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This study aims to investigate the productivity of foreign construction labours as compared to their local counterpart employed in Kish Free Trade and Industry Zone. Moreover, this study compares work skills and experience of foreign and local construction workers in order to find their effects on construction working conditions. To date, there is no comprehensive study that explores the important critical factors in mega construction projects in Kish Island for identifying the major problems to decrease demand for foreign workers. The method of collecting data is conducted by distributing questionnaires and interviewing several foreign and local construction workers as well as the project... 

In every theory with local symmetries, observales are mainly the gauge invariant quantities and fields are defined up to a local transformation.By choosing boundary conditions on field configurations and on the generating functions of gauge transformations, we can associate conserved charges to a particular subset of the generating functions. Thus field combinations which are related by these particular gauge transformations are physically distinct. These set of conserved charges usually form infinite-dimensional algebras such as Virasoro or BMS algebra. In addition, sets of all combinations of the associated fields form a phase space with a symplectic structure induced form the action of... 

Phase noise is one of the important parameters in telecommunication systems and its measurement has always been considered. Digital phase noise measurement methods have a simpler implementation and calibration than analog types. Also, in digital methods, amplitude noise and phase noise can be separated and measured both at the same time. Comparing the phase noise of two oscillators with different frequencies is another major advantage of digital methods. The sensitivity of digital methods is limited to the noise of their analog-to-digital converters. Cross-correlation technique is used to reduce the minimum measurable level of phase noise. This method reduces the internal noise of the... 

Pumps are widely used in oil and gas industry. Therefore condition monitoring for this type of equipment is very important. The motor current signature analysis (MCSA) technique as one of the condition monitoring techniques is very effective in the industry, but it is less used in industry. All conventional methods require additional sensors to be installed in the system; current signature analysis as a sensorless method can reduce the cost of condition monitoring. In this study, motor current signature analysis technique was used to diagnosis a centrifugal pump with a capacity of 187 kW from the refinery industry. The impeller wearing ring clearance problem has been investigated. This... 

Nowadays, due to the indensible role of electrical energy in life of societies, the reliability of service should be provided in an economic form. Researches has shown that, about 80% of faults occur in the distribution network. In a distribution network that is equipped with automation systems, through the acceleration in the determination of the fault location, and also possibility of reacting against transient and steady faults, the electricity interruption time duration is minimized. This thesis aims to determine the number and to locate the auto reclosers and fault indicators in a distribution network optimally. To make it economically feasible, a limited number of these devices and... 

Nowadays the combination of mechanical and electronic systems in small scales is gaining attention. Micro electro-mechanical systems are widely used in various industries such as car manufacturing and electronic chips. In these devices, the most important and useful mechanical structures are beams and plates. Therefore, investigating the mechanical properties of these structures in very small scales (micro and nano) is of great importance. Decreasing the size to these scales leads to the dependence of the behavior of these structures to size. Accordingly, some theories for prediction of these behaviors have been presented, one of which is the strain gradient theory. This theory is used in... 

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death in the world. Identifying the mechanical behavior of arteries and their growth and remodeling under applied loadings can help to better understand the progression of the disease and provide more effective clinical interventions. Therefore, many researchers in recent decades have turned their attention to modeling the process of stress-mediated growth and remodeling in soft tissues. Among the most important models proposed to study this process are the constrained mixture model proposed by Humphrey et al. and the volumetric growth model proposed by Hoger et al.. The constrained mixture model is based on the continuous turnover of... 

One of the extensively used, yet complex, structures in the industry is pre-twisted Micro/Nano beams. Studying their mechanical behavior helps to have a broader view of them. In this present study, explores and analyzes the behavior of a pre-twisted Micro/Nano beam with a quadrangular/rectangular cross-section using the strain gradient theory and modified couple stress theory. Using the calculus of variations and the Hamiltonian principle the elastodynamics governing partial differential equations of transverse deflection of the pre-twisted Micro/Nano beam with hinged-hinged boundary conditions are derived. Then the mechanical behavior of the pre-twisted Micro/Nano beam in static mode and... 

The objective of this study is to evaluate the seismic vulnerability of the existing buildings subjected to the near field earthquakes. The main applications of this research are loss estimation and performance evaluation of the existing buildings. That could provide a better solution and particularly more useful information to the owners, investors, and insurers about the expected performance of buildings under earthquake excitations. A number of 2, 5 and 8 story reinforced concrete buildings, designed according to the old Iranian seismic provisions of ISIRI-519 and ACI 318-83 codes for the ordinary moment resisting frames, are considered. By the use of a number of near field earthquake... 

