The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of bolt profile configuration in load transfer capacity between the bolt and grout.Therefore,five types of rock bolts are used with different profiles.The rock bolt...The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of bolt profile configuration in load transfer capacity between the bolt and grout.Therefore,five types of rock bolts are used with different profiles.The rock bolts are modeled by ANSYS software.Models show that profile rock bolt T_3 and T_ with load capacity 180 and 195 kN in the jointed rocks,are the optimum profiles.Finally,the performances of the selected profiles are examined in Tabas Coal Mine by FLAC software.There is good subscription between the results of numerical modeling and instrumentation reading such as tells tale,sonic extensometer and strain gauge rock bolt.According to the finding of this study,the proposed pattern of rock bolts,on 7 + 6 patterns per meter with 2 flexi bolt(4 m) for support gate road.展开更多
In presence of difficult conditions in coal mining roadways, an adequate stabilization of the excavation boundary is required to ensure a safe progress of the construction. The stabilization of the roadways can be imp...In presence of difficult conditions in coal mining roadways, an adequate stabilization of the excavation boundary is required to ensure a safe progress of the construction. The stabilization of the roadways can be improved by fully grouted rock bolt, offering properties optimal to the purpose and versatility in use. Investigations of load transfer between the bolt and grout indicate that the bolt profile shape and spacing play an important role in improving the shear strength between the bolt and the surrounding strata. This study proposes a new analytical solution for calculation displacement and shear stress in a fully encapsulated rock bolt in jointed rocks. The main characteristics of the analytical solution consider the bolt profile and jump plane under pull test conditions. The performance of the proposed analytical solution, for three types of different bolt profile configurations, is validated by ANSYS software. The results show there is a good agreement between analytical and numerical methods. Studies indicate that the rate of displacement and shear stress from the bolt to the rock exponentially decayed. This exponential reduction in displacement and shear stress are dependent on the bolt characteristics such as: rib height, rib spacing, rib width and grout thickness, material and joint properties.展开更多
Duplex stainless steels(DSS)with ferritic–austenitic microstructures offer good combination of resistance to pitting corrosion and high strength that are not concomitantly attainable using conventional single phase a...Duplex stainless steels(DSS)with ferritic–austenitic microstructures offer good combination of resistance to pitting corrosion and high strength that are not concomitantly attainable using conventional single phase austenitic or ferritic stainless steels.The DSS used in this investigation was 2205 alloy having a stable mi-crostructure consisting of about 45%ferrite and 55%austenite at ambient temperature.In order to investigate aging behavior of this steel and the influences on mechanical properties,different aging treatments were conducted at temperatures of 350–950-C for various aging time of 15,30,60 and 180 min.The aged specimens were subjected to impact testing and hardness measurements.Finally,the changes in microstructure due to aging were studied by optical and scanning electron microscopy.The results showed that aging at temperatures lower than 550-C for different time had negligible effects on mechanical properties.Besides,no considerable changes in term of precipitation of harmful intermetallic particles were observed in microstructure below this temperature.However,a critical temperature range,550–650-C,was introduced here.Aging in this range led to a significant decrease in toughness and notable increase in hardness.The formation of intermetallic phases such asσwas recognized as the major reason for the observed changes.展开更多
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of bolt profile on load transfer mechanism of fully grouted bolts in jointed rocks using analytical and numerical methods. Based on the analytical method with de...The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of bolt profile on load transfer mechanism of fully grouted bolts in jointed rocks using analytical and numerical methods. Based on the analytical method with development of methods, a new model is presented. To validate the analytical model, five different profiles modeled by ANSYS software. The profile of rock bolts T3 and T4with load transfer capacity,respectively 180 and 195 kN in the jointed rocks was selected as the optimum profiles. Finally, the selected profiles were examined in Tabas Coal Mine. FLAC analysis indicates that patterns 6+7 with2 NO flexi bolt 4 m better than other patterns within the faulted zone.展开更多
