Due to geographic and climatic conditions in mountainous northwest area, Roads in these areas are often covered with snow, ice and mud. Hence Transportation of equipment and soldiers encounter hardship and difficulties in rural area and specially outposts. To solve these problems, it is needed to fabricate portable roadway or traction mats. These high strength mats cover surface of roads and ar...

Solutions are presented for the elastic plane-strain problem of a crack in a coating on a compliant substrate of finite thickness. Analysis of the problem shows that substrate thickness has a significant effect on the steady-state energy release rate for channel cracks. This is so over a wide range of elastic mismatch between film and substrate, but is especially important if the substrate is m...

Equal channel angular rolling (ECAR) process is one of the severe plastic deformation (SPD) methods that have been used to make ultra-fine grain (UFG) materials with improving the mechanical properties of samples. After performing the process at several paths, a large strain is applied to the material that can cause decreasing the grain size and improving the mechanical and physical properties ...

Designs of heat exchangers have mostly been disconnected to the performance of thermoelectric generator (TEG) systems. The development work, mostly focused on thermoelectric materials, required a significant amount of engineering parametric analysis. In this work, a micro plate-fin heat exchanger applied to a TEG is investigated and optimized to maximize the output power and the cost performanc...

Extraordinary optical transmission spectrum for a two-dimensional metallic hole array (2D-MHA) changes with the hole channel shape. In this paper a new converging-diverging channel (CDC) shape is proposed. A three-dimensional (3D) finite element method is utilized to analyze the transmission characteristics of the 2D-MHA with CDC. The transmission peaks are blue-shifted when the gap at the thro...

This study examined the performance and photo-bias stability of double-channel ZnSnO/InZnO (ZTO/IZO) thin-film transistors. The field-effect mobility (μFE) and photo-bias stability of the double-channel device were improved by increasing the thickness of the front IZO film (t(int)) compared to the single-ZTO-channel device. A high-mobility (approximately 32.3 cm(2)/Vs) ZTO/IZO transistor with e...