An urgent task in creating and using composite materials is the assessment and prediction of their performance properties and reliability. Currently, when studying the reliability of the materials, there is little experimental data, mathematical desc...
Non-uniform structures and composite materials have advantages in engineering applications, such as light weight design, multi-functionality, and better buckling/flutter load capacity. For composite structures under dynamic loading conditions, reliab...
This paper proposes a novel approach to analyze the impacts of cyber layer failures (i.e., protection failures and monitoring failures) on the reliability evaluation of composite power systems. The reliability and availability of the cyber layer and...
Composite pile foundation, as a new structural form in foundation engineering, has been widely used in the field of bridge engineering due to its overall superiority. This article focuses on the specific randomness problems encountered in the practic...
The usefulness of the well-built electrical power system is efficient supply generation of electrical power for consumers. For a reliability assessment of power systems, the system’s actual components in terms of performance and random behavior...
Fatigue damage accumulation will not only cause the degradation of material performance but also lead to the growth of effective stress and critical stiffness. However, the existing fatigue reliability models usually ignore the effective stress growt...
This paper introduces an open-source tool capable of performing the Composite System Reliability evaluation developed in the high-level, dynamic Julia™ programming language. Employing Monte Carlo Simulation and parallel computing, the tool eval...
The evaluation of the reliability and the lifetime of aerospace components has become an important segment of the design stage. The aeronautical components are subjected to complex, rigorous tests and have a long test life. The main goal in the field...
Power systems has been subjected to significant upgrades in terms of structure and capacity. Reliability evaluation of composite power systems has surfaced as an essential step in operation and planning stages of the modern power system. It is an eff...
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) models for reliability evaluation, as well as other power system simulation studies, are typically characterized by two key variables: State of Charge (SOC), representing the stored energy in MWh, and Injected Pow...
Background: Composite well-being indicators are typically built by aggregating dimension scores with subjectively elicited or transferred weights, computed on raw sample means without formal reliability checks. Methods: We propose the Reliability-Wei...
Background/Objectives: The PRO-CTCAE Average Composite Score (ACS), calculated as the mean of PRO-CTCAE composite scores, summarizes overall symptom and side effect burden. This study evaluated the test–retest reliability, responsiveness to cha...
Taking an actual 3MW steel–concrete composite wind turbine tower as an example, a finite element model of the tower structure was established, and static bearing capacity and dynamic time history response analyses were performed to identify the...
The Sn–Bi solder paste is commonly used in electronic assembly and packaging, but its brittleness causes poor reliability in shock environments. In this study, the mechanical reliability of Sn–Bi solder paste and Sn–Bi composite sol...
It is observed that, for some of the data in engineering and medical fields, the hazard rates increase to a high peak at the beginning and quickly decrease to a low level. In the context of survival analysis, such a hazard rate is called a upside-dow...
Web service composition is the process of combining and reusing existing web services to create new business processes to satisfy specific user requirements. Reliability plays an important role in ensuring the quality of web service composition. Howe...
In order to develop a Supercomputing Cloud Platform (SCP) prototype system using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Petri nets, we researched some technologies for Web service composition. Specifically, in this paper, we propose a reliability ca...
The services composition technology provides flexible methods for building service composition applications (SCAs) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The high reliability and high performance of SCAs help services composition technology promote the...
Due to lack of research data on the rates of deterioration of FRP properties under a harsh environment exposure, it was pointed out in the design guidelines that the durability of FRP needs to be further developed. Therefore, in this study, 48 FRP sa...
This study investigates date palm fiber (DPF) and sheep wool hybrid polyester composites with fiber loadings of 0%, 10%, 20%, and 30% by weight, fabricated by compression molding, to develop a sustainable and reliable material system. Experimental da...
Landslide dams, as a special type of earth dams, are characterized by complex geomorphological features and geotechnical properties. The failure of landslide dams induced by seepage should not be overlooked. This study introduces a calculation method...
The economic friction and political conflicts between some countries and regions have made multinational corporations increasingly focus on the reliability and credibility of manufacturing supply chains. In view of the impact of poor manufacturing en...
To meet the increasing demand for resilient infrastructure in seismic and high-impact areas, accurate prediction and reliability analysis of the performance of composite structures under impact loads is essential. Conventional techniques, including e...
This study analyzes the compressive behavior and reliability of Al-Mg-Si (6061) metal matrix composites reinforced with different weight fractions of Al2O3 and SiC ceramics and cast with graphite and steel molds. Compression tests were carried out ac...
Reliability-based partial topology optimization (RBPTO) is a new approach for aircraft structural design; however, it brings computational complexity and makes aeroelasticity analysis quite challenging. Therefore, the present study proposed the multi...
