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Jidayi, Yakubu Mara. "Reliability improvement of railway infrastructure." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97047.

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Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The railway transportation system is fundamental in sustaining the economic activities of a country, by providing a safe, reliable and relatively affordable means of transporting people and goods; hence, the need to ensure its ongoing reliability is of paramount importance. The principle and applications of rail reliability have been reviewed, and reliability improvement in rail infrastructure has been investigated using failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA). Reliability improvement is a continuous process that is geared

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Lam, Juan Carlos. "Dynamic Analysis of Levee Infrastructure Failure Risk: A Framework for Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Management." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43106.

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Current models that assess infrastructure failure risk are â linear,â and therefore, only consider the direct influence attributed to each factor that defines risk. These models do not consider the undeniable relationships that exist among these parameters. In reality, factors that define risk are interdependent and influence each other in a â non-linearâ fashion through feedback effects. Current infrastructure failure risk assessment models are also static, and do not allow infrastructure managers and decision makers to evaluate the impacts over time, especially the long-term impact of

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Thacker, Scott. "Reducing the risk of failure in interdependent national infrastructure network systems." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02e7313c-0967-47e3-becc-2e7da376f745.

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Infrastructure network systems support society and the economy by facilitating the distribution of essential services across broad spatial extents, at a range of scales. The complex and interdependent nature of these systems provides the conditions for which localised failures can dramatically cascade, resulting in disruptions that are widespread and very often unforeseen. This systemic vulnerability has been highlighted multiple times over the previous decades in infrastructures systems from around the world. In the future, the hazards to which infrastructure systems are exposed are set to gr

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Salman, Baris. "Infrastructure Management and Deterioration Risk Assessment of Wastewater Collection Systems." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282051343.

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Fang, Yiping. "Critical infrastructure protection by advanced modelling, simulation and optimization for cascading failure mitigation and resilience." Thesis, Châtenay-Malabry, Ecole centrale de Paris, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ECAP0013/document.

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Sans cesse croissante complexité et l'interdépendance des infrastructures critiques modernes, avec des environs de risque plus en plus complexes, posent des défis uniques pour leur exploitation sûre, fiable et efficace. L'objectif de la présente thèse est sur la modélisation, la simulation et l'optimisation des infrastructures critiques (par exemple, les réseaux de transmission de puissance) à l'égard de leur vulnérabilité et la résilience aux défaillances en cascade. Cette étude aborde le problème en modélisant infrastructures critiques à un niveau fondamental, en se concentrant sur la topolo

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Jamar-Kattel, Prakash. "Locating Critical Infrastructure Considering its Dependency with Connected Supporting Stations." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1547044104211674.

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Sinha, Yashwant. "Optimisation of offshore wind farm maintenance." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1572.

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The installed capacity of European Offshore Wind Turbines (OWT) is likely to rise from the 2014 value of 7GW to 150GW in 2030. However maintenance of OWT is facing unprecedented challenges and cost 35% of lifetime costs. This will be equivalent to £14billion/year by 2030 if current OWT maintenance schemes are not changed. However the complexities around OWT operation require tools and systems to optimise OWT maintenance. The design of optimal OWT maintenance requires failure analysis of over 10,000 components in OWT for which there is little published work relating to performance and failure.

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Moore, Michael Ronald. "Exploring Critical Infrastructure Single Point of Failure Analysis (SPFA) for Data Center Risk and Change Management." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10975757.

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<p> Critical infrastructure (CI) risk management frameworks require identification of single point of failure risks but existing reliability assessment methods are not practical for identifying single points of failure in CI systems. The purpose of this study was development and assessment of a system reliability assessment tool specific to the task of identifying single points of failure in CI systems. Using a series of action research nested cycles the author developed, applied, and improved a single point of failure analysis (SPFA) tool consisting of a six step method and novel single point

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Mansaray, Alhassan A. "Public-Private Partnership : countries' attractiveness and the risk of project failure." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33333.

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The primary objective of this thesis is to analyse the public private partnership (PPP) framework for infrastructure development in developing countries across the six regions of the world. The thesis utilises the World Bank's private participation in infrastructure (PPI) dataset for the period 1980–2014, and examines three thematic areas. The first comprises of an exploratory analysis of the PPI dataset. The second research area focuses on the relationship between countries' attractiveness for PPPs and the characteristics of the countries, including: macroeconomic and market; fiscal constrain

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Xu, Xinfeng. "Modeling and Predicting Incidence: Critical Systems Failures and Flu Infection Cases." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89909.

