An Abstraction Hierarchy based mobile PC display design in NPP maintenance considering the level of expertise

Recently, the importance of effective maintenance in nuclear power plants (NPPs) has been emphasized and research into effective maintenance by adopting mobile maintenance aids (MMAs) have been attempted. For improved and effective use of an MMA display design method based on the hierarchy is proposed and its design considerations are discussed in this study. Six levels of hierarchy are proposed in this paper to classify the maintenance information. By classifying and organizing maintenance information using the hierarchy, maintenance information can be used effectively by users with either high or low levels of expertise. When information classification has been finished, the information for MMA design is selected and designed. With the considerations of MMA design analysis and guidelines, a hierarchy-based MMA is designed for the maintenance tasks.An experiment is conducted using the hierarchy-based MMA in order to estimate the effectiveness of the proposed method for the maintenance tasks and to identify design considerations to enhance the proposed MMAs. The result indicated that a hierarchy-based manual was more effective than a conventional manual in terms of task completion time and number of errors. The workload for the hierarchy-based manual was estimated less than the conventional manual for subjects with low level of expertise. As the level of expertise increases, subjects tended to follow more abstract information while the number of navigations decreased. It is believed that when mobile devices become pervasive in NPP maintenance fields, the hierarchy model applied MMAs can be used as an effective maintenance supporting tool.     

Is a picture worth a thousand views? Measuring the effects of travel photos on user engagement using deep learning algorithms

Electronic Markets - Travel photos inform and inspire consumers by conveying a first-hand destination experience. Despite the proliferation of consumer-generated travel photos in online travel...     

Effects of interlaminar stresses on damping of 0-degree unidirectional laminated composites

The principal aim of this paper is to formulate a general model for predicting damping in composites on the basis of the concept of strain energy-weighted dissipation. In this model, the effects of interlaminar stresses on damping have been included in addition to the effects of in-plane extension/compression and in-plane shear. Validation of the model was confirmed by performing damping measurements on 0° unidirectional composite beams with varying length and thickness. The results of theoretical predictions of damping in laminated composites were found to compare favorably with experimental data. The transverse shear (σ_xz) reveals to have a considerable effect on the damping mechanisms in 0° unidirectional polymer composites. However, the other interlaminar stresses (σ_yz, σ_z) were shown to have little influence on damping in composite beam.     

An analytical method for prediction of the damping in symmetric balanced laminated composites

To obtain the effective damping of a laminated composite beam, two different analytical methods were compared. Also, we modified the basic loss factors on the basis of experimental data. In the first method, Ni and Adams's theory was used. In the second method, new energy approach was developed to determine the damping of laminated composite beams. Five typical laminated composites with [±Θ]s, [0/±Θ]s, [0/Θ]s, [0/±Θ/90]s and [90/±Θ/0]s stacking sequences were employed for this study. The present method was favorably compared with Ni and Adams's method. In this study, we found that damping was highly influenced by fiber volume fraction, fiber orientation and stacking sequence.