During their service life, marine pipelines continually accumulate damage as a result of the action of various environmental forces. Clearly, the development of robust techniques for early damage detection is very important to avoid the possible occurrence of a disastrous structural failure. Most of vibration-based damage detection methods require the modal properties that are obtained from mea...

Air and soil pollution from mining activities has been considered as a critical issue to the health of living organisms. However, few efforts have been made in distinguishing the main pathway of organism genetic damage by heavy metals related to mining activities. Therefore, we investigated the genetic damage of Leymus chinensis leaf cells, the air particulate matter (PM) contents, and concentr...

Heavy economic losses and human casualties caused by destructive earthquakes around the world clearly show the need for a systematic approach for large scale damage detection of various types of existing structures. That could provide the proper means for the decision makers for any rehabilitation plans. The aim of this study is to present an innovative method for investigating the seismic vuln...

The diagnosis of the location structural damage and its extent after an earthquake using numerical methods is one ongoing research topics. After occurrence in a structure reduction stiffness, dynamic characteristics change, therefore, assessing changes can be used as indicator for detecting damage. In this article, advanced technique called Direct Stiffness Calculation (DSC) new index based on ...

sunn pest (eurygaster integriceps put.) is one of the major pests of wheat in iran. identification of resistantcultivars is an effective integrated pest management (ipm) strategy. to identify the genetic response of wheat and triticale to sunn pest, and determine the relationship between resistance and morpho physiological traits, eight bread wheat breeding lines/cultivars, four durum wheat lin...

OBJECTIVES Outcome assessment in large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) remains challenging and this impairs patient management and the conduct of clinical studies. Previous proposals for outcome tools have not included imaging. This study aimed to develop an imaging score to quantify damage in LVV and to assess the difference between Takayasu (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA). METHODS Ninety-six p...

abstract introduction: diabetes increase salvia sugar and change its bacterial flora these changes destroy periodon-tal tissues. there are contravercies about affect of diabetes on periodontal tissues. in this study cpitn index that show intensity of periodontal damage was compared in insulin depended with healthy individual. methods and materials: in this study 132 cpitn index measured in 132 ...

This paper presents a three-dimensional nonlinear degrading stiffness model capable of capturing stiffness degradation in bilateral directions for earthquake response analyses of reinforced concrete bridges. Stiffness degradations due to flexural and shear damage are considered. The model can trace the progress of damage from initial failure through gradual degradation of the member stiffness d...

risk assessment and management of petrochemical feed and product transportation pipelines is very important to preventing probable accidents. so, 60 pipelines evaluated by chemical exposure index and chlorine pipeline due to high hazard distances selected for relative risk analysis. the chlorine pipeline with 3468 meter length divided to 100 meter sections, and third party damage index (tpdi), ...