The bivariate Sinh-Elliptical (BSE) distribution is a generalization of the well-known Rieck’s (1989) Sinh-Normal distribution that is quite useful in Birnbaum–Saunders (BS) regression model. The main aim of this paper is to define the BSE distribution and discuss some of its properties,...

We consider the problem of estimating input parameters for a differential equation model, given experimental observations of the output. As time and cost limit both the number and quality of observations, the design is critical. A generalized notion of leverage is derived and, with this, we...

In this paper we discuss the application of local influence in a measurement error regression model with null intercepts under a Student_t model with dependent populations. The Student_t distribution is a robust alternative to modelling data sets involving errors with longer than Normal tails....

The variations of fatigue limit and fatigue life of a plain specimen of annealed and normalized 0.83% carbon steel were investigated. This material is used for cutting tools and the original microstructure includes a spherical microstructure. After heat treatment under some conditions, the...

Ebrahimi and Pellerey (1995) and Ebrahimi (1996) proposed the Shannon residual entropy function as a useful dynamic measure of uncertainty. They studied the characterization problem from the residual entropy. They also used this function to define a stochastic order and two classes of...

A dynamic model characterising the effect of microtab deployment on the aerodynamics of its base aerofoil is presented. The developed model predicts the transient aerodynamic coefficients consistent with the experimental and computational data reported in the literature. The proposed model is...

The inspection of damages detected in some blades of 300kW wind turbines revealed that the nature of these damages was probably due to a fatigue mechanism. The causes that had originated the failure (superficial cracks, geometric concentrator, abrupt change of thickness) have been studied,...