Slender structures like reinforced concrete (RC) chimneys are severely damaged or collapsed during severe wind storms or strong ground motions all over the world. Today, with the improvement in technology and industry, ...

This paper deals with the optimum cost design of partially prestressed concrete I crosssectioned beams by using Genetic Algorithms. For this purpose, the optimum cost design of two selected example problems that have ...

In this study, melting behavior of paraffin in a horizontal shell-and-tube type-storage unit is experimentally studied. Both the concentric and eccentric orientations of the inner tube according the center of the outer ...

In this research, a scale was developed to determine the programming-oriented computational thinking skills of university students. The participants were 360 students studying in various departments at different universities ...

In this article, we propose a new method for the estimation of the force, which is applied by two fractured parts of the bone on each other at the time of contact, while they are brought closer to each other, and the ...

This paper presents an experimental energetic and exergetic comparison for a heat pump system that can be run in different modes as air to air and air to water. Components of the heat pump do not change when the running ...

Fast pyrolysis utilizes biomass to produce a product that is used both as an energy source and a feedstock for chemical production. Considerable efforts have been made to convert wood biomass to liquid fuels and chemicals ...

This study basically consists of three stages. In the first stage, an elliptical microstrip antenna operating in the frequency range of 1 GHz -10 GHz, where the variation in the conductivity value of the lung is high, is ...