1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777877703321

Autore

Melman Mike

Titolo

The quiet hours : city photographs / / Mike Melman, with an essay by Bill Holm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2003

ISBN

0-8166-9583-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 81 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

HolmBill <1943-2009.>

Disciplina

779/.4/092

Soggetti

Photography, Artistic

Architectural photography

Street photography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Cities of Shadow and Light; The Quiet Hours: City Photographs

Sommario/riassunto

With an Essay by Bill HolmIn The Quiet Hours, Mike Melman records a vanishing era of Minnesota's towns and cities through a series of seventy black-and-white photographs taken from 1985 to 2002. Working in the half-light of predawn hours, Melman brings a new perspective to familiar places. In his essay, Bill Holm compares Melman's work to that of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, artists who embrace and celebrate the urban experience.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299855903321

Titolo

Numerical Methods for Reliability and Safety Assessment : Multiscale and Multiphysics  Systems / / edited by Seifedine Kadry, Abdelkhalak El Hami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-07167-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (807 p.)

Disciplina

518

530.1

620

620.1

Soggetti

Mechanics

Mechanics, Applied

Physics

Computer science - Mathematics

Quality control

Reliability

Industrial safety

Solid Mechanics

Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mechanical system lifetime -- Likelihood-based approach for uncertainty quantification in multi-physics systems -- Bayesian methodology for uncertainty quantification in complex engineering systems -- The simulus-driven theory of probabilistic dynamics (SDTPD) -- The pavement performance modeling: Deterministic vs. stochastic approaches -- Probabilistic considerations in the damage analysis of ship collisions -- An advanced point estimate method for



uncertainty and sensitivity analysis using Nataf transformation and dimension-reduction integration -- Risk assessment of slope instability related geohazards -- Advances in system reliability analysis under uncertainty -- Reliability of base-isolated liquid storage tanks under horizontal base excitation -- Robust design of accelerated life testing and reliability optimization: Response surface methodology approach -- Reliability measures analysis of a computer system incorporating two types of repair under copula approach -- Reliability of profiled blast wall structures -- Reliability assessment of a multi-redundant repairable mechatronic system -- Infrastructure vulnerability assessment toward extreme meteorological events using satellite data -- Geostatistics and remote sensing for extremes forecasting and disaster risk multiscale analysis -- Time dependent reliability analysis of corrosion affected structures -- Multicut-high dimensional model representation for reliability bounds estimation -- Approximate probability density function solution of multi-degree-of-freedom coupled systems under Poisson impulses -- Evaluate reliability of Morgenstern-Price method in vertical excavations -- Probabilistic approach of safety factor from failure assessment diagram -- Assessing the complex interaction and variations in human performance using non-metrical scaling methods -- Markov modeling for reliability analysis using hypoexponential distribution -- Reliability-based design optimization and its applications to interaction fluid structure problems -- Improved planning in-service inspections of fatigued aircraft structures under parametric uncertainty of underlying lifetime models -- Diffuse response surface model based on advancing Latin hypercube patters for reliability-based design optimization -- The stochastic modeling of the turning decision by left-turning vehicles at a signalized intersection in a university campus -- Decision making behavior of earthquake evacuees: An application of discrete choice models -- Preventive maintenance and replacement scheduling in multi-component systems.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena, and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together  describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales. The book examines a range of engineering domains and problems using dynamic analysis, nonlinear methods, error estimation, finite element analysis, and other computational techniques. This book also: ·       Introduces novel numerical methods ·       Illustrates new practical applications ·       Examines recent engineering applications ·       Presents up-to-date theoretical results ·       Offers perspective relevant to a wide audience, including teaching faculty/graduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers.