Abstract: Real-time health monitoring of industrial components and systems that can detect, classify and predict impending faults is critical to reducing operating and maintenance cost. This paper presents ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simplified method to predict the thermal and mechanical behavior of a new cold-formed steel floor system at room and elevated temperatures. A four-point bending test of such a floor assembly was ...

Abstract: Although pneumatic actuators are widely used in industry, they have two major weaknesses—nonlinearities associated with compressibility of air and low energy efficiency. The former limits its ...

Abstract: Material properties at elevated temperatures are important factors in the fire safety design and numerical analysis of cold-formed steel structures. Most of the previous research on material properties at high temperatures ...

Abstract: Structural vulnerability theory is a theory of structural form and connectivity. Its purpose is to identify particular failure scenarios by analyzing the connectivity of the structural form. In this paper, the displacement ...

Abstract: Through particle image velocimetry, conical vortices were observed near the leading edge of a flat roof and two saddle roofs whose high points were windward. The influences of wind direction and roof curvature on the ...

Abstract: 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 ...