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Nowadays, proper design and retrofitting of structures against natural and manmade disasters, is among the main concerns of researchers and designers in order to reduce financial and human costs. Extensive research has been carried out on the structures resistance against earthquake up to now. Although, the vast amount of research has resulted various regulations and guidelines, there is still a long way ahead to achieve the desirable results. Due to high sensitivity of the steel to temperature variations, fire exposure is more destructive for steel structures compared with the concrete ones. The performance of an intermediate three-storey steel moment frame with 4 spans was studied in this... 

Inlet air cooling is a simple and economical method to increase the power output of gas turbines. High-pressure fogging systems and mechanical chillers are two common methods. High water consumption, damage to compressor blades by water droplets, and inefficiency in humid climates are disadvantages of high-pressure fogging systems. Mechanical chillers have high electricity consumption and initial costs. In this research, an earth-to-air heat exchanger (EAHE) is introduced as a new method for inlet air cooling of gas turbines and is technically and economically compared with the two common methods in the long term in the climate of Tehran city. Temperature distribution in the ground is... 

The purpose of this research is the aerodynamic design of a 100 kW transonic ducted fan. Today, the aviation industry is moving towards the design of electric driven aircraft propulsion. Transonic ducted fans are one of the viable options that have been used in medium and heavy aircrafts due to their high specific power. In this research, the meanline model has been used for the initial design. By applying the design constraints, design limitations, design and functional parameters, the initial design point is found and then a sensitivity analysis is performed with respect to the effective design parameters to obtain the optimal design point. For the initial design of the transonic ducted... 

Project scheduling problems can be divided into different categories which one of the most important of them is resource investment problem. In this problem we are faced with a time limit for completion but resources are available unlimitedly and can be allocated to the project by specific cost. One of the most important constraints in real problems is the times that resources are available. In this research, resource investment problem considering calendar for resources has been investigated. Since resource investment problem is NP-Hard, after a brief overview of the different solutions, we used genetic algorithm to solve this problem. For this purpose, after determining chromosome... 

The aim of this thesis was creating Titania/RGO coating with electrophoretic method to evaluate the corrosion resistance of stainless steel 316. At first Graphene Oxide were synthesized with modified Hammers method and their physical, chemical and morphological properties have been investigated using XRD, FTIR, EDX, TGA, UV-Vis and Raman analysis. then Graphene Oxide was added to the bath of titanium and was deposited on 316 stainless steel substrates. Moreover, corrosion protection of coating has been examined using Poarization test and Electrochemical Impedance Spectrometry. The effect of deposition parameters on corrosion properties of composite coatings were examined. The key variables... 

In low energy limit, some string theory models are described with an effective lagrangian which consist of two term. first is Eistein-Hilbert term and second is chern-simons. Adding the chern-simons term to Eistein-Hilbert lagrangian leads to the new modified field equations which schuwarzshild, Reissner-Nordstrom and FRW metrics satisfy these new modified equations while kerr metric is not a solution for these new fields. Since the gravitational field of spinning objects are similar to electromagnetic field, we expect to observe the chern-simons effects in gravitomagnetic component of the gravitational field. Here, in order to better understanding of subject, we investigate the Maxwell... 

Carbon dioxide is one of the main geenhouse gases emitted from factories as well as transportation vehicles that adversely affect the atmosphere and cause global warming. Among the proposed solutions to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide separation would be the most viable medium-term approach. However, the high cost of carbon dioxide separation prevents the development of carbon dioxide absorption technologies. Therefore, it seems that integrating separation and production processes is the most efficient way to save energy and reduce carbon emissions. This method decrease a high proportion of the energy consumption in upstream operations (carbon dioxide removal,... 

There is an ever increasing trend to apply AdS/CFT to explain physical phenomena and this endeavor has recently begun concerning Superconductivity. Using black holes with differing structures and gravitational content has proved to be uitful in this explanation. In this thesis we try to explain superconductivity for a charged ro-tating black hole with Kerr-Newman-Ads metric in four dimensions. Having calcu-lated condensation for a rotating black hole we obtained diagrams of phase transition in superconductivity with respect to temperature. In addition a brief discussion on calculating the conductivity has been presented  

AdS/CFT Correspondence since it origination has found numerous applications in various aspects of Physics such as ion collision in Accelerators, Condensed matter Physics and etc. this orrespondence is a consequence of String Theory. In this project we have tried to analyze some of its applications in Condensed matter Physics and in the controversial phenomenon of superconductivity without resorting to the complexities of String Theory. Having applied this approach we have found a dual for it in Gravity and having calculated some common physical quantities and equations in these two sets such as Energy gap, Conductivity, London Equations and etc, we have tried to show the correspondence,... 

In recent years, significant interest has been attracted towards using directional antennae in wireless and sensor networks due to it’s decreased energy consumption, increased security and decreased radio wave overlapping. Substituting omni-directional antennae with directional antennae should be performed in a way that not only guarantees connectivity, but also minimizes radius and latency in network nodes. The problem is not polynomially solvable in general and effort has been made in recent years to present approximation algorithms to solve this problem. The approximation algorithms have been made possible using unit disk
graphs, Euclidean minimum spanning trees, grouping of...