explosion and fire on an offshore rig can lead to its minor or complete damage and sinking which means the loss of life or environmental pollution. hence the use of techniques such as blast wall is crucial to reduce the detrimental effects. these blast walls are designed for explosion wave of length between 0.1 to 1 of load mainly to protect the personnel and critical sections. in this research...

Most of oil and gas offshore platforms are located in the seismic regains. So, Seismic vulnerability evaluation of the offshore platforms is one of the most important and vital issues in the structural systems. In this study, jacket type offshore platforms are studied by incorporating the pushover analyses and nonlinear time history analyses, in such a way that, first some push over analyses ar...

Nowadays with the ever-increasing growth in social media platforms and the creation of different forms of online activism, the word known as “Campaign” has become a familiar and useful term in people’s everyday lives. Campaigns with all kinds of social aims especially using Hashtags are run on social media platforms by individuals, charities, NGOs, governments, municipalities and brand companie...

information and knowledge management have become crucial to the development of a competitive edge on the market. this requires the gathering of complete and consistent information in an environment where companies are working increasingly with a vast network of partners. in this paper, we investigate the case of platforms on the tourism market selling trips in boxes thanks to a wide network of ...

This paper discusses how component-driven development can be used in the design of the Ginga middleware architecture, including its Ginga-NCL presentation module. Presentation engines have an important facility, since they allow for previewing when each specific media player is needed. Therefore, to maintain temporal consistency during application presentations, instantiation time of media play...