Title of Document: PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONICS BY UTILIZING ENVIRONMENTAL AND USAGE LOADS Nikhil M. Vichare, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 2006 Directed By: Chair Professor and Director, Michael G. Pecht, Department of Mechanical Engineering Prognostics and health management (PHM) is a method that permits the reliability of a system to be evaluated in its actual application...

In this work, an economic assessment of environmental damage to water and land resources is calculated, the cost a project for reclamation destroyed lands within territory Komsomolsk gold recovery plant determined. The object study directly enterprise, which located in Tisulsky municipal district Kemerovo region. According our calculations, total from plant’s activities amounted 458 million rub...

Abstract Fatigue caused by cyclic bending of a piece material, resulting in its mechanical failure, is phenomenon that had been studied for ages engineers and physicists alike. In this letter we study such fatigue strip an athermal amorphous solid. On the basis atomistic simulations conclude crucial quantity to focus on accumulated damage . Although exhibits large sample-to-sample fluctuations,...

Exergames encourage physical activity, but generally require specialized hardware and prescribed activities; whereas pervasive accumulated context exergames (PACEs) allow players to choose their type of exercise, but have limited depth of play. For mass commercialization of PACEs, facilitating long-term behavioural change, we propose two requirements: that PACEs support large-scale and flexible...

This paper proposes a human action recognition algorithm which can be efficiently applied to a real-time intelligent surveillance system. This method models the background, obtains the difference image between input image and the modeled background image, extracts the silhouette of human object from input image, and recognizes human action by using coordinates of object, directions of that and ...