The direct sulfation of limestone from different sources in Iran was studied in a thermogravimetric analyzer under atmospheric pressure. All limestone samples tested have higher than 97% CaCO3, Experimental conditions...The direct sulfation of limestone from different sources in Iran was studied in a thermogravimetric analyzer under atmospheric pressure. All limestone samples tested have higher than 97% CaCO3, Experimental conditions were as follows: particle size levels ranging from 1.6μm to 7.8 μm, four level reaction temperatures (700℃, 750℃, 800℃ and 850℃), and two SO2 concentrations (2.4×10^-3 and 3.2×10^-3 mol.mol-1). The particle size and temperature showed dominant influences on the rate and level of conversion while the effect of SO2 concentration was weak. The shrinking core model can be used to describe the behavior of the sulfation process. The reaction kinetics and diffusion mechanism are both important in controlling the rate of the process. The two key parameters of the model, chemical rate constant Ks and effective diffusion coefficient Deft were obtained. Model predictions are in good agreement with the experimental data.展开更多
The influence of temperature on the flow behavior and rheological characteristics of an A356 alloy in the semi-solid state was investigated using backward extrusion process.Experiments were performed at 5 temperatures...The influence of temperature on the flow behavior and rheological characteristics of an A356 alloy in the semi-solid state was investigated using backward extrusion process.Experiments were performed at 5 temperatures and 4 different wall thicknesses.Viscosities were determined using the force-displacement graphs obtained form back extrusion tests.As observed experimentally,at a constant temperature,the increase of shear rate results in the decrease of alloy viscosity exponentially.Raising the temperature increases the liquid fraction hence reduces the semi-solid alloy viscosity.Metallographic and image analyses show that,because of low forming speed,liquid has time to escape from solid phase forward the sample wall.This condition is the main reason for the segregation phenomenon seen in the base and walls.Vickers hardness test on samples reveals that the hardness increases with the decrease of temperature and wall thickness.展开更多
Free vibration analysis of non-homogeneous orthotropic plates resting on a Pasternak type of elastic foundation is investigated. A set of admissible orthogonal polynomials are generated with Gram-Schmidt orthogonaliza...Free vibration analysis of non-homogeneous orthotropic plates resting on a Pasternak type of elastic foundation is investigated. A set of admissible orthogonal polynomials are generated with Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure and adopted in the Rayleigh-Ritz method. Accuracy and applicability of the method are examined by comparison of the results for different boundary conditions and material types with those available in literature. It is found that this method has good accuracy regardless of type of boundary condition and yields very accurate results even with low number of terms of orthogonal polynomials for the first mode of vibration. For higher modes of vibration, higher terms of orthogonal polynomials should be used. The effects of foundation parameter, density and non-homogeneity parameters on natural frequency are examined. It is concluded that natural frequency of plates are more sensitive to shearing layer coefficient rather than Winkler coefficient and density parameter has weakening effect on natural frequency.展开更多
Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and alumina are combined to give a new type of nanohybrid for Fisher-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalyst support. Alumina nano-particles (10 wt%) were introduced directly on functionali...Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and alumina are combined to give a new type of nanohybrid for Fisher-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalyst support. Alumina nano-particles (10 wt%) were introduced directly on functionalized MWNTs by a modified sol-gel method. Microstructure observations show that alumina particles were homogeneously dispersed on the inside and outside of modified MWNTs surfaces. 15 wt% cobalt loading catalysts were prepared with this nanohybrid and γ-alumina as a reference, using a sol-gel technique and wet impregnation method respectively. These catalysts were characterized by TEM, XRD, N2 -adsorption, H2 chemisorption and TPR. The deposition of cobalt nanoparticles synthesized by sol-gel technique on the MWNTs nanohybrid shift the reduction peaks to a low temperature, indicating higher reducibility for uniform cobalt particles. Nanohybrid also aided in high dispersion of metal clusters and high stability and performance of catalyst. The proposed MWNTs nanohybrid-supported cobalt catalysts showed the improved FTS rate (g HC /(gcat·min)), CO conversion (%), and water gas shift rate (WGS)(gCO2 /(g·cat h)) of 0.012, 52, and 30E-3, respectively, as compared to those of 0.007, 25, and 18E-3, respectively, on the γ-alumina-supported cobalt catalysts with the same Co loading.展开更多
In this paper, cold bulge forming of titanium alloy Ti55 was investigated. This process was done successfully and titanium alloy Ti55 was formed completely. Also, in the numerical work, this process has been investiga...In this paper, cold bulge forming of titanium alloy Ti55 was investigated. This process was done successfully and titanium alloy Ti55 was formed completely. Also, in the numerical work, this process has been investigated using Abaqus/ Explicit code. The results show that there is a good agreement between experimental and numerical results. Mechanical properties of Titanium alloy Ti55 have been investigated before and after bulge forming. The results show that mechanical properties of titanium alloy Ti55 have been improved during bulge forming. Also, hardness, and thickness variation tests of sheet metal before and after bulge forming were performed and the same results to mechanical properties were obtained.展开更多
