...Kalman Ziha The probabilistic safety analysis evaluates system reliability and failure probability by using statistics and probability theory. However, it cannot estimate the system safety uncertainties due to variabilities of probabilities in different system states. The article first summarizes...

... 08 02 2018 Collision Crash Safety Go-karts are a popular recreational activity for children and adults. Amusement park go-karts are designed to be driven by occupants of various sizes and are often equipped with governors to control their maximum...

... with the vehicle. Further, an “effective” head mass, m eff , was computed based upon the impulse and vertical velocity change involved in the secondary head strike, which mostly exceeded the mass of the adult head-form impactor (4.5 kg) commonly used for a current regulatory impact test for pedestrian safety...

...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...

... of conditions. Typically, these conditions involve multi-axis loading conditions. The loading conditions presented during rollovers on passenger vehicle side door latches have not been published. Rollover crash test results, rollover crashes, and physical Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 206 latch...

... 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...

... are shown in Table 5 . Manuscript received February 27, 2017; final manuscript received May 22, 2017; published online June 28, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Alba Sofi. 27 02 2017 22 05 2017 Reliability based optimization Safety Structures Uncertainty In automotive industry...

...Jason C. York; Jeremy M. Gernand The potential benefits of a safety program are generally only realized after an incident has occurred. Resource allocation in an organization's safety program has the imperative task of balancing costs and often unrealized benefits. Management can be wary...

...] Gao , J. M. , and Zhai , W. M. , 2014 , “ Dynamic Effect and Safety Limits of Rail Weld Irregularity on High-Speed Railways ,” Sci. Sin. Technol. , 44 ( 7 ), pp. 697 – 706 (in Chinese). [20] Podwórna , M. , 2015 , “ Modelling of Random Vertical Irregularities of Railway Tracks...

...-mail:  angela.riccardello@unikore.it Probability Random Reliability Reliability based design Safety Structural reliability Valeria Artale Engineering and Architecture Faculty, University of Enna Kore, via delle Olimpiadi, Enna 94100, Italy e-mail: valeria.artale@unikore.it Giacomo Navarra1 Engineering...

...Shivdayal Patel; Suhail Ahmad; Puneet Mahajan The safety predictions of composite armors require a probabilistic analysis to take into consideration scatters in the material properties and initial velocity. Damage initiation laws are used to account for matrix and fiber failure during high-velocity...

... for the critical scenarios. Shock safety criteria were defined by reviewing standards, such as the IEEE Standard for Shock Safety and the IEC Standard for Shock Safety. These results were used to determine critical voltage differential and current thresholds. 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received...

... and potential in the surrounding water for a number of these electric-current-induced drowning accident scenarios in support of boating safety studies. A boundary-element-based computational tool was employed. A combined experimental and numerical validation study was first undertaken. The tool was then used...