normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: after conducting a study on shift work and its related health problems in a petrochemical company and recommending a new shift system, the company changed its shift schedule from 12-hour to 8-hour pattern. after a year of implementing this new system, the present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of...

The control of thermal cracks induced by the effect early age are main concerns in concrete dam during construction stage. Despite its importance, detailed analysis gravity dams period is relatively rarely literature, eventually because prediction behavior on stage requires taking into account several phenomena and interaction, demands a considerable computational effort. To overcome this drawb...

a project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [ce1] major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. one such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (evm). evm uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...

background: the phase change materials (pcms) have the appropriate properties for controlling heat strain. one of the well-known pcms is paraffin. this study aimed to design the cooling vest from the cheap commercial paraffin compound and evaluation of its effectiveness under laboratory hot conditions. methods: the cooling vest was made of the polyester fabric and it had 17 aluminum packs. the ...

Cooling tower is an important part of power plant. The efficiency of power plant is directly depends on the effectiveness of cooling tower. In cooling tower scheduled maintenance and shutdown maintenance is a problem which affects its effectiveness and performance of cooling tower. In cooling tower shutdown maintenance required in every 2 to 3 year periods at this period the whole plant will be...

The results of a metallographic study of grey cast iron water pipes are reported. These pipes had been installed between 1885 and 1973 in eight different water systems. Each pipe had been extracted during scheduled maintenance or failure repairs to provide data for a larger study to produce a methodology for determining the residual life of grey cast iron pipes. This metallographic study was co...