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Artemia (brine shrimp) is a genus of crustaceans that lives in saltwater and due to having unique features, in producing the food and nutrients needed for larvae and other types of farmed sea creatures, is of great importance. In its natural environment under certain conditions, Artemia produces cysts that float at the water surface and are driven ashore by wind and waves. These cysts are inactive and do not develop further as long as they are kept dry. Upon immersion in seawater, the biconcave cysts hydrate and become spherical and, within the shell, the embryo resumes its interrupted metabolism. After about 20 h the outer membrane of the cyst breaking and the embryo appears, surrounded by... 

Growing production of cement and concrete in developing countries like Iran in addition to high amounts of energy consumption and pollutants formation through production of cement has motivated researchers to partially replace it with suitable additive materials. In this study, the chemo-physical and microstructural properties of rice husk ash as an agricultural waste and its performance in cement mixtures as a pozzolan is experimantally investigated. Parameters influencing the pozzolanic properties of this material that are studied include the effect of acid leaching before pyro-processing, heating rate, retention time, and grinding time. Additionally, this material is compared with other... 

Road accidents are currently one the main existing problems and a big challenge in Iran that is putting the lives of Iranian citizens in danger. Each accident is the result of a complex interplay between road users, vehicles, roads and environment. One of the main goals of accident data analysis is to identify and determine the main factors of a road accident. The dataset used here was obtained from the road traffic police and is stored in 3 different databases and corresponds to the accidents that happened between years 1390 and 1395 according to the Shamsi calendar. In this thesis, in order to deal with the inherent complexity and heterogeneity of the accident data, we will first introduce... 

The present study aims at investigating the stability of flexible spinning cylinders conveying flow in an external fluid Medium. Using the linearized Navier-Stokes equations for the flow, a two-dimensional model is developed governing the fluid motion. The resultant force exerted on the flexible cylinder wall due to the fluid interactions is calculated as a function of the lateral acceleration. Applying the Hamilton principle, the governing equations of flexural vibration of the rotary flexible cylinder mounted on simply supported axles are derived. Having the forces due to the conveying fluid calculated and substituting into the governing equations, a coupled field governing equations of... 

Wall systems are an essential part of the buildings and their capacity should be properly considered in their design. However, the seismic behavior of building systems with in-filled walls and their interaction is a very complex issue, yet to be understood. Using the in-filled walls in the buildings without including them in the design process changes the whole behavior of the structural system as well as their failure mechanism under earthquake excitations. On the other hand, there have been extensive researches on rehabilitation of the structures with in-filled walls or designing them as the main or one of the lateral load carrying systems against seismic input. In this research, first the... 

In the present study, the nonlinear vibrations of the rotor on the nonlinear bearing have been studied by the multiple scale method. To achieve this goal, Jeffcott models, two degrees of freedom and rotating Euler-Bernoulli beam have been used as rotors and insulators and nonlinear tilting-bearing bearings have been used as supports.To better understand the importance of the supports in the analysis of rotating systems, the rotor joints with isolates with high static stiffness and low dynamic stiffness have been considered and the dynamic behavior of the system has been studied using the multiple scale method. The results of this study showed that this type of nonlinear isolator has a good... 

Axial compression systems are widely used in many aerodynamic applications. However, the operability of such systems is limited at low mass flow rates by fluid dynamic instabilities. These instabilities lead the compressor to rotating stall or surge. In some instances, a combination of rotating stall and surge, called modified surge, has also been observed. In this research Moore – Greitzer model that the principle of constant speed mode checks as a base case has been considered and the developed condition of this model in which the dynamic model of the shaft will also respect and shaft rotational speed as a basis for state shall consider, has been analyzed.
In this study the effect of... 

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