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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"damage function"”.
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Responses of rotation-resistant and rotation-susceptible populations of the western corn rootworm to transgenic corn expressing cry toxins and validation of a damage function for corn rootworm larvae
… field trial data used to validate an existing damage function for corn rootworm larvae is reported in Chapter 4. A nested error component model with unbalanced panel data spanning 19 location-years was used to describe the relationship between yield loss and root injury. The model suggests that …
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A Warmer, Green Golden Rule
… we look at temperature change in the form of a damage function. By looking at both an increasing and decreasing damage function, along with changing variables in the green golden rule, we see that when the average global temperature deviates from the mean, be it above or below the mean, there is …
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A PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION APPROACH TO DESCRIBE CUSTOMER COSTS DUE TO ELECTRIC SUPPLY INTERRUPTIONS
… alternative to the conventional customer damage function (CDF) method, to describe the interruption cost data. The alternate technique is designated in this thesis as the probability distribution approach. The fundamental cost data utilized in this thesis comes from the 1991 cost of …
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Fatigue stiffness loss and life prediction technique development of a real rubber automotive component by means of Finite Element Analysis
… of cracks, but including stiffness loss and damage evolution. It has been performed in two filled rubbers, one natural rubber and one blend of StyreneButadiene (SBR) with polibutadiene (BR). Such techniques involve various topics to be analyzed: material mono tonic and cyclic deformation …
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Investigation Into The Relationship Between Hurricane Storm Parameters and Damage
“Economic damage, such as damage to property and infra-structure, from hurricane surges depends on two factors 1) the depth of coastal inundation and 2) the area covered by the surge” (Irish et. al 2007). Typically, damage estimates are developed after hurricanes have dissipated. To have the …
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Bioeconomics Of Invasive Species: The Gypsy Moth
… avoid different defoliation levels. A quadratic damage function is estimated from responses to the willingness to pay survey. Chapter four develops a bioeconomic model to study the optimal threshold policy for controlling an established gypsy moth population. Chapter five uses a diffusion model …
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Assessing United States hurricane damage under different environmental conditions
… between 1979 and 2011 was studied to determine damage statistics under different environmental conditions. Hurricanes cause billions of dollars of damage every year in the United States, but damage locations and magnitudes vary from year to year. Seasonal hurricane forecasts predicting the …
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Modelagem de fratura dúctil em colisão de embarcações utilizando modelo de dano de Lemaitre modificado
… collision and stranding, based on the Continuum Damage Mechanics (CDM), where new internal variables are inserted in the material constitutive equations, related to the damage produced by the stress field. The objective of this thesis is to propose and assess a modification in Lemaitre’s damage …
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Coastal floods in view of sea level rise
… flood events are rare they can entail enormous damage costs, especially when built-up areas are inundated. Fortunately, the mean sea level advances slowly and there is enough time for society to adapt to the changing environment. Most commonly, this is achieved by the construction or …
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Discrete Damage Mechanics Applied To Transverse Matrix Cracking
… for the limiting cases of intact and completely damaged material. The user subroutine was then used to predict the crack density, longitudinal elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio as a function of strain or stress for laminates reported in the literature. For this purpose, the energy release rate, …
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Determining preferred substation configurations based on reliability and cost
… design criteria and 18 different customer damage functions, i.e. repeating the comparison of the 432 different substations 12 960 times. The time required to perform one comparison of the 432 different substation configurations for one given design criteria and customer damage function is …
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Assessing environmental benefits and economic costs of aviation environmental policy measures
… for NO1-related effects and for aviation climate damages, introduction of a reduced-order methodology for assessing climate impacts of methane emissions from the processing of alternative jet fuels, and comparison and validation of APMT results with external sources. This work also discusses the …
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Application of meta-analytical probabilistic approach for reliability benefits reflective optimal transmission costing: the case of India
… Data, Line Data, Reliability Data and Customer Damage Function (CDF) Data for the evaluation of Congestion, Transmission and Reliability costing studies using proposed application of PTDF and other established/proven methods which are then compared, analysed and selected according to the …
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Past, present, and future climate impacts of aviation
… emissions, present-day climate impacts, current damages due to marginal emission changes, and potential pathways to reach netzero climate impacts by 2050. First, the research develops a consistent bottom-up emissions inventory for commercial civil passenger aviation from 1980-2019, quantifying …
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Flood hazard alteration and natural catastrophe insurance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms