ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Special Section on Risk, Resilience, and Reliability for Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Trend, Techniques, and Challenges
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Mechanical engineering continues to dominate the design, development, and advancement of autonomous vehicle technologies, and throughout this process is likely to evolve through several risks and uncertainties. Self-driving ... -
Improving Site-Dependent Wind Turbine Performance Prediction Accuracy Using Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Data-driven wind turbine performance predictions, such as power and loads, are important for planning and operation. Current methods do not take site-specific conditions such as turbulence intensity and shear into account, ... -
Estimating Concrete Strength From Nondestructive Testing With Few Core Tests Considering Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Important facilities constructed during last decades of 20th century are near completion of design life. For extending their service life or to evaluate these for new demands (loads), assessment of strength of concrete in ... -
Definition of a Basic Design for Conversion of an Offshore Fixed Platform on a Depleted Reservoir Into a Sustainable Plant
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In the framework of energy transition, a focus is given to the study of the conversion of offshore Oil& -
A Novel Method to Classify Rolling Element Bearing Faults Using K-Nearest Neighbor Machine Learning Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A novel method is proposed in this work for the classification of fault in the ball bearings. Applications of K-nearest neighbor (KNN) techniques are increasing, which redefines the state-of-the-art technology for defect ... -
Fatigue Life Prediction of Structures With Interval Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A new method for reliable fatigue life prediction in metal structural components is developed, which quantifies uncertainties using interval variables. Using this crack-initiation-based method, first, the uncertainties in ... -
Systematical Collision Avoidance Reliability Analysis and Characterization of Reliable System Operation for Autonomous Navigation Using the Dynamic Window Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Dynamic window approach (DWA) is one of the most widely used algorithms for local path planning and autonomous navigation. Although many successful examples have been shown under various operation conditions, to the authors' ... -
Comparison of the HAZOP, FMEA, FRAM, and STPA Methods for the Hazard Analysis of Automatic Emergency Brake Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)As autonomous vehicle (AV) intelligence for controllability continues to develop, involving increasingly complex and interconnected systems, the maturity level of AV technology increasingly depends on the systems reliability ... -
Survey Use to Validate Engineering Methodology and Enhance System Safety
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Surveys and the resulting data provide powerful insights to an item or concept being assessed. Not only do they garner feedback that can be used to enhance the item, but, in the instance of this article, they can enhance ... -
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 ... -
Calibration and Validation of Multiscale Model for Ultimate Strength Prediction of Composite Laminates Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)A methodology to account for the effect of epistemic uncertainty (regarding model parameters) on the strength prediction of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite laminates is presented. A three-dimensional ... -
Proposing an Uncertainty Management Framework to Implement the Evidence Theory for Vehicle Crash Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The purpose of this work is to enable the use of the Dempster–Shafer evidence theory (ET) for uncertainty propagation on computationally expensive automotive crash simulations. This is necessary as the results of these ... -
Evaluation of Testing Uncertainties for the Impact Resistance of Machine Guards
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Machine guards provide protection against the ejection of parts during operation, such as chips or workpiece fragments. They are considered safe if the impact resistance is at least as high as the resulting projectile ... -
An Interval Approach for the Availability Optimization of Multi-State Systems in the Presence of Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An essential step in the safe design of systems is choosing the system configuration that will maximize the overall availability of the system and minimize its overall cost. The main objective of this paper is to propose ... -
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. ... -
Interpretable Machine Learning in Damage Detection Using Shapley Additive Explanations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)In recent years, machine learning (ML) techniques have gained popularity in structural health monitoring (SHM). These have been particularly used for damage detection in a wide range of engineering applications such as ... -
Prognostics and Health Management of Wind Energy Infrastructure Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The improvements in wind energy infrastructure have been a constant process throughout many decades. There are new advancements in technology that can further contribute toward the prognostics and health management (PHM) ... -
Developing Climate Resilience Technologies for Infrastructure: Perspectives on Some Strategic Needs in Mechanical Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Infrastructure plays a crucial role in our society, supporting our communities with mechanical systems providing critical functions related to energy generation and distribution, heating and air conditioning, communication, ... -
Multi-Objective Optimization Under Uncertainty of Part Quality in Fused Filament Fabrication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work presents a data-driven methodology for multi-objective optimization under uncertainty of process parameters in the fused filament fabrication (FFF) process. The proposed approach optimizes the process parameters ... -
Bayesian Calibration of Multiple Coupled Simulation Models for Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Bayesian Network Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Modeling and simulation for additive manufacturing (AM) are critical enablers for understanding process physics, conducting process planning and optimization, and streamlining qualification and certification. It is often ...