The purpose of this study is to identify the way of dealing with the components ofproject implementation in civil projects of Shiraz University (SU) and Shiraz University ofMedical Sciences (SUMS), to compare the executive ...

Research is underway to increase the strength of concrete with the addition of chemicaland mineral admixtures. The use of High Range Water Reducers (HRWR) has been increasedmany times in the last two decades. In this ...

Chaotic analysis has been performed on the river flow time series before and afterapplying the wavelet based de-noising techniques in order to investigate the noise content effectson chaotic nature of flow series. In this ...

Microtremor data have been carried out for microzonation studies and disastermitigation in urban areas. Over a period of two decades, the Nakamura's H/V spectral ratiomethod was recognized as a simple and cost effective ...

Many studies have shown that individuals' responses to urban traffic congestion, asusually assumed by policymakers, are significantly different from their respected actual behavior.This paper adopts a behavioral approach ...

The complicated problem of truss shape and size optimization with multiple frequencyconstraints is investigated in this paper. A recently developed metaheuristics called teachinglearning-based optimization (TLBO) algorithm ...

This research presents an efficient and reliable swarm intelligence-based approach, antcolony optimization and elitist-mutated particle swarm optimization. Methods of particle swarmoptimization (PSO) and ant colony ...

Although the collection of a detailed, accurate and sufficient volume of information,and subsequent timely delivery are vital for effective quality control and management inconstruction, existing methods for material and ...

Surveys of the literature indicate that shell foundations are economical structuralelements which can be considered as the alternatives of flat foundations. However, the advantageof shell elements in geotechnical engineering ...

Many reinforced concrete structures are exposed to corrosive environment which canlead to damage of the reinforcing steels. These members include coastal structures subjected towind-born salt spray and seawater, as well ...

Endurance Time (ET) method is a recently developed response-history based analysisprocedure for seismic assessment and structural design in which structures are subjected to apredesigned intensifying excitation function, ...

In this paper, the influence of increasing the height of building on the seismic behaviorof dual structural systems in the form of steel moment resisting frames accompanied withreinforced concrete shear walls has been ...

Assessment of the effectiveness of ferrocement strengthening techniques i.e., cast insitu Ferro-mesh layers and precast ferrocement Laminate is the aim of this experimentalinvestigation. To accomplish this objective, ten ...