Investopedia

Understanding Actual Cash Value: Definition, Examples, and Replacement Cost

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...
Investopedia

Understanding Actual Total Loss in Insurance: Definition and Differences

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Investopedia / Sydney Saporito Actual ...
ACHR News

Using Schematic Diagrams to Troubleshoot HVAC/R Electrical Circuits

Well-known industry author and instructor Jim Johnson is offering a new video for technicians who want to sharpen their troubleshooting skills. "This HVAC training video program, is available in DVD ...
IEEE

Cause-Consequence Diagram Reliability Analysis Using Formal Techniques With Application to Electrical Power Networks

Abstract: Cause-consequence Diagram (CCD) is widely used as a deductive safety analysis technique for decision-making at the critical-system design stage. This approach models the causes of subsystem ...
Consumer Reports

EVs Are Getting More Reliable, but They Still Lag Behind Hybrids and Gas-Only Cars

Consumer Reports’ annual reliability survey has found that new electric vehicles (EVs) have fewer problems today than in the past. But EVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) are still likely to have more ...
IEEE

Reliability Assessment of Redundant Electrical Power Supply Systems using Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Block Diagram, and Monte Carlo Simulation Methods

Abstract: This paper deals with the reliability assessment of electrical power supply systems under redundancy. For doing so, three probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) methods are proposed and ...