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The classical economic batch quantity (EBQ) model assumes that all produced items have a perfect quality. But in real-life production systems, generation of defective items is inevitable. A portion of these defective items is considered to be scrap , while the other is assumed to be reworkable and reworking them can reduce costs and increase productivity. In this thesis we have studied the economic batch quantity for a single stage production system with rework and scrapping . We want to satisfy the customer demand and minimize total costs of the system like set up costs , production costs , rework costs , holding costs , shortage costs and scrapping costs . In the first chapter of this... 

n the present study, the optimal design of feeding system in steel sand-mold castings is considered. The first part of this research includes fundamental studies on the physics of shrinkage defect formation during the casting process. The results of these studies lead to new findings on the mechanism of shrinkage defect formation, effect of melt quality on the distribution of defects within the castings and the connection between shrinkage and gases defects. The theoretical analysis of thermal criterion functions for the prediction of shrinkage defects in castings and introducing new criterion function with fewer shortcomings can be accounted as the other finding of this part. A new model... 

Confining nematic liquid crystal between two curved boundary conditions while the nematic molecules have a degenerate planar anchoring leads to complex and beautiful textures of molecular disparagement(defect) in the bulk and on the surfaces. Such the liquid crystal shells are made with double-emulsion techniques in microfluidic devices have provided applications for micro-scale colloidal linkers.In this work, we have numerically minimized the elastic energy in one-constant approximation in present of Fournier’s degenerate surface potential with finite element method. The nematic shell is confined between two spherical surfaces that we have studied the final energies and their related... 

In the present research a two stage supply chain is considered. In its first echelon, there is a producer that produces both perfect and defective items. Defective items are reworked by producer and no defective item is produced during the reworking process. There is a buyer in second echelon of the supply chain that faces constant demand and orders fixed batches in fixed periods to the producer. So in each complete cycle of production, multiple orders are received from buyer. Two different policies for reworking are investigated in this research. In the first policy, reworking is done in the same cycle that producing is conducted but in the second one all defective items that are produced... 

In this thesis the goal is to use data Mining techniques for finding features of different Partial discharges happen in power transformer insulation defect models in order to monitor the insulation condition of in-service power transformers continuously and on-line and to identify any type of insulation defect in power transformers at the early stage of formation.For this purpose, power transformer Insulation defects are modeled physically and partial discharge current pulses are recorded as Partial discharge data.Tow format of data are investigated, in first one, recorded data in one power frequency cycle are explored and in second one, individual PD pulses are considered for study.In... 

In this study, a novel multiscale analysis is proposed to utilize atomistic properties of crystalline nano-materials as an input to continuum problems in the range of large deformation. The main purpose of presented work is investigating the capability of different hyperelasticity models based on molecular statics (MS) and molecular dynamics methods to attain proper hyperelastic strain energy density function to illustrate atomistic information under various types of deformation loadings. Also, the proficiency of hyperelastic model is investigated for nano-structure including different percentages of voids. The material parameters of hyperelastic strain energy density can be obtained from... 

A nematic colloid is a mixture of microscopic particles dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal (NLC), which is an anisotropic fluid with long-range orientational order. This long-range order might be perturbed due to different reasons, such as confinement between flat or curved surfaces which leads to frustration of the nematic director in some singular points or lines called ”topological defects”. The nucleation and the structure of these defects emerge from the elastic properties of NLC and leads to unique behavior of nematic colloids. The interaction between colloidal particles in simple fluids are mainly excluded volume interactions, electrostatic interactions, van der Waals interactions,... 

In this study, a modern multiscale sequential molecular dynamics (MD) – finite element (FE) coupling method is proposed to represent the role of grain boundary (GB) planar defect on mechanical properties of crystalline structures at various temperatures. Different Grain Boundary misorientation angle is considered and the temperature varies from 0 up to 800 K. The embedded-atom method (EAM) many-body interatomic potential is implemented to consider pairwise interactions between atoms in the crystalline structures with face-centered-cubic (FCC) lattice structure at different temperatures. In addition, the Nose-Hoover thermostat is employed to adjust the fluctuation of temperature. The atomic... 

Tack coat is a layer of asphaltic materials, which is used for binding the surface layer to the current asphalt layer. The appropriate interlayer bonding condition will help different layers form a monolithic structure to resist traffic. The lack of proper interlayer bonding result in slippage between pavement layers, decrease the capability for transferring the load to the underlying layers, rutting, crescent cracking and decreasing the life of the Overlay. This study intends to model a pavement system in three dimensions with ABAQUS software in order to evaluate the amount of shear stress at the interface of asphalt layers. In order to prove the validity of the model, the results of the... 

Software developers notice existence of faults by report of a fault in issue tracking systems or a failure in software tests. Then they try to locate the bug and understand the problem. Early detection of fault results in saving time and money and facilitates debugging process. Prediction models can be built and used easily by modern statistical tools. Software metrics are the most important part of prediction models. Therefore higher performance in models can be achieved using new and effective metrics. In this study, process metrics and metrics that built base on mutation analysis used and resulting models evaluated. In addition to using process metrics with mutation metrics, two group of... 

