Reliability Analysis of Waste Tires Semi-Submersible Breakwater

2017 ◽  
Vol 864 ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Qi ◽  
Zi Chang Shangguan

With the continuous development of social economy, China's port construction scale has become saturated. As an important part of the harbor, the breakwater plays a crucial role in the safety of the working environment in the harbor, and the reliability of the breakwater is an assessment of its safety. Build on the previous studies, this paper puts forward a semi-submersible breakwater using waste tires. The reliability of this breakwater is analyzed by Monte Carlo method of artificial neural network based on Matlab, and the results are compared to those of Direct sampling Monte Carlo method and Important sampling Monte Carlo method. The results show that the Monte Carlo method is able to analyze the reliability of overturning failure of semi-submersible breakwater of waste tire. Compared with the other two consequences, the result is more accurate. The Monte Carlo method of artificial neural network based on Matlab has the obvious advantage in being devoted to the problem of complex structure and variable. Safety of the breakwater meets the relevant requirements and can be applied to the actual engineering. It can be seen that waste tires has a high degree of reliability, daptability, and a wide range of applications.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Paulo Marcelo Tasinaffo ◽  
Gildárcio Sousa Gonçalves ◽  
Adilson Marques da Cunha ◽  
Luiz Alberto Vieira Dias

This paper proposes to develop a model-based Monte Carlo method for computationally determining the best mean squared error of training for an artificial neural network with feedforward architecture. It is applied for a particular non-linear classification problem of input/output patterns in a computational environment with abundant data. The Monte Carlo method allows computationally checking that balanced data are much better than non-balanced ones for an artificial neural network to learn by means of supervised learning. The major contribution of this investigation is that, the proposed model can be tested by analogy, considering also the fraud detection problem in credit cards, where the amount of training patterns used are high.


2012 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
pp. 324-329
Author(s):  
F. García Fernández ◽  
L. García Esteban ◽  
P. de Palacios ◽  
A. García-Iruela ◽  
R. Cabedo Gallén

Artificial neural networks have become a powerful modeling tool. However, although they obtain an output with very good accuracy, they provide no information about the uncertainty of the network or its coverage intervals. This study describes the application of the Monte Carlo method to obtain the output uncertainty and coverage intervals of a particular type of artificial neural network: the multilayer perceptron.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Gbenga Williams ◽  
Oluwapelumi O. Ojuri

AbstractAs a result of heterogeneity nature of soils and variation in its hydraulic conductivity over several orders of magnitude for various soil types from fine-grained to coarse-grained soils, predictive methods to estimate hydraulic conductivity of soils from properties considered more easily obtainable have now been given an appropriate consideration. This study evaluates the performance of artificial neural network (ANN) being one of the popular computational intelligence techniques in predicting hydraulic conductivity of wide range of soil types and compared with the traditional multiple linear regression (MLR). ANN and MLR models were developed using six input variables. Results revealed that only three input variables were statistically significant in MLR model development. Performance evaluations of the developed models using determination coefficient and mean square error show that the prediction capability of ANN is far better than MLR. In addition, comparative study with available existing models shows that the developed ANN and MLR in this study performed relatively better.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2476
Author(s):  
Charlotte Christina Roossien ◽  
Christian Theodoor Maria Baten ◽  
Mitchel Willem Pieter van der Waard ◽  
Michiel Felix Reneman ◽  
Gijsbertus Jacob Verkerke

A sensor-based system using inertial magnetic measurement units and surface electromyography is suitable for objectively and automatically monitoring the lumbar load during physically demanding work. The validity and usability of this system in the uncontrolled real-life working environment of physically active workers are still unknown. The objective of this study was to test the discriminant validity of an artificial neural network-based method for load assessment during actual work. Nine physically active workers performed work-related tasks while wearing the sensor system. The main measure representing lumbar load was the net moment around the L5/S1 intervertebral body, estimated using a method that was based on artificial neural network and perceived workload. The mean differences (MDs) were tested using a paired t-test. During heavy tasks, the net moment (MD = 64.3 ± 13.5%, p = 0.028) and the perceived workload (MD = 5.1 ± 2.1, p < 0.001) observed were significantly higher than during the light tasks. The lumbar load had significantly higher variances during the dynamic tasks (MD = 33.5 ± 36.8%, p = 0.026) and the perceived workload was significantly higher (MD = 2.2 ± 1.5, p = 0.002) than during static tasks. It was concluded that the validity of this sensor-based system was supported because the differences in the lumbar load were consistent with the perceived intensity levels and character of the work tasks.


