ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Power Analysis of SDOF Structures With Tuned Inerter Dampers Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Tuned inerter dampers (TID) have been demonstrated as efficient energy dissipation devices for seismic response control. However, its potential capability for energy harvesting remains largely unexplored. Here, we present ... -
Uncertainty Analysis of Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters Using a Finite Element Level-Based Maximum Entropy Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Quantifying effects of system-wide uncertainties (i.e., affecting structural, piezoelectric, and/or electrical components) in the analysis and design of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters have recently been emphasized. ... -
Parametric Uncertainty and Random Excitation in Energy Harvesting Dynamic Vibration Absorber
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An energy harvesting dynamic vibration absorber (EHDVA) is studied to suppress undesirable vibrations in a host structure as well as to harvest electrical energy from vibrations using piezoelectric transduction. This work ... -
Tuning Nonlinear Model Parameters in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters to Match Experimental Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A framework that allows the use of well-known dynamic estimators in piezoelectric harvesters (PEHs) (i.e., deterministic performance estimators) and that accounts for the random error associated with the mathematical model ... -
Response Statistics of U-Oscillating Water Column Energy Harvesters Exposed to Extreme Storms: Application to the Case Study of Roccella Jonica (Italy)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article deals with the case study of a marina located in Roccella Jonica (Italy), where a wave energy harvester belonging to the family of U-oscillating water columns (U-OWC) is going to be installed. U-OWCs are wave ... -
On the Effect of the Electrical Load on Vibration Energy Harvesting Under Stochastic Resonance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Vibration energy harvesting (VEH) is a promising alternative for powering wireless electronics in many practical applications. Ambient vibration energy in the surrounding space of a target application often involves an ... -
Stochastic Response Analysis and Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Nonlinear Electromechanical Energy Harvesters With Fractional Derivative Elements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A methodology based on the Wiener path integral (WPI) technique is developed for stochastic response determination and reliability-based design optimization of a class of nonlinear electromechanical energy harvesters endowed ... -
Special Section on Response Analysis and Optimization of Dynamic Energy Harvesting Systems in Presence of Uncertainties
(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 ten papers related to recent advances and emerging approaches on response analysis and optimization of energy ... -
Reviewer's Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)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 ... -
Organizational Failure Analysis for Industrial Safety
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Organizational and management errors and failures represent a very significant causal influence in industrial accidents. A method, organizational failure analysis (OFA) is described for in-depth identification of organizational ... -
Analysis and Estimation of Human Errors From Major Accident Investigation Reports
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Risk analyses require proper consideration and quantification of the interaction between humans, organization, and technology in high-hazard industries. Quantitative human reliability analysis approaches require the ... -
Challenge to Collect Empirical Data for Human Reliability Analysis—Illustrated by the Difficulties in Collecting Empirical Data on the Performance-Shaping Factor Complexity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper discusses the challenges with collecting positivistic empirical data (objective, observable, reliable, replicable, experimental, and true) in human reliability analysis (HRA), and illustrates it by presenting ... -
The Impact of Weighting Methods and Behavioral Attitudes on the Weighting Process in Decision-Making
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The determination of weights in decision-making problems can be deduced as a complex process of preference formation. Preferences are expressions of behavioral attitudes and are affected by external circumstances, such as ... -
Spatiotemporal Integration of an Agent-Based First Responder Performance Model With a Fire Hazard Propagation Model for Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)To advance emergency response (ER) modeling in probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), this research offers a new methodology that explicitly incorporates the spatiotemporal evolution of underlying physical and social phenomena ... -
Human Reliability Analysis-Based Method for Manual Fire Suppression Analysis in an Integrated Probabilistic Risk Assessment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Fire is one of the most critical initiating events that can lead to core damage in nuclear power plants (NPPs). To evaluate the potential vulnerability of plants to fire hazards, fire probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) ... -
A Framework to Assess Human Performance in Normal and Emergency Situations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Human error is one of the primary reasons for accidents in complex industries like aviation, nuclear power plant management, and health care. Physical and cognitive workload, flawed information processing, and poor decision ... -
Using Rio-Paris Flight 447 Crash to Assess Human Error and Failure Propagation Analysis Early in Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)While a majority of system vulnerabilities such as performance losses and accidents are attributed to human errors, a closer inspection would reveal that often times the accumulation of unforeseen events that include both ... -
Sensemaking in Critical Situations and in Relation to Resilience—A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Accidents and incidents, such as the capsizing of the anchor handling vessel Bourbon Dolphin in 2007 and the unintended list of the drilling rig Scarabeo 8 in 2012, underline the need for addressing sensemaking in ... -
Lighting and the Circadian Rhythm of Night Shift Workers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The human factor of lighting is examined through the elements of sunlight, blue light, and how it affects the circadian rhythm, and ultimately how it impacts the work schedule of workers. The intricacies of light and human ... -
Special Issue on Human Performance and Decision-Making in Complex Industrial Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)We appreciate the efforts that the authors have made in response to the Special Issue, and to the time invested by the reviewers during the reviewing process. Our deepest appreciation to Professor Dr. Bilal M. Ayyub, Editor ...