Engineering Computations: Volume 40 Issue 5

Reliability analysis of repairable multistate phased mission systems with Markov approach based on states

Sibel Yılmaz, Özge Elmastaş Gültekin

The purpose of this study is to find the reliability of the three-component three-phased mission system, which can be repaired by considering the exponential distribution for…

On soliton solutions of the modified equal width equation

Ismail Onder, Melih Cinar, A. Secer, Mustafa Bayram

The soliton solutions are obtained by using extended rational sin/cos and sinh-cosh method. The methods are powerful and have ease of use. Applying wave transformation to the…

Minimal mass of prismatic tensegrity structures

Ziying Cao, Ani Luo, Yaming Feng, Heping Liu

This paper is contributed to find the minimal mass prismatic tensegrity structures.

A dynamic material distribution scheduling of automotive assembly line considering material-handling errors

Binghai Zhou, Mingda Wen

In a kitting supply system, the occurrence of material-handling errors is unavoidable and will cause serious production losses to an assembly line. To minimize production losses…

A dynamic model considering the time-varying friction moment of a flexible rotor system

Jing Liu, Yuchen An, Wanli Fancheng, Changke Tang, Lixin Xu

Bearing friction moments are important factors that affect the vibrations of rotor systems. The bearing friction moments are related to the dimension parameters, lubrication…

Dynamic modelling of an armoured face conveyor considering the curved chains

Pengfei Yuan, Baiyan He, Lianhong Zhang

Due to the structural layout, mining process, and working environment, curved chains such as horizontal and vertical bends inevitably exist in the armoured face conveyor (AFC)…

Designing an efficient smoothed point interpolation method for modeling slope deformation

Jiayu Qin, Nengxiong Xu, Gang Mei

In this paper, the smoothed point interpolation method (SPIM) is used to model the slope deformation. However, the computational efficiency of SPIM is not satisfying when modeling…

An application of data-driven modeling for hydroelasticity of an elastically supported semi-circular pipe conveying fluid

Jianhang Xu, Peng Li, Yiren Yang

The paper aims to develop an efficient data-driven modeling approach for the hydroelastic analysis of a semi-circular pipe conveying fluid with elastic end supports. Besides the…

A new method for solving multiple definite integrals using multiple sets of correlation extreme learning machines

Shangjie Li, Xianzhen Huang, Xingang Wang, Chengying Zhao, Hangyuan Lv

This paper aims to develop a novel method and apply it to solve multiple definite integrals. The proposed method is constructed based on multiple sets of correlation extreme…

SPH method used for characteristic predictions at Pelton turbine buckets: comparing with the mesh-based method

Jie Sun, X.F. Ge, Yuan Zheng

The research in this paper helps to understand the difference between the Eulerian method and the Lagrangian method in describing the performance of Pelton turbine buckets, so as…

Research on path planning of autonomous vehicle based on RRT algorithm of Q-learning and obstacle distribution

Yuze Shang, Fei Liu, Ping Qin, Zhizhong Guo, Zhe Li

The goal of this research is to develop a dynamic step path planning algorithm based on the rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm that combines Q-learning with the…