• Probability Approach for Prediction of Pitting Corrosion Fatigue Life of Custom 450 Steel 

  Salarvand, A.؛ Poursaiedi, E.؛ Azizpour, A. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  In this study, the pitting type of corrosion growth characteristics, fatigue crack initiation and propagation behavior; axial fatigue tests were carried out on precipitation hardened martensitic Custom 450 steel in the air ...

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• Investigation of Barium Sulfate Precipitation and Prevention Using Different Scale Inhibitors under Reservoir Conditions 

  Khormali, A.؛ Sharifov, A. R.؛ Torba, D. I. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  In this work, scaling tendency and amount of precipitation of barium sulfate (BaSO4) were determined; the process is depending on temperature, pressure and mixing ratio of injection and formation of waters. ...

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• Analytical Investigation of Tire-Road Contact Characteristics for Wheelchair Robots Safely Running 

  Zhou, C.؛ Zhao, L.؛ Yu, Y.؛ Li, X. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  To effectively improve the tire grounding behaviors of wheelchair robots, an analytical method is proposed to analyze and optimize the tire grounding safety. Firstly, taking the cushion and tires as the vibration isolation ...

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• Improvement of Efficiency of Coal-Fired Steam Power Plant by Reducing Heat Rejection Temperature at Condenser Using Kalina Cycle 

  Khankari, G.؛ Karmakar, S. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  This paper proposes an approach for improving the plant efficiency by reducing the heat rejection temperature of power cycle using Kalina Cycle System 11 (KCS11) which is integrated at the steam condenser of a 500 ...

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• A Lagrangian Relaxation-based Algorithm to Solve a Home Health Care Routing Problem 

  Fathollahi-Fard, A. M.؛ Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, M.؛ Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Nowadays, a rapid growth in the rate of life expectancy can be seen especially in the developed countries. Accordingly, the population of elderlies has been increased. By another point of view, the number of hospitals, ...

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• Assessment of Particle-size and Temperature Effect of Nanofluid on Heat Transfer Adopting Lattice Boltzmann Model 

  Shahriari, A.؛ Jahantigh, N.؛ Rakani, F. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  The investigation of the effect of nanoparticles' mean diameter and temperature of Al2O3–water nanofluid on velocity and energy field using the lattice Boltzmann method is the main objective of  this ...

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• Characteristics of PANi/rGO Nanocomposite as Protective Coating and Catalyst in Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Counter Electrode Deposited on AISI 1086 Steel Substrate 

  Sofyan, N.؛ Nugraha, R. A.؛ Ridhova, A.؛ Yuwono, A. H.؛ Udhiarto, A. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  One of the possibilities to mass-produce dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) device is if it could be embedded to the area atop metal roof. However, the use of metal substrate is constrained by the corrosion caused by the ...

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• A Collaborative Stochastic Closed-loop Supply Chain Network Design for Tire Industry 

  Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, M.؛ Abdallah, K. S.؛ Fathollahi-Fard, A. M. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Recent papers in the concept of Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) have seen a rapid development in applying the stochastic models to get closer to real-world applications. Regaring the special characteristics of each ...

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• Integrated Order Batching and Distribution Scheduling in a Single-block Order Picking Warehouse Considering S-Shape Routing Policy 

  Zare Mehrjerdi, Y.؛ Alipour, M.؛ Mostafaeipour, A. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  In this paper, a mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed to integrate batch picking and distribution scheduling problems in order to optimize them simultaneously in an order picking warehouse. A tow-phase heuristic ...

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• A New Structure for Direct Measurement of Temperature Based on Negative Temperature Coefficient Thermistor and Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System 

  Ghasemi, J.؛ Mehdipoor, M.؛ Rasekhi, J.؛ Gorgani Firouzjah, K. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Thermistors are very commonly used for narrow temperature-range high-resolution applications, such as in medicine, calorimetry, and near ambient temperature measurements. In particular, Negative Temperature Coefficient ...

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• Investigation on Equivalent Trans-utilization Mode and Benefit of Wind Energy 

  Zhanxin, Y.؛ Fang, Z.؛ Lixiong, X.؛ Hongjun, L.؛ Dapeng, X.؛ Junnan, L.؛ Yu, D.؛ Yalei, L. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  For economic benefit of wind power generation, the equivalent conversion relationships and models between the different “quality" energy are studied deeply in the conversion processes of wind energy. Considering the effect ...

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• FPGA-based of Thermogram Enhancement Algorithm for Non-destructive Thermal Characterization 

  Kim, H. S. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Thermal imaging technology is used to translate thermal energy or heat into visible light for analyzing the sample images known as a thermogram. It has numerous applications such as for surveillance, medical diagnosis, and ...

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• Improvement Performances of Active and Reactive Power Control Applied to DFIG for Variable Speed Wind Turbine Using Sliding Mode Control and FOC 

  Douadi, T.؛ Harbouche, Y.؛ Abdessemed, R.؛ Bakhti, I. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  This paper deals with the Active and Reactive Power control of double-fed induction generator (DFIG) for variable speed wind turbine. For controlling separately the active and the reactive power generated by a DFIG, field ...

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• Iterative Weighted Non-smooth Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition 

  Sabzalian, B.؛ Abolghasemi, V. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a part-based image representation method. It comes from the intuitive idea that entire face image can be constructed by combining several parts. In this paper, we propose a framework ...

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• A New High Frequency Grid Impedance Estimation Technique for the Frequency Range of 2 to150 kHz 

  AlyanNezhadi, M. M.؛ Hassanpour, H.؛ Zare, F. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Grid impedance estimation is used in many power system applications such as grid connected renewable energy systems and power quality analysis of smart grids. The grid impedance estimation techniques based on signal injection ...

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• An Effective Method for Utility Preserving Social Network Graph Anonymization Based on Mathematical Modeling 

  Mortazavi, R.؛ Erfani, S. H. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  In recent years, privacy concerns about social network graph data publishing has increased due to the widespread use of such data for research purposes. This paper addresses the problem of identity disclosure risk of a ...

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• A Secure Routing Algorithm for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks 

  Ahmadi, M.؛ Jameii, S. M. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  Recently, underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) attracted the interest of many researchers and the past three decades have held the rapid progress of underwater acoustic communication. One of the major problems in ...

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• Detecting Fake Websites Using Swarm Intelligence Mechanism in Human Learning 

  Parandeh Motlagh, F.؛ Khatibi Bardsiri, A. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  The internet and its various services have made users to easily communicate with each other. Internet benefits including online business and e-commerce. E-commerce has boosted online sales and online auction types. Despite ...

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• Study and Analysis of A Simple Self Cascode Regulated Cascode Amplifier 

  Karuppanan, P.؛ Anuradha, K. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  This article proposed a simple self cascode RGC amplifier configuration to increase the gain and bandwidth. The cascode amplifier eliminates the miller capacitance between input and output and facilitates high gain, high ...

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• Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System Prediction of Zn Metal Ions Adsorption by γ-Fe2o3/Polyrhodanine Nanocomposite in a Fixed Bed Column 

  Lashkenari, M. S.؛ KhazaiePoul, A.؛ Ghasemi, S.؛ Ghorbani, M. (Materials and Energy Research Center, 2018-10-01)

  This study investigates the potential of an intelligence model namely, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in prediction of the Zn metal ions adsorption in comparision with two well known empirical models included ...

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