Laboratory measurements of constitutive frictional parameters are commonly inferred to explain the wide variety slip behavior seen on natural faults. The extent which these small-scale directly relate fault remains obscure. In this work, we compare laboratory-determined surface-derived samples from along length Longitudinal Valley Fault (LVF) in Taiwan with observed and obtained geodetically. L...

Fluid overpressure is one of the primary mechanisms for tectonic fault slip, because fluids lubricate the fault and fluid pressure reduces the effective normal stress that holds the fault in place. However, current models of earthquake nucleation, based on rate- and state- friction laws, imply that stable sliding is favoured by the increase of pore fluid pressure. Despite this controversy, curr...

The relationship between the scaling properties of faulted geological surfaces and parameters describing the underlying fault population are investigated using simulations of a dip-slip faulted surface. Analysis of multiple simulations of sections through the surface allowed the construction of a statistical relationship between the parameters defining the fault population and the fractal dimen...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) consist of a large number of sensor nodes which are capable of sensing different environmental phenomena and sending the collected data to the base station or sink. since sensor nodes are made of cheap components and are deployed in remote and uncontrolled environments, they are prone to failure; thus, maintaining a network with its proper functions even when und...

Power system component fault diagnosis problem is a key issue in case of the failure of the power system. A Bayesian network, in which the network parameters are learnt by a particle swarm optimization algorithm, is proposed in this paper to establish the statistical diagnosis model. The Noisy-Or and Noisy-And structure are employed to construct the framework of the model, where the 4-level Bay...

This paper deals with the verification of efficiency of the novel on-chip OBIST (Oscillation Built-In Self Test) strategy by comparison the fault coverage in selected types of active analog integrated filters. Fault coverage obtained by OBIST approach was compared to fault coverage results obtained by the measurement and evaluation of filters’ selected parameters.

Software fault-tolerance techniques have been widely used in computing systems to achieve high level of quality. Rejuvenation, a modern software fault-tolerance technique, has attracted a large number of researchers in software engineering area. Evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of this technique becomes extremely important in selecting, comparing and applying it in actual software s...