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Sungil Byun and Dongik Lee
This paper presents a phased fault tree analysis (phased-FTA)-based approach to evaluate the performability of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) in real time. AUVs carry out a wide range of missions, including surveying the marine environment, search...
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Somayeh Emami and Hossein Dehghanisanij
The recent problems of Lake Urmia (LU) are caused by extensive and complex socio-ecological factors that require a comprehensive approach to consider the relationships between users and identify failure factors at the basin level. For this purpose, an ag...
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Zhaoxia Cui, Minghai Zheng, Jin Wang and Jiang Liu
Pouring is an important process in the production of solid propellant rocket engines, and usually, the cost of a solid propellant rocket engine is extremely high. Therefore, pouring production with high reliability is very important. The pouring of three...
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Xiaoxiao Zheng, Yisheng Liu, Jun Jiang and Nan Su
Disputes involved in public?private partnership (PPP) projects destroy the relationship between governments and private partners and generate huge losses. To multiply the chances of successfully preventing disputes, a holistic understanding of how a PPP ...
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Huan Chen, Ke Zhang, Kun Zhou, Tugen Feng, Xiaotong Sun, Xingchen Kuang, Yang Li and Zuocai Wang
The stability of a steel bracing system is one of the most important indicators by which to measure the stability of the foundation pit. Although a steel bracing system can be monitored using the axial force data, it is subject to the risk of sudden chan...
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Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieslak, Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik, Janusz Rak, Dorota Papciak, Petr Hlavínek and Krzysztof Chmielowski
The lack of biochemical stability in drinking water increases the secondary contamination risk in water supply systems and hence represents a sanitary threat to consumers. The work presented here assesses the likelihood of such risk. The assessment is ba...
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Ali Beiki Ashkezari, Mahsa Zokaee, Amir Aghsami, Fariborz Jolai and Maziar Yazdani
To successfully complete a project, selecting the most appropriate construction method and configuration is critical. There are, however, plenty of challenges associated with these complex decision-making processes. Clients require projects with the desi...
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Young-Joong Ahn, Yong-Ung Yu and Jong-Kwan Kim
Fire and explosion accidents occur frequently in tankers because they transport large quantities of dangerous cargo. To prevent fire and explosion accidents, it is necessary to analyze factors that cause accidents and their effects. In this study, factor...
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Konstantinos Milioulis, Victor Bolbot and Gerasimos Theotokatos
Recent regulatory requirements for shipping emissions control have led to the adoption of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel and the design of LNG-fuelled vessels. Considering the potential safety implications due to system failure/unavailabili...
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Vlatko Kne?evic, Josip Orovic, Ladislav Stazic and Jelena Culin
The reliability of marine propulsion systems depends on the reliability of several sub-systems of a diesel engine. The scavenge air system is one of the crucial sub-systems of the marine engine with a turbocharger as an essential component. In this paper...
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