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Concrete gravity dams are one of the most important infrastructures therefore their performance under seismic load is an important issue of concern for dam owners. It is necessary that these infrastructures to be able to continue their function after a disaster such as earthquake, as any damage can cause huge cost. For analysis of dams linear and nonlinear analyses are used. Because even operating loads will create cracks in the body of the dam, dam behavior can not always be considered linear. It is remarkable that these surface cracks can join together under seismic loads and this question the safety of dams. It is important to note that nonlinear analysis of concrete gravity dams is... 

Soil nailing is an in-situ technique of mechanically stabilizing soil masses which has been used in France, Germany, United states, and recently in Iran. A review of literature shows that Soil-Nailed walls have performed well during strong ground motions in comparison with the gravity retaining structures. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, minor signs of distress or corresponding deformation were found on the Soil-Nailed walls, indicating excellent performance of such structures during moderate and strong shakings. These observations indicate that Soil-Nailed walls have an inherent satisfactory seismic response. This has been attributed to the intrinsic flexibility of the Soil-Nailed... 

Stress tensors and their rates are fundamental quantities in modeling the behavior of materials in the field of nonlinear continuum mechanics. One of the most remarkable applications of stress rates is their presence in the rate type constitutive equations of materials.
Co-rotational rates are corresponding to the rates which are measured by an observer who is in a reference rotating coordinate system. In general, under some specific conditions for the spin of a co-rotational rate, the rate of an Eulerian tensor would be objective. In this thesis, the objective co-rotational rates of Eulerian stress tensors for isotropic elastic materials under large deformations are obtained for the... 

The concept of generalized strains is a well-established subject in the classical continuum mechanics. The characteristics and various applications of the generalized strains have been the point of interest of many researchers in the classical continuum mechanics. The aim of this thesis is the introduction of generalized strains in the micropolar theory, as a non-classical continuum theory. A set of generalized strains is suggested for the deformation of macro-elements. Moreover, a set of generalized strains is proposed for the micro-structures. Since the rate of strains possesses a significant importance in the constitutive equations of nonlinear analysis of solids, expressions for the rate... 

In nature, there are types of soils that when goinging under stress at constant moisture, or increase of moisture at constant stress, or change of both characters, they show a sudden and high level decrease in their volume. These type of soils are named as Collapsible soils. Iran is one of the countries that at some parts of its land collapsible soils are found. In this research by using of laboratory equipments, the volume change behavior of collapsible loess soils of Gorgan plain (North of Iran) is evaluated under increase of water content and inundation stress. In these experiments, the usual odeometer cell has been used for exploring the behaviour of collapsibility and volume change of... 

In recent years, the construction technique in dam engineering has been revolutionized due to the rapid development of roller compacted concrete (RCC) and By making the continuous construction of dam without contraction joints, the goal of more economical and faster concrete dam construction has been realized. The typical stress-strain behavior of traditional concrete and high cementations content RCC results in a reasonably constant modulus of elasticity that is valid for stresses ranging from zero to near ultimate strength. But lean RCC mixes typically have nonlinear stress strain behavior with hardening after stresses exceed about 25% of the ultimate strength. Using the nonlinear... 

Generally concrete dams have not been sited at location where there were faults classified as active. However, there may be sites suitable for concrete dams where there is some possibility of fault displacement occurring underneath the dam. In addition, there may be situations where an existing dam was constructed over a fault thought to be inactive and later determined to be active, due to different approaches of classification of a fault whether it is active or not. Also some discontinuities may be observed during construction. For these cases nonlinear analysis and criteria will be required to assess the capability of concrete dams to safely withstand fault displacements. In this thesis,... 

Metabonomics is a quantitative measurement of time dependent metabolic interactions for living systems in response to the pathological or genetic variations. NMR spectroscopy has emerged as a key tool for understanding metabolic processes in living systems. In this project, the study of metabolomics was performed as classification and regression on samples of parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis disease, celiac disease and crohn’s disease. In classification part, various methods were applied using optimal parameters.classification methods in Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis disease, celiac disease and crohn’s disease were RF, CART, PLS-DA, RF and RF respectively. Based on the... 

The micropolar theory is a nonclassical continuum theory which considers a microstructure associated to each particle. This microstructure has three degrees of freedom and can rigidly rotate in the three dimensional space. Beside the classical or force stress tensor, in the micropolar theory the couple stress tensor is also considered.This research is devoted to deriving energy pair tensors for material strain measures in micropolar continuum. The subject of strains and their conjugate stresses is one of the major topics in the field of solid mechanics which has greatly been dealt with in the literature. This concept was introduced for investigating structural inequalities in solid... 

Concrete gravity dams are structures of much importance which their failure due to earthquakes results in a catastrophe. Therefore, precise stability analysis of these types of dams against sliding and overturning is essential. The common method of safety assessment of gravity dams is based on limit equilibrium method assuming that dam slides and overturns as a rigid structure. Although providing high safety factors is somehow acceptable to meet the safety requirements of dams, it should be considered that the whole system of dam body and foundation is flexible in reality and its performance should be studied in this case for stability analysis. In this investigation, first, stability... 

