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Regarding the price of industrial turbo machines, testing the rotating elements of them is always an important issue. One of the companies of the aviation industry decided to design and fabricate a spin tester device to check the quality of new rotating parts before installing them on gas turbines. A team has worked on this project for more than a one year. The present thesis is on designing the drive system of the spin tester. The drive system was chosen to be an air motor. This thesis concentrates on the design procedure of this air motor. The designed system is capable of providing enough power to accelerate the disks to the test speed in the appropriate time. The disk geometry, test... 

In this project we are about to adopt a method for implementing commercial diesel engines (truck and bus engines) in applications with difficult respiration condition like what happens in a submarine. To this end, working conditions of such engines are introduced and standard constraints are explained. Then the structure of already manufactured submarine engines is presented. At this point an engine from known manufacturers was selected for calculations to be performed on it. Since test and measurement equipments were not yet ready, simulation using computer software (GT-POWER v6.1) was selected as the solving method. First, the engine was modeled in its nominal working conditions. After... 

Centrifugal compressors are vastly implemented in the industry due to their higher pressure ratio per stage. So, researches are still going on to improve the performance of these devices. On this way, the current project is defined to perform geometrical optimization in the impeller of a centrifugal compressor using numerical and experimental methods. In this research, the design process of centrifugal compressors is first discussed according to methods and guidelines provided in several references. Then the compressor of the GT4082 turbocharger is redesigned using these theories. It is shown that overall available rules are enough to design an acceptable centrifugal compressor. Experimental... 

Since the classical continuum theory fails to deal with the problems associated with defects, stress concentrators, and relevant deformation phenomena in solids, alternative approaches that can detect the atomistic nature of materials' fracture are required. The deficiency of the capture the size effect which yields delusively high values for some components of the stress field right on the edge of the stress concentrators, and its weakness in describing the complex interaction between small inhomogeneities, cracks and the like when they are only a few nanometers apart, are among some of the disadvantages of the classical approach. In recent years, however, atomistic methods are emerging to... 

Aluminum Bronzes have many applications in marine environments. These alloys suffer from both hot cracking and cold cracking. In order to overcome the hot cracking and cold cracking, Semisolid Stir Joining method and a proper thermal cycle was used respectively. Effects of temperature, stirring rate, and tool type were investigated in Semisolid Stir joining method. In this method, butt joint design was used in order to place specimens, and the specimens were heated up to specific temperatures (920, 925, 930°C). A stirrer (Cylindrical and Grooved tool) with three rotational speeds (800, 1200, 1600 RPM) was introduced into the stir weld seam. Welded specimens were cooled to the 900°C... 

The low female labor force participation rate in the Iranian labor market relative to the global average and even to countries that do not differ significantly from the socio-economic characteristics of our country is one of the important questions of the Iranian labor market. In this study, we seek to answer the question of whether the economic participation rate of married women will increase if the gender gaps in wages, job findings and job losses among women and men are eliminated in the Iranian labor market. To answer this question using household expenditure and income data and labor force data, we show that between the two categories of occupations, in terms of the share of women's...