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Type and terms of payment is one of the most important fundamentals of any construction project contract. Suitable contract type is selected based on available financial options, payment systems, project schedule and other uncertainties of project environment. Commonly in Iran; private residential construction projects are executed using cost plus or lump sum contracts. Based on project’s contract type, costs of materials’ waste are to be borne by different parties. For example in cost plus contracts, the costs of materials as well as wastes are paid by owner while in lump sum contract this cost is paid by contractor. Considering limited budget of construction projects, materials’ waste... 

Energy Harvesting has been appeared as an approach in order to make the green communications possible. In Energy Harvesting systems, nodes extract energy from the nature to extend their lifetimes. The harvested energy can also be used for the purpose of communication and specially for the transmission process. Compared to the conventional batterypowered systems, the Energy Harvesting systems have access to an unbounded source of energy (like vibration absorption devices, water mills, wind turbines, microbial fuel cells, solar cells, thermo-electric generators, piezoelectric cells, etc). However, the diffused nature of this energy makes it difficult to be used for communication. In this work,... 

Novel Dirac Leaky Wave Antennas (DLWAs) based on Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) are presented in this thesis, for millimeter wave frequencies. These DLWAs provide interesting features such as radiating through broadside, beam scanning and ease in fabrication that are well suited for emerging fifth generation (5G) and IoT applications. In this thesis, it is shown that a Dirac photonic crystal can be realized in SIW technology composed of air columns inside a host SIW waveguide, exhibiting a closed bandgap and linear dispersion around broadside. Phase and attenuation constants are controlled to obtain directive beam and scanning in a wide range of angles (from -30˚ to 20˚). This DLWA... 

This existing research has been conducted to reach quick evaluation instructions to pipe earthquake damages in the piping systems inside the industrial complexes. In the old complexes of such kinds there are cases where field inspections and quality evaluations are urgently required subject to peculiar conditions affecting each piping system inside the units and in certain cases subject to lack of access to the as built-drawings. However, so far any definite instruction hasn’t been available for a quick evaluation of likely damages in piping system: all because of various pipe types, complexity of pipes geometry, different temperatures and pressures in different sections. In this research... 

Oil and gas industries are always considered as one of the most polluting industries in the world. Many pollutants are emitted from the industry into the environment every year. Equipment’s leak and flaring off additional gases produced by various processes of oil and gas production are the main sources of waste in these industries. In order to control these hazardous wastes, it is necessary to provide effective solutions and make appropriate decisions so policymakers will be able to implement policies in order to reduce the emissions of air pollutants. In order to reduce the emissions, it is necessary to conduct the correct and reliable methods and have sufficient information about the... 

Selective oxidation of H2S to elemental sulfur in a fixed bed reactor over seven nanocatalysts has been investigated and compared to commercial claus catalyst. Among them, Al2O3-supported sodium oxide nanocatalyst prepared with wet chemical technique and Al2O3 nanocatalyst prepared with spray pyrolysis method were the most active catalysts for selective oxidation of H2S to elemental sulfur. The remaining nanocatalysts were deactivated, mainly due to the interaction with H2S and conversion into sulfides. For synthesis of Al2O3 with spray pyrolysis method we use statistical design of experiments (box-behnken design) in order to screen the effects of significant synthesizing parameters  

Well worn gas turbine blade made of Nickel based superalloy, IN738LC was remelted due to remove inclusion and use it in casting process of new blade after microstrucrure investigation in neutral atmosphere and vacuum. The composition of slags for removing inclusions used for this practice were 70CaF2-20CaO-10Al2O3 and 55CaO-45Al2O3. The microstructural characterization involved use both optical as well as electron microscope including application of EDS technique for denoted the type of carbides and inclusion investigation. Chemical composition was determined by despersive spectroscopy method. The changing in main elements were reported too low. Number of inclusions were decreased in the... 

Homogenous carbonylation of methanol is a major way to acetic acid. In this study central composite design (CCD) at five level (-1.63, -1, 0, +1, +1.63) combined with response surface methodology (RSM) have been applied to optimize carbonylation of methanol using ruthenium promoted iridium catalyst in homogenous phase. The effect of seven process variables including; temperature, pressure, iridium, ruthenium, methyl iodide, methyl acetate and water concentrations as well as, their interactions were modeled. The determined R2 values greater than 0.9 for the rate, methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen formation data, confirmed quadratic equation properly fitted obtained experimental data. The... 

Human action recognition is one of the most attended topics in computer vision and robotics.One of the flavors of this problem relates to the situation in which the task of action recognition is carried out by data from several cameras. Different approaches have been proposed for combining information. Various reduction methods have been introduced to decrease the processing load. All of the methods in this particular field of study can be divided into two linear and non-linear methods. In the linear methods, we don’t pay attention to the non-linear structure of the data, and these kind of approaches are not reliable. Furthermore, combining different actions data is done before the dimension... 

Heat pipes are useful devices in heat transfer, renewable energies and cooling systems in particular. According to various application of this systems in different industries, performance improvement of this devices has gained much importance. Working fluid is one of the effective factors on pulsating heat pipes. Since heat transfer in PHPs is natural convection and two-phase, specific heat and thermal conductivity of working fluid have an important role in the performance of pulsating heat pipes. In the present study, the effect of using nano-encapsulated PCM along with reduced graphene oxid (RGO) dispersed in water and their mixture as working fluid has on the performance of PHPs has been... 

Compared to systematically signalized intersections, in the absence of any systematic instruction or signalization at unsignalized-prioritized intersections and due to lower levels of control, driver performance strongly steps in as a decisive factor of intersection traffic and geometric design. Therefore, the study of driver behavior at these intersections appears necessary. This thesis aims to study driver behavior at four prioritized intersections where the minor stream has to yield right of way to the main stream in the city of Mashhad, Iran. Following extraction of raw statistical data from extensive filming, the initial database was constructed consisting of 29 variables. Based on the... 

” The story of the "Weil conjectures" is a marvelous example of mathematical imagination, and one of the most striking instances exhibiting the fundamental unity of mathematics.”In 1949,Andre Weil stated some conjectures on the zeta function of Algebraic varieties over finite fields .These conjectures were analogue of the properties of Riemann zeta function ,in particular Riemann hypothesis.In fact ,Weil built a bridge between Diophantine structure on varieties over finite fields (Counting of rational points on varieties) and cohomological structure of them over the field of complex numbers(topology of variety).In this thesis, first we state Weil’s motivations for these conjectures and state... 

Congestion is the inseparable part of everyday life in large transportation networks. Expansion of road networks especially in downtown area is next to impossible and it is resulting multiplicative congestion problems. Congestion imposes private and public costs. Therefore, restricting policies on road use through cordon-based or area-based pricing is proposed to reduce the negative impacts of traffic, travel demand management and optimal use of transportation systems. This would produce better resource allocation through transportation network optimization. Implementation of congestion pricing policies induces short-term and long-term effects. In this thesis, it is attempted to determine...