液位定量式灌装机的灌装精度概率模型与可靠度计算模型

描述了控制液位定量式灌装机的灌装时间与灌装精度的关系，推导出实际灌装时间的理论计算公式。针对实际存在的各种随机变量对灌装时间的影响，建立了灌装时间的概率模型，提出基于灌装时间随机误差的灌状精度以及灌装精度可靠度概念，并相应建立出灌装精度概率模型与灌装精度可靠度计算模型。     

通信用VRLA蓄电池可靠性指标及计算探讨

在说明通信局（站）电源系统对VRLA蓄电池组可靠性要求的基础上，阐述了为了达到电信设备的电压、电流需求，通过串联或串并联构成电池组的单体VRLA蓄电池应达到的可靠性指标。在确定单体VRLA蓄电池应达到的可靠性指标。在确定单体VRLA蓄电池可靠性参数时，可通过现场使用调查或加速寿命试验的办法来求得。在单体VRLA蓄电池可靠性指标过低的情况下，可通过多种冗余连接方式来提高电池组的可靠性。     

面向表面组装工艺技术的PCB焊盘设计

尽管电子设计类软件已相当先进和方便，而且更新速度也很快，但是仍然无法满足各个层次的设计人员的需求，特别是适合各种元素封装形式的焊盘设计库并不能让设计和制造者满意，为了在此方面对PCB设计有所帮助，从印制电路板焊盘的设计方法入手，针对表面组装工艺技术特点，分析了PCB焊盘对PCA可靠性的影响因素，并根据相关的质量要求提出了较为简便的设计方案。     

车号定位识别与可信度估计

以车号的定位与识别为例，应用行投影法对车号图片进行倾斜行定位，证明了模拟与场景的二维互相关系数近拟等于一维投影互相关系数，在此基础上提列投影法快速行扫描识别算法及相应的可信度估计方法，这种方法对于室外拍摄的有复杂背景，光照变化，字体微倾，字符排列疏密不均及噪声干扰的车牌图像具有很好的识别效果。     

超声变幅杆解析法设计的可靠性研究

本文提出了用有限元法验证变幅杆解析法设计的可靠性，对三种类型的变幅杆先作解析法设计；然后利用有限元分析软件ANSYS进行模态分析，确定了变幅杆的固有频率，计算了固有频率与工作频率之间的相对误差，以此来评价解析法设计的可靠性；并分析了影响解析法设计可靠性的两个基本因素。     

Routine Highway Bridge Inspection Condition Documentation Accuracy and Reliability

Routine inspection is the most common form of highway bridge inspection to satisfy the requirements of the National Bridge Inspection Standards. The accuracy and reliability of documentation generated during these inspections are critical to the allocation of Department of Transportation construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation resources. Routine inspections are typically completed using only the visual inspection technique and rely heavily on subjective assessments made by bridge inspectors. In light of this, and given the fact that visual inspection may have other limitations that influence its reliability, the Federal Highway Administration initiated an investigation to examine the reliability of visual inspection as it is currently applied to bridges in the United States. This paper will summarize results from this study related to the accuracy and reliability of routine inspection documentation. A number of important conclusions were developed from the experimental study. Generally, it was found that all structural condition documentation is collected with significant variability. Specifically, 95% of primary element condition ratings for individual bridge components will vary within two rating points of the average and only 68% will vary within one point. Documentation generally collected to support condition ratings also has significant variability as exemplified by the number and types of field notes and photographs taken by inspectors. With respect to the use of element-level inspections, it was found that element usage was generally consistent with the Commonly Recognized Element Guide. However, there is significant variability in the condition state assignments of those elements and in some cases the condition states are not applied correctly to particular elements.     

Seismic safety of lifelines—an optimum design method

Lifeline systems are vulnerable to two types of hazards arising from potential earthquake sources. These are the hazard of a fault-rupture strike on elements of a lifeline system and the hazard of overstress induced in different elements of the system because of the ground vibration. An optimum design method is presented in this paper for the design of a lifeline system for a maximum accepted probability of failure because of any of the two modes of failure. The method may be used to determine an optimum path between a number of fixed points which represent supply or demand stations in the system.     

A routing framework for providing robustness to node failures in mobile ad hoc networks

Nodes in a mobile ad hoc network are often vulnerable to failures. The failures could be either due to fading effects, battery drainage, or as a result of compromised nodes that do not participate in network operations. Intermittent node failures can disrupt routing functionalities. As such, it is important to provide redundancy in terms of providing multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. In line with this objective, we first propose a modified version of the widely studied ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol to facilitate the discovery of multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. We find that very few of such paths can be found. Furthermore, as distances between sources and destinations increase, bottlenecks inevitably occur and thus, the possibility of finding multiple paths is considerably reduced. We conclude that it is necessary to place what we call reliable nodes (in terms of both being robust to failure and being secure) in the network to support efficient routing operations. We propose a deployment strategy that determines the positions and the trajectories of these reliable nodes such that we can achieve a framework for reliably routing information. We define a notion of a reliable path which is made up of multiple segments, each of which either entirely consists of reliable nodes, or contains a preset number of multiple paths between the end points of the segment. We show that the probability of establishing a reliable path between a random source and destination pair increases tremendously even with a small number of reliable nodes when we use our algorithm to appropriately position these reliable nodes.