The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the timing of bank failure/merger in 10 Asian countries over the period of 1999-2007 using a multivariate logit model and a split population duration analysis. Apart from bank-specific information, we also focus on the effects of macroeconomic and financial characteristics. The following empirical findings are obtained. First, the resu...

The finite element method (FEM) and the limit equilibrium (LEM) are commonly used for calculating slope failure risk. However, FEM needs to carry out post-processing estimate sliding surface, while LEM requires assumption of shape location surface in advance. In this paper, an risk (EFR) soil is proposed based on probability (EFP) acquired by plastic analysis. does not require any assumptions a...

slope stability is one of the major and determiner parameters in the economy and safety of open pit mines. failure and consequently rupture of the slope caused no compensable economic and humanity losses. so, probability assessment of the further failure for presentation of damages and additional costs is of prime importance. in this research, stability analysis and probability assessment of th...

Accurate reliability and residual life analysis is paramount during the designing of requirements rotation power measuring equipment (PME). However, sample dataset failure usually sparse contains inevitable pollution data, which has an adverse effect on analysis. To tackle this issue, paper first applies nonlinear regression to fuse rate environmental features PME collected from various locatio...

Some structural control systems have been devised to protect structures against earthquakes, which the tuned mass damper (TMD) being one of the earliest. The effect of a tuned mass damper depends on its properties, such as mass, damping coefficient, and stiffness. The parameters of tuned mass dampers need to be tuned based on the main system and applied load. In most of the papers, the paramete...

Reliability of a system is the probability that it will function as intended for the required period of time. The opposite of reliability is failure probability per unit time or over time, such as a life cycle. Following a review of existing reliability codes and approaches, comprehensive approaches to assess the reliability of offshore structures are described, including probabilistic analysis...