The power output from wind farms is highly volatile, uncertain and hard to be predicted accurately. Then sometimes positive short-run correlation between variations of wind power output and load could bring more and larger ...

Variability is a well-known problem in construction projects, which leads to the general deterioration of project performance. During the last decade, the Last Planner System (LPS), a production planning and control system ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the test-retest reliability of the median frequency (MDF) and root mean square (RMS) used to determine the onset of neuromuscular fatigue (NF) during sustained fatiguing contractions ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the test-retest reliability of the median frequency (MDF) and root mean square (RMS) used to determine the onset of neuromuscular fatigue (NF) during sustained fatiguing contractions ...

In this paper we present a framework to model the effect of multiple sources of degradation on deteriorating systems, and to find easy-to-evaluate expressions for important reliability quantities. By considering the system ...

This paper addresses the reliability-based calibration of partial safety factors for Brazilian design codes NBR8681:2003 (Actions and Safety of Structures) and NBR8800:2008 (Design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite ...