Drawing of square section rod from round bar can be done with two die shapes. In the first die shape, deformation starts from corners of the square and in second die shape, deformation starts from sides of square. This article has compared the drawing force for both die shapes and as a result optimum die shape was determined. Due to complexity of metal flow inside the die, analyzing of actual p...

A thermodynamic model of a thermoelectric generator-driven thermoelectric heat pump (TEG-TEH) combined device is established considering the Thomson effect and the temperature dependence of the thermoelectric properties based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Energy analysis and exergy analysis are performed. New expressions for heating load, maximum working temperature difference, coefficient...

since the breakdown of the bretton woods system, exchange arrangements of countries have become flexible. several attempts have been made to determine whether the theories of optimum currency areas adequately explain the choice of an exchange rate system. in this paper, the optimum currency area is retested. using cross-section data, a regression analysis of the choice of an exchange rate syste...

The reliability based design optimization (RBDO) method is prevailing in stochastic structural design optimization by assuming the amount of input data is sufficient enough to create accurate input statistical distribution. If the sufficient input data cannot be generated due to limitations in technical and/or facility resources, the possibility-based design optimization (PBDO) method can be us...

in order to lighten the prestressed concrete solid members, nowadays, it is possible to make use of the advantage of hpc (fc'>60 mpa) as well as replacing the solid section with a psc thin-walled section for certain members such as circular and box columns. using the strength theory of aci, a numerical procedure along with a computer program was developed for the analysis of such sections ...

Based on the existing study of online comment on the short text paradigm and the golden section method as introduced, an improved method that calculates the short text distance based on the Golden section method is hereby proposed. The new method considers the text distance as the combination between the semantic distance and the form distance on the basis of the importance weight and the prefe...

The crisp and fuzzy quadratic minimum spanning tree (Q-MST) problem can be formulated as a linear model, and thus, the global optimum can be obtained by the proposed method. Conventionally, the Q-MST problem, which contains a quadratic term in the objective function, is solved by genetic algorithm and other heuristic methods. However, these methods cannot guarantee to obtain a global optimal so...

Liquisolid systems represent an emerging approach in the preparation of solid dosage forms with liquid lipophilic drug or poorly water-soluble solution/suspension suitable vehicle. This study addresses lack data regarding compaction behavior liquisolid systems, aim to investigate influence load, carrier coating ratio, type (microcrystalline cellulose vs. spray dried calcium hydrogen phosphate, ...