Engineering, Industrial

Article Engineering, Industrial

Riding the wave of sustainability: Integrating OSH into education

Andrea Bikfalvi, Esperanza Villar Hoz, Gerusa Gimenez Leal, Monica Gonzalez-Carrasco, Nuria Mancebo

Summary: This paper proposes a solution for integrating occupational safety and health (OSH) into education, combining theoretical foundations and empirical evidence. The findings include analysis of teachers as stakeholders, barriers and facilitators of OSH integration, and the development of an ICT tool for interaction and sharing in this field. The main contribution lies in envisioning, orchestrating, and validating a solution to integrate OSH into schools and ultimately contribute to sustainable development goals.

SAFETY SCIENCE (2024)

Review Engineering, Industrial

Machine learning and deep learning for safety applications: Investigating the intellectual structure and the temporal evolution

Leonardo Leoni, Ahmad Bahootoroody, Mohammad Mahdi Abaei, Alessandra Cantini, Farshad Bahootoroody, Filippo De Carlo

Summary: This paper presents a systematic bibliometric analysis (SBA) on the research of machine learning and deep learning in the field of safety. The main research areas, application fields, relevant authors and studies, and temporal evolution are investigated. It is found that rotating equipment, structural health monitoring, batteries, aeroengines, and turbines are popular fields, and there is an increase in popularity of deep learning and new approaches such as deep reinforcement learning.

SAFETY SCIENCE (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Bilevel optimization for the deployment of refuelling stations for electric vehicles on road networks

Ramon Piedra-de-la-Cuadra, Francisco A. Ortega

Summary: This study proposes a procedure to select candidate sites optimally for ensuring energy autonomy and reinforced service coverage for electric vehicles, while considering demand and budget restrictions.

COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Field-based longitudinal evaluation of multimodal worker fatigue assessments in offshore shiftwork

John Kang, Stephanie C. Payne, Farzan Sasangohar, Ranjana K. Mehta

Summary: This exploratory longitudinal field study aimed to examine the changes in subjective, performance-based, and physiological fatigue measures over time across different shift types in offshore environments. The findings revealed that workers' performances on the psychomotor vigilance test deteriorated over time across all shift types. The study also found correlations between different multimodal fatigue measures.

APPLIED ERGONOMICS (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Interpretable real-time monitoring of pipeline weld crack leakage based on wavelet multi-kernel network

Jing Huang, Zhifen Zhang, Rui Qin, Yanlong Yu, Guangrui Wen, Wei Cheng, Xuefeng Chen

Summary: In this study, a deep learning framework that combines interpretability and feature fusion is proposed for real-time monitoring of pipeline leaks. The proposed method extracts abstract feature details of leak acoustic emission signals through multi-level dynamic receptive fields and optimizes the learning process of the network using a feature fusion module. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively extract distinguishing features of leak acoustic emission signals, achieving higher recognition accuracy compared to typical deep learning methods. Additionally, feature map visualization demonstrates the physical interpretability of the proposed method in abstract feature extraction.

JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Efficient iterative optimization to real-time train regulation in urban rail transit networks combined with Benders decomposition method

Yin Yuan, Shukai Li, Lixing Yang, Ziyou Gao

Summary: This paper investigates the design of real-time train regulation strategies for urban rail networks to reduce train deviations and passenger waiting times. A mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model is used and an efficient iterative optimization (IO) approach is proposed to address the complexity. The generalized Benders decomposition (GBD) technique is also incorporated. Numerical experiments show the effectiveness and computational efficiency of the proposed method.

COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Human and machine-induced social stress in complex work environments: Effects on performance and subjective state

S. Thuillard, L. Audergon, T. Kotalova, A. Sonderegger, J. Sauer

Summary: This study compared the effects of human-induced and machine-induced social stress on task performance and subjective state. The results showed that social stress did not directly affect performance, affect, or self-esteem, but human-induced social stress impaired perceived justice.

APPLIED ERGONOMICS (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

A deep reinforcement learning based algorithm for a distributed precast concrete production scheduling

Yu Du, Jun-qing Li

Summary: This study investigates the group scheduling of a distributed flexible job shop problem using the concrete precast process. The proposed solution utilizes three coordinated double deep Q-networks (DQN) as a learn-to-improve reinforcement learning approach. The algorithm shows superiority in minimizing costs and energy consumption.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Semi-supervised small sample fault diagnosis under a wide range of speed variation conditions based on uncertainty analysis

Dawei Gao, Kai Huang, Yongsheng Zhu, Linbo Zhu, Ke Yan, Zhijun Ren, C. Guedes Soares

Summary: This paper proposes a semi-supervised fault diagnosis method through feature perturbation and decision fusion. To improve the generalization capability of the model, a dual correlation model is constructed, and the structural parameters are adjusted. The final fusion diagnosis is achieved by analyzing high-confidence samples.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

The impact of skills mismatches on occupational accidents: An analysis of the effectiveness of organizational responses

Imanol Nunez, Maite Prieto

Summary: This paper analyzes the effect of worker under-skilling on occupational safety. The results show that under-skilled workers are more prone to accidents and longer periods of sick leave. On-the-job training, safety information, and teamwork weaken the relationship between under-skilling and accidents, with only teamwork reducing the duration of sick leave. Certain organizational and regulatory practices need to be modified to address the health effects of a lack of skills, and the article proposes some recommendations in this regard.

