The Status Of Engineering Geology: Constraints On Infrastructure Development In Bangladesh,
2018
Geotesting Express Inc.
The Status Of Engineering Geology: Constraints On Infrastructure Development In Bangladesh, Mir Fazlul Karim, Muhammad Qumrul Hassan, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Masud Ahmed, Belal Ahmed Sayeed
Publications and Research
In recent years, megacity Dhaka is known to have one of the fastest urban population growths in Bangladesh. The population in Dhaka and other megacities has increased from 7 to 50 million during the last four decades. The rapid rate of urban population growth, along with the extreme paucity of real-estate for new infrastructure development or upgrading existing facilities, is already exacerbating the situation for the city planners and exerting tremendous pressure to come-up with viable solutions. Although practice of engineering geology, geotechnical exploration, and testing exists in Bangladesh; the system has still yet to adopt controlled quality standards with …
The Challenges Of Geotechnical Exploration In Bangladesh For Sustainable Urban Development And Risk Reductions In Engineering Geology,
2018
Geotesting Express Inc.
The Challenges Of Geotechnical Exploration In Bangladesh For Sustainable Urban Development And Risk Reductions In Engineering Geology, Mir Fazul Karim, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Muhammad Qumrul Hasson, A.T.M. Shakhawat Hossain
Publications and Research
Bangladesh is a unique example of rapid urbanization where the urban population increased from 5 to 58 million in last four decades. Due to complex geology and active tectonic setting, the urban ground is impacted by fluvio-deltaic processes and regional seismicity. The densely populated cities of the country are facing risks from many natural hazards like floods, tidal surge, riverbank and coastal erosion, scour, landslides, soil collapse and foundation failures. Geologists anticipate severe seismic threats from yet-undefined tectonic structures and seek to determine their consequential geo-structural responses and conformance to the national building code. With rapid growth, demands on infrastructure …
Reliability Analysis Of Repairable Systems With Recurrent Misuse-Induced Failures And Normal-Operation Failures,
2018
Singapore Management University
Reliability Analysis Of Repairable Systems With Recurrent Misuse-Induced Failures And Normal-Operation Failures, Weiwen Peng, Lijuan Shen, Yan Shen, Qiuzhuang Sun
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
Failure of a repairable system may be attributed to operators’ misuse or system deterioration. The misuse may further deteriorate the system under normal operating conditions. Motivated by a real-world data set that records the recurrence times of misuse-induced failures and the normal-operation failures, this study proposes a stochastic process model for recurrence data analysis, where one type of failures is affected by the other. A non-homogeneous Poisson process and a trend-renewal process are separately used as the baseline event process models for the misuse-induced failures and the normal-operation failures, respectively. These two models are then combined by treating the event …
Community Resilience Management : Reflections And Strategies From Corporate Sustainability,
2018
Rochester Institute of Technology
Community Resilience Management : Reflections And Strategies From Corporate Sustainability, Jennifer Schneider, John Hummel, Joseph M. Rosenbeck 4756469, Sarah Dobie
Journal of Environmental Sustainability
Creating community resilience is a daunting task, both in scope and application, therefore it is useful to examine related efforts to inform our strategy. Sustainability, specifically corporate sustainability, has developed through similar challenges and provides insight into the possible trajectory of community resilience management. We find that both concepts reflect similar origins, developmental paths and merging goals at a scale that can be systematically managed. Therefore, we describe four strategies from corporate sustainability management that can be applied to community resilience 1) consider the community context while implementing an increasingly broad view of responsibility; 2) integrate and engage across constructs; …
China's Maritime Search And Rescue Management System From The Perspective Of Crisis Management,
2018
World Maritime University
China's Maritime Search And Rescue Management System From The Perspective Of Crisis Management, Peng Zhong
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Formal Safety Assessment On Inland Self-Unload Carriers In The Pearl River Delta,
2018
World Maritime University
