Research on a safety evaluation system for railway-tunnel structures by fuzzy comprehensive evaluation theory

Long-term health detection of railway-tunnel is the development direction and trend of future railway tunnel research. Based on the actual engineering of a railway tunnel, this study developed a safety evaluation model for railway tunnel structures using a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and examined a health state evaluation method suitable for most railway tunnel structures. The results showed that the evaluation method comprehensively reflected the impact of various factors, which had strong practicality. The evaluation results were clear, accurate, and consistent with engineering practice. When using the safety factor index to study the stress of a railway tunnel structure, Midas/civil analysis showed that different levels of the surrounding rock structural vault in railway tunnels were in a tensile, control-bearing capacity state. When calculating safety factors, the range of a 60° central angle of a railway tunnel vault was calculated according to the tensile control-bearing capacity. Theoretical formulas of the range of the center angle φ0 of the vault tension zone were derived and then verified by experiments and numerical analysis

Advanced Underground Space Technology

The recent development of underground space technology makes underground space a potential and feasible solution to climate change, energy shortages, the growing population, and the demands on urban space. Advances in material science, information technology, and computer science incorporating traditional geotechnical engineering have been extensively applied to sustainable and resilient underground space applications. The aim of this Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Underground Space Technology”, is to gather original fundamental and applied research related to the design, construction, and maintenance of underground space

Modeling and Optimal Operation of Hydraulic, Wind and Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems

The transition to 100% renewable energy in the future is one of the most important ways of achieving "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" and of reducing the adverse effects of climate change. In this process, the safe, stable and economical operation of renewable energy generation systems, represented by hydro-, wind and solar power, is particularly important, and has naturally become a key concern for researchers and engineers. Therefore, this book focuses on the fundamental and applied research on the modeling, control, monitoring and diagnosis of renewable energy generation systems, especially hydropower energy systems, and aims to provide some theoretical reference for researchers, power generation departments or government agencies

Modelling the causation of accidents: human performance separated system and human performance included system

Jedes Jahr ereignen sich weltweit Millionen von Arbeitsunfällen, die zahlreiche Opfer fordern und enorme wirtschaftliche Verluste zur Folge haben. Vorangegangene Studien aus dem Feld der Risikoeinschätzung zeigten, dass es wichtig ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Faktoren, welche zum Auftreten von Unfällen beitragen, zu quantifizieren. Mehrere Methoden, wie z. B. die Technik zur Vorhersage der menschlichen Fehlerrate (Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction, THERP), wurden dafür vorgeschlagen, potenzielle Risikofaktoren zu bewerten und die Systemsicherheit zu verbessern. Diese Methoden haben jedoch einige Einschränkungen, wie z.B. ihre geringe Generalisierbarkeit, die Behandlung von Unfallursachen und menschlichem Einfluss als zwei voneinander getrennte Forschungsthemen, die Notwendigkeit ausgiebiger Datensätze, oder die ausschließliche Abhängigkeit von Expertenwissen. Um diese Einschränkungen zu überwinden, 1) klassifiziert diese Dissertation die Systeme in zwei Kategorien. Zum einen in von menschlichem Einfluss separierte Systeme (Human Performance Separated System, HPSS) und zum anderen in Systeme mit menschlichem Einfluss (Human Performance Included System, HPIS); 2) entwickelt ein auf Bayes‘schen Netzwerken (BN) basierendes Unfallkausalitätsmodell, das auf beide Arten von Systemen angewendet werden kann, um den Einfluss menschlicher Wahrnehmung in HPSS und den Einfluss menschlichen Versagens in HPIS zu untersuchen; 3) untersucht zwei Methoden zur Analyse menschlichen Versagens. Die erste Methode geht von einer kognitiven Wahrnehmung aus und die zweite behandelt das menschliche Versagen als essenziellen Teil des Systems. 4) schlägt eine innovative Taxonomie namens Contributors Taxonomy for construction Occupational Accidents (CTCOA) für HPIS vor, die nicht nur auf die Unfallkausalität abzielt, sondern auch zur Rückverfolgung menschlichen Versagens im Bauwesen verwendet werden kann. 5) erstellt BN-Beispielmodelle aus unterschiedlichen Industriesektoren. Dazu zählen Gasturbinenausfälle als typisches Beispiel für HPSS-Maschinenversagen, das Multi-Attribute Technological Accidents Dataset (MATA-D) für einfaches HPIS-Systemversagen und das Contributors to Construction Occupational Accidents Dataset (CCOAD) für komplexes HPIS-Systemversagen. Diese drei BN-Modelle zeigen, wie die von uns vorgeschlagene Methode in Bezug auf spezifische Probleme aus verschiedenen Industriesektoren angepasst und angewendet werden kann. Unsere Analyse zeigt die Effizienz der Kombination von Expertenwissen und mathematischer Unabhängigkeitsanalyse bei der Identifizierung der wichtigsten Abhängigkeitsbeziehungen innerhalb der BN-Struktur. Vor der Parameteridentifizierung auf Basis von Expertenwissen sollten die Auswirkungen der menschlichen Wahrnehmung auf die Modellparameter gemessen werden. Die vorgeschlagene Methodik basierend auf der Kombination der menschlichen Zuverlässigkeitsanalyse mit statistischen Analysen kann zur Untersuchung menschlichen Versagens eingesetzt werden.Millions of work-related accidents occur each year around the world, leading to a large number of deaths, injuries, and a huge economic cost. Previous studies on risk assessment have revealed that it is important to calculate the probabilities of factors that can contribute to the occurrence of accidents. Several methods, such as the Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction (THERP), have been proposed to evaluate potential risk factors and to improve system safety. However, these methods have some limitations, such as their low generalizability, treating accident causation and human factor as two separate research topics, requiring intensive data, or relying solely on expert judgement. To address these limitations, this dissertation 1) classifies systems into two types, Human Performance Separated System (HPSS) and Human Performance Included System (HPIS), depending on whether the system involves human performance; 2) develops accident causal models based on Bayesian Network (BN) that can be applied to both types of systems while examining the influence of human perception in HPSS and human errors in HPIS; 3) examines two methods for the analysis of human errors with the first method based on the cognitive view and the other method treating human errors as an essential part of the system; 4) proposes an innovative taxonomy as an example for HPIS, known as the Contributors Taxonomy for Construction Occupational Accidents (CTCOA), which not only targeting accident causation, but can also be used for tracking human error in construction; 5) builds example BN models in the different industrial sectors, including gas turbine failures as a typical example of HPSS machine failures, Multi-Attribute Technological Accidents Dataset (MATA-D) as simple HPIS failures, and Contributors to Construction Occupational Accidents Dataset (CCOAD) as complex HPIS failures. These three types of BN models demonstrate how our proposed methodology can be adapted to specific questions and how it can be applied in various industrial sectors. Our analysis demonstrates that it is efficient to combine expert judgement with mathematical independence analysis to identify the main dependency links for the BN structure in all models. The influence of human perception on model parameters should be measured before these parameters being identified based on expert judgement. Our proposed methodology can be used to study human errors by combining traditional human reliability analysis with statistical analysis

