ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering
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EISSN:2332-9025|ISSN:2332-9017|Disc:The ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering disseminates research findings, best practices and concerns, and discussion and debate on risk and uncertainty related issues. The journal reports on the full range of risk and uncertainty analysis state-of-art and state-of-practice relating to mechanical engineering, including but not limited to risk quantification based on hazard identification, scenario development and rate quantification, consequence assessment, valuations, perception, communication, risk-informed decision making, uncertainty analysis and modeling, and other related areas|Priority:4|Publisher:American Society of Mechanical Engineers|
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Diminishing Safety Margins of Telescoping-Boom Aerial Lifts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)As the height of telescoping-boom aerial lifts increase, the severity of tip-over accidents obviously increases. To reduce the probability of tip-over accidents, manufacturers use countermeasures such as outriggers and ... -
Optimal Transport Theory for Railway Track Safety Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Optimal mass transport (OMT) is an optimization problem that determines a method of moving mass or value from one function to another in the most efficiently and optimally. Using the ideas of OMT, this technical note aims ... -
Risk-Informing Nuclear Reactor Safety: The Prediction of the Probability of Core Damage Due to Loss of Power and Cooling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The modern idea of risk-informed decision-making (RIDM) is here critically examined for all existing, advanced and, generation-IV nuclear reactor systems. Motivated by the predictive difficulties of probabilistic risk ... -
Risk Approach Based on the FRAM Model for Vessel Traffic Management
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This study analyzes the risks in ship traffic services management using the functional resonance analysis method (FRAM), a novel approach that focuses on identifying interactions leading to performance variability rather ... -
Sizing and Shape Optimization of Discrete Truss Employing a Target-Oriented Krill Herd Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The krill herd (KH) algorithm is widely used for optimizing truss structures as no gradient information is necessary, and only a few parameters require adjustment. However, when the truss structure becomes discrete and ... -
A Hybrid Perspective of Vision-Based Methods for Estimating Structural Displacements Based on Mask Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Vision-based methods have shown great potential in vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM), which can be classified as target-based and target-free methods. However, target-based methods cannot achieve subpixel ... -
Experimental Investigation of a Rapid Calculation and Damage Diagnosis of the Quasistatic Influence Line of a Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge Based on Deflection Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Based on deflection theory, the basic differential equations and deformation compatibility equations of self-anchored suspension bridges are established. The calculation formula for the stiffening girder deflection of a ... -
Theory and Empirical Analysis of Bridge Load Limitation Under the Action of Typical Heavy-Duty Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)With the continuous growth of transportation demands, in-service highway bridges face greater challenges in their long-term operational lifespans, and bridge collapse accidents caused by vehicle overloading occur from time ... -
Fragility Analysis and Resilience Assessment of the Single-Column Pier Steel-Concrete Composite Bridge Subjected to Seismic Loads
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)With the advantages of a small footprint, wide under-bridge view, and beautiful appearance, single-column pier bridges are widely used in urban bridge networks. However, single-column pier bridges are prone to damage during ... -
Linear Moments-Based Monte Carlo Simulation for Reliability Analysis With Unknown Probability Distributions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Within the realm of structural reliability analysis, the uncertainties tied to resistance and loads are conventionally embodied as random variables possessing established cumulative distribution functions (CDFs). Nevertheless, ... -
Indirect Prediction of Spindle Rotation Error Through Vibration Signal Based on Supervised Local Mean Decomposition Filter Fusion and Bi-LSTM Classification Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Spindle rotation error directly correlates with the quality of mechanical processing. Currently, the error was mainly converted through measuring the distance information of standard component installed at the tool position, ... -
Human-Comfort Evaluation for a Patient-Transfer Robot Through a Human–Robot Mechanical Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Patient-transfer robot, which can transfer a bedridden care receiver from a bed to a wheelchair or a pedestal pan and back, was not widely used due to inadequate safety and comfort. A human comfort evaluation function based ... -
Verification and Validation of Rotating Machinery Using Digital Twin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Rotating machinery has extensive usage in industrial applications, either as leading equipment (power plants) or as auxiliary equipment (oil and gas exploitation). These highly complex systems demand expensive maintenance ... -
A Fault Detection Framework Based on Data-Driven Digital Shadows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The popularization of Industry 4.0 and its technological pillars has allowed prognostics and health management (PHM) strategies to be applied in complex systems to optimize their performance and extend their useful life ... -
Quantitative Systems Modeling for Critical Infrastructure Predictions in Climate Change: A National Defense Framework
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Any national defense is dependent on the efficacy of the available physical infrastructure. Whatever degrades infrastructure, structurally, physically, architecturally, or esthetically, is of interest to the nation. Climate ... -
Enhancing the Reliability of Series-Parallel Systems With Multiple Redundancies by Using System-Reliability Inequalities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/19/2023 )The reverse engineering of a valid algebraic inequality often leads to a novel physical reality characterized by a distinct signature: the algebraic inequality itself. This paper uses reverse engineering of valid algebraic ... -
Governing Equation Identification of Nonlinear Single Degree-of-Freedom Oscillators With Coulomb Friction Using Explicit Stick and Slip Temporal Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/25/2023 )The friction force at joints of engineering structures is usually unknown and not directly identifiable. This contribution explores a procedure for obtaining the governing equation of motion and correctly identifying the ... -
Paradox of Optimal Learning: An Info-Gap Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/6/2023 1)Engineering design and technological risk assessment both entail learning or discovering new knowledge. Optimal learning is a procedure whereby new knowledge is obtained while minimizing some specific measure of effort ... -
Evaluation of Power Transmission Lines Hardening Scenarios Using a Machine Learning Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/4/2023 1)The power transmission infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme weather events, particularly hurricanes and tropical storms. A recent example is the damage caused by Hurricane Maria (H-Maria) in the archipelago of Puerto ... -
From Reliability-Based Design to Resilience-Based Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/4/2023 1)Reliability-based design has been a widely used methodology in the design of engineering structures. For example, the structural design standards in many countries have adopted the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) ...