This study addresses the challenges of accurately analyzing the reliability of aviation power systems (APS) using traditional models by introducing the Aviation Power System Reliability Probability Network Model (APS-RPNM). The model directly transfo...
In this study, the authors first attempted to evaluate the efficiency of available systems for natural gas quality analysis using various examples. For this purpose, a model for such gas analysis systems was designed and the structural reliability of...
Mechanical system reliability analysis constitutes a primary research focus in the field of engineering. This study aims to address the issue of complex mechanical systems with intricate mechanisms and nonlinear reliability equations that are challen...
In complex sociotechnical research, companies aim to utilize data and digitalization to increase a system’s reliability and to minimize a system’s failures. This study exemplifies the use of conceptual modeling and data analysis to increa...
Negative Ion Source Neutral beam Injection (NNBI), as a critical auxiliary heating system for magnetic confinement fusion devices, directly affects the plasma heating efficiency of tokamak devices through the reliability of its beam source system. Th...
The RC underground silo, a novel grain storage structure, is a cylindrical shell surrounded by rock, soil, and groundwater. It leverages the low-temperature underground setting to preserve grain quality. However, the complex underground geotechnical...
With the rapid development of information and automation technology, the manufacturing system is evolving towards more complexity and integration. The system components will inevitably suffer from degeneration, and the impact of component-level failu...
The structural failure of a tunnel is a process that evolves from local damage to overall destruction. The system reliability analysis method can be useful for analyzing the evolutionary law of local structural failure. In many complex stress environ...
The Vapor Compression Refrigeration System (VCRS) is one of the most critical systems in buildings typically used in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in residential and industrial sections. Therefore, identifying their faults...
This paper focuses on the new method of searching cut-sets, which enables us to conduct the system reliability analysis for plane trusses. As the result of such, the analysis of the reliability index for the whole structure is obtained, not only for...
Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems typically convert solar irradiance into electricity, thereby helping to reduce the need for fossil fuels and the amount of greenhouse gases released. They provide a reliable and continuous renewable source of energy. H...
This article focuses on the reliability analysis of the plane steel truss under fire conditions. The safety of the structure was estimated by system reliability analysis combined with First Order Reliability Method (FORM). The authors created the C++...
In this paper, a new degradation model of the more electrical aircraft (MEA) actuation system is proposed. The bond graph model is used to build the dissimilar redundancy actuation system model, taking into account the degradation behavior (wear, fat...
To improve the seismic connectivity reliability (SCR) analysis efficiency of water distribution systems (WDS) based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method sampled by a low-discrepancy sequence is applied. Furthermore, a pa...
Prefabricated utility tunnels play an important role in modern urban infrastructure construction. However, prefabricated utility tunnel segments are heavy, and the hoisting conditions are complicated, resulting in increased requirements in terms of t...
Punching shear-reinforced flat slabs can fail in three modes: (1) inside the shear-reinforced zone, (2) outside the shear-reinforced zone, or (3) at the maximum punching shear capacity. By using the theory of structural systems reliability, this stud...
This paper presents a study that investigates the operational reliability of directional control valves used in hydraulic press systems by applying the Taguchi method and regression analysis. The research focuses on key hydraulic parameters—kin...
Real fire simulation training systems have gradually become an important method of emergency rescue team training and improvement. However, the failure rate of such systems is high, which threatens the safety of the trainers. Therefore, this study ta...
Hard-and-software integrated systems such as command and control systems (C4ISR systems) are typical systems that are comprised of both software and hardware, the failures of such devices result from complicated common cause failures and common (or s...
The analysis of complex system reliability is an area of growing interest, particularly given the diverse and intricate nature of the subsystems and components these systems encompass. Tackling the reliability of such multifaceted systems presents ch...
Reliability allocation is the process of assigning reliability targets to sub-systems within a system to meet the overall reliability requirements. However, many traditional reliability allocation methods rely on assumptions that are often unrealisti...
A combined cooling, heating, and power (CCHP) system is a complex and repairable system containing a large number of components and series of subsystems. When a failure occurs in one component, it might cause a failure of a subsystem or whole system....
Due to the high cost of failures of wind turbines, redundancy designs are commonly applied in wind turbines for improving the reliability and availability of systems. For this reason, replacing failed components with other working components of the s...
The present review deals with the issues of ensuring and maintaining high reliability during the entire life cycle of a technical system in the engineering sector, i.e., determining the requirements, design, research, development, production, install...
Aimed at dealing with the problems of high reliability solution cost and low solution accuracy under random excitation, especially Gaussian white noise excitation, this paper proposes a probability density evolution and reliability analysis method fo...