Gravelly soils are among the ones that can be found all over the world and have been investigated by many researchers in recent years. Although many investigations have been performed to clarify the behaviour of these soils, but still there are a lot of shortge of information about the steady state and liquefaction potential of them. In this research, to verify the behaviour of gravelly soils, static triaxial apparatus has been used. The tests performed in this research are devided into 2 groups: Consolidated Undrained tests (CU) and Consolidated Drainedtests(CD). In group 1 tests, all 4 parameters involving gradation, relative density, isotropic pressure and anisotropy of consolidation... 

In this work we have studied conformation of ranitidine by dynamic nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (DNMR) in four different solvents: chloroform, acetone, dimethylsulfoxide, and deuteriumoxide. Ranitidine has three tatumeric forms of enamine, nitoic acid, and imine, but its stable structure is enamine. Temperature dependent 1HNMR spectra of ranitidine which reportet at 500MHz were consistent with the following free activation of energies ΔG# (kcal mol-1): chloroform = 16.2; acetone = 15.4; dimethylsulfoxide = 15.1. The experimental results were confirmed by DFT theoretical calculations at the B3LYP/6-311++G (d, p) level of theory. It was also proved that ranitidine has the form of... 

Monitoring is of particular importance after impounding and during dam operation. In all large dams, by installation of the required instruments the pore pressure, soil mass pressure and displacement during construction, first impounding and operation are measured, then the performance of dam will be analyzed and evaluated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the "Gavoshan" dam, which has an important role on agriculture development and drinking water supply at west part of Country. To reach this, the values resulting from instruments have been implemented by FLAC software, using "Back Analysis" method. However, this assessment is complete when "back analysis" method is... 

The behavior of pile foundations under earthquake loading is an important issue that affects the performance of structures. Design procedures have been developed for evaluating pile behavior under earthquake loading; however, the application of these procedures to cases involving liquefiable ground is uncertain. The performance of piles in liquefied soil layers is much more complex than that of non-liquefying soil layers because not only the superstructure and the surrounding soil exert different dynamic loads on pile, but also the stiffness and shear strength of surrounding soil diminishes over time due to both non-linear behavior of soil and pore water pressure generation. In this... 

Collapsible soils such as loess, which are naturally found unsaturated, are kind of problematic soils that undergo sudden and noticeable decrease in volume under increasing stress at constant moisture, increasing moisture at constant stress, or increase in both of them. This kind of soil can be found in some parts of Iran such as plain of Gorgan. To fulfill the main purpose of this study, evaluating the effect of cementation on collapse behavior of loess of Gorgan, some oedometer tests under controlled matric suction were performed on reconstituted samples without and with lime. The lime was added for stabilizing of the collapsible materials and the amount was chosen to be %3 by weight of... 

Dams are huge structures in which safety is a very important issue because a failure will result in loss of lives and finance. Several approximate equations for the approximate analysis of arch dams already exist. These equations are usually obtained by considering the behavior of the dam as a shell. Approximate methods are much faster in comparison to the exact methods and give young design engineers who do not have the experience of designing inside view of displacements, stresses and strains. The aim of this project is to compare the results of approximate analysis of arch dams with the results of finite element models and clarify the points of dams in which approximate analysis methods... 

In this research the relaxation processes of spin nuclei was quantitatively described using computer programs. According to our data, both longitudinal and transverse relaxations consist of five exponentials of the forms of and . The parameters and were represented as a functions of . Analytical expressions were extracted for dynamic frequency shift's components in addition to representing them as a function of . In solving of transverse and longitudinal relaxation's equations, the transverse and longitudinal relaxation matrices were extracted which are useful in the investigation of exchange effect in these nuclei. The accuracy of our computer program was confirmed using it for... 

During the past earthquakes in all over the world, the piles have had serious damages in soils with liquefaction potential. During an earthquake, liquefaction occurs in some parts of ground with mild slope and saturated and soft granular soil. Afterwards lateral spreading induced by liquefaction incurs irreparable damages on structures and piles particularly. Observing these damages, the researchers and engineers have conducted more surveys and investigations to studying the behavior of piles in granular soils with liquefaction potential and also interactions between  soil  and pile.  In  these  researches,  they have  modeled  the  interactions between  soil  and pile.  However  there are ... 

Because of a lot of water, gas and polymer injection processes in industry, two phase flow simulation is very useful. So performing experimental work to find out fluid flow behavior in a small scale of reservoir has special importance. The results in various scales will differ because of heterogeneity and different dominant flow regimes. To see this effects, comparison of two small scales, namely core and micromodel scales, has been studied using the scale up methods. In literature review, the scale up procedure, relative permeability methods and dimensionless numbers in two phase flows has been described. Here the relative permeability and oil... 

Collapsible soils are kinds of problematic soils which are susceptible to large and sudden reduction in volume upon wetting. A manifest kind of these soils is loess; catastrophic settlement of structures which are built upon it has been observed when the soil becomes wet. In this investigation the collapse potential of samples of loess taken from Gorgan, Golestan, Iran, has been studied by using unsaturated odometer tests under controlled matric suction. To this end, two modified odometer apparatus with the capability of controlling the matric suction, have been designed and developed. Undisturbed samples of soil have been tested under K0 condition, while the matric suction, volumetric...