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Nowadays, deliberate or unwanted fire incidents have created much attention to the behavior of structures against these types of events. Since the properties of structural members are influenced by the increase in the temperature of the members, it is more difficult to predict the general and local behavior of the structures during the fire. In this research, a method has been proposed to calculate the critical temperature in two-dimensional structures at its collapse with desirable accuracy. In this process, the upper-bound theory of plastic analysis is used. The plastic analysis is performed by applying the initial fire scenario to the structure, and its collapse load factor with the... 

Nowadays, deliberate or unwanted fire incidents have created much attention to the behavior of structures against these types of events. Since the properties of structural members are influenced by the increase in the temperature of the members, it is more difficult to predict the general and local behavior of the structures during the fire. In this research, a method has been proposed to calculate the critical temperature in two-dimensional structures at its collapse with desirable accuracy. In this process, the upper-bound theory of plastic analysis is used. The plastic analysis is performed by applying the initial fire scenario to the structure, and its collapse load factor with the... 

Many important public buildings have suffered significant damages due to terrorist attacks in the last few decades. This paper investigates the behavior of structures with steel plate shear wall lateral load resisting system under various blast loadings. A number of twenty steel frames with different heights and widths subjected to four different blast scenarios are modeled and analyzed in opensees software. The results showed that structures with steel plate shear wall systems subjected to blast loading have better behavior in high-rise structures than in low-rise structures in terms of drift and ductility ratio. The steel plate shear wall system exhibited shear-dominated,... 

By increasing the penetration level of the combined heat and power systems and demand response programs between energy consumers in the distribution network, the interaction between electricity and the natural gas network becomes more complicated. This paper proposes a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing scheme for energy trading among Smart Energy Hubs (S.E. Hubs) which can trade both electrical and thermal energy with each other to reduce their cost and, reduce their dependency to gas and electricity utility companies. A two-stage energy strategy is presented. In the first stage, the S.E. Hubs total social cost is reduced by finding the optimal energy sharing profiles. And, in the second... 

Optimization of a structure refers to a design procedure that results in the most economical structure in terms of materials and sizing of sections. In structures with steel plate shear walls, finding the best layout of the walls in a frame is also of priority in designing a structure with the minimum weight. Finding the least weight of a structure while all design provisions according to codes and standards are satisfied is a challenging task that is hard to perform with the existing design methods. Metaheuristic optimization algorithms are robust computational tools used for solving complex problems, which are used widely in many engineering fields, especially structural engineering. This... 

Selling correlated products faces the sellers with the cross-selling, which is a key factor in managing revenue and costs of the sellers. Cross-selling is a phenomenon which happens when the demands of products are correlated so that the demand for one of the correlated products automatically initiates demand of another. In these cases, different selling tactics such as bundling, tying, mixed bundling, etc. are applied to sell the items. In this paper, an integrated pricing-inventory model for two complementary products under three selling strategies is developed. In the first model, it is assumed that the seller sells the products separately while those are packed and sold as bundling in... 

Selling correlated products faces the sellers with the cross-selling, which is a key factor in managing revenue and costs of the sellers. Cross-selling is a phenomenon which happens when the demands of products are correlated so that the demand for one of the correlated products automatically initiates demand of another. In these cases, different selling tactics such as bundling, tying, mixed bundling, etc. are applied to sell the items. In this paper, an integrated pricing-inventory model for two complementary products under three selling strategies is developed. In the first model, it is assumed that the seller sells the products separately while those are packed and sold as bundling in... 

Platinum nanowires (PtNWs) were electrodeposited on the polycarbonate templates (PCTs) in aqueous solution of H2PtCl6 in triply distilled water. Nanowires with diameters of 50 and 100 nanometers were electrodeposited on the same condition. The kinetics of electrodeposition process was studied by electrochemical techniques such as voltammetry and chronoamperometry methods. Increasing the scan rate, the peaks shifted to more negative potentials and the current density also increased in each peak which was typical for a diffusion-control process. The potential range for the deposition of platinum nanowires was specified and consequently the potentiostatic i-t transients were utilized to produce...