With the increasing interaction between physical devices and communication components, the substation based on the IEC 61850 standard is a type of cyber–physical system. This paper proposes a reliability analysis method for substations with a c...
Various reliability surrogate measures have emerged over the last three decades to design water distribution systems. However, existing comparative studies cannot assess surrogate measures from the resilience perspective considering the dynamic absor...
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) may be an effective alternative water supply solution in regions affected by water scarcity. It has recently become a particularly important option in arid and semi-arid areas (like Mediterranean basins), mostly because of...
In reliability-based multidisciplinary design optimization, both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties may exist in multidisciplinary systems simultaneously. The uncertainty propagation through coupled subsystems makes multidisciplinary reliability an...
With the advancement of science and technology, industrial robots have become indispensable equipment in advanced manufacturing and a critical benchmark for assessing a nation’s manufacturing and technological capabilities. Enhancing the reliab...
This paper divides the execution process of the command post system into four stages: information acquisition, information processing, decision control and response execution. It combines multilayer complex networks with a phased-mission system. Most...
Brake systems are subjected to various factors such as wear and fatigue over a long period of time. They bring a great challenge to the reliability analysis of the braking system. In this paper, the hyperellipsoid model is used and the hyperellipsoid...
This paper presents a stochastic analysis of a two-unit cold standby system incorporating imperfect switching mechanisms. Each unit operates in one of three states: normal, partial failure, or total failure. Employing Markov processes, the study eval...
In the actual study, we carried out a reliability analysis of a repairable redundant data transmission system with the use of the elaborated mathematical and simulation model of a closed heterogeneous cold standby system. The system consists of one r...
To permit the collection of quantitative data on start, turn and clean swimming performances in any swimming pool, the aims of the present study were to (1) validate a mobile in-field performance analysis system (PAS) against the Kistler starting blo...
In this paper, we study a reliability system subject to occasional random shocks hitting an underlying device in accordance with a general marked point process with position dependent marking. In addition, the system ages according to a linear path t...
Recent advancements have made two-dimensional (2D) clinical gait analysis systems more accessible and portable than traditional three-dimensional (3D) clinical systems. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of gait measurements using mono...
In response to the limitations of traditional static reliability analysis methods in characterizing the reliability changes of the Integrated Power System, this paper proposes a time-varying reliability analysis framework based on a Dynamic Bayesian...
Network on chip (NoC) is the main solution to the communication bandwidth of a multi-processor system on chip (MPSoC). NoC also brings more route requirements and is highly prone to errors caused by crosstalk. Crosstalk has become a major design prob...
Wave power is a potential technology for generating sustainable renewable energy. Several types of wave energy converters (WECs) have been proposed for this purpose. WECs operate in a harsh maritime environment that sets strict limitations on how and...
Airbag systems are important to a car’s safety protection system. To further improve the reliability of the system, this paper analyzes the failure mechanism of automotive airbag systems and establishes a dynamic fault tree model. The dynamic fault t...
Background: Gait and posture analysis plays a crucial role in understanding human movement, with significant applications in rehabilitation, sports science, and clinical settings. The GaitON® system, a 2D motion analysis tool, provides an accessi...
Renewable energy sources account for approximately one-quarter of the total electric power generating capacity in the United States. These sources increase system complexity, with potential negative impacts caused by their inherent variability. A mic...
The rapid advancement of robotic technologies has demonstrated the significant potential of Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) for application across various fields, particularly in automation, manufacturing, and rescue operations. However, enhancing the reli...
The electric propulsion system serves as the power source for multi-rotor drones, helping them complete various maneuvering actions. The reliability of this system directly affects whether the drone can successfully complete its mission. The multi-ro...
Wearable inertial sensors offer a practical alternative to gold-standard optoelectronic systems for gait analysis, though their validity remains uncertain due to sensor placement. This study examined the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability and th...
The hardware reliability of a gas monitoring system was investigated using the fuzzy fault tree analysis method. A fault tree was developed considering the hardware failure of the gas monitoring system as a top event. Two minimum path sets were achie...
This research studies the problem of a joint capacity/capacity reliability analysis of the multiuser multi-input multioutput (MIMO) system functioning in the presence of generalized multipath fading. The study presents the derived results of the clos...
Gait analysis is necessary to diagnose movement disorders. In order to reduce the costs of three-dimensional motion capture systems, new low-cost methods of motion analysis have been developed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the inter- and...
The restoration of gait and mobility after stroke is an important and challenging therapy goal due to the complexity of the potentially impaired functions. As a result, precise and clinically feasible assessment methods are required for personalized...
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