Objective: To develop a new bioinformatic tool based on a data-mining approach for extraction of the most infor- mative proteins that could be used to find the potential biomarkers for the detection of cancer. Methods...Objective: To develop a new bioinformatic tool based on a data-mining approach for extraction of the most infor- mative proteins that could be used to find the potential biomarkers for the detection of cancer. Methods: Two independent datasets from serum samples of 253 ovarian cancer and 167 breast cancer patients were used. The samples were examined by surface- enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS). The datasets were used to extract the informative proteins using a data-mining method in the discrete stationary wavelet transform domain. As a dimensionality re- duction procedure, the hard thresholding method was applied to reduce the number of wavelet coefficients. Also, a distance measure was used to select the most discriminative coefficients. To find the potential biomarkers using the selected wavelet coefficients, we applied the inverse discrete stationary wavelet transform combined with a two-sided t-test. Results: From the ovarian cancer dataset, a set of five proteins were detected as potential biomarkers that could be used to identify the cancer patients from the healthy cases with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 100%. Also, from the breast cancer dataset, a set of eight proteins were found as the potential biomarkers that could separate the healthy cases from the cancer patients with accuracy of 98.26%, sensitivity of 100%, and specificity of 95.6%. Conclusion: The results have shown that the new bioinformatic tool can be used in combination with the high-throughput proteomic data such as SELDI-TOF MS to find the potential biomarkers with high discriminative power.展开更多
To improve the thermal stability of starch in water-based drilling fluid,monoethanolamine(MEA)was added,and the effect was investigated by laboratory experiment.The experimental results show that the addition of monoe...To improve the thermal stability of starch in water-based drilling fluid,monoethanolamine(MEA)was added,and the effect was investigated by laboratory experiment.The experimental results show that the addition of monoethanolamine(MEA)increases the apparent viscosity,plastic viscosity,dynamic shear force,and static shear force of the drilling fluid,and reduces the filtration rate of drilling fluid and thickness of mud cake apparently.By creating hydrogen bonds with starch polymer,the monoethanolamine can prevent hydrolysis of starch at high temperature.Starch,as a natural polymer,is able to improve the rheological properties and reduce filtration of drilling fluid,but it works only below 121℃.The MEA will increase the thermal stability of starch up to 160℃.There is a optimum concentration of MEA,when higher than this concentration,its effect declines.展开更多
In an incremental dynamic analysis(IDA) using a set of ground motion records,nonlinear time history analysis needs to be performed on structures.It is well recognized that IDA calls for high computational efforts and ...In an incremental dynamic analysis(IDA) using a set of ground motion records,nonlinear time history analysis needs to be performed on structures.It is well recognized that IDA calls for high computational efforts and the results are highly sensitive to selected ground motions.As a result,alternative static methods are needed.This study aims to introduce a new double-stage(N1- N2) static method to estimate capacity curves of MR frames.The technique is regulated to resemble IDA results with specific emphasis on near-field ground motions.Using an ensemble of 56 near-field earthquake records,required ID As have been carried out for SAC-Los Angeles 3-,9- and 20-story buildings and an additional 15-story building.The results of the proposed static method are compared with those from IDA,displacement-based adaptive procedure(DAP),and multimodal procedure(MMP).The results indicate that in addition to enhanced accuracy,very little time is required in the case of N1-N2 method.Thus,for the 3-story structure,the time required is less than 1 minute.The proposed N1-N2 method shows the best accuracy in terms of lateral mechanisms for the 15-story frame while for the other cases,the first mode load pattern leads to the best accuracy.展开更多
<Abstract>One way to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the number of active nodes in the network.When sensors are redundantly deployed,a subset of sensors should be selected to a...<Abstract>One way to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the number of active nodes in the network.When sensors are redundantly deployed,a subset of sensors should be selected to actively monitor the field (referred to as a "cover"),whereas the rest of the sensors should be put to sleep to conserve their batteries.In this paper,a learning automata based algorithm for energy-efficient monitoring in wireless sensor networks (EEMLA) is proposed.Each node in EEMLA algorithm is equipped with a learning automaton which decides for the node to be active or not at any time during the operation of the network.Using feedback received from neighboring nodes,each node gradually learns its proper state during the operation of the network.Experimental results have shown that the proposed monitoring algorithm in comparison to other existing methods such as Tian and LUC can better prolong the network lifetime.展开更多
