...Ernestina Mawushie Amewornu; Nnamdi I. Nwulu Purpose This research studies the impact of introducing distributed generators (DGs) into a distribution network. The aim of this paper is to optimally site DGs based on economic, environmental and reliability indices are presented. Design...

... Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Reliability Numerical methods Research design Modeling Flexible conduit Soil parameters Critical depth Parametric study A steel plate of 100 mm width is placed over the prepared surface of sand. Experiments were...

...Yumiao Chen; Zhongliang Yang Purpose Investigating the subjective breathing resistance of wearing respirators requires a valid and reliable technique to measure breathing resistance. The purpose of this study is to test the validity and reliability of several rating scales and select the best...

... must satisfy both production and environmental constraints. Regarding the production aspect, an industrial system IS can be represented by four parameters in equation (1): Equation 1 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Reliability Risk assessment Taking...

... along the frame types, the range between the probability of failure bounds and the reliability ratings of the frame types were developed based on the kinetic method of plastic moment analysis, minimum weight design method, piecewise method of moment analysis and first order-second moment (FOSM) methods...