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Cem Polat Cetinkaya and Mert Can Gunacti
Dry periods and drought are inherent natural occurrences. However, due to the increasing pressures of global warming and climate change, these events have become more frequent and severe on a global scale. These phenomena can be traced with various indic...
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Maximilian Granzner, Alfred Strauss, Michael Reiterer, Maosen Cao and Drahomír Novák
Railway noise barrier constructions are subjected to high aerodynamic loads during the train passages, and the knowledge of their actual structural condition is relevant to assure safety for railway users and to create a basis for forecasting. This paper...
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Wang Xiao, Yifan Chen, Huisheng Zhang and Denghai Shen
Turbine blades are crucial components exposed to harsh conditions, such as high temperatures, high pressures, and high rotational speeds. It is of great significance to accurately predict the life of blades for reducing maintenance cost and improving the...
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Alireza Esparham, Nikolai Ivanovich Vatin, Makhmud Kharun and Mohammad Hematibahar
By posing the question of what will be the definition of sustainable development in the future, it can almost be seen that the principle of ?no waste? and the production of new materials with less of a negative environmental impact will have a high prior...
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Thamer Al-Zuriqat, Carlos Chillón Geck, Kosmas Dragos and Kay Smarsly
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a non-destructive testing method that supports the condition assessment and lifetime estimation of civil infrastructure. Sensor faults may result in the loss of valuable data and erroneous structural condition assess...
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Yuehang Sun, Yun-Ze Li and Man Yuan
The special use environment and uncertainty of extravehicular activities (EVAs) make it difficult to predict the lifetime consumption of extravehicular spacesuits in the traditional way. This paper presents a flexible reliability dynamic simulation model...
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Alfred Strauss, Panagiotis Spyridis, Ivan Zambon, Fabian Sattler and Eftychia Apostolidi
In the past few years, there has been an increasing societal and industrial demand for the reliable assessment and design of structural systems with service-life criteria of at least several decades. The life cycle characterisation of engineering structu...
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Vincenzo Piscopo, Antonio Scamardella, Giovanni Battista Rossi, Francesco Crenna and Marta Berardengo
The fatigue assessment of mooring lines for floating offshore wind turbines represents a challenging issue not only for the reliable design of the stationkeeping system but also for the economic impact on the installation and maintenance costs over the e...
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Thais Sartori, Robin Drogemuller, Sara Omrani and Fiona Lamari
The pressure to reduce the environmental impacts of buildings over their lifetime has driven certification bodies and the government to require a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). However, LCA is a data-intensive and time-consuming process which complicates d...
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Alexander Grundler, Martin Dazer and Thomas Herzig
Statistical power analyses are used in the design of experiments to determine the required number of specimens, and thus the expenditure, of a test. Commonly, when analyzing and planning life tests of technical products, only the confidence level is take...
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