in this research, we address the application of uncertaintyprogramming to design a multi-site, multi-product, multi-period,closed-loop supply chain (clsc) network. in order to make theresults of this article more realistic, a clsc for a case study inthe iron and steel industry has been explored. the presentedsupply chain covers three objective functions: maximization ofprofit, minimization of n...

Structural control technology has been widely accepted as an effective means for the protection of structures against seismic hazards. Passive base isolation is one of the common structural control techniques used to enhance the performance of structures subjected to severe earthquake excitations. Isolation bearings employed at the base of a structure naturally increase its flexibility, but con...

this paper uses a psopc model based non-destructive damage identification procedure using frequency and modal data. the objective function formulation for the minimization problem is based on the frequency changes. the method is demonstrated by using a cantilever beam, four-bay plane truss and two-bay two-story plane frame with different scenarios. in this study, the modal data are provided nume...

We demonstrate that the Ising model on a general triangular graph with three distinct couplings ${K}_{1}$, ${K}_{2}$, and ${K}_{3}$ corresponds to an affine transformed conformal field theory (CFT). Full invariance of $c=1/2$ minimal CFT is restored by introducing metric lattice through map $\mathrm{sinh}(2{K}_{i})={\ensuremath{\ell}}_{i}^{*}/{\ensuremath{\ell}}_{i}$ which relates critical rati...

2 DEFINING MULTI-PERSPECTIVE CAMERAS In this section, we describe in more detail how multiple pin-hole cameras along with a few 3D planes, which we call dolly planes, could be combined to form a single multi-perspective camera. To achieve this, multiple pin-hole cameras are rst transformed using plane-induced homographies before they are merged to de ne a multi-perspective camera. We will rst d...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 in this paper, a fully discretized bio-fidelity simulation model for bio-mechanical (kinematic) analysis of scoliosis for various patients was developed to analyze forces on vertebrae, loads acting on the intervertebral disc, corresponding angles between vertebrae, and tension in the spine muscles during lateral bending. it w...

investigations are carried out to evaluate the performance of a low heat rejection (lhr) diesel engine consisting of air gap insulated piston with 3-mm air gap, with superni (an alloy of nickel) crown and air gap insulated liner with superni insert with different operating conditions of crude jatropha oil with varied injection timing and injection pressure.  performance parameters of brake ther...

multi-part words in english language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. persian language consists of multi-part words as well. based on persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. this common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

in this paper, the radial breathing mode (rbm) frequencies of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) are  obtained based on the multiple-elastic thin shell model. for this purpose, mwcnt is considered as a multiple concentric elastic thin cylindrical shells, which are coupled through van der waals (vdw) forces between two adjacent tubes. lennard-jones potential is used to calculate the vdw forc...