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RISEstimation Procedures for the General Extreme Value Distribution for the Maxima: Alternative PWM Method
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The moments (MOM1 and MOM2), maximum likelihood (ML), sextiles (SEX1 and SEX2) and probability weighted moments (PWM1 and PWM2) methods for estimating the parameters and quantiles of the general extreme value (GEV) ...
A Nonparametric Test for Trends in the Occurrence of Rare Events
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A nonparametric test for trends in the occurrence of rare events, based on the average position that the events occupy in the series, is presented. This test is formally identical to the Wilcoxon?Mann?Whitney test for the ...
Analysis of Hysteretic Damping Using Analytic Signals
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The purpose of this technical note is to present a time-domain formulation for linear hysteretic damping. The integro-differential equations that govern the dynamics of structures with linear hysteretic damping are transformed ...
METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS OVER PUERTO RICO DURING HURRICANE BETSY, 1956
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The observations of wind, pressure, rainfall, and radar bands recorded over Puerto Rico during the passage of Hurricane Betsy are presented and discussed. The track of the hurricane across the Atlantic and eastern Caribbean ...
Adaptive Frequency-Dependent Shape Functions for Accurate Estimation of Modal Frequencies
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: An adaptive linear FEM for modal analysis of structures is presented in this paper. The method uses frequency-dependent shape functions in addition to conventional low-order polynomial interpolation functions to improve ...
ON THE FORMATION OF HURRICANE ALICE, 1955
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The occurrence of hurricane Alice in January 1955 was a meteorologically unseasonable event. The synoptic history of the storm during its genesis over the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic, its intensification while ...
GIS-Based System for Sight Distance Analysis of Highways
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Analyzing the distance visible to a driver on a highway is important for traffic safety, especially in manoeuvres such as emergency stops, when passing another vehicle, or when vehicles cross at intersections. Software ...
Damage Based Model for Prediction of Asphalt Concrete Fatigue Curves
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: In order to represent the behavior of asphalt concrete mixtures during fatigue tests, a phenomenological model based on the continuous damage theory has been developed. From this model, a method for estimation of fatigue ...
Slip Factor for Centrifugal Impellers Under Single and Two-Phase Flow Conditions
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Throughout the history of turbomachines investigators have tried to develop reliable methods for prediction of centrifugal pump behavior. Among the parameters available to estimate the performance ...