCI) are often used to investigate the effects of injury mechanism, injury speed, and cord displacement magnitude, on the ensuing cascade of biological damage in the cord. However, ...

Abstract: A soil-water retention curve (SWRC) is one of the important constitutive laws for soil-water distribution and shear-strength assessment in unsaturated soil. A SWRC commonly shows the hysteretic behavior under drying and ...

Abstract: Li-ion battery fast-charging technology plays an important role in popularizing electric vehicles (EV), which critically need a charging process that is as simple and quick as pumping fuel for conventional internal combustion ...

Abstract: Evidence theory has the powerful feature to quantify epistemic uncertainty. However, the huge computational cost has become the main obstacle of evidence theory on engineering applications. In this paper, an efficient ...

Abstract: Assessment of the reliability and reliability sensitivity of positioning accuracy for industrial robots subject to aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties registers a challenging task. This study proposes a new optimized ...

Abstract: Performance deterioration in gas turbine engines (GTEs) depends on various factors in the ambient and the operating conditions. For example, humidity condensation at the inlet duct of a GTE creates water mist, which affects ...

Abstract: In time-dependent reliability analysis, the first-passage method has been extensively used to evaluate structural reliability under time-variant service circumstances. To avoid computing the outcrossing rate in this method, ...

Abstract: With the growing structural complexity and growing demands on structural reliability, nonlinear parameters identification is an efficient approach to provide better understanding of dynamic behaviors of the nonlinear system ...

Abstract: A large number of laboratory triaxial experiments were performed to evaluate the likely cumulative settlement of a low embankment road on soft subsoil due to the traffic loads, for the purpose of determining the undrained ...