Abstract: Historic masonry monuments experience aging and accumulated damage, which consequently degrade both their stiffness and strength. Stiffness degradation can be quantified through nondestructive testing and has been widely ...

Abstract: Prognostic evaluation involves constructing a prediction model based on available measurements to forecast the health state of an engineering system. One particular prognostic technique, support vector regression, has had ...

Abstract: This paper presents an approach based on fault tree analysis and subset simulation for quantifying uncertainty in the risk assessment of complex industrial facilities. Downtime estimation of industrial facilities after an ...