Falls account for about one-third of all construction fatalities with most fatalities in the roofing trade. Even though a personal fall arrest system (PFAS) is required for fall protection, proper placement of PFAS anchor points is an issue evidenced...
In the real-world operation of unmanned helicopters, various state constraints, system uncertainties and multisource disturbances pose considerable risks to their safe fight. This paper focuses on anti-disturbance adaptive safety fixed-time control d...
Steel structures quickly lose stability during a fire, which is why fire protection measures are used to increase their fire resistance limits. Structural fire protection in the form of boards or covers can achieve structural stability values ranging...
Gearboxes used in electric locomotives are a critical unit, especially in freight rolling stock. The article presents the calculation of the main parameters of the two-way oblique traction transmission of the VL-80s electric locomotive (which is oper...
This paper addresses the challenge of detecting unknown or unforeseen obstacles in railway track transportation, proposing an innovative detection strategy that integrates an incremental clustering algorithm with lightweight segmentation techniques....
From traditionally handmade items to the ability of people to use machines to process and even to human-robot collaboration, there are many risks. Traditional manual lathes and milling machines, sophisticated robotic arms, and computer numerical cont...
The cyberphysical systems of smart cities are facing increasingly severe attack situations, and traditional separate protection methods are difficult to effectively respond to. It is urgent to coordinate public safety and cybersecurity protection. Ho...
The activation of the safety-instrumented systems in industrial processes is carried out after the occurrence of specific deviations (dangerous situations) from normal operation (normal situations), but in some cases, the safety-instrumented systems...
The safety valve is the core component of the pressure-relief protection device for pressure-bearing special equipment. When the safety valve leaks, the medium of the pressure vessel will be lost and wasted, which may cause safety accidents. With the...
8 April 2020
Safety assessment of a casting workshop will provide a clearer understanding of the important safety level required for a foundry. The main purpose of this study was to construct a composite safety assessment method to protect employee health using t...
To address the challenges of dispersing aerial targets such as bird flocks at civilian airports and drones conducting low-altitude surveillance in critical areas, including ports and convention centers, this paper proposes a hybrid Artificial Potenti...
Even while living circumstances and construction techniques have generally improved, occupants of these spaces frequently feel unsatisfied with the sense of security they provide, which leads to looking for and eventually enacting ever-more-effective...
14 March 2023
With the increase of people’s living space, global warming caused by the decrease of greening urban spaces and the serious decline of greenspace quality has led to extreme weather events and coastal erosion, which has become the biggest threat...
Safety helmets and gloves are indispensable personal protective equipment in power grid operation environments. Traditional detection methods for safety helmets and gloves suffer from reduced accuracy due to factors such as dense personnel presence,...
In electrical networks, the coordination and selectivity of protective devices are key to improving reliability and ensuring operational safety. Protections play a fundamental role in maintaining system stability and detecting faults within the power...
Based on the interpretation of the identified risk biases from a narrative perspective, this paper studies the biases in safety and security risk management of chemical-related academic laboratories from four parts: risk identification, risk assessme...
Safety helmet wearing plays a major role in protecting the safety of workers in industry and construction, so a real-time helmet wearing detection technology is very necessary. This paper proposes an improved YOLOv4 algorithm to achieve real-time and...
In obstacle spatial path planning, the traditional A* algorithm has the problem of too many turning points and slow search speed. With this in mind, a path planning method that improves the A* (A-Star) algorithm is proposed. The mobile robot platform...
18 April 2020
Healthcare workers exposed to coronavirus (COVID-19) may not have adequate access to personal protective equipment (PPE), safety procedures, and diagnostic protocols. Our objective was to evaluate the reality and perceptions about personal safety amo...
Nowadays, the use of distributed generation (DG) has increased because of benefits such as increased reliability, reduced losses, improvement in the line capacity, and less environmental pollution. The protection of microgrids, which consist of gener...
With the rise and development of autonomy and intelligence technologies, UAVs will have increasingly significant applications in the future. It is very important to solve the problem of low-altitude penetration of UAVs to protect national territorial...
The grounding grid of a substation is important for the safety of substation equipment. Especially to address the difficulty of parameter design in the auxiliary anode system of a grounding grid, an algorithm is proposed that is an optimization algor...
Higher requirements have been placed on fault detection for continuously operating machines in modern factories. Manual inspection faces challenges related to timeliness, leading to the emergence of autonomous diagnostic robots. To overcome the safet...
The Malaysian Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) reported that noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) accounted for 92% of occupational diseases in 2019. To address this, accurate risk assessment is crucial. The current noise evaluation m...
With the advancement of global industrialization, the market for the transportation of hazardous materials is also expanding, which poses an increasingly serious threat to public safety, environmental protection, and economic stability. This study ex...
