In a slab of Jurassic rock from northern China, a small dinosaur species named Pulaosaurus qinglong was discovered with its bones still connected. Near the chest and throat sit the last things it ...

Abstract: We propose a time-discretization scheme for time-dependent reliability problems. It takes a general, “black-box” limit-state function (LSF) with a fine temporal mesh and a small number of ...

Abstract: As micro-architectures evolve with increasing complexity, the design process needs to account for a broad range of parameters, which leads to expansive design spaces. Design space ...