Structural deterioration of drainage pipes has been a major concern for asset managers in maintaining the required performance of the urban drainage systems. Structural deterioration is the reduction of physical integrity, which can be characterized through structural defects such as cracks and fractures that are identified through condition assessment. Due to limited budget and the massive num...

The Reliability/Availability/Serviceability (RAS) strategy for S/390T G5 and G6 is to continue the S/390 objective of providing Continuous Reliable Operation (CRO). The RAS strategy is constructed with a set of building blocks which work closely together: error prevention, error detection, error recovery, problem determination, service structure, change management, and RAS measurement and analy...

As the network-centric model of computing continues to mature, customers are constantly trying to evaluate what the correct price/performance point is for their business. For the growing number of businesses that choose a PC Server for a departmental, workgroup, or application server function, one of the key parameters is the reliability of the server. This paper addresses one area of concern i...

The present study proposes a novel tower-control technique that couples linear control feedback theory with an online time-frequency analysis of the tower vibrations, with the aim to widen the research area of situational control of wind turbines. Numerical simulations were conducted for two 5MW-class offshore wind turbines, and the performance of the proposed control method has been tested in ...

The environment is one of the factors that may influence occupants’ perception floor vibration and assessment serviceability. In this study, laboratory tests were conducted on a 3-ply CLT floor. Occupants’ serviceability under human-induced was investigated. Virtual reality (VR) technique used as research method, simulating two common environments in life. First, correlation between annoyance r...