it is proposed to use a single base platform in the persian gulf considering its low depth and more appropriate environmental conditions in comparison to north sea and mexico gulf where this kind of platform is very popular. the pile of platform is responsible for transmission of environmental loads resulted from waves, currents, wind and dead loads to foundation of platform. using sacs 5.3 sof...

measurement of the values of forces in tractor arms is of great importance due to draft of agricultural equipment. these values can be used for testing and evaluation of the agricultural machinery, selection of suitable tractor, etc. the tools which are used for measurement of the forces are called dynamometer. the main objective of the present study was to design and evaluate a load cell for i...

We analyze a competitive electricity market, where consumers exhibit optimal load shifting behavior to maximize utility and producers/suppliers maximize their profit under supply capacity constraints. The associated computationally tractable formulation can be used to inform market design or policy analysis in the context of increasing availability of the smart grid technologies that enable opt...

Intelligent hybrid reinforced plastics (IHFRP) with fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors embedded in the HFRP were produced in-situ. The FBG/HFRP interface bonding is discussed. Experimental results show that the interfacial bonding of FBG/HFRP is good, which ensures that it can transfer the external load to the FBG sensor well. The novel IHFRP has a higher strain-testing precision compared to the...

In the springs of 2000, the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) undertook a series of studies to investigate the potential of using a combination of technologies to extend log hauling operations during the traditional spring break-up period. During spring break-up, thin pavement roads are weakened, resulting in the application of government-imposed load restrictions to preve...

A system model characterized by networks of service stations is used to study trhoughput and response time as a function of system load, and to characterize the effects of saturation in a system. The results are expressed in terms of only three sets of parameters: the matrix of interstation transition frequencies, the light load service rate of each station, and the service capacity of each sta...

Load Testing helps to capture performance at different load levels. It is naïve to assume that application performance at a certain load level may be in the same band that the load testing has pointed out. By introducing small spike for short duration we observed that applications either show resiliency, graceful degradation and recovery or total crash even after the spike has subsided. This be...

nowadays, economic load dispatch between generation units with least cost involved is one of the most important issues in utilizing power systems. in this paper, a new method i.e. water cycle algorithm (wca) which is similar to other intelligent algorithm and is based on swarm, is employed in order to solve the economic load dispatch problem between power plants. wca is used to solve complicate...

conclusions this study indicates that low-load rt results in greater accumulations in vl compared to high-load rt over the course of 8 weeks of training. results after adjusting for the pre-test scores, there was a significant difference between the two intervention groups on post-intervention total vl with a very large effect size (f (1, 15) = 16.598, p = .001, ηp2 = .525). there was a signifi...