Abstract—Positive stable laws have become a standard tool in modelling heavy tailed data in such diverse areas as finance, engineering and survival analysis. Due to the non–ex...
— New friction material formulations are compared with a commercial brake friction material used in Light Rail Transit (LRT) operating in Malaysia. Characterization techniques su...
—This paper presents a neural network global PID-sliding mode control method for the tracking control of robot manipulators with bounded uncertainties. A certain sliding mode con...
—The methodologies to calculate failure probability and to estimate the reliability of fatigue loaded structures are developed. The applicability of the methodologies is evaluate...
— The build up of water ice on aircraft flight surfaces poses a significant safety risk. As a result, much effort has gone into studying this problem in order to understand how i...