the source parameters and focal depth of the destructive mw 6.5, 31 march. 2006 iran- silakhor earthquake, the two largest foreshocks and a major aftershock are determined using broadband data from a seismic network in iran based on a time-domain linear moment tensor inversion. the earthquakes occurred in the zagros suture zone in western iran. waveform inversion of the selected events estimate...

In this paper, a mathematical modeling is developed for plastic analysis of planar frames. To this end, the researcher tried to design an optimization model in linear format in order to solve large scale samples. The computational result of CPU time requirement is shown for different samples to prove efficiency of this method for large scale models. The fundamental concept of this model is ob...

the compact gravity inversion including the minimization of moment of inertia has been applied to determine the geometry of anomalous bodies which cause much more depth esolution. the new algorithm is based on lewi's (1996) procedure including the minimum moment of inertia. the method is used with good results to several 3-dimensional synthetic models and real examples. the advantage of us...

L (Linear) moments are used in identifying regional flood frequency distributions for different zones Tunisia wide. 1134 site-years of annual maximum stream flow data from a total of 42 stations with an average record length of 27 years are considered. The country is divided into two homogeneous regions (northern and central/southern Tunisia) using a heterogeneity measure, based on the spread o...

Multivariate statistical analysis relies heavily on moment assumptions of second order and higher. With increasing interest in modeling with heavy tailed distributions, however, it is desirable to describe dispersion, skewness, and kurtosis of multivariate distributions under merely first order moment assumptions. Here we present a new method contributing toward this goal in both parametric and...

in this article, vehicle cornering stability and brake stabilization via bifurcation analysis has been investigated. in order to extract the governing equations of motion, a nonlinear four-wheeled vehicle model with two degrees of freedom has been developed. using the continuation software package matcont a stability analysis based on phase plane analysis and bifurcation of equilibrium is perfo...

Patellar tendon moment arm length (PTma) changes at different knee flexion angles have not been determined in invivo studies. We aimed to determine PTma in four different knee angles using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) topredict in vivo changes in the moment arm length from different knee angles during running.PTma was measured as the perpendicular distance from muscle–tend...

In this paper we propose a unified methodology for computing the set VK(I) of complex (K = C) or real (K = R) roots of an ideal I ⊆ R[x], assuming VK(I) is finite. We show how moment matrices, defined in terms of a given set of generators of the ideal I, can be used to (numerically) find not only the real variety VR(I), as shown in the authors’ previous work, but also the complex variety VC(I),...