%\documentclass[final,authoryear,5p,times,twocolumn,sort&compress]{elsarticle} \documentclass[final,3p,times]{elsarticle} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{booktabs} \journal{NDT\&E international} %for figure at top of blank page \makeatletter \setlength\@fptop{0\p@} %\preto{\@tabular}{\parskip=0pt} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{frontmatter} \title{Paper Title} \begin{abstract} \end{abstract} \begin{keyword} NDT \sep Data fusion \sep Mechanical parameters \sep Bayesian \sep Uncertainty \end{keyword} \end{frontmatter} \begin{table}[htp] \caption{Range of parameter values for granite} \centering \begin{tabular}{c c} \toprule Parameter & Range \\ \midrule v$_{ultrasonic}$(m/s) (Stone Block) & 3694--3885 \\ v$_{sonic}$ (m/s)(Stone Block) & 4508--5332 \\ $\nu$ & 0.2--0.3 \\ $\rho$ (kg/m$^3$) & 2600--2800 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \label{table:rangeofparameters} \end{table} \begin{table}[htp] \caption{Prior and Posterior estimates of E (Normal Distribution) in GPa considering sonic and ultrasonic data} \centering \begin{tabular}{p{3.5cm} p{2.cm} p{2.5cm} p{2.5cm} p{2.5cm}} \toprule Parameter & Literature & 1$^{st}$ Update & 2$^{nd}$ Update & 3$^{rd}$ Update\\ \midrule $\mu$ & --- & 33.20 & 32.70 & 32.28 \\ $\sigma(\mu)$ & --- & 0.66 & 0.54 & 0.44 \\ $\sigma$ & --- & 6.59 & 5.33 & 4.35 \\ $\sigma(\sigma)$ & --- & 0.47 & 0.38 & 0.31 \\ 95\% confidence interval for mean & --- & 32.12--34.29 & 31.82--33.59 & 31.57--33.00 \\ $\mu_{pop}$ & 35 & 33.21 & 32.70 & 32.26 \\ $\sigma_{population}$ & 7.5 & 7.25 & 5.89 & 4.80 \\ 95\% confidence interval for population mean & 20.3--49.7 & 21.28--45.14 & 23.00--42.39 & 24.37--40.15 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{table} \begin{table}[h] \caption{All acceptable responses for survey} \centering \begin{tabular}{p{2.5cm} p{2.cm} p{2.75cm} p{3.25cm}} \toprule Test method & Literature Knowledge & Schmidt Hammer & Direct compressive test \\ \midrule Literature Knowledge & 1 & (1/2,1,1/3,1/5,7,5,6,3,1/5,1/2) & (1/8,1/8,1/8,1/9,1/7,1/7,1/8,1/6,1/3,1/7) \\ Schmidt Hammer & Positive reciprocal & 1 & (1/7,1/8,1/5,1/6,1/8,1/9,1/8,1/8,1/3,1/5) \\ Direct compressive test & Positive reciprocal & Positive reciprocal & 1 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \end{table} \begin{table}[htp] \caption{Proposed Trust Factors for NDT tests used to find Elastic Modulus (E)} \centering \begin{tabular}{c c c} \toprule NDT Test & Weightage (w) & Value of Trust Factor (T) \\ \midrule Literature Knowledge & 0.1195 & 1.23 \\ Sonic Testing & 0.1080 & 1.24 \\ Ultrasonic Testing & 0.1149 & 1.23 \\ Direct Compression test & 0.6275 & 0.92 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \label{tab:ProposedTrustFactorsE} \end{table} \begin{table}[htp] \caption{Prior and Posterior estimates of E (Normal Distribution) in GPa considering sonic and ultrasonic data including trust factors} \centering \begin{tabular}{p{3.5cm} p{2.cm} p{2.5cm} p{2.5cm} p{2.5cm}} \toprule Parameter & Literature & Prior 2 & Prior 3 & Posterior 3 \\ \midrule $\mu$ & --- & 33.25 & 32.72 & 32.30 \\ $\sigma(\mu)$ & --- & 1.42 & 1.36 & 1.27 \\ $\sigma$ & --- & 6.89 & 6.58 & 6.19 \\ $\sigma(\sigma)$ & --- & 1.03 & 0.98 & 0.91 \\ 95\% confidence interval for mean & --- & 30.91-35.59 & 30.49-34.95 & 30.20-34.40 \\ $\mu_{pop}$ & 35 & 33.24 & 32.73 & 32.32 \\ $\sigma_{population}$ & 7.5 & 8.38 & 8.00 & 7.52 \\ 95\% confidence interval for population mean & 20.3-49.7 & 19.44-47.04 & 19.56-45.89 & 19.95-44.68 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \label{tab:etrust} \end{table} \end{document}
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