This work aims to fabricate a large-area ceramic substrate for the application of probe cards. Mullite (M) and cordierite (C), which both have a low thermal expansion coefficient, excellent resistance to thermal shock, and high durability, were selec...
In this study, a Sn–Bi composite solder paste with thermosetting epoxy (TSEP Sn–Bi) was prepared by mixing Sn–Bi solder powder, flux, and epoxy system. The melting characteristics of the Sn–Bi solder alloy and the curing reaction of the epoxy system...
Due to their superior capabilities for manufacturing lightweight automotive components, aluminium metal matrix composites have gained a lot of attention in the last few years. Aluminium metal matrix composites are an exceptional class of metal matrix...
Composite bucket foundations, which have been successfully transported, installed, and operated at the Qidong, Xiangshui, and Dafeng offshore wind farms in China, are economically advantageous due to the relatively simple transportation and installat...
In this study, a masonry panel under a high compressive stress to strength ratio is considered. The panel is modeled as a composite structure by considering a repeated unit cell of mortar and brick. Load redistributions due to creep in mortar and bri...
We illustrate how structural equation models (SEMs) can be used to assess the reliability and generalizability of composite and subscale scores, proportions of multiple sources of measurement error, and subscale added value within multivariate design...
This paper presents an optimal-design methodology for small-scale Integrated Energy Systems (IESs) that couple electricity and heat in distributed networks. A hybrid reliability assessment integrates probabilistic state enumeration with scenario-base...
Ultrasound imaging (US) is widely used in several healthcare disciplines (including physiotherapy) for assessing multiple muscle metrics such as muscle morphology and quality. Since measuring instruments are required to demonstrate their reliability,...
Large-scale use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is limited by strong gradation variability, uneven recovery of aged asphalt (AA), and an incomplete understanding of the rejuvenation mechanism. This study combines source evaluation, composite reju...
This study evaluates the structural safety of composite RC wall systems, which consist of outer and inner RC walls with either an empty or a filled gap, against projectile impacts. The system is considered to have failed if its ballistic limit falls...
Ultrasound imaging (US) is a biosensing technique that is widely used in several healthcare disciplines (including physiotherapy) for assessing multiple muscle metrics, such as muscle morphology and quality. Since all biosensors need to be tested in...
There is wide consensus regarding the capacity of the creative economy as a factor in economic development and sustainability in regions in the medium term, and it is an issue that has aroused interest in measuring the creative potential of areas by...
The global shear capacity of steel–concrete composite downstand cellular beams with precast hollow-core units is an important calculation as it affects the span-to-depth ratios and the amount of material used, hence affecting the embodied CO2 c...
Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites are attractive for lightweight and sustainable engineering applications; however, property scatter remains a major barrier to reliable design. Mean tensile properties alone are insufficient when material se...
This study evaluated the flexural properties of an experimental composite series functionalized with 5–40 wt% of a low-Na F-containing bioactive glass (F-series) and compared it to another experimental composite series containing the same amoun...
Background: Mechanical reliability and size-dependent strength behavior remain critical concerns for CAD/CAM restorative materials. This study evaluated resin-based CAD/CAM materials, including resin composite blocks (RCBs) and nanoceramics. The infl...
With the development of microelectronic packaging and increasingly specific service environment of solder joints, much stricter requirements have been placed on the properties of lead-free solders. On account of small size effect and high surface ene...
Composite radomes are usually located in the nose of aircraft and are important structural components that protect radar antenna. The finite element model of a radome structure is developed and analyzed in this article. Single-objective deterministic...
Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems require photovoltaic modules that simultaneously ensure structural reliability, optical transparency, and environmental sustainability. Conventional photovoltaic modules typically employ tempered glass...
This study introduces a Radial Basis Function-Genetic Algorithm-Back Propagation-Importance Sampling (RBF-GA-BP-IS) algorithm for the multi-scale reliability analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite structures. The proposed method integra...
Services composition technology provides a flexible approach to building Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Service Applications (WSA) in a service oriented tasking system for WSN. Maintaining the data security of WSA is one of the most important goals in...
With the rapid iteration of microsystem integrated technology, the miniaturization of electronic devices requires packaging materials with higher reliability. In this work, the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of novel epoxy composi...
Targeting the problems of low reliability and cleaning quality during the soil cleaning process of semi-feed peanut combine harvesters under clay soil conditions, a composite soil cleaning device with “up-and-down flapping and lateral rotation&...
Objective: One of the suggested methods for lowering polymerization shrinkage and improving the marginal sealing of restorations is the simultaneous light polymerization of the adhesive system and the first layer of the composite material, i.e., the...
Trust in embodied intelligence is dynamic, contextual, and interaction-dependent, but many existing computational approaches still model trust using static similarity structures. This study proposes and evaluates a compositional trust modeling approa...
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