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Given several related critical infrastructure (CI) networks, such as power grid, transportation, and water systems, one crucial question emerges: how to model the propagation of failed facilities and predict their spread over time to the whole system? Given digital surveillance data, can we predict the impact of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI), including the percentage of outpatient doctors visits, the season duration, and peak? These two questions are related to modeling and predicting the incidence of different types of contagions. In the case of CI, the contagions are the failures of facilitie

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Adachi, Takao. "Impact of cascading failures on performance assessment of civil infrastructure systems." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-03052007-095214/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.<br>Bruce R. Ellingwood, Committee Chair ; Abdul-Hamid Zureick, Committee Member ; James I. Craig, Committee Member ; Reginald DesRoches, Committee Member ; Kenneth M. Will, Committee Member.

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Stephens, Roland. "An econometric analysis of the effect of project characteristics on the success or failure of public-private infrastructure projects." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2006. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/3777.

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Puurula, Arto. "Load-carrying capacity of a strengthened reinforced concrete bridge : Non-linear finite element modeling of a test to failure. Assessment of train load capacity of a two span railway trough bridge in Örnsköldsvik strengthened with bars of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRP)." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Byggkonstruktion och -produktion, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26717.

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To meet the future traffic demands there is a constant need of making the infrastructure moreeffective. This can be achieved by increasing the capacity and/or life length of traffic lines. Apart of the efforts to do this is increasing the load carrying capacity of the railway bridges sothat it is possible to allow heavier freight trains to pass the bridges.In this thesis the assessment of the load carrying capacity of a strengthened concrete troughrailway bridge, The Övik Bridge, with two spans in Örnsköldsvik, in northern Sweden, istreated. To investigate the ultimate behavior of the bridge a

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Angkasuwansiri, Thiti. "Development of Wastewater Pipe Performance Index and Performance Prediction Model." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51659.

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Water plays a critical role in every aspect of civilization: agriculture, industry, economy, environment, recreation, transportation, culture, and health. Much of America's drinking water and wastewater infrastructure; however, is old and deteriorating. A crisis looms as demands on these systems increase. The costs associated with renewal of these aging systems are staggering. There is a critical disconnect between the methodological remedies for infrastructure renewal problems and the current sequential or isolated manner of renewal analysis and execution. This points to the need for a holist

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Fekadu, Robel Tekeste, and Sujata Kayastha. "Safety Assessment of Cracked Buttress Dams." Thesis, KTH, Betongbyggnad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-284527.

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Most of the concrete buttress dams in Sweden were built from the 1950s till the1980s based on the traditional method of analyses. Those structures are reinforced and heavy in structure. Their height to thickness ratio being large makes them prone to crack during their lifespan. The presence of these cracks make the reinforcements used in the buttress dam susceptible to corrosion due to the water entering through the cracked areas. Therefore, studying the effect of cracks and corrosion regarding the safety of dams is important and should be carried out before the dams fail to function. However,

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Slade, Robert Arthur. "Failure Analysis of Impact-Damaged Metallic Poles Repaired With Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5505.

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Metallic utility poles, light poles, and mast arms are intermittently damaged by vehicle collision. In many cases the vehicular impact does not cause immediate failure of the structure, but induces localized damage that may result in failure under extreme service loadings or can promote degradation and corrosion within the damaged region. Replacement of these poles is costly and often involves prolonged lane closures, service interruption, and temporary loss of functionality. Therefore, an in situ repair of these structures is required. This thesis examines the failure modes of damaged meta

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Särkkä, J. (Jussi). "A novel method for hazard rate estimates of the second level interconnections in infrastructure electronics." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2008. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514288197.

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Abstract Electronic devices are subjected to various usage environments, wherein stresses are induced to components and their interconnections. The level of stress affects the interval of failure occurrences. When the stress level and aging characteristics of sub-material parts are known, the failure occurrence can be predicted. However, the predictions are based on uncertainties and a practical method to help to assess the component interconnection reliability is needed. In this thesis a novel method to utilize the accelerated stress test data for the hazard rate estimates is introduced. The

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DiPietro, Gwen Shepherd. "Economic Value, Resiliency and Efficiency of Inland Waterway Freight Transport in the Ohio River Basin." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2014. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/415.

