In this study electrical discharge process was used to increase surface wear resistance of pure aluminum. Pulse-on-time and pulse current were considered as input parameters of the electrical discharge process. Experimental results reveal that the electrical discharge process is a successful method for improving the surface wear resistance of aluminum, so that this method has greatly increased ...

one of the causes of perturbation at vertical intakes is the happening of vortices with an air core. the vortices with an air core occur whenever the submergence of the intake is less than a critical value. anti-vortex devices and specially plates are used to avoid the negative effects of the air-core vortices. if plates are used, then the geometry of them should be studied experimentally. acco...

in this paper twelve different empirical resistance coefficients expressed in terms of manning's roughness are used apiece in seventeen known compositing methods. the data obtained from ten different cross-sections of the sefidrood river, iran, are used for the evaluation of the empiricalformulas. the present case-study is selected from a reach with gravel bed topology. then no remarkable bed f...

different construction materials with different roughness used to make circular weirs highly affect surface roughness and, in turn, flow hydraulics passing over these structures.  in the present research, numerous experiments under different hydraulic conditions were performed on a physical model to study the effects of roughness on flow hydraulics over a circular weir. the flow hydraulics incl...

Abstract The circular crested weir (CCW) has been introduced as weirs having a high discharge coefficient (Cd). ratio of flow head to the radius crest ( H / R ) is most important parameter affecting Cd, that $${\text{Cd}} \approx a\left( {H/R} \right)^{b}$$ Cd ? a <mml:m...