Baojun Qin^1,2, Hong Jiang^1,2,3, Wei Zhang⁴, Xiang Liu^4,*

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.19, No.5, pp. 1203-1220, 2025, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2025.063813 - 05 September 2025

Abstract The utilization of high-strength steel bars (HSSB) within concrete structures demonstrates significant advantages in material conservation and mechanical performance enhancement. Nevertheless, existing design codes exhibit limitations in addressing the distinct statistical characteristics of HSSB, particularly regarding strength design parameters. For instance, GB50010-2010 fails to specify design strength values for reinforcement exceeding 600 MPa, creating technical barriers for advancing HSSB implementation. This study systematically investigates the reliability of eccentric compression concrete columns reinforced with 600 MPa-grade HSSB through high-order moment method analysis. Material partial factors were calibrated against target reliability indices prescribed by GB50068-2018, incorporating critical More >

Jianing Hao¹, Dan Yang², Guanxiong Ren¹, Ying Zhao³, Rangling Cao^4,*

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 141-159, 2025, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2024.054469 - 24 January 2025

Abstract This study presents an innovative approach to calculating the failure probability of slopes by incorporating fuzzy limit-state functions, a method that significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of slope stability analysis. Unlike traditional probabilistic techniques, this approach utilizes a least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) optimized with a grey wolf optimizer (GWO) and K-fold cross-validation (CV) to approximate the limit-state function, thus reducing computational complexity. The novelty of this work lies in its application to one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) slope models, demonstrating its versatility and high precision. The proposed method consistently achieves… More > Graphic Abstract

R. Rengaraj alias Muralidharan^1,*, K. Latha²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 1923-1937, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029495 - 19 July 2022

Abstract In cloud computing (CC), resources are allocated and offered to the clients transparently in an on-demand way. Failures can happen in CC environment and the cloud resources are adaptable to fluctuations in the performance delivery. Task execution failure becomes common in the CC environment. Therefore, fault-tolerant scheduling techniques in CC environment are essential for handling performance differences, resource fluxes, and failures. Recently, several intelligent scheduling approaches have been developed for scheduling tasks in CC with no consideration of fault tolerant characteristics. With this motivation, this study focuses on the design of Gorilla Troops Optimizer Based… More >

Jie Yang^1,2, Changping Chen^1,2,*, Ao Ma¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.125, No.3, pp. 1159-1171, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2020.09640 - 15 December 2020

Abstract System reliability sensitivity analysis becomes difficult due to involving the issues of the correlation between failure modes whether using analytic method or numerical simulation methods. A fast conditional reduction method based on conditional probability theory is proposed to solve the sensitivity analysis based on the approximate analytic method. The relevant concepts are introduced to characterize the correlation between failure modes by the reliability index and correlation coefficient, and conditional normal fractile the for the multi-dimensional conditional failure analysis is proposed based on the two-dimensional normal distribution function. Thus the calculation of system failure probability can… More >

G. Olmi¹

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 61-90, 2012, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2012.008.061

Abstract Turbogenerator rotors and coil retaining rings are highly loaded components, under low cycle fatigue at every machine switch on and switch off transient. Their failure during service may lead to very serious consequences. The present paper utilizes several experimental data, concerning the static, cyclic and fatigue behaviour of the rotor material, in order to perform a probabilistic analysis. All the main methodological issues are tackled, consisting in the experimental data processing, in the choice of the random variables that are involved in the fatigue process, in the determination of their distributions, in the practical computation More >