In real production systems, the process is always bound with the production of faulty items which different approaches may be taken toward handling these low quality items according to the nature of the industry and product. Repairing, discarding or selling items in a secondary market are some of the possible actions. We investigated the essentiality of coordinated decision making between a supplier and a buyer in this environment hence developing a model to minimize total costs of two parties with an attitude towards improving quality of production system. In common two layered supply chains, the buyer defines the economic order quantity (EOQ) according to its own decision criteria. These... 

Topological defects are specific signatures of liquid crystals. Their presence in liquid crystals are so often that they are ”vestiges” of such flows. With their presence inside a flow, they cause global change to the director field by dictating specific orintational restrictions. So their global effects on the flow are substantial. In active nematics, not only they dictate the global structure of the director, but also they act as local sources of motion and behave like self-propelled particles. In this thesis, a detailed dynamics of active liquid crystals and their topological defects is presented. Then, Solving equations of motion for such systems using computer numerical analysis, the... 

A liquid crystal is a state of matter composed of highly anisotropic building blocks. When liquid crystals are exposed to surfaces with given shapes and anchoring conditions, the orientation of their molecules gets spatially disordered and topological defects may form in the system. The interplay between liquid crystals and the geometry and topology of the colloidal particles has motivated extensive recent studies.In this thesis, we present the numerical modeling results for two faceted colloidal particles in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal. To obtain the equilibrium nematic field with a finiteelement method, we numerically minimize the free energy of the system that based on the... 

In past decades, the measurement of partial discharges (PDs) in high voltage equipments, was appreciated as one of the most efficient methods for evaluation of the equipment insulation condition. Generators, transformers, cables and transmission lines are especially checked to detect the presence of any partial discharge.
In AC high voltage systems, the measurement method is well established and known. The Phase resolved method is used to determine the partial discharge signals. These methods have been used for many years and their success in differentiating the various sources of partial discharge have proven. Although phase resolved method works on AC; due to lack of frequency... 

In recent years, there have been many studies aimed at finding program defect using information of previous ones. These studies, by using the program text, previous bugs, and information related to version control and project management systems create an defect prediction model to find other defect prone areas in the program. The output of defect prediction methods is part of the program’s text, which is likely to have defects. Considering that the result of this method is just the text of the program and does not provide any extra information for finding defects to the user, these methods have not yet been applied to the software industry. On the other hand, by spreading the use of Q & A... 

Rolling element bearings are the most widely used components in rotating machinery and so, estimation of their remaining useful lifetime in order to increase the reliability and availability of them is a critical issue in the field of condition monitoring of these machinery. Despite numerous researches which have tried to develop a model for precise prediction of rolling element bearings’ lifetime, there is no method which can predict their remaining lifetime exactly. The failure criterion in these components is the area of defect in their races and rolling elements. Consequently, an approach which can predict the defect area of these components is susceptible to prediction of their... 

Diagnostic and prognostic of spall defect in the rolling element bearings is investigated in this thesis. A new numerical model is proposed which considers defect size, defect clearance and defect roughness. The results of this model based on surface roughness show superior similarity to experimental data than classic model. To improve diagnostic ability in the rolling element bearings, four new methods are proposed in this thesis. These methods are short-time statistical features, local curve roughness, level crossing and wavelet packet decomposition. These methods are applied in outer ring, inner ring and ball defects and it is showed that these methods have better detection ability... 

Nanocomposites are widely used due to unique properties such as low density and high strength in many industries such as electronics, telecommunications, aerospaces, Petrochemicals and shipbuildings. Meanwhile, due to the importance of economic issues, polymer based nanocomposites are the most used type of nanocomposites. The purpose of this thesis is studing the structural defects of graphene-reinforced nanocomposite polymers on the mechanical properties of these materials. Defects created in nanocomposites can be divided into two categories after construction. The first category is the defects that are created in the graphene structure when it is synthsis, and the second happen at the... 

Most regions in Iran are located on an active plate boundary. Therefore, many parts of the country face a risk of earthquake damage at some point in time. Therefore, anticipating and addressing the consequences of earthquake events in order to minimize loss of life and damage to property is a national issue.There is concern about the ability of a signification fraction of buildings in Iran to withstand earthquake events. The deficiencies in the design and construction of buildings in Iran result in low-quality buildings vulnerable to earthquakes. It is necessary to identify and investigate the parameters that contribute to these deficiencies.Previous research studies indicate that... 

Structure of colloidal particles in anisotropic solvent with long-range orientational ordering, such as nematic liquid crystals, has attracted great attention in science and technology. The nematic director is distorted from its uniform orientation in the bulk due to anchoring on the surface of the colloidal particles. These elastic distortions create topological defects around the particles and induce long and short range anisotropic interactions between the particles. Depending on the anchoring type and the colloidal geometry, the particle-defect can induce a long-range dipolar-dipolar, quadrupolar-quadrupolar and/or dipolar-quadrupolar potential.Experimentally, the colloidal interactions...