Author(s):  
Sandip K Lahiri ◽  
Kartik Chandra Ghanta

Four distinct regimes were found existent (namely sliding bed, saltation, heterogeneous suspension and homogeneous suspension) in slurry flow in pipeline depending upon the average velocity of flow. In the literature, few numbers of correlations has been proposed for identification of these regimes in slurry pipelines. Regime identification is important for slurry pipeline design as they are the prerequisite to apply different pressure drop correlation in different regime. However, available correlations fail to predict the regime over a wide range of conditions. Based on a databank of around 800 measurements collected from the open literature, a method has been proposed to identify the regime using artificial neural network (ANN) modeling. The method incorporates hybrid artificial neural network and genetic algorithm technique (ANN-GA) for efficient tuning of ANN meta parameters. Statistical analysis showed that the proposed method has an average misclassification error of 0.03%. A comparison with selected correlations in the literature showed that the developed ANN-GA method noticeably improved prediction of regime over a wide range of operating conditions, physical properties, and pipe diameters.


Author(s):  
S Chen ◽  
T. L. Chan ◽  
C. W. Leung ◽  
M. A. Liu ◽  
K. Y. Pan ◽  
...  

A multidimensional theoretical model of radiation heat transfer in the cylinder of a direct injection (DI) diesel engine has been developed, which includes submodels of heat release, geometrical description, radiation temperature, soot formation and oxidation, the absorption coefficient and the Monte Carlo method for total exchange areas. In this code, the cylinder is divided into 10 surface zones and four gas zones. The Monte Carlo method integrated with a smoothing technique considering reciprocity and conservation is used to calculate the radiation total exchange areas directly for both the absorbing—emitting media and the complex structure of the cylinder. Using the multi—dimensional approach, the variation in radiant heat transfer with crank angle can be obtained across the whole combustion chamber. The computed results are analysed and discussed in the present study, and they are found to be in agreement with the experimental results.


Author(s):  
Jung-eui Hong ◽  
Cihan H. Dagli ◽  
Kenneth M. Ragsdell

Abstract The primary function of the Wheatstone bridge is to measure an unknown resistance. The elements of this well-known measurement circuit will take on different values depending upon the range and accuracy required for a particular application. The Taguchi approach to parameter design is used to select values for the measurement circuit elements so as to reduce measurement error. Next we introduce the use of an artificial neural network to extrapolate limited experimental results to predict system response over a wide range of applications. This approach can be employed for on-line quality control of the manufacture of such device.


Author(s):  
Rafid Abbas Ali ◽  
Faten Sajet Mater ◽  
Asmaa Satar Jeeiad Al-Ragehey

Electron coefficients such as drift velocity, ionization coefficient, mean electron energy and Townsend energy for different concentrations of Hg 0.1%, 1%, 10% and 50% in the Ne-Hg mixture at a reduced electric field were calculated using two approaches taking into account inelastic collisions: The Monte Carlo simulation, and an artificial neural network. The effect of Hg vapor concentration on the electron coefficients showed that insignificant additions of mercury atom impurities to Neon, starting from fractions of a percent, affect the characteristics of inelastic processes and discharge, respectively. The aim of this paper is to explore the new applications of neural networks. The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm and artificial neural network architecture employed was presented in this work to calculate the electron coefficients for different concentrations of Hg in Ne-Hg mixtures. The artificial neural network has been trained with four models (M1, M2, M3, M4), and analysis of the regression between the values of an artificial neural network and Monte Carlo simulation indicates that the M2 output provided the best perfect correlation at 100 Epochs, and the output data obtained was closest to the target data required through using the different stages of artificial neural network development starting with design, training and testing.


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