One of the essential tasks accelerate the decision-making process in mineral exploration projects is ranking anomalous areas.In this study,we used fourteen geologic maps(at scale 1:100,000)in areas where systematic ge...One of the essential tasks accelerate the decision-making process in mineral exploration projects is ranking anomalous areas.In this study,we used fourteen geologic maps(at scale 1:100,000)in areas where systematic geochemical explorations were conducted in the Fariman-Kashmar axis in northeast Iran to conduct the anomaly ranking.On all these maps,samples were consistently prepared to be analyzed through statistical and geostatistical methods.At first,anomaly separation was carried out by fractal methods that resulted in the detection of 308 anomalous samples in 128 areas.These samples were classified into three groups of first,second,and thirdorder anomalies,whose number of anomalous samples were calculated based on this ranking technique.Three factors,including the average concentration of each anomaly,its surface area,and the number of its samples,were used to rank the areas.According to this technique,the maximum anomaly score obtained was 172 for the Taknar area,and the minimum score was 3 for several areas.To validate the ranking results,some exploration operations were carried out in some of these anomalous areas in which mining operations started later.Several significant gold anomalous areas were introduced,which is considered an important result of this study.展开更多
In this research,aging treatments at temperatures of 800 and 900°C for different aging time of 5-60 min were conducted on solution treated as well as hot worked samples of 2205 dual phase stainless steel.The effe...In this research,aging treatments at temperatures of 800 and 900°C for different aging time of 5-60 min were conducted on solution treated as well as hot worked samples of 2205 dual phase stainless steel.The effect of aging treatment on precipitation of intermetallic phases was investigated in undeformed specimens and those subjected to hot deformation with different strain rates of 0.001-1 s-1.It was found that σ precipitation increased by hot working.It was also concluded that the volume fraction of phase increased with deformation temperature and decreased with strain rate.The precipitation of intermetallic phases(i.e.σ and χ) was analyzed by an Avrami-type kinetics equation of %(σ+χ)=A(1-exp(-ktn)) and the values of n and ln k were estimated for different thermomechanical regimes.The values of n were assessed to increase from 0.4 to 1 with strain rate in the studied range.Otherwise,It was also understood that ln k decreased with strain rate.Microstructural observations by means of optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy showed that σ particles mostly nucleated at the ferrite-austenite interfaces.But no sign of χ-phase could be seen.This fortified the idea of certain literature that χ-phase always forms at early stages of aging and consumes through the precipitation of σ.展开更多
The objective of present work is to apply the friction stir processing(FSP) to fabricate functionally graded Si C particulate reinforced Al6061 composite and investigate the effect of Si C particle mass fraction distr...The objective of present work is to apply the friction stir processing(FSP) to fabricate functionally graded Si C particulate reinforced Al6061 composite and investigate the effect of Si C particle mass fraction distribution on the mechanical properties and wear behavior of Al6061/Si C composite. Regarding the obtained results in this work, with increasing Si C mass fraction, elongation decreased, but hardness enhanced. However, the optimized functionally graded composite with the highest tensile strength and wear resistance was achieved for composite with 10 wt% surface Si C. Also,the results showed that wear resistance and tensile strength decreased for composite with 13 wt% surface Si C, due to reinforcement particle clustering depending on high Si C mass fraction.展开更多
In order to improve the performance of a pre-designed direct conversion terahertz detector which is implemented in a 0.25 μm-SiGe-BiCMOS process,we propose some slight modifications in the bipolar section of the SiGe...In order to improve the performance of a pre-designed direct conversion terahertz detector which is implemented in a 0.25 μm-SiGe-BiCMOS process,we propose some slight modifications in the bipolar section of the SiGe device physical design.Comparison of our new proposed device and the previously reported device is done by SILVACO TCAD software simulation and we have used previous experimentally reported data to confirm our software simulations.Our proposed modifications in device structural design show a present device responsivity improvement of about 10%from 1 to 1.1 A/W while the bandwidth improvement is about 218 GHz.The minimum noise equivalent power at detector output is increased by about 14.3%and finally power consumption per pixel at the maximum responsivity is decreased by about 5%.展开更多