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This dissertation examines the resiliency, efficiency, and environmental impact of barge shipments within the upper Ohio River basin, contrasting findings relevant to this region with assumptions and findings of broader national studies and providing alternative assessment methods. The unique attributes of this region’s inland waterways infrastructure and usage patterns are dominated by the shipment of coal; mines and powerplants with heavy and inflexible dependence on barge shipments; and the constrictions of the waterway infrastructure. Acknowledging these attributes allows for a more accura

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Bagge, Niklas. "Structural assessment procedures for existing concrete bridges : Experiences from failure tests of the Kiruna Bridge." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Byggkonstruktion och brand, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-63000.

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Assessing existing bridges is an important task in the sustainable management ofinfrastructure. In practice, structural bridge assessments are usually conducted usingtraditional and standardised methods, despite knowledge that these methods oftenprovide conservative estimates. In addition, more advanced methods are available, suchas nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis, that are used for research purposes and cansimulate the structural behaviour of bridges more accurately. Therefore, it would beuseful to develop practical and reliable procedures for refined assessments using theseadvanced te

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Enzell, Jonas, and Markus Tollsten. "Thermal cracking of a concrete arch dam due to seasonal temperature variations." Thesis, KTH, Betongbyggnad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209839.

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Concrete dams located in northern regions are exposed to large seasonal temperature variations. These seasonal temperature variations have resulted in cracking in thin concrete dams. Continuous monitoring and evaluation of existing dams are important to increase the knowledge about massive concrete structures and to ensure dam safety. The aim of this degree project is to increase the knowledge about how cracking occurs in concrete dams and how it affects the dam safety. This was achieved by simulating the development of cracks in a concrete arch dam exposed to seasonal temperature variations

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Schneider, Kevin Paul. "Analysis of critical infrastructure interactions /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5990.

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Wilks, Joanna H. "Transport infrastructure slope failures in a changing climate." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17489.

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Failure of slopes adjacent to the UK transport infrastructure causes delays and these are expensive assets to repair and maintain. Understanding the processes that lead to failure will assist asset managers both now and in the future in the context of a changing climate. The EPSRC-funded multidisciplinary FUTURENET project investigated the effect of climate change on the resilience of the UK transport network and this thesis is a part of that project considering the weather patterns leading to slope failures along transport infrastructure slopes within the UK. To that end a series of slope fai

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Schwarcová, Kristína. "Podnikatelský záměr." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221818.

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For my project I’ve chosen to create a Business Plan for a Crisis Management Consultancy company. To do this I’ve used a limited company and named it Navigator Ltd. In the preceding project I’ve explained all the essential steps needed to create a new company, as well as pointing out the importance of crisis management for various companies on the market. I’ve described the services in detail, compared the competing businesses in the field of crisis management, shown a view of the future and built a personnel infrastructure of the described company. I’ve created a realistic company strategy an

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Rossi, Enrico. "Regulating asset ownership : capabilities and market failures in infrastructures." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3634/.

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The regulation of assets and infrastructures has always been a central problem of economic theory. The first approach of regulatory and antitrust authorities was to regard assetownership as a source of welfare inefficiency. This was the “monopoly explanation” that was contested by Coase. Developing from Coase’s original intuitions, a contractual approach emerged in regulatory economics. This second tradition relies on the concept of transaction costs, or market failures, to justify the role of ownership for welfare and regulatory purposes. Yet, even though in the contractual approach ownership

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Bretas, Arturo Suman. "Robust Electric Power Infrastructures. Response and Recovery during Catastrophic Failures." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29931.

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This dissertation is a systematic study of artificial neural networks (ANN) applications in power system restoration (PSR). PSR is based on available generation and load to be restored analysis. A literature review showed that the conventional PSR methods, i.e. the pre-established guidelines, the expert systems method, the mathematical programming method and the petri-net method have limitations such as the necessary time to obtain the PSR plan. ANN may help to solve this problem presenting a reliable PSR plan in a smaller time. Based on actual and past experiences, a PSR engine based on ANN

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Bocanegra, Vinasco Ricardo Andres. "Evaluation of the risk due to fluvial flooding in vehicles and road infrastructures at basin scale." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/157654.

