Under the typhoon disaster, the power grid often has serious accidents caused by falling power towers and breaking lines. It is of great significance to analyze and predict the damage probability of a transmission line-tower system for disaster preve...
The reliability of aero engine has a direct impact on the flight safety of the whole plane. With the continuous improvement of performance requirements of aero engines, the related fatigue and reliability problems also appear. For the fatigue failure...
This study analyzed the probability of damage in heat transport pipelines buried in urban areas using pipeline attribute information and damage history data and developed an AI-based predictive model. A dataset was constructed by collecting spatial a...
This study generated an AI (Artificial Intelligence)-based prediction model for identifying high-risk groups of failures in urban district heating pipelines using pipeline attribute information and historical failure records. A total of 324,495 recor...
Safety is one of the goals of a smart city. To study storage tank explosion damage in a city’s chemical industrial parks, determine the position of control measures according to the situation, and realize the analysis of the measured utility, w...
Simple and complex clustered DNA damage represent the critical initial damage caused by radiation. In this paper, a multinomial probability model of clustered damage is developed with probabilities dependent on the energy imparted to DNA and surround...
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the influence of long-term corrosion on the deterioration of wind resistance of a steel transmission tower during its service life. An analytical model for predicting the long-term corrosion depth of carbo...
The subsea wellhead (SW) system is a crucial connection between blowout preventors (BOPs) and subsea oil and gas wells. Excited by cyclical fatigue dynamic loadings, the SW is prone to fatigue failure, which would lead to the loss of well integrity a...
The box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) is an invasive species in Europe and a serious pest of box trees (Buxus spp.). In Slovakia, Central Europe, it was first reported in 2012 within the low elevation region...
A non-linear modification to Miner’s rule for damage accumulation is proposed to reduce the scatter between experimental fatigue life and fatigue life predicted according to the original Miner’s sum. Based on P-s-n probability distributio...
The blast-induced damage of a high rock slope is directly related to construction safety and the operation performance of the slope. Approaches currently used to measure and predict the blast-induced damage are time-consuming and costly. A Bayesian a...
Freezing rain is a frequently occurring, but relatively rarely studied disturbance in Europe, although ice accumulation may occasionally cause severe damage for forestry. We aimed to characterize ice-accumulation damage to overstory trees in spruce s...
Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is an effective tool to quantify the dynamic damage that may cause heavy casualties and huge property losses in rock engineering. Instead of traditional failure evaluation methods, in this paper, the coal failure mec...
In recent years, the importance and severity of weather-related disasters have escalated, attributed to rising temperatures and the occurrence of extreme weather events due to global warming. The focus of disaster management has shifted from crisis m...
Windstorms may have negative consequences on forest ecosystems, industries, and societies. Extreme events related to extra-tropical cyclonic systems remind us that better recognition and understanding of the factors driving forest damage are needed f...
An important goal of smart cities is to ensure city safety and reduce city risks. However, because the chemical industry park is often located interior and surroundings of a city, it is easy to induce explosions in case of natural disasters, causing...
As sensor monitoring technology continues to evolve, structural online monitoring and health management have found numerous applications across various fields. However, challenges remain concerning the real-time diagnosis of structural damage and the...
Routinely collected booking records of salvaged timber from the period 1979–2008 were used to empirically model the (1) storm damage probability; (2) proportions of storm-damaged timber and (3) endemic storm damage risk in the forest area of the Germ...
This study analyzed landslide susceptibility and numerically simulated the runout distance of debris flows near a construction site in Korea. Landslide susceptibility was based on a landslide prediction map of the study area. In the prediction map, 3...
Inclined–vertical framed retaining walls were recently developed and successfully adopted in engineering practice. However, relevant empirical methods for the evaluation of ground movements due to excavation have not been established. This stud...
This study presents a novel probabilistic framework that combines the Duration Time Method (DTM) with the ATC-58 damage assessment procedure. The method reduces computational cost by 30% compared to incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) while maintainin...
This study proposed a real-time flood extent prediction method to shorten the time it takes from the flood occurrence to an alert issuance. This method uses logistic regression to generate a flood probability discriminant for each grid constituting t...
In earthquake-prone regions, predicting the impact of seismic events on highway bridges is crucial for post-earthquake effective emergency response and recovery planning. This paper presents a methodology for a simplified seismic risk assessment of b...
The accurate prediction of surface subsidence is a significant foundation for the damage assessment of coal seam mining and ecological environment reclamation in loess donga. However, conventional models are very problematic, and the reliability of p...
At present, the research on bridge structure health monitoring mainly focuses on discovering existing structural damage and less on predicting when the damage will occur in the future. This paper proposes a fatigue damage prognosis method for the mai...