Aeronautical Engineering, a continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 173

This bibliography lists 704 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1984

Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 253)

This bibliography lists 637 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in May, 1990. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics

Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III

The conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems facing modern civilization. It involves, in inextricable patterns, factors belonging to different fields (cultural, humanistic, social, technical, economical, administrative) and the requirements of safety and use appear to be (or often are) in conflict with the respect of the integrity of the monuments. The complexity of the topic is such that a shared framework of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, structural and geotechnical engineers. The complexity of the subject is such that a shared frame of reference is still lacking among art historians, architects, architectural and geotechnical engineers. And while there are exemplary cases of an integral approach to each building element with its static and architectural function, as a material witness to the culture and construction techniques of the original historical period, there are still examples of uncritical reliance on modern technology leading to the substitution from earlier structures to new ones, preserving only the iconic look of the original monument. Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites III collects the contributions to the eponymous 3rd International ISSMGE TC301 Symposium (Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022). The papers cover a wide range of topics, which include: 　 - Principles of conservation, maintenance strategies, case histories - The knowledge: investigations and monitoring - Seismic risk, site effects, soil structure interaction - Effects of urban development and tunnelling on built heritage - Preservation of diffuse heritage: soil instability, subsidence, environmental damages The present volume aims at geotechnical engineers and academics involved in the preservation of monuments and historic sites worldwide

Symmetry in Structural Health Monitoring

In this Special Issue on symmetry, we mainly discuss the application of symmetry in various structural health monitoring. For example, considering the health monitoring of a known structure, by obtaining the static or dynamic response of the structure, using different signal processing methods, including some advanced filtering methods, to remove the influence of environmental noise, and extract structural feature parameters to determine the safety of the structure. These damage diagnosis methods can also be effectively applied to various types of infrastructure and mechanical equipment. For this reason, the vibration control of various structures and the knowledge of random structure dynamics should be considered, which will promote the rapid development of the structural health monitoring. Among them, signal extraction and evaluation methods are also worthy of study. The improvement of signal acquisition instruments and acquisition methods improves the accuracy of data. A good evaluation method will help to correctly understand the performance with different types of infrastructure and mechanical equipment

Aeronautical Engineering: A cumulative index to the 1984 issues of the continuing bibliography

This bibliography is a cumulative index to the abstracts contained in NASA SP-7037(171) through NASA SP-7037(182) of Aeronautical Engineering: A Continuing Bibliography. NASA SP-7037 and its supplements have been compiled through the cooperative efforts of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This cumulative index includes subject, personal author, corporate source, foreign technology, contract, report number, and accession number indexes