SAFETY SCIENCE (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Spatial relationship-aware rapid entire body fuzzy assessment method for prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders

Kai Huang, Guozhu Jia, Qun Wang, Yingjie Cai, Zhenyu Zhong, Zeyu Jiao

Summary: In the era of Industry 5.0, human-centered smart manufacturing (HSM) has emphasized the role of humans in collaboration with machines. This study proposes a method that combines deep learning-based 3D pose reconstruction with rapid entire body assessment (REBA) to assess the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) in HSM. The proposed method improves the accuracy of risk assessment by introducing weights between different risk levels, leading to a precision rate of 99.31% in experiments conducted on an automobile production line.

APPLIED ERGONOMICS (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Dependence assessment in human reliability analysis based on cloud model and best-worst method

Changcheng Ji, Fei Gao, Wenjiang Liu

Summary: In this paper, a novel dependence assessment method based on cloud model and best-worst method (BWM) is proposed. Two numerical examples are presented to show that the proposed method can effectively provide reliable assessment results under uncertainty.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Investigating change of discomfort during repetitive force exertion though an exoskeleton cuff

Jule Bessler-Etten, Leendert Schaake, Jaap H. Buurke, Gerdienke B. Prange-Lasonder

Summary: This article investigates the development of discomfort caused by repetitive and prolonged forces exerted through a rigid cuff. The study found that repetitive force application triggers discomfort but generally does not result in pain and there are no significant differences between different repetitive loading patterns. The design and use of exoskeletons should consider comfort thresholds specific to prolonged repetitive loading.

APPLIED ERGONOMICS (2024)

Article Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications

Generating linear programming instances with controllable rank and condition number

Anqi Li, Congying Han, Tiande Guo, Bonan Li

Summary: This study proposes a general framework for designing linear programming instances based on the preset optimal solution, and validates the effectiveness of the framework through experiments.

COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Node importance identification of unweighted urban rail transit network: An Adjacency Information Entropy based approach

Wencheng Huang, Haoran Li, Yanhui Yin, Zhi Zhang, Anhao Xie, Yin Zhang, Guo Cheng

Summary: Inspired by the theory of degree entropy, this study proposes a new node identification approach called Adjacency Information Entropy (AIE) to identify the importance of nodes in urban rail transit networks (URTN). Through numerical and real-world case studies, it is found that AIE can effectively identify important nodes and facilitate connections among non-adjacent nodes.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Importance-based system cost management and failure risk analysis for different phases in life cycle

Hongyan Dui, Yaohui Lu, Liwei Chen

Summary: This paper discusses the four phases of the system life cycle and the different costs associated with each phase. It proposes an improvement importance method to optimize system reliability and analyzes the process of failure risk under limited resources.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Optimal mission abort policy for a multi-component system with failure interaction

Guoqing Cheng, Jiayi Shen, Fang Wang, Ling Li, Nan Yang

Summary: This paper investigates the optimal joint inspection and mission abort policies for a multi-component system with failure interaction. The proportional hazards model is used to characterize the effect of one component's deterioration on other components' hazard rates. The optimal policy is studied to minimize the expected total cost, and some structural properties of the optimal policy are obtained.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Target spectrum-based risk analysis model for utility tunnel O&M in multiple scenarios and its application

Nan Hai, Daqing Gong, Zixuan Dai

Summary: The current risk management of utility tunnel operation and maintenance is of low quality and efficiency. This study proposes a theoretical model and platform that offer effective decision support and improve the safety of utility tunnel operation and maintenance.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

Federated data analytics: A study on linear models

Xubo Yue, Raed Al Kontar, Ana Maria Estrada Gomez

Summary: This article presents a federated data analytics approach for linear regression models, utilizing hierarchical modeling and information sharing to handle data distributed across different devices. It provides uncertainty quantification, variable selection, hypothesis testing, and fast adaptation to new data.

IISE TRANSACTIONS (2024)

Article Engineering, Industrial

The damage-based fragility analysis and probabilistic safety assessment of containment under internal pressure

Zhi Zheng, Aonan Tian, Xiaolan Pan, Duofa Ji, Yong Wang

Summary: A new approach for probabilistic safety assessment of prestressed concrete containment vessels under internal pressure is proposed. The approach uses the continuous damage state of the containment vessel and damage-based fragility to characterize the safety performance of the vessel. The use of damage-based fragility provides a more realistic assessment of component performance compared to traditional pressure-based fragility.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY (2024)