Vibration fatigue test and analysis methodology for flip chip solder joint fatigue life assessment have been developed by performing vibration tests with constant G-level and varying G-level input excitation. The linear cumulative damage analysis method (Miner’s rule) predicts non-conservative result for vibration fatigue life of flip chip solder joint. Finite element analysis (FEA) using a glo...

<span>Privacy preserving data mining has become the focus of attention government statistical agencies and database security research community who are concerned with preventing privacy disclosure during mining. Repositories large datasets include sensitive rules that need to be concealed from unauthorized access. Hence, association rule hiding emerged as one powerful techniques for knowl...

Low cycle fatigue life of Ti and alloys decreases due to tensile stress dwell even at ambient temperature. This phenomenon is called Cold Dwell Fatigue (CDF). CDF properties are affected by time, test stress, microstructure. In our previous study, the effects time assessment linear cumulative damage rule were reported. The microstructure for discussed in this study. Test was from 0.85 0.955 σ0....

Linear and nonlinear categorization rule learning was examined in patients with Huntington’s disease (HD) and controls using the perceptual categorization task. In the linear condition, HD patients displayed an early-training deficit, whereas later in training, they were not statistically different from controls. In the nonlinear rule condition, HD patients displayed both an earlyand late-train...

Peridynamics (PD) is a nonlocal continuum theory based on integro-differential equations without spatial derivatives. The elongation fracture criterion is implicitly incorporated in the PD theory, and fracture is a natural outcome of the simulation. On the other hand, a new fracture criterion based on the crack opening displacement combined with peridynamic (PD-COD) is proposed. When the relati...

This paper considers the case where adequate negligence standards cannot be defined because actions of defendants before an accident are imperfectly observable. Negligence-based liability rules, which are often considered as the only efficient liability rule in the presence of multiple tortfeasors, are not feasible in this environment. We propose an insurance-based liability rule as a remedy: D...

Stress fractures, a painful injury, are caused by excessive fatigue in bone. This study on damage accumulation in bone sought to determine if the Palmgren-Miner rule (PMR), a well-known linear damage accumulation hypothesis, is predictive of fatigue failure in bone. An electromagnetic shaker apparatus was constructed to conduct cyclic and variable amplitude tests on bovine bone specimens. Three...

The practice of allowing a trial judge to condition his refusal of a defendant's motion for a new trial upon the plaintiff's acceptance of a reduction in damages, known as a remittitur, has had a long, if somewhat uneven, history in the federal court system.' In particular, this mechanism for imposing the judge's will upon the determination of damages in a civil trial has been criticized 2 in l...