Sharif Digital Repository

Monitoring has a high level of importance in the predicting and controlling of dam behavior. At all large dams, the dam performance can be analyzed through the installation appropriate devices during dam construction, impounding and operation periods. The main purpose of monitoring and instrumenting is to investigate variations and safety of dam on the basis of long-term data observations. This paper is aimed at evaluating the behavior of earth dams from the aspect of deformation and settlement during dam construction, impounding and operation periods. As a case study, dams of Shahr chay & Zola, IRAN, have been studied. For this purpose, the obtained results from modeling, deformation and... 

Titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V ELI with high biocompatibility and corrosion resistance, has a lot of applications in biomedical engineering. Disadvantage of this alloy is it’s disability to create a fast and good contact with the host/bone environment, after implanting in the body. Beside that it has low wear resistance. Nowadays to optimize the wear resistance, bioactivity and osteoconduction of surface of implants which are made from this alloy, the surface morphology are optimized in size and distribution. Different surface treatments are used for producing rough and porous surfaces to improve bioactivity along with wear resistance. In this study, surface modification of Ti-6Al-4V ELI was done... 

Commercially pure titanium (CP-Ti) is an important groups of titanium family and because of high strength, low density, high corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, this group of titanium is a suitable choice for application at chemical, petrochemical and medicine industry. Nowadays surgeons have a tendency toward use of CP-Ti instead of Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Moreover, because of body anatomy limitation, use of thick sheets result in high volume and damage soft tissue. Therefore, for sheet thickness reduction, study of the effects of metallurgical and geometrical parameter on fracture behavior of thin sheets is important. In this study, the fracture behavior of CP-Ti thin sheets investigated.... 

Hydrogels are of growing interest for fabrication of wearable strain sensors due to their intrinsic ionic conductivity, flexibility, and biocompatibility. Herein, to improve the mechanical properties of hydrogels, conventional covalent crosslinking is replaced with novel physical cross-linking. First, the microstructure and properties of pure hydrogel is optimized. Then, Cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) is added to the optimized gel to reinforce it. Finally, through a sequential strategy, aniline monomers are diffused into the gel network and are in-situ polymerized accordingly, providing high conductivity of 21.7 S/m. The resulting hydrogel has the stretchability of 2500% and the toughness of... 

Today, supercapacitors are an inseparable component of electronic devices such as hybrid cars, telecommunication equipment, and personal electronic devices, and this device is also used to store clean energy. In this research, polyacrylic acid hydrogel was first synthesized to be used as a supercapacitor electrode and polyaniline was used as an electrically conductive polymer in its structure to improve the electrical properties of this hydrogel. To achieve this structure, the previously synthesized polyacrylic acid hydrogel was immersed in a solution of aniline monomer and other components necessary for the aniline polymerization reaction, and after the soaking process was completed, the... 

In this study, the effect of hydrophobic nanosilica (〖"FNS" 〗_"b" ), hydrophilic nanosilica (〖"FNS" 〗_"l" ), and both the physical (NS&ND) and chemical (NS@ND) hybrids of hydrophilic silica with nanodiamond on the properties of liquid silicone rubber (LSR) was examined. The structural analysis of hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanosilica using FTIR and TGA tests clearly demonstrates the differences between these two particles, with the main difference attributed to the presence of hydroxyl groups in the hydrophilic type. The results obtained from the tensile tests show that using 0.1% by weight of hydrophobic nanosilica and 0.1% by weight of the silica and diamond hybrid improves the mechanical... 

Adiabatic logic families are a group of logic circuits which operate based on adiabatic principles to tremendously reduce power consumption. These families have basic difference with common logic families in transistor level structure and there signals are not quadrangular but trapezoidal. Also, in these systems the source lines and clock pulse are the same. Research on Adiabatic families needs theoretical information in reversible computing. So we will start this project with explaining fundamental information in this field. After that some of these logic families are introduced and three important and widely used of them (SCRL-RERL-2LAL) are chosen to simulate. In each of these families... 

Various composite friction materials containing 40 vol.% organic binder (phenolic resin plus styrene-butadiene-rubber (SBR)) with varying phenolic-resin/SBR ratio were prepared. The content of phenolic resin in each composite was indicated by the resin value (RV) index ranging between 0-100%. The composites with RVs greater than 50% form resin-based friction materials in which the primary binder is the phenolic resin. For RVs less than 50%, the composites become the rubber-based materials where the primary binder is the SBR. The analysis of mechanical properties exhibited that the conformability of the composites increases upon incorporation of SBR. The frictional analysis revealed that type... 

In 2002 Baskaran and Jafari published an article that was about a spin-1 collective mode. Similarity between carbon nanotubes and graphene was a motivation for working on this project, in order to find another spin mode by considering random phase approximation as a simple way of finding collective motion of a physical systems. Moreover rolling graphene sheet induce diffrent physical properties as a result of chiral axis . In this project we focus only on achiral nanotubes and at last find two collective modes in this structures  

In this research the effects of addition of clay in phenolic glass fiber reinforced composite has been investigated. Layered clay/phenolic nanocomposite resin systems were first prepared with 0.5, 1.5 and 2.5 wt% of Cloisite Na+ (CN) and Cloisite 30B (CB). After that the suspension was hold in an ultrasonic bath for 30 min in order to enhance nanodispersion of the clay platelet within the resin. The phenolic/clay solution was used to impregnate the glass fabric using the solvent impregnation method. After suspension for 2 days in the room with natural condition, the impregnated fabrics were pre-cured at 135 ˚C in an oven for 3.5 min to obtain B-stage prepregs. Seven layers of prepregs (150... 

