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Mechanical Survival - The use of reliability data
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This document describes the physical properties of fatigue and its applications in the sport of tennis and aims to provide a chronology of these activities over a period of years.Abstract:
Keywords: mecanique ; fatigue ; fiabilite Reference Record created on 2005-11-18, modified on 2011-09-01read more
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Optimization of bridge maintenance strategies based on structural health monitoring information
André D. Orcesi,Dan M. Frangopol +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural health monitoring (SHM) data are used to estimate the probability density function of time to failure through a Bayesian process, which is then used to determine optimal maintenance strategies based on monitoring information.
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Influential microstructural changes on rolling contact fatigue crack initiation in pearlitic rail steels
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of in service loading on microstructural changes in the subsurface layer of pearlitic rail steels and observations of early stage (10-50 μm length) fatigue crack formation are reported, along with micro-structural observations, showing differential work hardening in the proeutectoid ferrite and pearlite phases.
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Influence of surface characteristics of carbon blacks on cure and mechanical behaviors of rubber matrix compoundings.
TL;DR: The mechanical properties of the composites were controlled more by the Gamma(S)(L) of gamma(S) than by the specific (or polar) component (gamma(S), including electron acceptor and donor parameters on CB surfaces in an organic matrix composite system.
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Probabilistic fracture mechanics
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of component reliability prediction and its impact on management decision making has increased dramatically with the advent of new technologies, legal considerations, and design and economic factors, and these ideas and circumstances have contributed significantly to the development of such reliability-oriented concepts as "Retirement-for-Cause" (RFC).
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Use of Lifetime Functions in the Optimization of Nondestructive Inspection Strategies for Bridges
TL;DR: In this paper, a model using lifetime functions is used to evaluate the probability of survival of bridge components and the possible outcomes associated with nondestructive inspections (NDIs) are incorporated in an event-tree model.