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Today, with the expansion of business relations at international levels, there are many organizations that operate in global supply chains. Activities at such levels face new types of challenges in various fields of "supply chain management" pillars, of which "supplier selection" is one of them. The possibility of unexpected events, the need to comply with environmental protection laws, as well as the need to take into account social considerations, are among the things that have increased by being in larger supply chains, making it challenging to provide the basic resources needed in such chains and forcing their managers to considering considerations other than what they have always... 

The Very-High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) design is one of the six candidates for the Generation IV nuclear reactors. The reactor core type of the VHTR design is either prismatic or pebble-bed. In pebble bed reactors, the core is filled of thousands of graphite and fuel pebbles. Fuel pebbles in these reactors consist of TRISO particles, which are embedded in a graphite matrix stochastically. The reactor core is also stochastically filled up of fuel and dummy pebbles with an unequal ratio. These two stochastic geometries are the so-called double heterogeneous of this type of reactors. In the current study, a... 

The purpose of this dissertation is proposing a probabilistic model in transition systems of records. In these systems, two acceptance state of finite and infinite string have proposed which acceptance state of finite string is called probabilistic finite automata of records and acceptance state of infinite string is called probabilistic buchi automata of records. The buchi automata of records is an operational semantic for Reo coordination language. Reo is a coordination language to coordinate existing component of a component based system. Reo circuits with non-deterministic and probabilistic channel can be modeled by proposing probabilistic buchi automata of records. In this dissertation... 

New materials as hybrid materials or laminate composites, due to combination of many properties, can be used in many industries. The aim of this research is bonding of three-layered St/AZ31/St composite by roll-bonding process. The roll-bonding process was performed at three preheating temperatures, 340, 400 and 450 ⁰C, with thickness reduction of 30 to 68% and different thicknesses of intermediate layer (AZ31). In order to improve the bonding strength, the as-rolled specimens were annealed at constant temperature of 375 ⁰C. For evaluation of bond strength and investigating the formation of a diffusion layer, the results of peel test and microscopic images were studied. Tensile specimens... 

The mechanical interaction of a tilting anchor and cancellous bones of various densities was simulated using finite element modeling. The model enjoyed a sophisticated representation of the bone, as an elasto-plastic material with large deformation capability. The anchor’s tilting action during implantation phase, as well as its fixation stiffness during pull-out test, were predicted by the model, and a parametric study was performed to investigate the effects of the anchor’s distal width, corner fillet radius and bone engagement edge’s coefficient of friction (COF) on these measures. The model predictions were validated against the results of an experimental test on ovine humerus specimens.... 

Electrochemical deposition of multilayer coatings is one of the surface engineering techniques to create thin surface layers with a controlled structure in order to create desirable surface properties. In this research, the nickel-iron-silicon carbide multilayer coating is deposited from a single bath with a sulfate composition and by changing the current density between two values (10 and 40 mA/cm2). The number of layers in multilayer coating was 4, 8, 16, 32.The effect of current density and the number of layers on chemical composition, surface morphology, phase structure, corrosion resistance, nano hardness measurement, wear resistance of multilayer coatings respectively using electron... 

Inthisthesiswe willuse curved space-time quantum mechanicsto solveDirac equationin the background of dilaton black hole. Graybodyfactors and Hawking radiation and evaporation rates of charged massive spin particles in the background of dilaton black holes is obtained. The results are analyzed and the lifetime of dilaton black hole in terms of different dilaton coupling constants is studied  

Austenite in the 300 stainless steels is not a table phase in deformation processing during which martensite phase forms. This causes significant changes in the microstructures as well as the mechanical properties of deformed steel. In this work, the effects of rolling speed, reduction, temperature and strain pass on the strain-induced martensite during strip rolling operation of stainless steel 304L are studied. Cold rolling experiments under different speeds, reduction and temperature are conducted and then, the microstructural events and mechanical properties of the rolled steel are evaluated. For doing so, different testing techniques including tensile test, hardness measurement, optical... 

Entanglement plays a major role in quantum communication as the main resource of the network and makes it possible to perform protocols such as quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography which are not achievable in classical networks. Yet, being a very fragile resource against noise, which inevitably is more destructive as the distance increases and as time passes, makes it a very hard to share entangled pairs between two points at a long distance. This discouraging result for linear networks, has prompted investigation of entanglement percolation and entanglement distribution in regular one- and two-dimensional networks with various (i.e rectangular, triangular and hexagonal)... 

In this research, utilizing the concepts of thermohydraulics theory, optimization of cost due to the scale formation in heat exchangers 4131 and 4132 in Khorasan petrochemical Co. urea unit. The objective function involves the minimization of the energy consumption and production losses. First, via ASPEN we simulated shortcuts of exchangers in order to examine the effects of temperature and velocity on the scale formation. The project optimization was done by GAMS and due to the presence of nonlinear terms in the scale rate equations using CONOPT solver. Eventually, modern practical methods were used with the purpose of reduction and eradication of the heat exchanger's scale formation. The... 

Salicylaldehyde-amino acid Schiff base complexes are used as non-enzymatic models for the metal-pyridoxal (Vitamin B6) amino acid Schiff base systems which are key intermediates in many metabolic reactions of amino acids catalyzed by enzymes which require pyridoxal as a cofactor (transamination, decarboxylation, α and β elimination, racemization, etc.). In addition, complexes of amino acid Schiff bases are considered to constitute new kinds of potential anticancer, antitumor, antiradical and antibacterial reagents. On the other hand nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has become a powerful tool for clinical diagnostics thanks to the development of a new class of pharmaceuticals...