China Jiliang University

About: China Jiliang University is a education organization based out in Hangzhou, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Fiber optic sensor & Optical fiber. The organization has 9291 authors who have published 8932 publications receiving 95279 citations. The organization is also known as: China Institute of Metrology.

Decentralized Event-triggered Control for Interconnected Systems with Unknown Disturbances

Abstract: In this paper, an event-trigger based adaptive control scheme is developed for a class of interconnected systems with unknown external disturbance. Under the proposed control scheme, the effects caused by external disturbance and unknown measurement error can be compensated by constructing the estimator of its unknown constant upper bound. The effect caused by unknown interactions occurred in all subsystems which exist in every channel can be dealt with signals zi,1ϕi added in virtual control αi,1. In addition, the introduction of smooth function sgi(·) in controller make the approximation of sign(·) become more accurate. So that the performance of closed-loop system can be improved. Finally, The proof of avoiding the Zeno behavior under such event-trigger based adaptive controller are finished and simulation results shown that the designed event-trigger based adaptive controller ensures the stability of closed-loop system.

Mechanical and thermal post-buckling analysis of FGM rectangular plates with various supported boundaries resting on nonlinear elastic foundations

Abstract: Mechanical and thermal post-buckling analysis is presented for FGM rectangular plates resting on nonlinear elastic foundations using the concept of physical neutral surface and high-order shear deformation theory, and investigations on post-buckling behavior of FGM rectangular plates with two opposite simply supported edges and other two opposite clamped edges are also new. Approximate solutions of FGM rectangular plates are given out using multi-term Ritz method, and influences played by different supported boundaries, foundation stiffnesses, thermal environmental conditions and volume fraction index are discussed in detail. It is worth noting that the effect of nonlinear elastic foundation is small at the pre-buckling and initial post-buckling state and is significant with increasing deflection at the deep post-buckling state. Especially, comparisons of post-buckling for FGM rectangular plates resting on nonlinear elastic foundations with movable simply supported edge subjected to compression acting on the geometric middle surface and the physical neutral surface are innovative, and may be helpful to clarify typical mistakes in literature.

Failure mode and effects analysis for proactive healthcare risk evaluation: A systematic literature review

Abstract: Rationale, aims, and objectives Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a valuable reliability management tool that can preemptively identify the potential failures of a system and assess their causes and effects, thereby preventing them from occurring. The use of FMEA in the healthcare setting has become increasingly popular over the last decade, being applied to a multitude of different areas. The objective of this study is to review comprehensively the literature regarding the application of FMEA for healthcare risk analysis. Methods An extensive search was carried out in the scholarly databases of Scopus and PubMed, and we only chose the academic articles which used the FMEA technique to solve healthcare risk analysis problems. Furthermore, a bibliometric analysis was performed based on the number of citations, publication year, appeared journals, authors, and country of origin. Results A total of 158 journal papers published over the period of 1998 to 2018 were extracted and reviewed. These publications were classified into four categories (ie, healthcare process, hospital management, hospital informatization, and medical equipment and production) according to the healthcare issues to be solved, and analyzed regarding the application fields and the utilized FMEA methods. Conclusion FMEA has high practicality for healthcare quality improvement and error reduction and has been prevalently employed to improve healthcare processes in hospitals. This research supports academics and practitioners in effectively adopting the FMEA tool to proactively reduce healthcare risks and increase patient safety, and provides an insight into its state-of-the-art.