The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

In this paper, an analytical model based on Modified Slab Method is presented for rolling of clad sheet or double-layers in which the two layers are bounded prior to rolling. This model considers the general case of asymmetrical rolling due to unequal &#10surface speed, different contact friction, roll diameters, flow stress, and thickness ratios of the two layers. Using this model, rolling par...

In this paper, an analytical model based on Modified Slab Method is presented for rolling of clad sheet or double-layers in which the two layers are bounded prior to rolling. This model considers the general case of asymmetrical rolling due to unequal surface speed, different contact friction, roll diameters, flow stress, and thickness ratios of the two layers. Using this model, rolling param...

this paper concerns the design and analysis, of a ball type continuously variable transmission, (b-cvt). this b-cvt has a simple kinematic structure, and same as a toroidal cvt, transmits power by friction on the contact points between input and output discs, that are connected to each other by balls. after, a brief introduction of our b-cvt structure, the performance and traction efficiency of...

the nano sized tio2 and zno are the most active photocatalysts.  methylene blue was used as a reference molecule for the photocatalytic degradation. the tio2 and zno can totally remove methylene blue dye. the effect of various process parameters like initial concentration, contact time, dose of catalyst and ph on the extent of removal of dye by photocatalysis in presence of tio2 and zno was stu...

We investigated the ice nucleating properties of mineral dust particles to understand the sensitivity of simulated cloud properties to two different representations of contact angle in the Classical Nucleation Theory (CNT). These contact angle representations are based on two sets of laboratory deposition ice nucleation measurements: Arizona Test Dust (ATD) particles of 100, 300 and 500 nm size...

the aim of the present work was to investigate the ability of cocopeat to remove of lead (ii) from aqueous solutions. the effects of different parameters such as particle size, adsorbent dosage, ph, contact time, agitation speed and concentration on the removal process has been investigated. the maximum removal of lead ion (92.5%) took place in the ph range of 4 contact time in 30 minutes and i...

We evaluate Vickers hardness and true instrumented indentation test (IIT) hardness of 24 metals over a wide range of mechanical properties using just IIT parameters by taking into account the real contact morphology beneath the Vickers indenter. Correlating the conventional Vickers hardness, indentation contact morphology, and IIT parameters for the 24 metals reveals relationships between conta...

This study investigates the correlations among the tensile strength, mineral composition, and textural features of twenty-ninesandstones from Kouzestan province. The regression analyses as well as artificial neural network (ANN) are also applied to evaluatethe correlations. The results of simple regression analyses show no correlation between mineralogical features and tensile strength.However,...