In this paper, we study the propagation of road hazard information to vehicles which enter the hazard segment of a highway in a sparse 1D vehicular ad hoc network(VANET) with store-and-forward mechanism. Store-and-for...In this paper, we study the propagation of road hazard information to vehicles which enter the hazard segment of a highway in a sparse 1D vehicular ad hoc network(VANET) with store-and-forward mechanism. Store-and-forward is an option for message propagation in sparse vehicular networks where connectivity is intermittent. Upon receiving the message, the vehicle becomes an informed vehicle, it carries the message for a while and then forwards it to the approaching vehicles which are about to enter the highway segment. In this way, a platoon of informed vehicles is formed. We establish an analytical model to obtain the probability that a vehicle receives the message and joins the informed platoon. Moreover, we prove that traffic dynamics increase the reception probability of messages. We find the expected message propagation delay in the platoon using the store-and-forward policy. We also show that the propagation delay in store-and-forward inter-vehicle communications is tightly related to traffic parameters such as traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds on the highway. Results show that for smaller transmission ranges, smaller platoons are formed, the expected message propagation delay in the platoon is low, and it increases very slightly as the traffic flow rate increases. But for larger transmission ranges, larger platoons are formed, the expected delay is high, and it increases remarkably with a small increase in the traffic flow rate. The impacts of some network and traffic parameters such as transmission range, speed of vehicles, and highway speed limits on the message propagation are investigated as well. Finally, the accuracy of the analytical results is evaluated by an extensive simulation study.展开更多
文摘The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of bolt profile configuration in load transfer capacity between the bolt and grout.Therefore,five types of rock bolts are used with different profiles.The rock bolts are modeled by ANSYS software.Models show that profile rock bolt T_3 and T_ with load capacity 180 and 195 kN in the jointed rocks,are the optimum profiles.Finally,the performances of the selected profiles are examined in Tabas Coal Mine by FLAC software.There is good subscription between the results of numerical modeling and instrumentation reading such as tells tale,sonic extensometer and strain gauge rock bolt.According to the finding of this study,the proposed pattern of rock bolts,on 7 + 6 patterns per meter with 2 flexi bolt(4 m) for support gate road.
文摘In presence of difficult conditions in coal mining roadways, an adequate stabilization of the excavation boundary is required to ensure a safe progress of the construction. The stabilization of the roadways can be improved by fully grouted rock bolt, offering properties optimal to the purpose and versatility in use. Investigations of load transfer between the bolt and grout indicate that the bolt profile shape and spacing play an important role in improving the shear strength between the bolt and the surrounding strata. This study proposes a new analytical solution for calculation displacement and shear stress in a fully encapsulated rock bolt in jointed rocks. The main characteristics of the analytical solution consider the bolt profile and jump plane under pull test conditions. The performance of the proposed analytical solution, for three types of different bolt profile configurations, is validated by ANSYS software. The results show there is a good agreement between analytical and numerical methods. Studies indicate that the rate of displacement and shear stress from the bolt to the rock exponentially decayed. This exponential reduction in displacement and shear stress are dependent on the bolt characteristics such as: rib height, rib spacing, rib width and grout thickness, material and joint properties.
文摘Duplex stainless steels(DSS)with ferritic–austenitic microstructures offer good combination of resistance to pitting corrosion and high strength that are not concomitantly attainable using conventional single phase austenitic or ferritic stainless steels.The DSS used in this investigation was 2205 alloy having a stable mi-crostructure consisting of about 45%ferrite and 55%austenite at ambient temperature.In order to investigate aging behavior of this steel and the influences on mechanical properties,different aging treatments were conducted at temperatures of 350–950-C for various aging time of 15,30,60 and 180 min.The aged specimens were subjected to impact testing and hardness measurements.Finally,the changes in microstructure due to aging were studied by optical and scanning electron microscopy.The results showed that aging at temperatures lower than 550-C for different time had negligible effects on mechanical properties.Besides,no considerable changes in term of precipitation of harmful intermetallic particles were observed in microstructure below this temperature.However,a critical temperature range,550–650-C,was introduced here.Aging in this range led to a significant decrease in toughness and notable increase in hardness.The formation of intermetallic phases such asσwas recognized as the major reason for the observed changes.
