Abstract: Control co-design (CCD) represents a promising solution for coordinating the physical design and control of dynamic engineering systems as technological demands become more stringent. Predictive control co-design (pCCD), ...

Abstract: Control co-design (CCD) offers a promising solution for coordinating plant and control design of complex systems to better meet next generation demands. Most CCD algorithms optimize open-loop control signals that solve the ...

Abstract: A reasonably safe reliability approach to a fatigue damage theory can be based on the fact that, in most cases involving the public safety, the designer can accept only very low probabilities ...

Abstract: An explicit finite-difference scheme is formulated for calculating the development of the incompressible turbulent boundary layer on an infinite yawed cylinder. The governing partial differential ...

Abstract: Drilling and blasting is the traditional method of shaft excavation. This is labor intensive and time consuming. With the advent of machine boring, the RBM, or raise‐boring machine, was developed to increase safety and ...

Abstract: The time-dependent settlement of soft soils following the application of surface loading may be modeled using elastic viscoplastic constitutive models to describe the soil behavior. For applied loadings that increase the ...