Abstract: Due to tree growth and wind-induced disturbances, tree-contact arc grounding faults (TAGFs) occur frequently in distribution networks. In the initial stage of the fault, the fault signal is ...

In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big ...

Does not support negative logic (NOT gates). Only supports coherent fault trees (i.e. those whose logic is reducible to AND gates and OR gates). Does not support common cause failure groups. - times: ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Tennessee Highway Patrol is out in droves Sunday morning as some areas of East Tennessee see trouble on the roads. In Cumberland County, the Tennessee Department of ...

Last June, 260 people were killed seconds after Flight 171 took off. We examine the evidence confounding both experts and victims’ families ...

Abstract: This article presents an interval type-2 (IT2) T–S fuzzy fault tree analysis (FFTA) method to improve the ability of dealing with uncertainties in the process of reliability analysis (RA).