Low stacking fault energy face centered cubic (FCC) materials contain characteristic defect structures. Stacking fault tetrahedral are one of those rare structures that occur under special experimental conditions. For the first time, stacking fault tetrahedral were observed in Fe-30Mn-3Al-3Si twinning induced plasticity (TWIP) steel. Their presence resulted from a quenching heat treatment.

As mission-critical computer-based systems grow in size, they must provide increasing levels of flexibility to address evolving requirements and cater for rapidly changing operational conditions. In this context, dynamic adaptation appears as a powerful enabler to allow these systems to change while maintaining their services, a key requirement in large long-running applications. Because they a...

The fault protection is a critical element to ensure the reliable and secure operation of DC distribution systems. Most DC distribution systems are tightly coupled systems with low line impedances which may result in fast current increase during a fault. Thus, it is challenging to develop a fast and reliable DC fault protection method. This paper proposes and develops a novel fault inductance b...

In this paper, an efficient scheme has been proposed to model, detect and classify the fault. The modeling of fault has been proposed with the fuzzy logic using membership function. Fault detection of the unprecedented changes in system reliability and find the failed component state by classifying the faults is proposed using kalman filter and hybrid neurofuzzy computing techniques respectivel...

In this paper, the effect of number and fault current limiter(FCL) location has been investigated in order to have maximum reduction of short circuit current level in all buses in a real network. To do so, the faulty buses were identified in terms of short circuit current level by computing short circuits on the desired network. Then, while the fault current limit was modeled, its optimal locat...

In this paper, authors present a comparative study of inductive and resistive superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL) from current limitation and power system transient stability point of view. Different types of SFCL can be used to decrease the amplitude of fault current in a power system. The two most used are resistive type (rSFCL) and inductive type (iSFCL). However, no studies have b...

The Time Triggered Architecture (TTA) and its related communication protocol, TTP/C is an emerging communication principle for distributed fault-tolerant real-time systems. Typical applications are safety-critical digital control systems such as drive-by-wire and fly-by-wire. This paper highlights the hardware / software architecture and design of the first industrial single chip communication ...

Fault Tree Analysis is a traditional deductive safety analysis technique that is applied during the system design stage. However, traditional fault trees often suffer from a lack of formal semantics to check the correctness or consistency of the descriptions. This is especially a problem in safety-critical system analysis. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel formal fault tree constr...