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Projects

The Center for Technology and Systems Management has completed many projects that are diverse in nature and funding sources.

Selected Projects

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
    , Ignorance analysis for discovery and knowledge construction.
  • American Boat and Yacht Council
    , Safety and risk studies
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    , Risk-based inspection guidelines for industrial facilities.
  • American Trucking Association
    , Assessment of the load potential for the passage of various truck configurations on representative bridge structures.
  • David Taylor Research Center, U.S. Navy
    , Reliability assessment of ships with imprecision and ambiguity in failures.
  • Ford Motor Company
    , Early detection of reliability concerns.
  • Fredrick Auto Center, Maryland
    , Intelligent driving.
  • Gulf Coast Research Maritime Technology Center, University of New Orleans
    , Load and resistance factor design rules as performance-based design criteria for surface ships.
  • Homeland Security Institute, Department of Homeland Security
    , Risk analysis for homeland security and development of standards and practices.
  • InfoTech, Inc. for the U.S. Navy
    , Risk Analysis of Marine Systems.
  • Maryland Emergency Management Agency
    , Risk studies for asset protection.
  • Minta Martin Aeronautic Research Fund, University of Maryland
    , Improved simulation technique for structural reliability analysis.
  • National Maritime Center of the U.S. Coast Guard
    , Development of engineered marine system assessment methodology.
  • National Science Foundation
    , Static and fatigue strength of prestressed composite steel girders.
  • National Science Foundation
    , The International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis.
  • National Science Foundation through North Carolina (NC) State University
    , Integrated control structure for construction.
  • Office of Naval Research, U. S. Navy
    , Development of risk-based constructability guidelines for the mobile offshore base.
  • Scotsman Ice, Inc.
    , Development of reliability curves for ice-making machines.
  • U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
    , Hosting and support of the web-based reliability software WSTAR.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Institute for Water Resources)
    , Reliability analysis and assessment of hydropower equipment.
  • U.S. Navy
    , Reliability assessment of hull girder bending of naval vessels.
  • U.S. Navy
    , Reliability assessment using finite element analysis with vaguely defined failures.
  • Vector Research, Inc. for the U.S. Navy
    , Risk-based analysis of low speed diesel systems for the engine room arrangement model.


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