ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Path Integral Methods for the Probabilistic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Under a White-Noise Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this paper, the widely known path integral method, derived from the application of the Chapman–Kolmogorov equation, is described in details and discussed with reference to the main results available in literature in ... -
Using Algebraic Inequalities to Reduce Uncertainty and Risk
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The paper discusses applications of the domain-independent method of algebraic inequalities, for reducing uncertainty and risk. Algebraic inequalities have been used for revealing the intrinsic reliability of competing ... -
Effect of Chemical Vapor Infiltration Induced Matrix Porosity on the Mechanical Behavior of Ceramic Matrix Minicomposites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) exhibit process-induced defects such as matrix porosity at multiple length scales that have a considerable influence on their mechanical and failure behavior. This work focuses on the ... -
Frequency Failure Causes Analysis of Pressure Vessel and Piping Equipment: Case Study of the Alberta Petrochemical Industry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In recent decades, many accidents involving pressure vessels and piping components (PVP) have occurred in North America. Several studies have been conducted to understand their causes and find suitable solutions to reduce ... -
Machine Learning Approaches for Performance Assessment of Nuclear Fuel Assemblies Subject to Seismic-Induced Impacts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In pressurized water nuclear reactors, the seismic performance of fuel assemblies is governed by their spacer grids (SGs) which may experience impacts with neighboring fuel assembly SGs or with the core barrel, depending ... -
System Reliability Analysis With Second-Order Saddlepoint Approximation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The second-order saddlepoint approximation (SOSPA) has been used for component reliability analysis for higher accuracy than the traditional second-order reliability method (SORM). This work extends the second-order ... -
Universal Gray Finite Elements for Heat Transfer Analysis in the Presence of Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A new finite element method is presented for the analysis of uncertain heat transfer problems using universal gray number theory. The universal gray number representation involves normalization of the uncertain parameters ... -
Mapping SysML Diagrams Into Bayesian Networks: A Systems Engineering Approach for Fault Diagnosis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The growing complexity of equipment and systems has motivated the search for automated methods of fault diagnosis. Fault diagnosis represents the process of identifying the origin of a fault through the observation of a ... -
Bilevel Flexible-Robust Optimization for Energy Allocation Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A common issue in energy allocation problems is managing the tradeoff between selling surplus energy to maximize short-term revenue, versus holding surplus energy to hedge against future shortfalls. For energy allocation ... -
Fuzzy-FMSA: Evaluating Fault Monitoring and Detection Strategies Based on Failure Mode and Symptom Analysis and Fuzzy Logic
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Failure mode and symptoms analysis (FMSA) is a relatively new and still not very much employed variation of failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA), a technique broadly used in reliability, safety, and ... -
Developing “Design by Analysis” Methodology for Windows for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The ASME pressure vessels for human occupancy (PVHO) codes and standards are engineering standards developed to provide a reliable design method for pressure vessel windows. This empirical method is based primarily on years ... -
Experimental Validation of an Info-Gap Uncertainty Model for a Robustness Analysis of Structural Responses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The aim of this work is to propose an indicator, based on the info-gap approach, which assesses the robustness of the dynamic response of the model of a structure to lack of knowledge in the associated eigensolutions. The ... -
Measurement Errors and Uncertainty Quantification of a Two-Dimensional-Particle Image Velocimetry Experimental Setup for Jet Flow Characterization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The study of the flow interaction and the heat transfer between air jets and a surface is of paramount importance in industrial processes that apply air jet impingement. To ensure a good performance of the process, high ... -
Finite Element Analysis for Impact Tests on Polycarbonate Safety Guards: Comparison With Experimental Data and Statistical Dispersion of Ballistic Limit
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Design and testing of machine guards are provided by international standards in which the inadequacy/suitability of the tested materials for machine guards is obtained by the perforation/nonperforation of the guard in an ... -
A Sensitivity-Based Approach for Reliability Analysis of Randomly Excited Structures With Interval Axial Stiffness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Reliability assessment of linear discretized structures with interval parameters subjected to stationary Gaussian multicorrelated random excitation is addressed. The interval reliability function for the extreme value ... -
Shallow and Deep Artificial Neural Networks for Structural Reliability Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Surrogate models are efficient tools which have been successfully applied in structural reliability analysis, as an attempt to keep the computational costs acceptable. Among the surrogate models available in the literature, ... -
Special Section on Resilience of Engineering Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Our modern life has grown to depend on many and nearly ubiquitous large complex engineering systems, such as tunnels, gas/oil pipelines, geotechnical infrastructures, etc. All of these are the backbones of our modern ... -
Advances in Bayesian Probabilistic Modeling for Industrial Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Industrial applications frequently pose a notorious challenge for state-of-the-art methods in the contexts of optimization, designing experiments and modeling unknown physical response. This problem is aggravated by limited ... -
Longitudinal Seismic Response of Train–Bridge Interaction System With Slip in Moderate Earthquakes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study assesses the seismic responses of viaduct structures in the Japanese high-speed rail system under moderate earthquake forces considering the slip between tracks and wheels. Equations of motion for the train–bridge ... -
On Digital Twins, Mirrors, and Virtualizations: Frameworks for Model Verification and Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)A powerful new idea in the computational representation of structures is that of the digital twin. The concept of the digital twin emerged and developed over the last decade, and has been identified by many industries as ...