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[ES] Las inundaciones pueden llegar a desestabilizar los vehículos y estos, a su vez, pueden exacerbar los efectos negativos de las inundaciones cuando son arrastrados por el flujo, generando no solamente pérdidas económicas sino también de vidas humanas. En las ciudades, la mayor parte de las muertes durante las inundaciones ocurre al interior de los vehículos debido a que los conductores intentan cruzar con sus vehículos por zonas inundadas (Jonkzman and Kelman 2005; Drobot et al. 2007; Kellar and Schmidlin 2012). En países desarrollados, un alto porcentaje de estas muertes ocurre durante in

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Wheatley, Andrew B. "Enhancing crisis response capability to large-scale system failures within transportation networks." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72872/1/Andrew_Wheatley_Thesis.pdf.

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Roy, Siddhartha. "Interplay of Water Chemistry and Entrained Particulates in Erosion Corrosion of Copper and Nonleaded Alloys in Potable Water Systems." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82668.

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Erosion corrosion of plumbing materials in domestic water systems is a complex phenomenon driven by water quality, hydrodynamic and electrochemical factors. Erosion corrosion accounts for over a third of copper hot water system failures in the U.S., hundreds of millions in damage, and may be expected to increase with newer Legionella control strategies including increased use of water recirculation and high temperatures. Additionally, some nonleaded alloys introduced after the passage of a new federal law restricting lead content in plumbing, have been anecdotally implicated as failing prematu

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Bodenstein, Christian Felix [Verfasser], and Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] Neumann. "Cost efficient management of IT-infrastructures : energy-aware operation, purchasing strategies and resource failure management = Effizientes Kostenmanagement von IT-Infrastrukturen : Energiebewusster Betrieb, Einkaufsstrategien und Management von Betriebsausfällen." Freiburg : Universität, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1114829056/34.

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Andereck, Zachary Dean. "Mapping Vulnerability of Infrastructure to Destruction by Slope Failures on the Island of Dominica, WI: A Case Study of Grand Fond, Petite Soufriere, and Mourne Jaune." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1173454439.

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Tröger, Ralph. "Supply Chain Event Management – Bedarf, Systemarchitektur und Nutzen aus Perspektive fokaler Unternehmen der Modeindustrie." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-155014.

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Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) bezeichnet eine Teildisziplin des Supply Chain Management und ist für Unternehmen ein Ansatzpunkt, durch frühzeitige Reaktion auf kritische Ausnahmeereignisse in der Wertschöpfungskette Logistikleistung und -kosten zu optimieren. Durch Rahmenbedingungen wie bspw. globale Logistikstrukturen, eine hohe Artikelvielfalt und volatile Geschäftsbeziehungen zählt die Modeindustrie zu den Branchen, die für kritische Störereignisse besonders anfällig ist. In diesem Sinne untersucht die vorliegende Dissertation nach einer Beleuchtung der wesentlichen Grundlagen zunäch

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Su, Huang-Yu, and 蘇煌裕. "Success and failure factors of Information Technology Infrastructure Library." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45373542250479112290.

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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>100<br>By introducing Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), companies expect to improve the overall operation of the organization, to reduce operating costs, to improve efficiency of IT service processes, to establish the knowledge base of IT service management, and to enhance the user and customer satisfactions. It is important to understand the success and failure factors of implementing ITIL . This study conducted several in depth interviews with several cases and found eight success factors of ITIL: 1.top managers' fully and continually support, 2.th

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Mohammed, Bashir, Babagana Modu, Kabiru M. Maiyama, Hassan Ugail, Irfan U. Awan, and Mariam Kiran. "Failure Analysis Modelling in an Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) Environment." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16743.

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yes<br>Failure Prediction has long known to be a challenging problem. With the evolving trend of technology and growing complexity of high-performance cloud data centre infrastructure, focusing on failure becomes very vital particularly when designing systems for the next generation. The traditional runtime fault-tolerance (FT) techniques such as data replication and periodic check-pointing are not very effective to handle the current state of the art emerging computing systems. This has necessitated the urgent need for a robust system with an in-depth understanding of system and component fai

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Adeniran, Adegboyega. "New Pipes, Old Ways: Water Infrastructure Failure, Power, and the State in Nigeria." Phd thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/276161.

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Repeated malfunction and failure of water supply infrastructure pose a critical challenge to equitable and sustainable water access, and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in most African countries. As part of the broader water governance problems, this challenge concerns the design and organisation of the distributive systems of water infrastructure. A governing approach that ignores power and historical relations in water infrastructure management presents interesting conceptual, theoretical, and practical problems. With Nigeria as a case study, this thesis seeks to understand s

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Martins, Nuno Jorge de Freitas. "Electrical Grid Resilience in Critical Infrastructure." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/93409.

