ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Household Cooking Range Tipover Accident Reconstruction Case Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)A safety engineering accident investigation was conducted to analyze the circumstances surrounding an unwitnessed household child fatality allegedly associated with a cookingrange tipover. An accident reconstruction utilizing ... -
Prediction of Remaining Fatigue Cycles in Composite Materials Under Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In this paper, a stiffnessbased model is initially assessed for fatigue damage simulation of composite materials. The model is evaluated with three sets of experimental data. A residual strength model is coupled to the ... -
Pipeline Inspection Gauge Position Estimation Using Inertial Measurement Unit, Odometer, and a Set of Reference Stations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper presents a lowcost methodology to estimate the position of a pipeline inspection gauge (PIG). The environment in which the PIG navigates is inside the thick walls of a metallic pipeline, where it is not possible ... -
Interval Fractile Levels for Stationary Stochastic Response of Linear Structures With Uncertainties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)In the framework of stochastic analysis, the extreme response value of a structural system is completely described by its CDF. However, the CDF does not represent a direct design provision. A more meaningful parameter is ... -
Uncertain Friction Induced Vibration Study: Coupling of Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Sets, and Interval Theories
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)This paper presents a complete method to carry out a fuzzy study of a frictioninduced vibration system and to analyze the effects of uncertainty on the output data of a stability problem. The proposed approach decomposes ... -
A Comprehensive Fuzzy Uncertainty Analysis of a Controlled Nonlinear System With Unstable Internal Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Fuzzy uncertainty analyses disclose a deeper insight and provide a better understanding of complex systems with highly interdependent parameters. In contrast to probability theory, fuzzy arithmetic is concerned with epistemic ... -
First Order Reliability Method for Structural Reliability Analysis in the Presence of Random and Interval Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper presents a novel procedure based on firstorder reliability method (FORM) for structural reliability analysis in the presence of random parameters and interval uncertain parameters. In the proposed formulation, ... -
A Random Field Approach to Reliability Analysis With Random and Interval Variables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Interval variables are commonly encountered in design, especially in the early design stages when data are limited. Thus, reliability analysis (RA) should deal with both interval and random variables and then predict the ... -
Uncertain Dynamic Responses of Fuzzy Arbitrary Order Damped Beam
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Uncertain dynamic responses of fuzzy fractionally damped beams have been studied using the newly developed double parametric form of fuzzy numbers subject to unit step and impulse loads. Uncertainties are assumed to be ... -
Comparison of Uncertainty Analyses for Crankshaft Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, four convex models (interval, parallelepiped, ellipsoidal, and superellipsoidal analyses) are introduced to describe the available data on uncertainty parameters for the engine’s crankshaft. The paper first ... -
Vibro Acoustic Response of Engineering Structures With Mixed Type of Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Uncertainty Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The response of engineering structures is often sensitive to uncertainty in the system properties. The information on the uncertain parameters is frequently incomplete, limited to experts’ opinion, based on previous ... -
Interval Limit Analysis Within a Scaled Boundary Element Framework
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The paper proposes a novel approach for the interval limit analysis of rigidperfectly plastic structures with (nonprobabilistic) uncertain but bounded forces and yield capacities that vary within given continuous ranges. ... -
Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Frames Under Interval Material and Load Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The present study focuses on the development of nonlinear interval finite elements (NIFEM) for beam and frame problems. Three constitutive models have been used in the present study, viz., bilinear, Ramberg–Osgood, and ... -
An Overview of Uncertainty Concepts Related to Mechanical and Civil Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Infrastructure decisions reflect multiple social, political, and economic aspects of society, leading to information/partial knowledge and uncertainty in many forms. Alternatives to classical probability theory may be ... -
Compensating for Operational Uncertainty in Man–Machine Systems: A Case Study on Intelligent Vehicle Parking Assist System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The successful operation of man–machine systems requires consistent human operation and reliable machine performance. Machine reliability has received numerous improvements, whereas humanrelated operational uncertainty ... -
System Based Safety Tenets Applied to the Extra High Voltage Transmission Line Design for Common Uses of Highway Right of Way
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The rapidly increasing demand for electricity in recent years resulted in increasing needs of electrical system capacity and deployment for alternate uses of highway rightofway (ROW) for the purpose of electric power ... -
Understanding the Impact of Subjective Uncertainty on Architecture and Supplier Identification in Early Complex Systems Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The Architecture and Supplier Identification Tool (ASIT) is a design support tool, which enables identification of the most suitable architectures and suppliers in early stages of complex systems design, with consideration ... -
Risk Assessment in Bridge Construction Projects Using Fault Tree and Event Tree Analysis Methods Based on Fuzzy Logic
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, interruption risk in construction activities of bridge projects is assessed in order to identify the main causes of its occurrence and also to determine the potential outcomes resulted from the risk occurrence. ... -
Contractors and Linear Matrix Inequalities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) comprise a large class of convex constraints. Boxes, ellipsoids, and linear constraints can be represented by LMIs. The intersection of LMIs are also classified as LMIs. Interiorpoint ... -
Analysis of the Robustness and Recovery of Critical Infrastructures by Goal Tree–Success Tree: Dynamic Master Logic Diagram, Within a Multistate System of Systems Framework, in the Presence of Epistemic Uncertainty
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this paper, we evaluate the robustness and recovery of connected critical infrastructures (CIs) under a systemofsystems (SoS) framework taking into account: (1)آ the dependencies among the components of an individual ...