The ability of five different methods to estimate the shear stress distribution in compound channels is investigated. Methods proposed by Yang and Lim (YLM), Khodasheans and Paquier (KPM), Sterling and Knight (SKM), Zarrati ...

The e ects of climate and meteorological factors on urban problems such as air pollution, heat island, and urban hydrology have increasingly become important in terms of mitigation and adaptation issues during the recent ...

The pollution, changing according to various standards, is directly proportional to water quality in rivers. In this study, data and restrictions prescribed for standards of water quality such as Turkish Standards Institute ...

It has long been established that adverse driver behavior, including behavior relating to distracted driving, propensities for risk taking, and disregarding traffic rules, have been critical determinants with regard to the ...

The design and implementation of a novel fuzzy supervisory control approach for the motion control of a seismic shake table is addressed in this work. For this purpose, a single degree of freedom laboratory-scale electric ...

A new design methodology based on the total value of structures is introduced. This methodology, namely Value Based Design of structures (VBD), uses the advantages of Endurance Time (ET) method. While prescriptive and ...

This investigation develops some important data on the mechanical properties, bond strength between concrete and steel rebar and microstructure of crude Oil-Soaked Concrete containing silica fume and Nano silica. Experiments ...

One of the main difficulties in the development of meshless methods using the Moving Least Squares approximation, such as Mixed Discrete Least SquaresMeshless (MDLSM) method, is the imposition of the essential boundary ...

In this article, the relation between meteorological parameters and dust activities in western Iran has been studied. Satellite-based data achieved from TOMS are used to investigate the dust activities within a time period ...