Concrete is a remarkable structural material that has been widely used in the modern age. Nevertheless, natural causes that affect durability and consequently service life of concrete are related with surface damage and cracking of the material. Cracks can influence functionality for liquid retaining structures and can also decrease durability due ingress of water and ions towards steel reinfor...

This paper presents the architecture and synthesis of a damage-mitigating control system where the objective is to achieve high performance with increased reliability, availability, component durability, and maintainability. The proposed control system has a two-tier structure. In the lower tier, a linear robust sampled-data controller tracks a reference trajectory vector while the upper tier c...

HPC and data center scale application developers are abandoning POSIX IO because file system metadata synchronization and serialization overheads of providing strong consistency and durability are too costly – and often unnecessary – for their applications. Unfortunately, designing file systems with weaker consistency or durability semantics excludes applications that rely on stronger guarantee...

This thesis explores using a systemic view on software engineering to analyze its high failure rate. With the growing amount of bugs, and (emergent) misbehavior in software nowadays, it would pay to analyze the way in which we make this software first. Durability is proposed as a key property of development systems as a measurable indication of a system’s ability to prevent failure. Research in...

In this paper a new class of distribution functions is introduced as a model for time to failure in tool durability testing. The distribution has been called "Pseudo-Weibull". Some inferences on its properties are presented and a peculiar case is extensively investigated.

This paper reports the results of tests on Indiana gravels ranging from good to poor in field performance in Portland cement concrete. The gravels were separated by heavy liquid flotation into various specific gravity ranges. The gravel fractions thus obtained were tested to deter­ mine absorption, specific gravity, degree of saturation, lithologic compo­ sition and durability in air entrained ...

Provision of reliability of structures is an important issue at the designing stage. One of reliability aspects is durability. In order to estimate the durability of reinforced concrete it is required to apply standard procedure of calculation which, according to SNIP Regulations 2.03.11-85 Protection of Engineering Structures against Corrosion, can be implemented with the use of means of prima...