World environmental concerns sharp increase in necessity of using energy in comparison with permanent progress in the field of renewal energy technologies causes modern forms of energy sources which can be used by public. This project studies the increasing influence of the wind power in power systems and also designing and exploiting techniques of local saving energy systems. For this purpose, models and possibilities in order to anticipate the operation of wind farm which is connected to grid by saving energy is described. In this project, the operation of compound system components which is totally a combination of three systems is being studied. The considered compound systems consist of... 

With the development of science and industry increasingly need for seamless and high-strength rings, the attention of many researchers and industrialists paid on the ring rolling process. Then, Studying details of ring rolling process is very important. The most important issues in ring rolling process which are not sufficiently considered are: stress components distribution in ring, real amounts of friction coefficient, pressure distribution over the rollers, required power, required torque and force, and finally the minimum thickness of the ring during the process, all of these parameters have developed as analytical functions. In the present study, the minimum possible thickness of the... 

Keratoconus is one of the most common optical (visual, eye) diseases that usually occurs in youth or early third decade of life. In this disease, cornea gets thin and loses it initial shape and becomes conical. Doctors use different methods for its treatment including use of glasses, contact lenses (hard or soft), cornea transplantation and also cross linking of cornea. Each of these methods have their limitations, on the other hand, considering that this disease progresses and intensifies, ophthalmologists use corneal ring implant surgery for the treatment of this disease in its advanced levels. A good ring implant in corneal causes increased strength and also cause corneal to get back to... 

Accurate modeling of clutter and detection of low observable targets within clutter are the major problems in radar signal processing applications. Recently, fractal geometry is applied to the analysis of high range resolution radar sea clutters. The intrinsic difference in the fractal dimension between sea clutter and the echoes from targets is extracted and used to detect targets. The box-counting method is widely used to estimate fractal dimension but it has some drawbacks never or rarely considered in literature. We explain the drawbacks and propose a new fractal dimension based detector to increase detection performance in comparison with traditional detectors. Both statistically... 

The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a microwave imaging radar that achieves high resolution while taking advantage of pulse compression technology and the Doppler effect. In typical radar systems, in order to obtain a good azimuth resolution, one should use an antenna with big aperture. However this is not possible in many cases. SAR has overcome this problem by moving the antenna and so making a synthetic aperture. In inverse SAR (ISAR) the radar antenna is static and synthetic aperture is created by the movement of target. Typical SAR imaging aims at the static targets and when the target is moving, it does not operate well. When detecting moving targets by SAR, both radar and target are... 

While Cloud providers face problems during providing services to their clients, such as lack of resources or increasing idle resources in low workload; they can share their resources with other providers by participating in Cloud Federations, and take advantage of Cloud Computing benefits like high scalability and resource extension. Moreover collaborating Cloud Federations expands Geographical area of providers. The Resource Allocation Problem has been considered in many researches, but in fields like Cloud environment and Federated Clouds it comes with complications. This thesis analyzes an optimized mechanism based on game theoretic approach for Resource Allocation Problem in Federated... 

This thesis presents turbulent partially premixed combustion modeling behind a bluff-body by using the Flamelet Generated Manifold. The objective of the present work is to develop a 4D FGM program to simulate partially premixed combustion at a reasonable computational cost. Pre-tabulated data of this manifold is obtained by using a correlated joint PDF. An in-house code is developed to build a pre-tabulated library in conjunction with a correlated PDF. Also, an exclusive OpenFOAM solver is created by employing the PIMPLE algorithm. This solver provides the link of the computational domain with the pre-tabulated chemistry. This program is used to simulate Cambridge-Sandia stratified burner... 

This study aims to propose a new correlation between in-situ horizontal stress and cone tip resistance in soils. Knowing the field in-situ stress state condition has an important role in stability assessment and stress-deformation analysis in a common geotechnical system. Although vertical stress could be measured easily, horizontal stress is still known as challenging work. Due to the difficulty in sampling undisturbed sand specimens, in-situ tests have been proposed in the previous literature to investigate the different characteristics of this soil. Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is one of the most used and accepted soil methods for soil investigation, identifying different soil parameters... 

Shallow geothermal energy is a renewable and sustainable form of energy that has the potential to help alleviate the growing climate and energy crisis. The most common system used to extract shallow geothermal energy is the ground source heat pump (GSHP) system. The concept of using underground structures in exploiting shallow geothermal energy for space heating and cooling has received increasing attention. This study focuses on the use of geothermal tunnels as a means of extracting shallow geothermal energy.This research examines the effects of different heat transfer mechanisms, and highlights the effects of this phenomenon by focusing on the effects of natural convection around the...