Aluminum based hybrid metal matrix composite with more than two particle reinforcement is very much popular for heavy duty application, and the proportion of these can be controlled to achieve desired mechanical properties (strength wear resistance). AA 6061 alloys popularly used in aircraft automobile applications, tends have inferior tribological property therefore reinforcements are being ma...

recognizing the importance of the advertising in brand reinforcement and brand credibility, the authors conduct the present research for understanding the customers’ emotional responses toward the brand reinforcement and credibility and its effect on the perceived values and behavioral intentions. hypotheses were tested on data collected from 467 customers of mellat bank in semnan province in i...

Titanium alloys exhibit high specific strength and stiffness that fit structural applications demanding lightweight. The microstructure of the alpha-beta titanium alloys can be changed by thermomechanical processes such as heat treatments and pre-forging to achieve a certain ductility. Ceramic reinforcements can improve specific strength and stiffness, and also the wear resistance. In Situ part...

limit to the tension reinforcement ratio ( ρ) in flexural high strength reinforced concrete (hsrc) members is based on the requirement that tension failure as sufficient rotation capacity are ensured at ultimate limit state. however, the provisions for the total amount of longitudinal reinforcement ratio ( ρ and ρ’) are not associated with any rational derivation. in this paper, a quantitative ...

buildings with wall or frame-wall systems are more effective against earthquake forces and sustain less damage than buildings which their lateral resistance is solely depends on frames. four reinforced concrete (rc) structural wall specimens were subjected to cyclic loading using finite elements method with abaqus software in order to study influence of diagonal web reinforcement. the research ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are consist of independent distributed sensors with storing, processing, sensing and communication capabilities to monitor physical or environmental conditions. There are number of challenges in WSNs because of limitation of battery power, communications, computation and storage space. In the recent years, computational intelligence approaches such as evolutionar...

2gkx0 + v max, where g is the universal constant of gravity, k = 0.0305 is the coefficient of friction between the ball and the ground, and vmax is the maximum velocity allowed at the border of the hole in order to make the ball to enter the hole and not to overcome it. Assuming that the ball has a diameter of 4.5cm and that the hole has a diameter of 7.5cm, vmax is equal to 110.7cm/s. At the b...

A critical challenge in robot learning from demonstration is the ability to map the behavior of the trainer onto a robot’s existing repertoire of basic/primitive capabilities. In part, this problem is due to the fact that the observed behavior of the teacher may consist of a combination (or superposition) of the robot’s individual primitives. The problem becomes more complex when the task invol...