Accelerated repeated measures degradation tests can sometimes be used to assess product or component reliability when one would expect few or even no failures during a study. Such tests can be used to estimate the lifetime distributions of highly reliable items. This paper describes methods for selecting a single-variable accelerated repeated measures degradation test plan when the (possibly tr...

The objective of this study is to develop a model-free optimization algorithm to improve the total wind farm power production in a cooperative game framework. Conventionally, for a given wind condition, an individual wind turbine maximizes its own power production without taking into consideration the conditions of other wind turbines. Under this greedy control strategy, the wake formed by the ...

Selenium deficiency in lambs on a farm at Launching Place, Victoria, was demonstrated by significant growth responses to selenium treatment. The trend in results of subsequent experiments on this farm indicated that the minimum effective dose for lambs dosed each week by mouth was about 0.1 mg Se. This dose also appeared to be close to the optimum weekly dose. Results indicated that for higher ...

Nowadays, using the technology and computers for decision making in a particular field is one of the subjects which in the level of making decisions and industrial managements has been very much noticed. Especially, the decision which on the base of current specific condition is required, such as making decisions in the selection of suitable primary tillage equipment for given conditions of a f...

Seeing the sustainability of rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, adequate crop nutrition in general and nitrogen (N) in particular holds the key to sound crop management. The excessive application or insufficient management of N means an economic loss to the farmer and may lead to yield penalties and environmental problems. Improving N management in consonance with oth...

This paper presents an optimum plan for simple (two stresses) time-step-stress accelerated life tests under the log-logistic model considered appropriate for insulating materials. A log-logistic life distribution with a median that is a log-linear function of stress, and a cumulative exposure model are assumed. The optimum test plan is obtained by minimizing the asymptotic variance of the maxim...

Our expert system aims at the optimum and fast plan making for shield-tunneling works. It is an expert system of applied design problems that integrates such advanced technologies as relational databases , AI, and computer-aided design (CAD). This expert system is able to design and draw a suitable shield machine with an automatic output of design calculations and also specify an optimum contro...

On-farm soil frost control has been used for the management of volunteer potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.), a serious weed problem caused by climate change, in northern Japan. Deep soil frost penetration is necessary for the effective eradication of unharvested small potato tubers; however, this process can delay soil thaw and increase soil wetting in spring, thereby delaying agricultural activit...

Accelerated Destructive Degradation Tests (ADDTs) provide reliability information quickly. An ADDT plan specifies factor level combinations of an accelerating variable (e.g., temperature) and evaluation time and the allocations of test units to these combinations. This paper describes methods to find good ADDT plans for an important class of destructive degradation models. First, a collection o...