In wafer testing, the test probe needs to contact the surface of the semiconductor wafer to measure electrical parameters such as resistance, capacitance, and current. The probe mark damage frequently occurs on the machine during wafer testing. This...
The southeast region of Tibet experiences frequent glacial lake outburst disasters, and disaster warning systems are thus crucial for disaster prevention and mitigation in the area. In this study, based on remote sensing images and historical data, 2...
In this study, inspection planning of deteriorating bridges is optimized to determine the inspection application times and methods based on various objectives. These objectives can be formulated by considering the probabilistic structural performance...
This paper presents a copula technique for developing seismic fragility curves for an RC (reinforced concrete) isolated continuous girder bridge, by considering earthquake damage indicators such as bridge piers, isolated bearing components, and the m...
The frequency and intensity of flood quantiles and its attendant damage in agricultural establishments have generated a lot of issues in Ethiopia. Moreover, precise estimates of flood quantiles are needed for efficient design of hydraulic structures;...
9 April 2021
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force injures the brain. This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting the presence of TBI in the elderly occupants of motor vehicle crashes. We defined elde...
Assessing seismic vulnerability is a critical step in evaluating the resilience of existing buildings, and fragility curves are widely used to quantify the probability of damage under varying levels of seismic intensity. However, traditional methods...
Major earthquakes can cause extensive damage to buildings and alter both the natural and built environments. Accurately estimating the financial impact from these events is complex, and the damage is not always visible to the naked eye. PACT, SLAT, a...
The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) calculates the surge probability distribution along the coast from their long-term tidal stations. This process is sufficient for predicting the surge from common storms but tends to underest...
Pool fires cause immense damage to fuel storage tank farms. Reduced fire escalation risk in tank farms improves fire safety. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has proven effective in assessing escalation of fire-related domino effects and is being u...
Post-earthquake fires are typically of great concern for fire protection services, which are expected to be in high demand immediately after a strong earthquake. The post-earthquake functionality of fire stations is necessary after strong earthquakes...
3 June 2022
According to traditional concepts, the movement of overlying strata and surface damage caused by coal mining in horizontal coal seams are symmetrical in terms of spatial distribution. However, in a lot of engineering practices, this symmetry has not...
A meso-mechanical damage model is developed to predict the tensile damage behaviors of bulk metallic glass composites (BMGCs) toughened by ductile particles. In this model, the deformation behaviors of the BMG matrix and particles are described by th...
The use of forest roads as foundations for dam construction by beavers is a recurrent problem in the management of forest road networks. In order to limit the damage to forest roads, our goal was to calculate the probability of beaver dam installatio...
Metallic materials are widely employed in engineering constructions, and one of the most common failure mechanisms in metals is fatigue failure. Even though metal fatigue has been studied for almost 160 years, many problems remain unsolved. Fatigue i...
Coal mining in mountainous areas is general in China, especially in Shanxi Province. Under the influence of topography in mountainous areas, surface collapses and landslides caused by underground mining happen at a certain frequency and threaten huma...
The method of the joint probability distribution function was applied in order to estimate the normal structure factor amplitudes of the anomalous scatterer substructure in a FEL experiment. The two-wavelength case was examined. In this, the prior kn...
Early warning of structural damage from induced seismic events requires rapid and reliable ground motion forecasting. This study presents a novel real-time framework that couples a deep learning approach with structural fragility assessment to genera...
Although several models for the prediction of surgical complications after primary total hip or total knee replacement (THA and TKA, respectively) are available, only a few models have been externally validated. The aim of this study was to externall...
Cavitation damage on a mercury target vessel for a pulsed spallation neutron source is induced by a proton beam injection in mercury. Cavitation damage is one of factors affecting the allowable beam power and the life time of a mercury target vessel....
Affected by global warming and increased extreme weather, Hunan Province saw a phased and concentrated outbreak of forest fires in 2022, causing significant damage and impact. Predicting the occurrence of forest fires can enhance the ability to make...
Considering the nature of marine accidents, even a single accident can result in significant damage to the environment and property, as well as loss of life. Therefore, the initial response should be rapid and accurate, and various decision support s...
To avoid over-reliance on the identification of building damage states post-earthquake in the seismic risk assessment process, an ontology-based holistic and probabilistic framework is proposed here for seismic risk prediction of buildings with vario...
This study investigates the influence of freeze–thaw (F–T) cycles on the seismic fragility of double-column bridge piers. Mechanical tests were conducted on standard concrete specimens subjected to 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100 F–T cycles...
When soft rock tunnels pass through fractured fault zones, they are particularly susceptible to extrusion and large-scale deformations, especially during seismic events. To address these challenges, this study introduces an innovative yield-support s...
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