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Procurement field and supplier’s selection are key decisions in the supply chain in today's business environment.In this problem, both procurement and transportation costs are important. The Traveling Purchasing Problem (TPP) belongs to this field of study. In spite of many researches in the TPP, most of the researches are confined to one single purchaser. In this research, a new variant of Traveling Purchaser Problem is proposed with priority in purchasing. The priority policy is assumed for every single of products and the purchasers’ objective is to meet all of the demands according to their priority and vehicle's capacity in the lowest cost. In this regard, the purchaser has to buy the... 

The Multi-Depot Traveling Purchaser Problem under Shared Resources (MDTPPSR) is a new variant of the Traveling Purchaser Problem (TPP). In this problem, each depot can purchase its products using the shared resources of other depots, and vehicles do not have to return to their starting depots. The routing of this problem is a Multi-Trip, Open Vehicle Routing Problem. A tailored integer programming model is formulated to minimize the total purchasers’ costs. Considering the complexity of the model, we have presented a decomposition-based algorithm that breaks down the problem into two phases. In the first phase, tactical decisions regarding supplier selection and the type of collaboration are... 

For optimum designing of dry friction clutch, we should taking into account a lot of parameters, in order to the clutch have good efficiency in torque transmission and power train. These parameters include: the type of friction plate and the mechanical properties, Clutch geometry, diaphragm spring and its ability to make pressure. In this project, the goal is the analysis of effect of different parameters in clutch's temperature distribution and effect of these issues in torque transmission. In next step, the clutch's temperature distribution analyzed by changing the friction plate (ceramic), pressure applied and relative round in order to gain optimum properties of clutch. These works done... 

The on grade flexible steel storage tanks are extensively used in oil refineries, petrochemical plants, power plants and many other municipal utilities. The increasing statistics of various incidents and attacks occurred to these facilities clearly indicates the vulnerability of these strategic installations under the effects of intentional (terrorist) blasts. Therefore, Given the strategic nature of the care and maintenance for these tanks, their damage assessment under the prescribed explosion is quite important. Due to flammable content of some of these tanks, it is necessary to speed up the process of their vulnerability assessment and making the appropriate decisions for any needed... 

In this research, the concept of new service development for Hotel industry is considered. As the concept of new service development encounters both business model structures and the required analysis for validation, the thesis has used the axiomatic design theory to evaluate the required service elements. Axiomatic Design framework as a scientific base for every type of design consists of 4 domains. The first domain named customer domain is the starting point at this research. In order to be prepared for applying in a real case study, customer domain is investigated and analyzed through a business model Canvas with nine building blocks covering all necessary and effective domains in a... 

Noise or noise pollution, is defined as an unwanted sound, produced mostly by motor vehicles in urban areas. If the noise exceeds its limit, adverse effects on users and citizens are expected. Thus the assessment of the noise level and its comparison with allowable values is mandatory. Traffic induced noise depends upon different factors such as traffic, weather, and, sound barriers. Noise pollution study has a long history all over the world. Many studies, mostly representing the outdoor noise pollution models, have been done in recent years. This paper presents an assessment of traffic-induced noise in a heavily traveled tunnel, locally referred to as Resalat tunnel, which is located in... 

Data collected from street networks show that travel time in urban street networks is a stochastic variable, whose range of variation increases with the congestion level. Work and school trips comprise the major part of morning peak volumes, whose common characteristic is that they need to be made on time. For this reason, these travelers are pessimistic in their route choice, and try to choose routes which are more reliable. Travel time standard deviation is one of the common measures for estimating travel time reliability that is related to properties of day-to-day travel time distribution on a particular route. Based on the empirical data collected from Tehran street network, this paper... 

With the advancement of automotive industry, the number of electronic systems that need to communicate with each other has increased. An effective strategy to meet these growing demands is using bus-based protocols, which can establish safe communication among numerous nodes with reasonable cost, weight, and space requirements. The objective of this thesis is the design and implementation of a transceiver based on the FlexRay protocol. The significance of this protocol lies in its ability to provide higher data transmission rates compared to other protocols like CAN and LIN, and its role as the foundational communication medium among various domains in modern vehicle architectures. In this... 

In this thesis, we introduce a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) system inspired by the philosophical and psychoanalytical concept of imagination as a ``Re-construction of Experiences". Our AI system is equipped with an imagination-inspired module that bridges the gap between textual inputs and other modalities, enriching the derived information based on previously learned experiences. A unique feature of our system is its ability to formulate independent perceptions of inputs. This leads to unique interpretations of a concept that may differ from human interpretations but are equally valid, a phenomenon we term as ``Interpretable Misunderstanding". We employ large-scale models,... 

Quantum entanglement is an essential resource in quantum information processing, such as quantum communication and quantum computing. Although entanglement is critical for practical implementations in these fields, creating and transmitting entanglement without altering the states is challenging. External noise may destroy or weaken the entanglement. Consequently, there is a need for methods to improve entanglement. Entanglement distillation is an effort to address this issue. It is a process where, probabilistically, a smaller number of strongly entangled states are created from a fixed number of noisy entangled states. This process is carried out using only local operations and classical... 

Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT) uses to identify the characteristics of the reservoir, including minimum horizontal stress, permeability, initial reservoir pressure, etc. The general steps of this process include fluid injection, fracture initiation in the matrix, fracture propagation and its closure due to fluid leak-off. The results of DFIT are analyzed in two stages based on the fracture closure event. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of leak-off mechanisms on pressure-dependent leak-off (PDL), tip extension and fracture storage. To do so, different methods are used for identifying the cooperating parameters at each step. In order to analyze DFIT, a... 

In this research, non-isothermal annealing process at temperatures ranging between 400°C to 830 °C was investigated in warm and cold-rolled austenitic stainless steel 304L. First, the wide variety of austenitic to martensitic structure was produced by the multi-pass rolling process at room temperature -8 °C, 200 °C, and 280°C. The n exponent in Olson-Cohen equation was governed 2.83 after non-linear curve fitting to assess the fraction of deformation-induced martensite as a function of strain. Afterward, Abaqus/Explicit method was utilized to achieve the stored energy and plastic strains distribution through the thickness. Then, Cellular automata and Galerkin-finite element models were... 

In today's era, metal nanoparticles play an important role in technologies emerging from different sciences, such as chemistry, physics, optics, material science, due to their unique characteristics. In the development of nanooptics science, it can be said that metal nanoparticles play an important role. The ability of conductive electrons collective oscillation causes surface charge density fluctuations in nanoparticles, this phenomenon is known as surface plasmons. Surface plasmons are surprisingly coupled with light and cause the significant increase in the intensity of optical fields induced in nanoparticles. Therefore, with the presence of localized surface plasmons or plasmon... 

Understanding of the Molecules is the main purpose of the chemistry. Ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) as a branch of the computational chemistry, tries to give us a deep comprehension of the molecule, and its chemical, physical and optical activities. This comprehension, relies on the accuracy of quantum mechanics, in addition to the speed of the classical mechanics. The mixing of the quantum mechanics and the classical mechanics could simulate activities of the atoms in the time-domain, provided the mixing is done with precaution. This, in turn, helps us to forecast the response of a molecule in different situations, and also translating the macroscopic phenomena in a nanoscopic...