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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Kun Zhang, Jianyao Yao, Wenxiang Zhu, Zhifu Cao, Teng Li and Jianqiang Xin
The thermal protection system (TPS) represents one of the most critical subsystems for vehicle re-entry. However, due to uncertainties in thermal loads, material properties, and manufacturing deviations, the thermal response of the TPS exhibits significa...
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Jun Dong, Qingqing Chen, Guangxiang Yuan and Kaiyan Xie
In large-scale water conservancy and hydropower projects, complex rock structures are considered to be the main factor controlling the stability of hydraulic structures. The classification of rock mass structure plays an important role in the safety of a...
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Preethika Kasu, Prince Hamandawana and Tae-Sun Chung
Various components are involved in the end-to-end path of data transfer. Protecting data integrity from failures in these intermediate components is a key feature of big data transfer tools. Although most of these components provide some degree of data i...
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Zhehu Yuan, Yinqi Sun and Dennis Shasha
Database and data structure research can improve machine learning performance in many ways. One way is to design better algorithms on data structures. This paper combines the use of incremental computation as well as sequential and probabilistic filterin...
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Vladimir Ulansky and Ahmed Raza
The operable state of a system is maintained during operation, which requires knowledge of the system?s state. Technical diagnostics, as a process of accurately obtaining information about the system state, becomes a crucial stage in the life cycle of an...
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Leonardo De Bona Becker, Maria do Carmo Reis Cavalcanti and Alfredo Affonso Monteiro Marques
Tailings dam accidents emphasize the importance of an adequate understanding of the strength parameters of tailings to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the design, construction, and operation of such structures. Usually, the tailings strength ...
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Tharindu Malinga Abeysiriwardena, Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara and Roberto Nascimbene
The assessment of seismic risk for critical and strategic structures like schools and hospitals remains crucial, even in regions with low seismic activity. Presently, operational school buildings in Sri Lanka are primarily designed to handle gravitationa...
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German Michel Guzman-Acevedo, Juan A. Quintana-Rodriguez, Jose Ramon Gaxiola-Camacho, Guadalupe Esteban Vazquez-Becerra, Vanessa Torres-Moreno and Jesus Guadalupe Monjardin-Quevedo
In recent years, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology has been able to determine the semi-static behavior of bridges. However, most of the research about the use of InSAR in the monitoring of bridges has been applied only in determ...
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Saroj Maharjan, Antoine Poujol, Christophe Martin, Gabriele Ameri, David Baumont, Kiana Hashemi, Yacine Benjelloun and Hussein Shible
Nepal is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, as highlighted by the recent devastating 2015, Mw~7.8 Gorkha earthquake, and a robust assessment of seismic hazard is paramount for the design of earthquake-resistant structures. In this s...
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