Abstract: Crane hook is a curved beam. Hooks are employed in heavy industries to carry tones of loads safely. These hooks have a big role to play as far as the safety of crane loaded is concerned. With more and more industrialization the rate at which these hooks are forged are increasing. This project is carried out to study the stress variation in crane hooks for different cross sections such...

Over the last years, international sea freight container transportation has grown dramatically and container terminals play nowadays a key role within the global shipping network. Terminal’s operations have received increasing interest in the scientific literature and operations research techniques are more and more used to improve efficiency and productivity. In this work we provide an overvie...

Crane sequencing in container terminals determines the order of ship discharging and loading jobs that quay cranes (QCs) perform so that the duration of vessels’ stay is minimized. The ship’s load profile, berthing time, number of available bays and QCs are considered. More importantly, clearance and yard congestion constraints need to be included, which respectively ensure that a minimum dista...

Seaport container terminals are source of many interesting large-scale optimization problems, which arise in the management of operations at several decision levels. In this paper we firstly illustrate a recently proposed framework, called two-stage column generation (Salani and Vacca, 2008), which is suitable for a particular class of large-scale problems, where the structure of the original f...

International sea-freight container transportation has grown dramatically over the last years and container terminals represent nowadays a key actor in the global shipping network. Terminal managers have to face with an increasing competitiveness among terminals, which require more and more efficiency in container operations both along the quayside and within the yard: the objective is usually ...

A major use of genetic data is parentage verification and identification as inaccurate pedigrees negatively affect genetic gain. Since 2012 the international standard for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) verification in Bos taurus cattle has been the ISAG SNP panels. While these ISAG panels provide an increased level of parentage accuracy over microsatellite markers (MS), they can validate ...

The existing research about multi-agent systems (MAS) in container terminal have not yet fully depicted the entire operations processes. These past works tend to use static (linear programming-based) modeling methods model systems. This method has a weakness because decision optimality is only guaranteed for agents that are directly involved discussion. While other whose performance affected by...

With the trend of terminal automation and requirement for port operation efficiency to be greatly improved, it is very necessary optimize traveling route automatic guided vehicles (AGV) with reference connection loading unloading equipment. As a complex multi-equipment system, inevitable that AGV will collide when due various accidents in actual operation, which lead locking reduce operation. C...

The objective of this study was to develop and validate an automated acquisition system to assess quality of care (QC) measures for cardiovascular diseases. This system combining searching and retrieval algorithms was designed to extract QC measures from electronic discharge notes and to estimate the attainment rates to the current standards of care. It was developed on the patients with ST-seg...