The importance of evaporation estimation in water resources and agricultural studies is undeniable. Evaporation pans (EP) are used as an indicator to determine the evaporation of lakes and reservoirs around the world due ...

As massive tunneling projects become more and more popular, predicting the performance of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has been a problem that arose recently. A TBM is a modern piece of machinery that is specially assembled ...

Agricultural waste materials are increasingly being used as partial replacements for cement in concrete. Several experimental studies are available to evaluate the mechanical properties of plastic waste reinforced concrete ...

In arid and semi-arid areas, optimization and strategic planning of water delivery through an optimal and intelligently designed reservoir supply system is a primary task for water resources management. In this regard, the ...

Prediction of bus travel time is a key component of an intelligent transportation system and has many benefits for both service users and providers. Although there is a rich literature on bus travel prediction, some ...

The gabion weirs serve the same functions that their counterpart impervious weirs do. However, they have the advantage of being eco-friendly, more stable, and economical in low to medium-head cases. Dissolved oxygen is one ...

This study presents a new approach based on shearlet transform for the first time to detect damages, and compare it with the wavelet, Laplacian pyramid, curvelet, and contourlet transforms to specify different types of ...