ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Uncertainty Quantification for Additive Manufacturing Process Improvement: Recent Advances
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This paper reviews the state of the art in applying uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods to additive manufacturing (AM). Physics-based as well as data-driven models are increasingly being developed and refined in order ... -
Special Issue on Uncertainty Quantification and Management in Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Additive manufacturing (AM) represents a new paradigm of manufacturing where parts are manufactured using their 3D models (such as CAD models) by joining materials in a layer-by-layer manner. Widespread implementation of ... -
Harmonizing the Mooring System Reliability of Multiline Anchor Wind Farms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)One of many barriers to the deployment of floating offshore wind turbines is the high cost of vessel time needed for soil investigations and anchor installation. A multiline anchor system is proposed in which multiple ... -
Assessing Wear Evolutions in Railway Wheelsets Using a Survival Modeling Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper provides a method to predict maintenance needs for the railway wheelsets by modeling the wear out affecting the wheelsets during its life cycle using survival analysis. Wear variations of wheel profiles are ... -
Levelized Cost of Energy Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms—An Examination of Different Methodologies, Input Variables, and Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Levelized cost of energy (LCoE) is the most common metric used in renewable energy assessments. However, this can be a very complex calculation with numerous methodologies depending on the perspective taken. Inputs including ... -
Impact of Geotechnical Uncertainty on the Preliminary Design of Monopiles Supporting Offshore Wind Turbines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The growing demand for clean renewable energy sources and the lack of suitable nearshore sites are moving the offshore wind industry toward developing larger wind turbines in deeper water locations further offshore. This ... -
Uncertainty in Wave Basin Testing of a Fixed Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This research presents a methodology for carrying out uncertainty analysis on measurements made during wave basin testing of an oscillating water column wave energy converter. Values are determined for type A and type B ... -
Uncertainty Quantification for Fatigue Life of Offshore Wind Turbine Structure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study aims to address the question: can the structural reliability of an offshore wind turbine (OWT) under fatigue loading conditions be predicted more consistently? To respond to that question this study addresses ... -
Special Section on Risk and Uncertainties in Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This special section of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Part B comprises seven papers related to recent advances and emerging approaches on the risk and uncertainties that are associated ... -
A Probabilistic Fatigue Damage Model for Aluminum 6061-T6 10-Gauge Sheet-Type Material
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The 6061-T6 10-gauge sheet-type flat fatigue specimen was designed, manufactured, and tested on an Instron 8081 fatigue test machine. The fatigue tests were performed under five different cyclic axial loads with 195 tests. ... -
Dynamic Response Analysis of Gearbox to Improve Fault Detection Using Empirical Mode Decomposition and Artificial Neural Network Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Since the last decade, gearbox systems have been requiring increasing power, and consequently, the complexity of systems has escalated. Inevitably, this complexity has resulted in the need for the troubleshooting of gearbox ... -
Resilience Assessment and Importance Measure for Interdependent Critical Infrastructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Based upon a novel control-based dynamic modeling framework, this paper proposes two new indicators, i.e., resilience by mitigation and resilience by recovery, for the resilience analysis of interdependent critical ... -
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 ... -
Quantifying Uncertainty in the Residence Time of the Drug and Carrier Particles in a Dry Powder Inhaler
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Dry powder inhalers (DPI), used as a means for pulmonary drug delivery, typically contain a combination of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and significantly larger carrier particles. The microsized drug particles—which ... -
Evaluation of the Effect of a Rear Operator Guard on the Overall Safety for Operators of Standup Lift Trucks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Standup high lift trucks have an open operator compartment designed to allow for easy egress from the truck in the event of an off-dock, off-trailer, or tip-over accident. The open compartment design also protects the ... -
A Low-Fidelity Stochastic Model of Viral Spread in Aircraft to Assess Risk Mitigation Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The purpose of this work is to develop a computationally efficient model of viral spread that can be utilized to better understand the influences of stochastic factors on a large-scale system – such as the air traffic ... -
An Equilibrium Prediction Method for Control and Fault Detection of Energy Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Many fault detection, optimization, and control logic methods rely on sensor feedback that assumes the system is operating at steady-state conditions, despite persistent transient disturbances. While filtering and signal ... -
Optimizing Predictive Maintenance With Machine Learning for Reliability Improvement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Predictive maintenance, as a form of pro-active maintenance, has increasing usage and shows significant superiority over the corrective and preventive maintenance. However, conventional methods of predictive maintenance ... -
Pelvic Response of a Total Human Body Finite Element Model During Simulated Injurious Under Body Blast Impacts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the increased exposure of military personnel to explosive threats. Combat-related pelvic fractures are a relatively new battlefield injury that poses a serious ... -
Reliability Analysis of Mechanical Systems Based on the First Four Moments of Input Parameters
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The performance of a mechanical or structural system can be improved through a proper selection of its design parameters such as the geometric dimensions, external actions (loads), and material characteristics. The computation ...