...; final manuscript received February 21, 2018; published online April 30, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Athanasios Pantelous. 19 10 2017 21 02 2018 Aerospace Mechanical Structures Uncertainty Stall flutter is an aeroelastic phenomenon associated with various flow-induced dynamical...

... copula functions Fig. 2 Revolute joint clearance Fig. 1 Gear door lock mechanism Fig. 6 The results of two-mixed copula models: ( a ) scatter plots of measured data and simulated data, ( b ) scatter plots of the value...

... ] approximation formulas found in Ref. [ 16 ]. Table 1 Mechanical properties used for average linear elastic behavior of SS304 L Temperature Modulus (MSI) Yield stress (ksi) Poisson's ratio 200 °C 30.7 24.6 0.28 400 °C 25.4 21.1 0.29 Fig. 14 Normalized performance...

... online December 5, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Chimba Mkandawire. 05 04 2017 14 08 2017 Collision Crash Failure Impact Mechanical Performance Rollover Safety Structural reliability Structures Transportation Annually, there are 7600 ejections through a door opening during...

... October 5, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 11 02 2017 19 09 2017 Aerospace Computational reliability methods Failure Mechanical Probability Spectral wave modeling Reliability based design With advanced design techniques, it is possible to prevent components' failures due...

..., 2017. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 08 02 2017 09 07 2017 Decision making Mechanical Robustness Uncertainty In the early phase of systems design, decisions have to be made without complete information. In vehicle development, e.g., components have to be specified, although...

...). One of the key assumptions in this work was the statistical independency of the random variables. While such assumptions are legitimate for loosely interconnected systems, further experimental investigations are needed for systems with more mechanical...

...; final manuscript received January 25, 2017; published online September 7, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Laura Swiler. This work is in part a work of the U.S. Government. ASME disclaims all interest in the U.S. Government's contributions. 01 09 2016 25 01 2017 Energy Mechanical Uncertainty...

...-mail:  [email protected] 2 Corresponding author. 1 Present address: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 10–3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan. Mechanical Probability Robustness Structures Uncertainty References [1] Gordon...

... Infrastructure Mechanical Natural disaster Software Tsunami 28 01 2016 21 04 2017 Manuscript received January 28, 2016; final manuscript received April 21, 2017; published online June 27, 2017. Assoc. Editor: James Lambert. Copyright © 2017 by ASME 2017 2332-9017/2017/3(4...

... the experiments and the developed methodology help to segregate the faults into appropriate class, identify the severity of the suction blockage, and substantiate the practical applicability of this study. Failure Fault tree Marine Mechanical Water Fig. 6 Blockage level versus average...

... in generating alternative concepts. Extracting of subshapes from sketches provides a mechanism of manipulating shapes and generating new shape alternatives. Ranscombe et al. [ 31 ] proposed a strategy for decomposing sketches into constituent esthetic...

...Mario Di Paola; Francesco Paolo Pinnola 03 05 2017 03 05 2017 Mechanical Random Risk analysis The fractional calculus, namely, the calculus of integrals and derivatives of real or complex order, has captured considerable popularity and importance in engineering...

... of interval stiffness or interval fractional damping, respectively. Mechanical Probability Random Structural reliability Structures Uncertainty It is clear that combining the results of this section with the previous one, it is possible to express uncertainties in both the fractional order...

... is regarded as a multibody system with ten degrees-of-freedom, and the track subsystem is treated as finite Euler–Bernoulli beams supported on a discrete–elastic foundation. Mechanical characteristic of the rubber spring due to harmonic excitations is analyzed to clarify the stiffness and damping dependencies...

...G. Alotta; N. Colinas-Armijo It is well known that mechanical parameters of polymeric materials, e.g., epoxy resin, are strongly influenced by the temperature. On the other hand, in many applications, the temperature is not known exactly during the design process and this introduces uncertainties...

... to real powers the concept of integer-powers derivatives, has been largely used to describe and to analyze several mechanical and physical behavior, see Ref. [ 1 ]. Without trying to be exhaustive, a well-known application field of fractional derivatives...

... be regarded as an extension of the classical differential calculus. Until now, a limited use of such tool can be observed in mechanics, probably due to the presence of many representations of fractional operators as well as the lack of an easy geometrical...

... , “ Uncertainty Quantification in Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis ,” ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference , Aug. 2–7 , American Society of Mechanical Engineers , Boston, MA , pp. V02BT03A062 – V02BT03A062 . [18] Hu...

.... Manuscript received November 17, 2015; final manuscript received April 11, 2016; published online August 19, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou. 17 11 2015 11 4 2016 11 4 2016 Aerospace Mechanical Nuclear Random The important information in many modern...