background: the reliability and safety of gas refineries are strongly associated with the reliability of other parts of the system. defect and failure in one part of a system can cause total system breakdown or accident. the failure and damage in these equipment such as transformers and boilers results in not only the equipment damage and human injuries but also productivity reduction. the purp...

background and objectives: essential oils are complex mixtures containing compounds of several different functional- group classes. depending on the structure, we can distinguish monoterpenes, phenylpropanes, and other components. here in this study two monoterpene compounds of essential oils, i.e. β-pinene and limonene were examined for their antiviral activity against herpes simplex virus typ...

in previous papers authors have considered agents as inertia-less self driven particles and designed a flocking algorithm. application of this algorithm to agents with considerable inertial characteristics needs a behavioural controller. the controller uses the local information and helps every agent to imitate the desired behaviour as a member of the flocking frame which covers the main issue ...

this study introduces the differential transform method (dtm) to analyse the free vibration response of a rotating, closed section, composite, timoshenko beam which features material coupling between flapwise bending and torsional vibrations due to ply orientation. the governing differential equations of motion are derived using hamilton’s principle and solved by applying dtm. the natural frequ...

in this paper, a new smooth second order sliding mode control is proposed. this algorithm is a modified form of super twisting algorithm. the super twisting guarantees the asymptotic stability, but the finite time stability of proposed method is proved with introducing a new particular lyapunov function. the proposed algorithm which is able to control nonlinear systems with matched structured u...

in this paper, an adaptive neuro fuzzy sliding mode based genetic algorithm (anfsga) controlsystem is proposed for a ph neutralization system. in ph reactors, determination and control of ph isa common problem concerning chemical-based industrial processes due to the non-linearity observedin the titration curve. an anfsga control system is designed to overcome the complexity of precisecontrol o...

this research was conducted in order to evaluate fatigue behavior of asphalt mixes containing electric arc furnace (eaf) steel slag. after initial evaluation of the properties of eaf steel slag using x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electric microscope (sem), six sets of laboratory mixtures were prepared. each set were treated replacing various portions of limestone aggregates of the mix wi...

the drawing of frequency-path (f-p) models of optical beams is an approach for nonlinearity analysis in nano-metrology systems and sensors based on the laser interferometers. in this paper, the frequency-path models of four nano-metrology laser interferometry systems are designed, analyzed and simulated, including conventional and modified two- and three-longitudinal-mode laser interferometers....

in order to establish the appropriate methane fermentation technology for low strength wastewater, a 2.0 l egsb reactor was operated at 20â°c with 0.3 - 0.4 g cod/l of sucrose-based synthetic wastewater for 500 days. at the start up period, the reactor was operated in egsb mode with a 5 m/h up flow velocity by continuous effluent recirculation. however, the egsb reactor exhibited insufficient c...