Abstract: Recent Italian collapses have revealed that hidden defects can be the cause of ruinous and apparently unpredictable failures. In this scenario the necessity of a structural vulnerability assessment at the territorial scale ...

Abstract: During these last years, passenger vehicles have been equipped with an increasing number of sensors, in an effort to monitor and control their behavior in terms of global performance and ...

Abstract: The diagnosis of a misfire event and the isolation of the cylinder in which the misfire took place is enforced by the onboard diagnostics (OBD) requirements over the whole operating range for ...

Abstract: Many methodologies have been developed in the past for misfire detection purposes based on the analysis of the instantaneous engine speed. The missing combustion is usually detected, thanks to ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the effectiveness of two isolation systems for the seismic protection of elevated steel storage tanks. In particular, the performance of high damping rubber bearings (HDRB) and friction pendulum ...

Abstract: A noniterative procedure to determine the retrofitted configuration of an existing building, to be assessed according to the seismic code, is proposed. Among possible rehabilitation strategies, the approach involving both ...

Abstract: Pulsatile mock loop systems are largely used to investigate the cardiovascular system in vitro. They consist of a pump, which replicates the heart, coupled with a lumpedparameter hydraulic afterload, which simulates ...

Abstract: Selective laser sintering of precoated sands is a process utilized to produce molds and cores for rapid casting by adding sand layer by layer and heating it using a laser beam. During the ...

Abstract: The sharp divergence of two root-loci for a critical value of the parameters is called veering. Veering phenomena are interesting since they involve relevant energetic exchanges between the ...