Formal Safety Assessment On Inland Self-Unload Carriers In The Pearl River Delta, Weijun Zhang
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Risk Study Of Ship Navigation In Ice Areas,
2018
World Maritime University
Risk Study Of Ship Navigation In Ice Areas, Angang Sun
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
A Study On Pilotage Risk Assessment In Jiangsu Section Of The Yangtze River,
2018
World Maritime University
A Study On Pilotage Risk Assessment In Jiangsu Section Of The Yangtze River, Ruihong Ran
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Research On Navigation Safety Evaluation Of Jiaxing Port,
2018
World Maritime University
Research On Navigation Safety Evaluation Of Jiaxing Port, Chao Meng
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Dynamic Risk Assessment Model Of Tianjin Vts Water Area And Its Application,
2018
World Maritime University
Dynamic Risk Assessment Model Of Tianjin Vts Water Area And Its Application, Jinkai Liu
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Analysis And Evaluation Of Maritime Traffic Risk In Circumjacent Water Of Dagushan Peninsula Of Dalian,
2018
World Maritime University
Analysis And Evaluation Of Maritime Traffic Risk In Circumjacent Water Of Dagushan Peninsula Of Dalian, Yuanshan Jiang
Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)
No abstract provided.
Enhancing Trust In The Cryptocurrency Marketplace: A Reputation Scoring Approach,
2018
Southern Methodist University
Enhancing Trust In The Cryptocurrency Marketplace: A Reputation Scoring Approach, Dan Freeman, Tim Mcwilliams, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Craig Hall, Pablo Peillard
SMU Data Science Review
Trust is paramount for the effective operation of any monetary system. While the distributed architecture of blockchain technology on which cryptocurrencies operate has many benefits, the anonymity of users on the blockchain has provided criminal users an opportunity to hide both their identities and illicit activities. In this paper, we present a scoring mechanism for cryptocurrency users where the scores represent users’ trustworthiness as safe or risky transactors in the cryptocurrency community. In order to distinguish law-abiding users from potential threats in the Bitcoin marketplace, we analyze historical thefts to profile transactions, classify them into risky and non-risky categories using …
Robust Allocation Of Funds For Nonstructural Flood Risk Mitigation In Coastal Louisiana,
2018
Universidad de Los Andes - Colombia
Robust Allocation Of Funds For Nonstructural Flood Risk Mitigation In Coastal Louisiana, Simón Gómez Sierra, David R. Johnson, Matthew P. Shisler, Zachariah T. Richardson
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Coastal Louisiana is a critical economic, ecological and cultural asset, acting as a major hub for waterborne commerce, fisheries, and the petrochemical industry, and also as one of the world’s unique wetlands. Unfortunately, this rich environment is in great danger from the threat of hurricanes and storm surge flooding. Direct economic losses are estimated to average $2.7 billion per year under current conditions, and this could increase to $12 billion a year, or more, within 50 years if nothing is done. To prevent this catastrophe, Louisiana has developed a Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, which plans to spend …
Extra-Terrestrial Habitat Systems: Safety, Reliability, And Resilience,
2018
Purdue University
Extra-Terrestrial Habitat Systems: Safety, Reliability, And Resilience, Jory C. Lyons Jr., Amin Maghareh, Audai Theinat, Shirley Dyke, Antonio Bobet
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Developing a resilient extra-terrestrial habitat with regards to long-term reliability and safety from hazards including radiation, meteorites, and quakes is necessary to ensure human survival during interplanetary exploration. The objective of this study is to examine conventional aerospace safety and reliability analysis techniques to investigate whether they are sufficient to achieve resilience in extra-terrestrial habitats. These results will be obtained to complete a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of compiled techniques to design a sustainable habitat system. Failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) and probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) with their past applications will be assessed to provide …
Team Joseph's Bike Trailer,
2018
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Team Joseph's Bike Trailer, Keely Thompson, Curtis Wathne, Ryan Meinhardt
Mechanical Engineering