文摘The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of bolt profile on load transfer mechanism of fully grouted bolts in jointed rocks using analytical and numerical methods. Based on the analytical method with development of methods, a new model is presented. To validate the analytical model, five different profiles modeled by ANSYS software. The profile of rock bolts T3 and T4with load transfer capacity,respectively 180 and 195 kN in the jointed rocks was selected as the optimum profiles. Finally, the selected profiles were examined in Tabas Coal Mine. FLAC analysis indicates that patterns 6+7 with2 NO flexi bolt 4 m better than other patterns within the faulted zone.
文摘The direct sulfation of limestone from different sources in Iran was studied in a thermogravimetric analyzer under atmospheric pressure. All limestone samples tested have higher than 97% CaCO3, Experimental conditions were as follows: particle size levels ranging from 1.6μm to 7.8 μm, four level reaction temperatures (700℃, 750℃, 800℃ and 850℃), and two SO2 concentrations (2.4×10^-3 and 3.2×10^-3 mol.mol-1). The particle size and temperature showed dominant influences on the rate and level of conversion while the effect of SO2 concentration was weak. The shrinking core model can be used to describe the behavior of the sulfation process. The reaction kinetics and diffusion mechanism are both important in controlling the rate of the process. The two key parameters of the model, chemical rate constant Ks and effective diffusion coefficient Deft were obtained. Model predictions are in good agreement with the experimental data.
文摘The influence of temperature on the flow behavior and rheological characteristics of an A356 alloy in the semi-solid state was investigated using backward extrusion process.Experiments were performed at 5 temperatures and 4 different wall thicknesses.Viscosities were determined using the force-displacement graphs obtained form back extrusion tests.As observed experimentally,at a constant temperature,the increase of shear rate results in the decrease of alloy viscosity exponentially.Raising the temperature increases the liquid fraction hence reduces the semi-solid alloy viscosity.Metallographic and image analyses show that,because of low forming speed,liquid has time to escape from solid phase forward the sample wall.This condition is the main reason for the segregation phenomenon seen in the base and walls.Vickers hardness test on samples reveals that the hardness increases with the decrease of temperature and wall thickness.
文摘Free vibration analysis of non-homogeneous orthotropic plates resting on a Pasternak type of elastic foundation is investigated. A set of admissible orthogonal polynomials are generated with Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure and adopted in the Rayleigh-Ritz method. Accuracy and applicability of the method are examined by comparison of the results for different boundary conditions and material types with those available in literature. It is found that this method has good accuracy regardless of type of boundary condition and yields very accurate results even with low number of terms of orthogonal polynomials for the first mode of vibration. For higher modes of vibration, higher terms of orthogonal polynomials should be used. The effects of foundation parameter, density and non-homogeneity parameters on natural frequency are examined. It is concluded that natural frequency of plates are more sensitive to shearing layer coefficient rather than Winkler coefficient and density parameter has weakening effect on natural frequency.
基金supported by the Research Council of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industrythe Research and Development of the National Iranian Oil Company
文摘Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and alumina are combined to give a new type of nanohybrid for Fisher-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) catalyst support. Alumina nano-particles (10 wt%) were introduced directly on functionalized MWNTs by a modified sol-gel method. Microstructure observations show that alumina particles were homogeneously dispersed on the inside and outside of modified MWNTs surfaces. 15 wt% cobalt loading catalysts were prepared with this nanohybrid and γ-alumina as a reference, using a sol-gel technique and wet impregnation method respectively. These catalysts were characterized by TEM, XRD, N2 -adsorption, H2 chemisorption and TPR. The deposition of cobalt nanoparticles synthesized by sol-gel technique on the MWNTs nanohybrid shift the reduction peaks to a low temperature, indicating higher reducibility for uniform cobalt particles. Nanohybrid also aided in high dispersion of metal clusters and high stability and performance of catalyst. The proposed MWNTs nanohybrid-supported cobalt catalysts showed the improved FTS rate (g HC /(gcat·min)), CO conversion (%), and water gas shift rate (WGS)(gCO2 /(g·cat h)) of 0.012, 52, and 30E-3, respectively, as compared to those of 0.007, 25, and 18E-3, respectively, on the γ-alumina-supported cobalt catalysts with the same Co loading.
文摘In this paper, cold bulge forming of titanium alloy Ti55 was investigated. This process was done successfully and titanium alloy Ti55 was formed completely. Also, in the numerical work, this process has been investigated using Abaqus/ Explicit code. The results show that there is a good agreement between experimental and numerical results. Mechanical properties of Titanium alloy Ti55 have been investigated before and after bulge forming. The results show that mechanical properties of titanium alloy Ti55 have been improved during bulge forming. Also, hardness, and thickness variation tests of sheet metal before and after bulge forming were performed and the same results to mechanical properties were obtained.
