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The first figure in this figure shows a series system and the second shows a parallel system. How the reliability of an interdependent system can be calculated?
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A key consideration in the design of a natural gas transmission pipeline is the location class of the pipeline. The location class is a geographic area along the pipeline classified primarily...
05 November 2018 5,677 4 View
What is the allowable stress for cast iron? Codes for pressure vessels express their allowable stress as: ASME Section VIII Division 2 S = smaller of: UTS / 3.5 or Yield / 1.5 Or...
29 October 2018 8,409 1 View
I am looking for both theoretical and experimental investigation on how the grey cast iron product fail, knowing that the grey cast iron behaves differently in tension and compression. In...
18 October 2018 7,722 0 View
With an ordinal scale, we know the rank order, but we do not have any idea of the distance or interval between the rankings. For example grades such as “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” and “F” are ordinal...
13 April 2018 8,809 12 View
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21 February 2018 9,187 8 View
High reliability and availability are necessary and desirable attributes of the modern system which must operate close to 100% on time on demand. There is an inverse relationship between risk and...
21 November 2017 1,552 39 View
Recently I came across a couple of papers using data to demonstrate a method (e.g. neural network, probability distribution, etc). My areas of interest are: pitting corrosion prediction and...
17 June 2017 4,033 9 View
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16 June 2017 1,454 1 View
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12 May 2016 8,390 3 View
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05 May 2016 6,079 11 View
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29 January 2016 2,302 81 View
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