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Qi-Ang Wang, Xin-Yu Huang, Jun-Fang Wang, Yi-Qing Ni, Sheng-Cai Ran, Jian-Peng Li and Jia Zhang
Rail corrugation is a serious problem in a railway transportation system, aggravating the operational risk and shortening the lifetime of train?track system. In order to ensure the safety and reliability of the railway system, the detection of rail corru...
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Vahid Safavi, Arash Mohammadi Vaniar, Najmeh Bazmohammadi, Juan C. Vasquez and Josep M. Guerrero
Predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is crucial to preventing system failures and enhancing operational performance. Knowing the RUL of a battery enables one to perform preventative maintenance or replace the batte...
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Jackson Costa, Rubens Matos, Jean Araujo, Jueying Li, Eunmi Choi, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Jae-Woo Lee and Dugki Min
It is necessary to develop a vehicle digital twin (DT) for urban air mobility (UAM) that uses an accurate, physics-based emulator to model the statics and dynamics of a vehicle. This is because the use of digital twins in the operation and control of UAM...
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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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He Li, Weiwen Peng, Cheng-Geng Huang and C. Guedes Soares
A detailed analysis is performed on a dataset of failure and maintenance records from various onshore wind farms located in different geographical areas for the safety, risk, reliability, availability, and maintainability characterization of wind turbine...
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Peter Kalavsky, Robert Rozenberg, Alica Tobisova and Matej Antosko
This article evaluated the functionality and reliability of the personal airborne equipment backpack TL-98 before its launch in military parachute operations. An objective of this project was the verification of the TL-98?s characteristics which could be...
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Nikoletta L. Trivyza, Athanasios Rentizelas and Gerasimos Theotokatos
The Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) was introduced as a regulatory tool employed at the ship design phase to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and increase the vessel?s operational efficiency. Although it stimulated the greening of the ship...
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Matteo Calabrese, Martin Cimmino, Francesca Fiume, Martina Manfrin, Luca Romeo, Silvia Ceccacci, Marina Paolanti, Giuseppe Toscano, Giovanni Ciandrini, Alberto Carrotta, Maura Mengoni, Emanuele Frontoni and Dimos Kapetis
Predictive Maintenance (PdM) is a prominent strategy comprising all the operational techniques and actions required to ensure machine availability and to prevent a machine-down failure. One of the main challenges of PdM is to design and develop an embedd...
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Theodoros Katopodis and Athanasios Sfetsos
Climate change already has far-reaching impacts on the oil industry, putting the operation, reliability, and growth of the sector at risk. Oil infrastructure has multi-decadal lifetime projections; thus, climate change and extreme weather events such as ...
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Sandra Fernández-Fernández, Caroline C. Ferreira, Paulo A. Silva, Paulo Baptista, Soraia Romão, Ángela Fontán-Bouzas, Tiago Abreu and Xavier Bertin
The high energetic wave climate of the North Atlantic Ocean causes important morphological changes at Figueira da Foz coastal system (W Portugal), which is comprised of sandy beaches and the Mondego estuary-inlet. The submerged sandbar at the inlet mouth...
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