文摘Objective: To develop a new bioinformatic tool based on a data-mining approach for extraction of the most infor- mative proteins that could be used to find the potential biomarkers for the detection of cancer. Methods: Two independent datasets from serum samples of 253 ovarian cancer and 167 breast cancer patients were used. The samples were examined by surface- enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF MS). The datasets were used to extract the informative proteins using a data-mining method in the discrete stationary wavelet transform domain. As a dimensionality re- duction procedure, the hard thresholding method was applied to reduce the number of wavelet coefficients. Also, a distance measure was used to select the most discriminative coefficients. To find the potential biomarkers using the selected wavelet coefficients, we applied the inverse discrete stationary wavelet transform combined with a two-sided t-test. Results: From the ovarian cancer dataset, a set of five proteins were detected as potential biomarkers that could be used to identify the cancer patients from the healthy cases with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 100%. Also, from the breast cancer dataset, a set of eight proteins were found as the potential biomarkers that could separate the healthy cases from the cancer patients with accuracy of 98.26%, sensitivity of 100%, and specificity of 95.6%. Conclusion: The results have shown that the new bioinformatic tool can be used in combination with the high-throughput proteomic data such as SELDI-TOF MS to find the potential biomarkers with high discriminative power.
文摘To improve the thermal stability of starch in water-based drilling fluid,monoethanolamine(MEA)was added,and the effect was investigated by laboratory experiment.The experimental results show that the addition of monoethanolamine(MEA)increases the apparent viscosity,plastic viscosity,dynamic shear force,and static shear force of the drilling fluid,and reduces the filtration rate of drilling fluid and thickness of mud cake apparently.By creating hydrogen bonds with starch polymer,the monoethanolamine can prevent hydrolysis of starch at high temperature.Starch,as a natural polymer,is able to improve the rheological properties and reduce filtration of drilling fluid,but it works only below 121℃.The MEA will increase the thermal stability of starch up to 160℃.There is a optimum concentration of MEA,when higher than this concentration,its effect declines.
文摘In an incremental dynamic analysis(IDA) using a set of ground motion records,nonlinear time history analysis needs to be performed on structures.It is well recognized that IDA calls for high computational efforts and the results are highly sensitive to selected ground motions.As a result,alternative static methods are needed.This study aims to introduce a new double-stage(N1- N2) static method to estimate capacity curves of MR frames.The technique is regulated to resemble IDA results with specific emphasis on near-field ground motions.Using an ensemble of 56 near-field earthquake records,required ID As have been carried out for SAC-Los Angeles 3-,9- and 20-story buildings and an additional 15-story building.The results of the proposed static method are compared with those from IDA,displacement-based adaptive procedure(DAP),and multimodal procedure(MMP).The results indicate that in addition to enhanced accuracy,very little time is required in the case of N1-N2 method.Thus,for the 3-story structure,the time required is less than 1 minute.The proposed N1-N2 method shows the best accuracy in terms of lateral mechanisms for the 15-story frame while for the other cases,the first mode load pattern leads to the best accuracy.
基金supported by the Islamic Azad University Urmia Brach,Iran
文摘<Abstract>One way to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the number of active nodes in the network.When sensors are redundantly deployed,a subset of sensors should be selected to actively monitor the field (referred to as a "cover"),whereas the rest of the sensors should be put to sleep to conserve their batteries.In this paper,a learning automata based algorithm for energy-efficient monitoring in wireless sensor networks (EEMLA) is proposed.Each node in EEMLA algorithm is equipped with a learning automaton which decides for the node to be active or not at any time during the operation of the network.Using feedback received from neighboring nodes,each node gradually learns its proper state during the operation of the network.Experimental results have shown that the proposed monitoring algorithm in comparison to other existing methods such as Tian and LUC can better prolong the network lifetime.