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The constant growth in world population and the constant technological advances, which lead to new equipment and solutions that become indispensable in the daily life of human beings, created a considerable increase in electricity's consumption. It is, therefore, essential to use this resource as efficiently as possible and in a way that reaches everyone safely. The need for resilient infrastructures is now emerging so that there is the ability to ensure their normal functioning after an adverse phenomenon so that the infrastructures and systems we depend on are not compromised. This problem

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"Anticipating and Adapting to Increases in Water Distribution Infrastructure Failure Caused by Interdependencies and Heat Exposure from Climate Change." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.54969.

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abstract: This dissertation advances the capability of water infrastructure utilities to anticipate and adapt to vulnerabilities in their systems from temperature increase and interdependencies with other infrastructure systems. Impact assessment models of increased heat and interdependencies were developed which incorporate probability, spatial, temporal, and operational information. Key findings from the models are that with increased heat the increased likelihood of water quality non-compliances is particularly concerning, the anticipated increases in different hardware components generate

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Chiang, Cheng-Ting, and 江正鼎. "Development of an integrated smartphone platform for collection of disaster-related failure information in infrastructure facilities." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99698952748171479048.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>土木工程研究所<br>99<br>With increasing advanced technology, devices that can use wireless network become more common. And the most convenient one is the smartphone with small size. When disasters happened, the failure information that authorities want to investigate may be different, and they may also use different devices, so it created many programs in the past. This research develops a platform integrator, which just needs to configure their own needed fields, and it will generate codes of their own Android or iPhone system automatically and easily without developing the complex c

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Matos, Catarina Duarte Paulos Roque. "Recovery strategies in collaborative consumption: how to recover from a service failure." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/112993.

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Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Marketing Intelligence<br>This study aims to contribute to tourism literature by revealing the importance of apology recovery process and by extending previous research on purchasing intentions. Across four studies, this research shows that consumers’ exhibit higher post-failure loyalty towards peer (vs. conventional) service provider. This work extends previous research on consumers’ responses to service failure in sharing economy. We reveal new insights into customer

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QUINN, PETER. "Large Landslides in Sensitive Clay in Eastern Canada and the Associated Hazard and Risk to Linear Infrastructure." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1781.

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The Saint Lawrence Lowlands in eastern Canada contain extensive deposits of marine soils deposited in post-glacial seas during and following the retreat of the most recent continental glacier. These marine soils include silt and clay deposits known collectively as Champlain clay. When the pore fluid in these marine deposits has changed over time to a lower salinity, the clay can become very sensitive, or demonstrate substantial strength loss after reaching the peak strength with sufficient strain under undrained load conditions. Sensitive clay soils are subject to a peculiar type of very lar

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Jospe, Alexandra C. "Aquatic Barrier Prioritization in New England Under Climate Change Scenarios Using Fish Habitat Quantity, Thermal Habitat Quality, Aquatic Organism Passage, and Infrastructure Sustainability." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1129.

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Improperly designed road-stream crossings can fragment stream networks by restricting or preventing aquatic organism passage. These crossings may also be more vulnerable to high flow events, putting critical human infrastructure at risk. Climate change, which will require access to suitable habitat for species persistence, and is also predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of extreme floods, underscores the importance of maintaining stream connectivity and resilient infrastructure. Given the large number of road-stream crossings and the expense of replacement, it is increasingly imp

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Rokneddin, Keivan. "RELIABILITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT OF NETWORKED URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS UNDER NATURAL HAZARDS." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/72034.

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Modern societies increasingly depend on the reliable functioning of urban infrastructure systems in the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricane and earthquake events. Apart from a sizable capital for maintenance and expansion, the reliable performance of infrastructure systems under extreme hazards also requires strategic planning and effective resource assignment. Hence, efficient system reliability and risk assessment methods are needed to provide insights to system stakeholders to understand infrastructure performance under different hazard scenarios and accordingly make informed d

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Bristow, Elizabeth Catherine. "Interdependent infrastructures and multi-mode attacks and failures: improving the security of urban water systems and fire response." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1082.

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This dissertation examines the interdependence between urban water distribution systems and urban fire response. The focus on interdependent critical infrastructures is driven by concern for security of water systems and the effects on related infrastructures if water distribution systems are damaged by terrorist attack or natural disaster. A model of interdependent infrastructures (principally water distribution systems and fire response) is developed called the Model of Urban Fire Spread (MUFS). The model includes the capacity to simulate firefighting water demands in a community water syste

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