Inherently anisotropic soil fabric has a considerable influence on soil strength. To model this kind of inherent anisotropy, a three-dimensional anisotropic failure criterion was proposed, employing a scalar-valued anisotropic variable and a modified general threedimensional isotropic failure criterion. The scalar-valued anisotropic variable in all sectors of the deviatoric plane was defined by...

This work addresses the problem of failure tolerance for realtime applications. We propose a technique to schedule a system of tasks running under PD2 on a multicore architecture submitted to the failure of one of the cores at a given time with re-execution of the task running on it. The technique is based on limited hardware redundancy and subtask feasibility windows reconfiguration at runtime...

Background: Advocates of medial portal drilling claim that the transtibial technique results in a more vertical positioning of the graft, which could lead to subsequent failure and/or a residual pivot shift on postoperative examination. However, advocates of transtibial drilling state that with appropriate placement and adequate notchplasty, their technique places the graft in a more anatomical...

This paper presents a demonstration of a process and software for evaluating the ability of an electronic product to operate with out failure under anticipated life cycle loading conditions. For this purpose, a preliminary design for an electronic module that is being developed to support aircraft engines was selected and evaluated. The process included developing a model of the physical hardwa...

SUMMARY The scatter in the fatigue lives of identical simple laboratory specimens, which have been tested under variable amplitude sinusoidal loading, is estimated, using a log-normal distribution of fatigue lives as a basis, from the fatigue test results of a number of experimenters. These estimates of the scatter are analyeed with 8 view to studying the effect of various teat loading paramete...