文摘One of the essential tasks accelerate the decision-making process in mineral exploration projects is ranking anomalous areas.In this study,we used fourteen geologic maps(at scale 1:100,000)in areas where systematic geochemical explorations were conducted in the Fariman-Kashmar axis in northeast Iran to conduct the anomaly ranking.On all these maps,samples were consistently prepared to be analyzed through statistical and geostatistical methods.At first,anomaly separation was carried out by fractal methods that resulted in the detection of 308 anomalous samples in 128 areas.These samples were classified into three groups of first,second,and thirdorder anomalies,whose number of anomalous samples were calculated based on this ranking technique.Three factors,including the average concentration of each anomaly,its surface area,and the number of its samples,were used to rank the areas.According to this technique,the maximum anomaly score obtained was 172 for the Taknar area,and the minimum score was 3 for several areas.To validate the ranking results,some exploration operations were carried out in some of these anomalous areas in which mining operations started later.Several significant gold anomalous areas were introduced,which is considered an important result of this study.
文摘In this research,aging treatments at temperatures of 800 and 900°C for different aging time of 5-60 min were conducted on solution treated as well as hot worked samples of 2205 dual phase stainless steel.The effect of aging treatment on precipitation of intermetallic phases was investigated in undeformed specimens and those subjected to hot deformation with different strain rates of 0.001-1 s-1.It was found that σ precipitation increased by hot working.It was also concluded that the volume fraction of phase increased with deformation temperature and decreased with strain rate.The precipitation of intermetallic phases(i.e.σ and χ) was analyzed by an Avrami-type kinetics equation of %(σ+χ)=A(1-exp(-ktn)) and the values of n and ln k were estimated for different thermomechanical regimes.The values of n were assessed to increase from 0.4 to 1 with strain rate in the studied range.Otherwise,It was also understood that ln k decreased with strain rate.Microstructural observations by means of optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy showed that σ particles mostly nucleated at the ferrite-austenite interfaces.But no sign of χ-phase could be seen.This fortified the idea of certain literature that χ-phase always forms at early stages of aging and consumes through the precipitation of σ.
文摘The objective of present work is to apply the friction stir processing(FSP) to fabricate functionally graded Si C particulate reinforced Al6061 composite and investigate the effect of Si C particle mass fraction distribution on the mechanical properties and wear behavior of Al6061/Si C composite. Regarding the obtained results in this work, with increasing Si C mass fraction, elongation decreased, but hardness enhanced. However, the optimized functionally graded composite with the highest tensile strength and wear resistance was achieved for composite with 10 wt% surface Si C. Also,the results showed that wear resistance and tensile strength decreased for composite with 13 wt% surface Si C, due to reinforcement particle clustering depending on high Si C mass fraction.
文摘In order to improve the performance of a pre-designed direct conversion terahertz detector which is implemented in a 0.25 μm-SiGe-BiCMOS process,we propose some slight modifications in the bipolar section of the SiGe device physical design.Comparison of our new proposed device and the previously reported device is done by SILVACO TCAD software simulation and we have used previous experimentally reported data to confirm our software simulations.Our proposed modifications in device structural design show a present device responsivity improvement of about 10%from 1 to 1.1 A/W while the bandwidth improvement is about 218 GHz.The minimum noise equivalent power at detector output is increased by about 14.3%and finally power consumption per pixel at the maximum responsivity is decreased by about 5%.
文摘In this paper, we study the propagation of road hazard information to vehicles which enter the hazard segment of a highway in a sparse 1D vehicular ad hoc network(VANET) with store-and-forward mechanism. Store-and-forward is an option for message propagation in sparse vehicular networks where connectivity is intermittent. Upon receiving the message, the vehicle becomes an informed vehicle, it carries the message for a while and then forwards it to the approaching vehicles which are about to enter the highway segment. In this way, a platoon of informed vehicles is formed. We establish an analytical model to obtain the probability that a vehicle receives the message and joins the informed platoon. Moreover, we prove that traffic dynamics increase the reception probability of messages. We find the expected message propagation delay in the platoon using the store-and-forward policy. We also show that the propagation delay in store-and-forward inter-vehicle communications is tightly related to traffic parameters such as traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds on the highway. Results show that for smaller transmission ranges, smaller platoons are formed, the expected message propagation delay in the platoon is low, and it increases very slightly as the traffic flow rate increases. But for larger transmission ranges, larger platoons are formed, the expected delay is high, and it increases remarkably with a small increase in the traffic flow rate. The impacts of some network and traffic parameters such as transmission range, speed of vehicles, and highway speed limits on the message propagation are investigated as well. Finally, the accuracy of the analytical results is evaluated by an extensive simulation study.
