Browsing ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering by Title
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A Base Study to Investigate MASH Conservativeness of Occupant Risk Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The manual for assessing safety hardware (MASH) defines crash tests to assess the impact performance of highway safety features in frontal and oblique impact events. Within MASH, the risk of injury to the occupant is ... -
A Clustering-Based Framework for Performance Degradation Prediction of Slewing Bearing Using Multiple Physical Signals
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Diagnosing the failure or predicting the performance state of low-speed and heavy-load slewing bearings is a practical and effective method to reduce unexpected stoppage or optimize the maintenances. Many literatures focus ... -
A Comparison of Control Strategies for Disruption Management in Engineering Design for Resilience
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Managing potential disruptive events at the operating phase of an engineered system therefore improving the system's failure resilience is an importance yet challenging task in engineering design. The resilience of an ... -
A Comprehensive Fuzzy Uncertainty Analysis of a Controlled Nonlinear System With Unstable Internal Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Fuzzy uncertainty analyses disclose a deeper insight and provide a better understanding of complex systems with highly interdependent parameters. In contrast to probability theory, fuzzy arithmetic is concerned with epistemic ... -
A Computational Framework for Human-Centric Vehicular Crashworthiness Design and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Government agencies, globally, strive to minimize the likelihood and frequency of human death and severe injury on road transport systems. From an engineering design standpoint, the minimization of these road accident ... -
A Damage Detection and Location Scheme for Offshore Wind Turbine Jacket Structures Based on Global Modal Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Structural failures of offshore wind substructures might be less likely than failures of other equipments of the offshore wind turbines, but they pose a high risk due to the possibility of catastrophic consequences. ... -
A Data Driven Black Box Approach for the Inverse Quantification of Set-Theoretical Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Inverse uncertainty quantification commonly uses the well established Bayesian framework. Recently, alternative interval methodologies have been introduced. However, in their current state of the art implementation, both ... -
A Dynamics Based Hazard Analysis of Inverted Pendulum Human Transporters Using Data Mined Information
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)When a product is a complex dynamic system that interacts directly with a human, engineers must consider a wide range of possible motions and forces that the device could exert on the human. Such an analysis goes beyond a ... -
A Fast Convergence Parameter for Monte Carlo–Neumann Solution of Linear Stochastic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The Neumann series is a wellknown technique to aid the solution of uncertainty propagation problems. However, convergence of the Neumann series can be very slow, often making its use highly inefficient. In this article, a ... -
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 ... -
A FMEA Optimization Method Based on TODIM and Best Worst Method-Water Filling Theory in Pythagorean Fuzzy Language Environment for Reliability Assessment of Industrial Robot
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In view of the shortcomings of traditional failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) in risk evaluation language, weight information, risk priority number (RPN), this paper proposes an FMEA optimization method. First, using ... -
A Four-Step Safety Integrity Level Analysis of Numerous Subsea Control System Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, a four-step safety integrity level (SIL) analysis is developed to analyze numerous components of the subsea control system based on the OREDA database. For this purpose, initially, a failure mode classification ... -
A Fractional Derivative Model for Rubber Spring of Primary Suspension in Railway Vehicle Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a nonlinear rubber spring model for the primary suspension of the railway vehicle, which can effectively describe the amplitude dependency and the frequency dependency of the rubber spring, by taking ... -
A Framework for In-Service Life Extension of Hydroelectric Generation Assets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The integrity assessment of aged or worn out large electromechanical equipment units, such as in hydroelectric generators, for possible life extension has been identified as a growing challenge in the electrical power ... -
A Framework to Assess Human Performance in Normal and Emergency Situations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Human error is one of the primary reasons for accidents in complex industries like aviation, nuclear power plant management, and health care. Physical and cognitive workload, flawed information processing, and poor decision ... -
A Functional Protection Method for Availability and Cost Risk Management of Complex Research Facilities
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)While the area of functional safety for industry has evolved over the years by developing well-renowned standards and methods proven in use, such standards are not present in the field of equipment protection for complex ... -
A Fuzzy Logic Approach in the Definition of Risk Acceptance Boundaries in Occupational Safety and Health
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)Organizations need to make decisions about risk acceptance, to decide about the need of risk-reducing measures. In this process, the personal judgments of occupational safety and health (OSH) practitioners have great ... -
A Game-Theoretic Approach for Defending Cyber-Physical Systems From Observability Attacks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Cyber-physical systems are engineered systems that rely on the integration of physical processes and computational resources. While this integration enables advanced techniques for monitoring and controlling systems, it ... -
A Hierarchical Fault Diagnosis Model for Planetary Gearbox With Shift-Invariant Dictionary and OMPAN
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Planetary gearbox has been widely applied in the mechanical transmission system, and the failure types of planetary gearbox are more and more diversified. The conventional fault diagnosis methods focus on identifying the ... -
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 ...