computer model of the patellofemoral joint was developed and the effects on the anterior displacement of the tibial tuberosity were investigated. the input geometrical and verification data for the model were obtained form an experimental study on a cadaver knee, mounted in an instron machine. the computer program found the configuration of the patellofemoral joint which satified both the geome...

This paper deal with highly-reliable integrated circuits for ground and space applications especially strong against soft errors. In the terrestrial region, neutrons and alpha particles are main sources to cause soft errors. They flip contents of storage cells such as SRAMs and flip flops on a semiconductor chip. Soft errors must be considered for semiconductor chips for security, automotive, a...

This paper advocates the use of self-stabilization as a provable property to achieve the goals of the self-* paradigms for systems, including availability, reliability, serviceability, disaster recovery and autonomic computing. Several recent results starting from hardware concerns, through the operating system, and ending in the applications are integrated: the selfstabilizing microprocessor [...

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Structural deterioration of drainage pipes has been a major concern for asset managers in maintaining the required performance of the urban drainage systems. Structural deterioration is the reduction of physical integrity, which can be characterized through structural defects such as cracks and fractures that are identified through condition assessment. Due to limited budget and the massive num...

The Reliability/Availability/Serviceability (RAS) strategy for S/390T G5 and G6 is to continue the S/390 objective of providing Continuous Reliable Operation (CRO). The RAS strategy is constructed with a set of building blocks which work closely together: error prevention, error detection, error recovery, problem determination, service structure, change management, and RAS measurement and analy...

As the network-centric model of computing continues to mature, customers are constantly trying to evaluate what the correct price/performance point is for their business. For the growing number of businesses that choose a PC Server for a departmental, workgroup, or application server function, one of the key parameters is the reliability of the server. This paper addresses one area of concern i...

The present study proposes a novel tower-control technique that couples linear control feedback theory with an online time-frequency analysis of the tower vibrations, with the aim to widen the research area of situational control of wind turbines. Numerical simulations were conducted for two 5MW-class offshore wind turbines, and the performance of the proposed control method has been tested in ...