This research investigates the effect of seismic loading on FRRs of RC structures using different machine learning (ML) algorithms. First, 20 portal RC frames with varying span numbers and stories are designed for seismic loads. This is then expanded...
A critical external interference that often appears to pose a safety issue in rechargeable energy storage systems (RESS) for electric vehicles (EV) is ground impact due to stone impingement. This study aims to propose the new concept of the sandwich...
As the core device for protecting the safety of the pressure-bearing system, the spring full-open safety valve is prone to various forms of valve seat sealing surface damage after long-term opening and closing impact, corrosion, and medium erosion, w...
Construction safety requires real-time monitoring due to its hazardous nature. Existing vision-based monitoring systems classify each frame to identify safe or unsafe scenes, often triggering false alarms due to object misdetection or false detection...
In the age of the Internet of Things, connected devices are changing the delivery system in the healthcare communication environment. With the integration of IoT in healthcare, there is a huge potential for improvement of the quality, safety, and eff...
Recent advances in radar seeker technologies have considerably improved missile precision and efficacy during target interception. This is especially concerning in the arenas of protection and safety, where appropriate countermeasures against enemy m...
In recent years, fall-from-height accidents have frequently occurred in construction activities, posing severe risks to workers’ safety and impeding the sustainable development of construction enterprises as well as social stability. Due to the...
Line overload is one of the important causal factors of cascading failures and blackouts in power systems. An optimization method for protection and control measures to mitigate line overloads is proposed in this study. The method consists of two mai...
Electrical power systems represent a fundamental part of society, and their efficient operations are of vital importance for social and economic development. Power systems have been designed to withstand interruptions under already provided safety an...
The safety management of laboratories is of utmost importance in the construction and management of university laboratories. Abnormal behaviors such as smoking, incorrect wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE) like lab coats, hats, masks, and...
Safety signs serve as an important information carrier for safety standards and rule constraints. Detecting safety signs in mines is essential for automatically early warning of unsafe behaviors and the wearing of protective equipment while using com...
Manned spaceflight has already become an important approach to space science exploration, while long-term exposure to the microgravity environment will lead to severe health problems for astronauts, including bone loss, muscle atrophy, and cardiovasc...
Focused supervision and early warning of heavy metal (HM)-contaminated rice areas can effectively protect people’s livelihood security and maintain social stability. To improve the accuracy of risk prediction, an Informer-based safety risk pred...
Civil aviation flight safety has always been a core concern of the air transport industry, with aircraft fire prevention technology being crucial for ensuring the safety of passengers and crew members. This paper reviews the types of aircraft fires a...
Among the existing technologies for hand protection, master–slave control technology has been extensively researched and applied within the field of safety engineering to mitigate the occurrence of safety incidents. However, it has been identif...
For safety-of-life applications used together with global navigation satellite systems, such as in civil aviation and autonomous driving, integrity is of paramount importance. Integrity monitoring protects the user safety based on two general approac...
Rapid Internet use growth and applications of diverse military have managed researchers to develop smart systems to help applications and users achieve the facilities through the provision of required service quality in networks. Any smart technologi...
Research on the effect of adverse weather conditions on the performance of vision-based algorithms for automotive tasks has had significant interest. It is generally accepted that adverse weather conditions reduce the quality of captured images and h...
Warning pedestrians of oncoming vehicles is critical to improving pedestrian safety. Due to the limitations of a pedestrian’s carrying capacity, it is crucial to find an effective solution to provide warnings to pedestrians in real-time. Limited numb...
13 May 2020
Temporary safety facilities (TSFs) are an essential support system providing necessary protection to workers during construction activities, which are targeted towards preventing the occurrence of incidents and accidents at the construction site; how...
Mountains are popular tourist destinations due to their climate, fresh atmosphere, breathtaking sceneries, and varied topography. However, they are at times exposed to accidents, such as fire caused due to natural hazards and human activities. Such u...
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has become an attractive playground to cybercriminals because of its market worth and rapid growth. These devices have limited computational capabilities, which ensure minimum power absorption. Moreover, the manu...
The market for electric vehicles (EVs) has been growing in popularity, and by 2027, it is predicted that the market valuation will reach $869 billion. To support the growth of EVs in public road safety, advances in battery safety research for EV appl...
Fire protection for cultural heritage structures is a challenging engineering task that could benefit from the use of specialized computational tools relying on a performance-based design (PBD) concept rather than on prescriptive-based fire protectio...
Accurately estimating the state of charge (SOC) of power batteries in electric vehicles is of great significance to the measurement of the endurance mileage of electric vehicles, as well as the safety protection of the power battery. In view of lithi...
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