... 2019 metrorail networks topology analysis disruption resilience risk vulnerability Washington, DC Metro Infrastructure systems provide populations in urban areas with amenities and services. “Vast networks of energy, water, waste, transportation, landscapes, and communications...

...Dorin Drignei; Zissimos P. Mourelatos; Ervisa Zhamo; Jingwen Hu; Cong Chen; Matthew Reed; Rebekah Gruber Adding advanced safety features (e.g., airbags) to restraint systems in tactical vehicles could decrease the injury risk of their occupants. The impact of frontal crashes on the occupants has...

...; published online April 18, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Faisal Khan. Computational reliability methods Risk Risk assessment Uncertainty Data-driven design requires the use of machine learning algorithms to learn the system characteristics from available data. Among many machine...

... is a risk to the public safety. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the effect of prestress on dynamic responses of bridges and vehicles through bridge–vehicle interaction and detect the prestress loss. Risk Structures Transportation 28 01 2016 28 10 2017 Manuscript...

...Mohammad Pourgol-Mohammad; Leon Cizelj 03 10 2017 23 10 2017 Reliability Risk Safety The importance of safety, security, and risk management has been recognized in nuclear multiscale systems modeling, simulation, and analysis applications. Since 2011, earthquake...

...M. T. Todinov The paper treats the important problem related to risk controlled by the simultaneous presence of critical events, randomly appearing on a time interval and shows that the expected time fraction of simultaneously present events does not depend on the distribution of events durations...

... Mitigation Risk Safety Gasoline-powered equipment has remained a centerpiece of the industrialized world since scaled manufacturing began in the early 20th century. The fundamental makeup of these systems has not changed in that a reserve fuel tank is mounted...

...Yan Wang The conventional research of risk communication centers on how scientific community can improve trust and credibility in public perception, enhance public understanding of risks, and change public behaviors to conform to technocratic values. More recently, the emphasis of risk...

...Malak El-Gheriani; Faisal Khan; Ming J. Zuo In risk analysis of rare events, there is a need to adopt data from different sources with varying levels of detail (e.g., local, regional, categorical data). Therefore, it is very important to identify, understand, and incorporate the uncertainty...

... hazards Reliability Resilience Risk Risk analysis Risk assessment Electricity distribution networks of today are an integral part of societies. Moreover, most of the other critical infrastructures (CI) are dependent on a functioning electricity system, and even single failures in it may...

... January 28, 2016; final manuscript received August 8, 2016; published online November 21, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Athanasios Pantelous. 28 1 2016 8 8 2016 8 8 2016 Acceptance Risk Risk analysis Uncertainty Tolerance An engineering system is designed to perform certain...

...Mounia Berdai; Antoine Tahan; Martin Gagnon Risk analyses are often performed for economic reasons and safety purposes. In some cases, these studies are biased by epistemic uncertainties due to the lack of information and knowledge, which justifies the need for expert opinion. In such cases...

...Bilal M. Ayyub; T. S. Koko; Andrew Nyakaana Blair; U. O. Akpan This paper presents a methodology to identify hazards associated with electric-induced drowning and electric shocks for swimmers around docks, houseboats, and other boats in both freshwater and saltwater; assesses scenarios and risks...

...Tamunoiyala S. Koko; Bilal M. Ayyub; Keith Gallant In the companion paper (Ayyub et al., 2016, “Risk Assessment Methodology for Electric-Current Induced Drowning Accidents,” ASCE-ASME J. Risk Uncertainty Eng. Syst. Part B Mech. Eng., 3(3), pp. XXX-XXX.), the authors developed a methodology...

... is motivated by the unique needs of the U.S. Navy ship design community, the framework abstracts the principles of real options analysis to suit noncommercial assets that do not generate cash flows. One contribution of PB-ROA is a systematic method for adjusting agent decisions according to their risk...

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