Fatigue assessment of welded joints is vital for accurately designing and predicting lifetime many engineering structures. Assessing weld fatigue challenging due to the high variability in quality geometry because volatile nature joining method further challenges arise when assessing multiaxial fatigue. In this paper, two approaches, Findley criterion Modified Wöhler Curve Method, on several ex...

Seasonal Sensible Thermal Energy Storages based on existing inside structures are cost effective and require insulation materials with high performance. The must endure temperatures pressure for a long period. In this study, the creep effects of material XPS (extruded polystyrene foam) at investigated to determine whether is suitable be applied STES. Two studies were conducted: an isothermal lo...

A task-specific tremor (TST) is a rare form of movement disorder that appears while performing or attempting to perform a particular task. Primary writing tremor (PWT) is the most common form of TST which only occurs during the act of writing and hinders it. (Bain PG, Findley LJ, Britton TC, Rothwell JC, Gresty MA, Thompson PD, Marsden CD. MRC Human Movement, and Balance Unit, Institute of Neur...

This study compares X-12-ARIMA and MING, two new seasonal adjustment methods designed to handle outliers and structural changes in a time series. X-12-ARIMA is a successor to the X-ll-ARIMA seasonal adjustment method, and is being developed at the U.S. Bureau of the Census (Findley et al. (1988)). MING is a “Mixture based Non-Gaussian” method for sea* sonal adjustment using time series structur...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have attempted to estimate the rate of decline over time in essential tremor (ET). The study objectives were to: (1) measure change, deriving a single summary measure for the entire group, and relate it to a commonly used clinical rating scale (ie, yearly change in points on that scale); (2) to assess change as a function of baseline clinical characteristics and (3) to ans...

Two widely-used seasonal adjustment programs are the U.S. Census Bureau's X-12-ARIMA and the SEATS program for ARIMA-model-based signal extraction written by Agustin Maravall. In previous studies with SEATS and X-12-ARIMA, we found some series where the adjustment from SEATS had smaller revisions than the adjustment from X-12-ARIMA (Hood, Ashley, and Findley, 2000). Based on this previous work,...