Wire rope is a very useful and long lasting structural element when properly used and maintained. For a failure such as that of crane wire rope, it is often very difficult to estimate precise failure rates or failure probabilities of individual components or failure events. Conventional fault tree analysis (FTA) is based on the probability assumption. When the failure probability of a system is...

Problem statement: Fault reconstruction scheme is different from the majority of Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) methods described in the literature in the sense that it not only detects and isolates the fault, but provides an estimate of the fault. This approach is very useful for incipient faults and slow drifts, which are very difficult to detect. Also, this approach is very useful for F...

259 Lines are protected by overcurrent-, distance-, or pilot-relaying equipment, depending on the requirements. Overcurrent relaying is the simplest and cheapest, the most difficult to apply, and the quickest to need readjustment or even replacement as a system changes. It is generally used for phaseand ground-fault protection on station-service and distribution circuits in electric utility and...

Integrated System Health Management methodologies require efficient fault identification approaches to ease system reconfiguration or to adapt controllers to accommodate for the faulty behaviors. However, accurate and timely on-line fault identification of complex, nonlinear systems is difficult and can be computationally expensive. In this work, we extend the quantitative fault isolation and i...

-Micro Electro Mechanical Systems will soon usher in a new technological renaissance. Just as ICs brought the pocket calculator, PC, and video games, MEMS will provide a new set of products and markets. Learn about the state of the art, from inertial sensors to microfluidic devices[1]. Over the last few years, considerable effort has gone into the study of the failure mechanisms and reliability...

The lateral sealing ability of a normal fault is a major factor in creating hydrocarbon traps. Therefore, a methodology for assessing the sealing ability of faults in the siliciclastic sequences of subsidence basins has been established; moreover, by using this methodology, the uncertainty inherent in hydrocarbon exploration can be decreased. Moreover, the petrophysical properties of fault roc...

When insulation fault occurs in the ignition coil partial secondary winding discharges. Random pulses with various amplitudes appear in primary current and secondary voltage waveforms simultaneously. Moreover the secondary voltage may distort if the fault is serious. Traditional methods are difficult to identify the discharge pulses. This paper examines a measure to overcome the shortages of tr...

Debugging software is a difficult and timeconsuming work. Fault localization techniques are becoming extremely important. Coverage Based Fault Localization (CBFL) is very commonly used in fault location technique. Tarantula is a typical one. It uses the coverage statistics of failed execution paths and passed execution paths to calculate the suspiciousness in the software. However, since this t...

In this study, a fault diagnostic system in a multi-level inverter using a MLP network is developed. Using a mathematical model, it is difficult to diagnose a Multilevel-Inverter Drive (MLID) system, because MLID system complexity has a non-linear factor and it consist of many switching devices. Therefore neural network classification is applied to fault diagnosis of MLID system. Multilayer per...