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RISSystem Reliability of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls Incorporating Complete External Failure Modes
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: This paper presents a study of the system reliability of mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls by considering all four external failure modes: excessive eccentricity, lateral sliding, insufficient bearing capacity, and ...
Risk Assessment of Footings on Slopes in Spatially Variable Soils Considering Random Field Rotation
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: This paper presents the risk assessment of a footing-on-slope system that uses the random finite element method. The effect of a soil autocorrelation structure on the probability of failure and the associated risk is ...
Research and Application of Risk-Based Safety Insurance Technology for Petrochemical Plants
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The current safety insurance assessment for chemical enterprises often refers to financial empirical models, lacking underlying safety failure data for premium determination and safety investment, and overlooking high-risk ...
Virtual Prototyping and Motion Simulation with ADAMS
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: ADAMS® is a commercially available virtual prototyping and motion simulation software, which allows the user to model a mechanical system, and mathematically simulate and visualize its 3D ...
Optimal Drug-Aerosol Delivery to Predetermined Lung Sites
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: This review summarizes computer simulation methodologies of air-particle flow, results of drug-aerosol transport/deposition in models of the human respiratory system, as well as aspects of drug-aerosol ...
The Role of Land–Sea Topography in Blocking Formation in a Block–Eddy Interaction Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper is an extension of a theoretical study by Luo on the effect of large-scale land?sea contrast (LSC) topography on the formation of an eddy-driven blocking. It is found that the topography term can be included ...
Using Soft Computing to Analyze Inspection Results for Bridge Evaluation and Management
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The national bridge inventory (NBI) system, a database of visual inspection records that tallies the condition of bridge elements, is used by transportation agencies to manage the rehabilitation of the aging U.S. highway ...
Sensor Fault Detection in Power Plants
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper presents a sensor fault detection and diagnosis approach for industrial combustion processes. Clustering algorithms are applied to the measurements of controllable process variables involved in single-input-si ...
Noninstantaneous Wave-CISK for the Interaction between Convective Heating and Low-Level Moisture Convergence in the Tropics
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThe interaction between tropical convective heating and thermally forced circulation is investigated using a global dry primitive-equation model with the parameterization of wave-conditional instability of the ...
The Initiation of Dry Patches in Cloud Resolving Convective Self-aggregation Simulations: Boundary Layer “Dry-subsidence” Feedback
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Self-aggregation of convection can be considered as the simultaneous occurrence of dry patch initiation/amplification and wet patch contraction/intensification from initially uniform moisture and temperature fields. As the ...