This final design report shows the results of this senior project’s design process of creating a custom bike trailer for Team Joseph. As done in the Scope of Work, Preliminary Design report, and Critical Design report, current products, relevant technologies, and American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards are fully researched and benchmarked to aid in the design selection process. Customer requirements are looked at and developed into engineering specifications. A detailed design was created for CDR to show to Team Joseph, and manufacturing and testing plans were laid out. This final design report adds the final design revisions …
Identification System For Heart Valve Manufacturing,
2018
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Identification System For Heart Valve Manufacturing, Nicholas Robert Jensen, Edgar Davis Nix, Judith Evelyn Gonzalez, Albert Austin Liddicoat
Mechanical Engineering
Abstract withheld due to NDA constraints
Next Generation Protocol: Innovating A Resilient Future,
2018
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Next Generation Protocol: Innovating A Resilient Future, Andrew Steven Rudnick, Jamie Cannady, Joe Decesaro, Juan A. Ortiz Salazar
Materials Engineering
Conventional practices do not account for product life beyond end-of-sale – these practices are not sustainable. We have developed an end-of-life protocol that includes a metric that we call the Recovery Rating. The objectives of this Next Generation Protocol, beyond supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, are to encourage the production of goods designed for recovery and to promote the collaboration between consumers, the public, and the private sector to recover goods at their end-of-life. The Recovery Rating that we propose evaluates and quantifies recovery potential of products. The Recovery Rating, which is normed against embodied energy from the …
Risk Assessment Of Dropped Cylindrical Objects In Offshore Operations,
2018
University of New Orleans
Risk Assessment Of Dropped Cylindrical Objects In Offshore Operations, Adelina Steven
LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Dropped object are defined as any object that fall under its own weight from a previously static position or fell due to an applied force from equipment or a moving object. It is among the top ten causes of injuries and fatality in oil and gas industry. To solve this problem, several in-house tools and guidelines is developed over time to assess the risk of dropped objects on the sub-sea structures. This thesis focuses on compiling and comparing those methods in hope to improve the recommended practices available in the market. A simple modification is done on the in-house tools …
Design Of A Distributed Real-Time E-Health Cyber Ecosystem With Collective Actions: Diagnosis, Dynamic Queueing, And Decision Making,
2018
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Design Of A Distributed Real-Time E-Health Cyber Ecosystem With Collective Actions: Diagnosis, Dynamic Queueing, And Decision Making, Yanlin Zhou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
In this thesis, we develop a framework for E-health Cyber Ecosystems, and look into different involved actors. The three interested parties in the ecosystem including patients, doctors, and healthcare providers are discussed in 3 different phases. In Phase 1, machine-learning based modeling and simulation analysis is performed to remotely predict a patient's risk level of having heart diseases in real time. In Phase 2, an online dynamic queueing model is devised to pair doctors with patients having high risk levels (diagnosed in Phase 1) to confirm the risk, and provide help. In Phase 3, a decision making paradigm is proposed …
Assessment Of Risk In Preterm Infants Using Point Process And Machine Learning Approaches,
2018
University of Texas at Tyler
Assessment Of Risk In Preterm Infants Using Point Process And Machine Learning Approaches, Venkata Naga Sai Apurupa Amperayani
Electrical Engineering Theses
Preemies, infants who are born too soon, have a higher incidence of Life-Threatening Events (LTE’s) such as apnea (cessation of breathing), bradycardia (slowing of heart rate) and hypoxemia (oxygen desaturation) also termed as ABD (Apnea, Bradycardia, and Desaturation) events. Clinicians at Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) are facing the demanding task of assessing the risk of infants based on their physiological signals. The aim of this thesis is to develop a risk stratification algorithm using a machine-learning framework with the features related to pathological fluctuations derived from point process model that will be embedded into the current physiological recording system …
