ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Smart and Digital World: The Technologies Needed for Digital Twins and Human Digital Twins
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The transition to Industry 5.0 begins with the integration of the human aspect into Industry 4.0 technologies. Industry 5.0 is a human-centric design approach that aims to overcome the issues raised by Industry 4.0 and ... -
Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Additive Manufacturing for Lithium Battery Silicon Anode
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)With the blooming of the electric vehicle market and the advancement in the lithium-ion battery industry, silicon anode has shown great potential for the next-generation battery. Using the state-of-the-art additive ... -
Uncertainty Quantification With Mixed Data by Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network for Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Surrogate models have become increasingly essential for replacing simulation models in additive manufacturing (AM) process analysis and design, particularly for assessing the impact of microstructural variations and process ... -
Uncertainty Quantification of Process-Property-Structure Linkage for Fused Filament Fabrication Parts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Due to the nature of additive manufacturing (AM), design and manufacturing are deeply coupled. Toolpaths are defined based on the part geometry, and in turn, these toolpaths can influence the bonding between adjacent ... -
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 ... -
Special Section on Probabilistic Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Additive manufacturing (AM) has made enormous progress over the past decade, as it is capable of producing complex parts with significantly fewer fabrication constraints compared with existing manufacturing technologies ... -
Improving Centralized Offshore Power Generation Design With Petri Net-Based Availability and Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The offshore industry has actively sought technological solutions that reduce CO2 emissions from platform operations. One of the possible solutions being studied is the implementation of Power Hubs, which would generate ... -
Probabilistic Validation: Computational Platform and Application to Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Recently, there has been an increasing use of advanced modeling and simulation in the nuclear domain across academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to improve the realism in capturing complex and highly spatiotemporal ... -
Investigation of the Dynamic Performance of High-Speed Railway Bridges in Cold Regions Based on Vehicle–Bridge Coupling Vibrations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work uses numerical simulations to systematically study the dynamic performance of high-speed railroad bridges in cold areas based on coupled vibration analyses of axles and vehicles during freeze–thaw cycles. The ... -
Special Section: Modeling and Analysis of Inspection Uncertainties in Structural Health Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The recent advancements in structural health monitoring technology are truly remarkable [1,2], with the utilization of sophisticated methods, such as finite element analysis [3], mathematical statistics [4], and artificial ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The Reviewers of the Year Award is given to reviewers who have made an outstanding contribution to the journal in terms of the quantity, quality, and turnaround time of reviews completed during the past 12 months. The prize ... -
Domain Adaptation of Population-Based of Bolted Joint Structures for Loss Detection of Tightening Torque
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper investigates how to improve the performance of a classifier of tightening torque in bolted joints by applying transfer learning. The procedure uses vibration measurements to extract features and to train a ... -
Special Section on Digital Twins: A New Frontier in Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A digital twin (DT) is a computational model (or set of coupled) that evolves over time to persistently represent the critical structure, its components, system, or process. Digital twin underpins intelligent automation ... -
An Android Sensors-Based Portable Road Health Monitoring System Utilizing Measurement Uncertainty Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Road health monitoring systems aim to obtain the technical indexes of roads and then analyze the usage and the degree of damage of the roads, which can provide an important basis for road construction, maintenance, and ... -
Crashworthiness Analysis: Exploiting Information of Developed Products With Control Variates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Assessing vehicle safety is a challenging, yet fundamental task. In the early phase of development, car manufacturers need to ensure the compliance with strict safety requirements. An interesting task to automate these ... -
Improving Output Power of a Torsional-Flutter Harvester in Stochastic Thunderstorms by Duffing—Van Der Pol Restoring Torque1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Wind energy harvesters are usually designed to operate in the low wind speed range. They rely on smaller swept areas, as a complement to larger horizontal-axis wind turbines. A torsional-flutter-based apparatus is investigated ... -
Bayesian Inference Based on Monte Carlo Technique for Multiplier of Performance Shaping Factor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The human error probabilities (HEP) can be estimated using multipliers that correspond to the level of performance shaping factors (PSFs) in the human reliability analysis (HRA). This paper focuses on the adjustment of ... -
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 ...