in this study, the reliability of the primary gold mineralization exploration using multispectral etm+ imagery was investigated in lahroud region, northwest iran, which was conducted by integration of alteration and structural indicators. co-occurrence of the clay minerals and iron oxides is an important criterion in gold deposit exploration; therefore, their alteration zones were mapped using ...

accurate calculation of reliability index is very important for the reliability analysis of structures. in some limit state functions with nonlinear characteristic and several local optimum design points, the computational reliability methods may not appropriately determine the failure probability, and iterative reliability approaches may be converged to local optimum design points. in this pap...

Structural analysis and design has to be performed by considering uncertainties both in loading and structural properties respectively. While in traditional analysis and design procedures these uncertainties were take into acount in a qualitative manner in order to adhere to deterministic concepts modern procedures are shown to allow their quantitative processing. This way a rational treatment ...

AbstractRecently, computation, communication and control are deeply and pervasively embedded into physical and engineered components of transportation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). In such systems, the growing complexity of system structure calls for increasing system reliability. Reliability modeling and analysis need not only capture the complex dynamic of transportation systems, but also mus...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of organizational ambidexterity on strategic entrepreneurship in software companies. therefore we examined the ambidexterity with two dimensions i.e. exploration and exploitation as an independent variable and strategic entrepreneurship with four dimensions i.e. entrepreneurial mindset, innovation, managing resources strategically and competit...

This book consists of a collection of 27 articles dealing with the subject of probabilistic engineering mechanics with special emphasis on the ensuing computational issues. The book has two parts. The first part is meant as a tutorial on the basic aspects of probabilistic mechanics, whereas the second part is an overview of some of the applications that rely on probabilistic concepts for their ...

The concept of robust reliability is de®ned to take into account uncertainties from structural modeling in addition to the uncertain excitation that a structure will experience during its lifetime. A Bayesian probabilistic methodology for system identi®cation is integrated with probabilistic structural analysis tools for the purpose of updating the assessment of the robust reliability based on ...

The systematic application of uncertainty and reliability analysis to engineering structures of practical interest, requires the availability of powerful and efficient software, both for the FE modeling and for the uncertainty analysis. Ideally this software should seamlessly interface existing finite element codes, in order to harness the state-of-theart in finite element modeling and to facil...