Vulcanization is one the most crucial process in elastomer manufacturing products. It has been shown that network structure and curing kinetic are strongly dependent on curing system formulation. In addition reinforcing fillers in elastomers can affect them as well. By commencement of nanofillers in rubber domain, effects of nanofiller presence on rubber behavior have been investigated by reaserchers.
In this Project the effect of different curing system formulations on vulcanization kinetic and network structure of NR/SBR elastomeric matrice filled by nanodiamond is investigated. Different ingredients and nanodiamond were added to matrix by mechanical mixing in two roll mill. The... 

Automotive brake pad is one of the most widely used composites. Commonly, more than 10 components are applied to make these materials and due to the large number of components and interactions between them, choice, explaination of the behavior and optimization of brake friction materials are some industry's challenges. Until now, some methods have been presented to design and optimization of these materials, but due to different complexities, there is lack of practical method that could be used for explaining the tribological behavior, engineering calculation and optimization of brake friction materials. Today, formulation of the current brake pads in the industry has mainly come from trial... 

In recent years, using the nanoparticles has caused a great revolution and development into the materials structure and the polymer science developed corresponding to important role of it in consumer goods. So Carbon Nano Tubes (CNTs) belonging to the precious physical, Mechanical and thermal properties has been studied. The CNT is mixed by mechanical and solution methods with elastomeric matrix. In this research the mechanical method used, because of industrial applications. Although, there are many challenges against dispersion owing to weak cohesion between CNTs and matrix in the mechanical method. The progress in rubber composites reinforced by CNTs and other reinforcement and as well as... 

The most common type of polymer based composite friction materials are usually in vehicles as the brake pads are used and must characteristics such as high wear resistance, low weight, durability, low noise and stable friction coefficient. Polymer matrix, in addition to providing other material suitable for storage, the final properties, including mechanical properties, heat, friction and wear is also effective. Thermoset resin polymer matrixes (usually phenolic resin) are used in the brake pads which used for automotive and in some cases, rubber particles as powder formulations may be entered, in order to achieve good properties of rubber and resin simultaneously. Nanofillers because of... 

In this thesis we have been mainly interested in studying Single Impurity Anderson model (SIAM) in Dirac fermions. Although this model seems to be simple, the rich physics of SIAM can not be underestimated. In this thesis we were interested in Dirac materials, systems which their low energy excitations are described by Dirac equation.Therefore, considering Dirac material in two dimensions(2D), we briefly review the distinct features of one atom thick layer of carbon. In addition, we will explain the effective Hamiltonian of Bismuth near L point which is considered a three dimensional(3D) Dirac material. Because of very strong spin-orbit interaction, bismuth is a key element in topological... 

Polyamide or Nylon, due to its remarkable mechanical and tribological properties, has many engineering applications. Hence, improving the properties can develop the polyamide applications. In this study, Polyamide 6 (PA6) has been used as matrix with nanodiamond (ND) reinforcement. Spherical shape, chemically active surface as well as remarkable mechanical properties make nanodiamond an ideal candidate for improving polymers properties. Poor dispersion and agglomeration are present however major problems in achieving improved properties in nanocomposites. To deal with this problem, nanodiamonds were surface modified using Ethylenediamine (EDA) and Hexamethylenediamine (HMD). Nanocomposite... 

This study reviews the platforms developed in the context of collaborative product design by using cloud computing infrastructures in the field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and proposes some criteria to evaluate these platforms. Considering the limitations of these platforms, a network has been designed for collaboration between the engineering, procurement, and construction companies as well as the employers. In this network, by registering a project by the employer, the bidding process begins. The member firms in the network, by controlling the timing and through a proper allocation of labour forces, propose their preliminary designs as well as their bid prices to the... 

Friction composites, as a part of vehicle safety system, should hold some characteristics such as high wear resistance, low weight, durability, low noise, stable friction coefficient, availability and low price. It is very interested to use mixture of rubber and resin in friction materials to reach good properties of both rubber and resin simultaneously. This mixture is especially used in railway’s brake pads. Fibrous reinforcement is another important ingredient in friction composites. Asbestos used to be the most significant fibrous reinforcement due to its appropriate tribological specifications but the recent ban on asbestos by environmental protection agency has forced the friction... 

We study the quantum transport properties of three dimensional Dirac materials within the framework of Landauer–Büttiker formalism. Charge carriers in normal metal satisfying the Schrödinger equation, can be split into four-component with appropriate matching conditions at the boundary with the three dimensional Dirac material (3DDM).We calculate the conductance and the Fano factor of an interface separating 3DDM from a normal metal, as well as the conductance through a slab of 3DDM. Under certain circumstances the 3DDM appears transparent to electrons hitting the 3DDM. We find that electrons hitting the metal-3DDM interface from metallic side can enter 3DDM in a reversed spin state as soon...