superplastic materials show a very high ductility. this is due to both peculiar process conditions and material intrinsic characteristics. however, a number of superplastic materials are subjected to cavitation during superplastic deformation. evidently, extensive cavitation imposes significant limitations on their commercial application. the deformation and failure of superplastic sheet metals...

Condition based maintenance (CBM) aims to reduce maintenance cost and improve equipment reliability by effectively utilizing condition monitoring and prediction information. It is observed that the prediction accuracy often improves with the increase of the age of the component. In this research, we develop a method to quantify the remaining life prediction uncertainty considering the predictio...

some considerable damage to steel structures during the hyogo-ken nanbu earthquake occurred. among them, many exposed-type column bases failed in several consistent patterns, such as brittle base plate fracture, excessive bolt elongation, unexpected early bolt failure, and inferior construction work, etc. the lessons from these phenomena led to the need for improved understanding of column base...

Expansive and collapsible soils are some of the most widely distributed and costly of geologic hazards. These soils are subject to changes in volume and settlement in response to wetting and drying, often resulting in severe damage to structures. Collapsing soils are generally characterized by sudden and large volume decrease at constant stress when inundated with water. A geotechnical engineer...

analysis and prediction of structural response to static or dynamic loading requires prediction of concrete response tovariable load histories. the constitutive equations for the mechanical behavior of concrete capable of seeing damage effects or crack growth procedure under loading/unloading/reloading was developed upon micro-plane framework. the proposed damage formulation has been built on t...

Regression methods are employed in analyzing a space shuttle software failure data set, classified into three criticality levels. A family of models based on transforms of cumulative time and cumulative failures is considered for the purposes of generating long-term future predictions of the software failure process for any criticality level. This family includes several established software re...

millions of dollars are being spent worldwide on the repair and maintenance of sewer networks and wastewater treatment plants every year. the production and emission of hydrogen sulfide has been identified as a major cause of corrosion and odor problems in sewer networks. prediction of hydrogen sulfide production in the sewer system helps the engineers and manager to obtain a proper strategy fo...

The authors propose a new accurate yield prediction method for system-LSI embedded memories to improve the productivity of chips. Their new method is based on the failure-related yield prediction method in which failure bits in memory are tested to see whether they are repairable or not by using built-in redundancies. The important concept of the new method is called “repairable matrix” (RM). I...