ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Effect of Condition Monitoring on Risk Mitigation for Steam Turbines in the Forest Products Industry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Industry has been implementing condition monitoring (CM) for turbines to minimize losses and to improve productivity. Deficient conditions can be identified before losses occur by monitoring the equipment parameters. For ... -
Robust Design Optimization for Crashworthiness of Vehicle Side Impact
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Optimization for crashworthiness is of vast importance in automobile industry. Recent advancement in computational prowess has enabled researchers and design engineers to address vehicle crashworthiness, resulting in ... -
Spatial Probabilistic Modeling of Corrosion in Ship Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Corrosion in ship structures is influenced by a variety of factors that are varying in time and space. Existing corrosion models used in practice only partially address the spatial variability of the corrosion process. ... -
A Fractional Derivative Model for Rubber Spring of Primary Suspension in Railway Vehicle Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)This paper presents a nonlinear rubber spring model for the primary suspension of the railway vehicle, which can effectively describe the amplitude dependency and the frequency dependency of the rubber spring, by taking ... -
Fractional Derivatives in Interval Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, interval fractional derivatives are presented. We consider uncertainty in both the order and the argument of the fractional operator. The approach proposed takes advantage of the property of Fourier and ... -
Analysis of Fractional Viscoelastic Material With Mechanical Parameters Dependent on Random Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)It is well known that mechanical parameters of polymeric materials, e.g., epoxy resin, are strongly influenced by the temperature. On the other hand, in many applications, the temperature is not known exactly during the ... -
Path Integral Method for Nonlinear Systems Under Levy White Noise
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, the probabilistic response of nonlinear systems driven by alpha-stable Lévy white noises is considered. The path integral solution is adopted for determining the evolution of the probability density function ... -
Stochastic Analysis of a Nonlocal Fractional Viscoelastic Bar Forced by Gaussian White Noise
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Recently, a displacement-based nonlocal bar model has been developed. The model is based on the assumption that nonlocal forces can be modeled as viscoelastic (VE) long-range interactions mutually exerted by nonadjacent ... -
Approximate Analytical Mean-Square Response of an Impacting Stochastic System Oscillator With Fractional Damping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)The paper deals with the stochastic dynamics of a vibroimpact single-degree-of-freedom system under a Gaussian white noise. The system is assumed to have a hard type impact against a one-sided motionless barrier, located ... -
Effects of the Fractional Laplacian Order on the Nonlocal Elastic Rod Response
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In this paper, we yield with a nonlocal elastic rod problem, widely studied in the last decades. The main purpose of the paper is to investigate the effects of the statistic variability of the fractional operator order s ... -
Exact Closed-Form Fractional Spectral Moments for Linear Fractional Oscillators Excited by a White Noise
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In the last decades, the research community has shown an increasing interest in the engineering applications of fractional calculus, which allows to accurately characterize the static and dynamic behavior of many complex ... -
Special Section on Fractional Operators in the Analysis of Mechanical Systems Under Stochastic Agencies
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Rare Event Analysis Considering Data and Model Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)In risk analysis of rare events, there is a need to adopt data from different sources with varying levels of detail (e.g., local, regional, categorical data). Therefore, it is very important to identify, understand, and ... -
Reliability and Component Importance in Networks Subject to Spatially Distributed Hazards Followed by Cascading Failures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)We investigate reliability and component importance in spatially distributed infrastructure networks subject to hazards characterized by large-scale spatial dependencies. In particular, we consider a selected IEEE benchmark ... -
Robust Topology Design of Complex Infrastructure Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Optimizing the topology of complex infrastructure systems can minimize the impact of cascading failures due to an initiating failure event. This paper presents a model-based design approach for the concept-stage robust ... -
Resilience of Electricity Distribution Networks Against Extreme Weather Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Extreme weather forms a major threat to electricity distribution networks and has caused many severe power outages in the past. A reliable electrical grid is something most of us take for granted, but storms, heavy snowfall, ... -
Seismic Reliability Assessment of a Concrete Water Tank Based on the Bayesian Updating of the Finite Element Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Failure or malfunction of complex engineered networks involves relevant social and economic aspects, so that their maintenance is of primary importance. In assessing the reliability of such networks, it should be duly ... -
Benefit of Distributed Security Queuing for Reducing Risks Associated With Improvised Explosive Device Attacks in Airport Terminals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Brussels Airport ceased operations for 12 days after a coordinated improvised explosive device (IED) attack by suicide bombers in March 2016, demonstrating that critical transport hubs can be disrupted for significant ... -
Improving the Resilience of Energy Flow Exchanges in Eco-Industrial Parks: Optimization Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)Eco-Industrial parks (EIPs) and industrial symbioses (IS) provide cost-effective and environmental friendly solutions for industries. They bring benefits from industrial plants to industrial parks and neighborhood areas. ... -
Resilience Analysis Framework for Interconnected Critical Infrastructures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017)To investigate the resilience of interconnected critical infrastructures (CIs), a framework combining dynamic modeling and resilience analysis is proposed. Resilience is defined in this work as the capacity of a system to ...