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The preliminary design of building structures is normally based on the equivalent lateral forces provided in seismic design guidelines. The height-wise distribution of these loads is predominantly based on elastic vibration modes. However, as structures exceed their elastic limits in severe earthquakes, these design load patterns may not necessarily lead to efficient distribution of strength within the structures. To address this issue, several alternative load patterns have been proposed for the seismic design of non-linear structures. However, due to the simplifications involved in the development of these design load patterns, their adequacy needs to be assessed for different structural... 

The 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazoline ligand (Hphox) is generated from 1:1 condensation of methyl salicylate with 2-aminoethanol. Novel [Ru(Hphox)2(H2O)2] (Hphox = 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazoline ) complex has been synthesized and characterized by physic-chemical methods. Oxidation of sulfides catalyzed by the mixed-ligand ruthenium(II) complex [Ru(Hphox)2(H2O)2]using urea-hydrogen peroxide (UHP) as oxidant was investigated under mild condition within 1 h. The results showed that mixed-ligand ruthenium(II) complex was effective catalyst in oxidation of sulfides in whichsulfoxideswere the only products. Using this catalytic system in the oxidation of alkanes, ketones were obtained as the main... 

The goal of this study is to synthesise and study the catalytic properties of a Mn-Porphyrin complex fixed on a magnetic nanoparticle bed. This nanocatalyst was used in oxidation of sulfides and epoxylation of olefin. In the multistage synthesis of this catalyst, iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles were first prepared, then, by silanizing these nanoparticles, and then using the 3-chloropropyltrimethoxy methanol reactor, Immobilzation the material on the substrate and immediately react in reaction Substitution of the nucleus of friendship and using a sodium azide reaction, bromide is replaced by azide. Subsequently, by synthesising 4-hydroxy porphyrin and replacing one of its positions with... 

In this study, a series of polyoxometalates nanoclusters is synthesized and their catalytic properties have been investigated in oxidation and coupling reactions. In the first and second sections, {Mo36} nanoclusters are primarily prepared. Then, the mesoporous silica, as a solid surface with a regular chanals and cavities through electrostatic interactions between polyoxo anions and amine functional groups with positive charge, is used to stabilize the nanocluster as well as the final structure of SBA-15-NH3 +•{Mo36}- formed. As a green and environmentally friendly substrate, natural zeolite is used to stabilize the nanoclusters and the {Mo36}@zeolite obtained. Both heterogeneous catalysts... 

This dissertation proposes a probabilistic framework for optimal calibration of design provisions based on the minimization of lifecycle cost (LCC) and its uncertainty. Subsequently, this framework is utilized to determine the optimal robust design base shear coefficient of building structures, and propose a methodology for codifying it while preserving the current structure of the base shear equation. In the first part of the proposed methodology, various structures are designed with different seismic base shears. Then, at each site, their LCC comprising the construction costs and seismic losses is calculated. Various types of seismic loss considered in this study include the direct... 

In past few decades researchers and engineers have researched extensively on the effects of masonry infill walls in structural frames and the effects of masonry infill walls on the structural response was a concern for them. Since used materials and therefore the strength and stiffness of these walls are extremely depends on construction site and available mate-rials, according to geographical conditions most of countries inserted their own rules for considering effects of masonry infill walls in their codes and standards. Our country, Iran was not excepted from this regularity and in past few years the effect of existence of ma-sonry infill walls in structural response has been considered... 

The Internet of things (IoT) is an emerging technology, encompassing wide aspects of applications. It provides intelligent connections between objects, devices, and living creatures. The IoT devices are mostly powered by limited energy sources like batteries. Therefore, optimizing their power consumption is necessary. First, this idea will be examined from different perspectives and then its applications and challenges in various fields and areas will be presented. The IoT applications require low-cost, low-energy, reliable, robust, secure, and scalable networks. The Low-power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is considered as one of the most potential solutions for IoT in the near future due to its... 

Droplet microfluidic platform generates monodisperse droplets in a desired size through immiscible multiphase flows inside microchannels. Droplets are individual reactor and can be used for bio(chemical) analyses. Also, for materials fabrication, droplet microfluidics offers a versatile platform for generation of nano- or micro-sized particles and microcapsules that are widely used in drug delivery. In addition to the monodispersity, high-throughput generation is also necessary in many applications. Therefore, droplets must be formed in stable regimes (dripping and squeezing) in the highest possible frequency. In this study, the flow-focusing geometry, which is the most common geometry in... 

The growing demand for diagnostic tools with enhanced analytical characteristics in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, and low response time has encouraged researchers to conduct their research towards the development of point-of-care (POC) biosensors. POC diagnostic devices are powerful tools for the detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of diseases at their initial stages. Microfluidic cytometers based on the Coulter principle have recently shown a great potential for POC biosensors for medical diagnosis. One of the most important components in detecting cells by a Coulter counter is a micropore or sensing gate. Therefore, in this study, for counting and sizing the cells using the resistive... 

This research focuses on determining the optimal base shear coefficient for the design of conventional steel buildings based on the minimization of lifecycle cost (LCC) and associated uncertainties throughout the service life of the building. Current seismic design codes are calibrated based on engineering judgment, acceptable societal risk, or past earthquake experiences. However, technical literature has shown that such calibration does not lead to a design that optimally balances construction costs and seismic damage. As a solution, lifecycle cost-based calibration has been proposed. In this study, the optimal range of the base shear coefficient is determined by minimizing the expected... 

Internal combustion engines are first and common powertrains in industry. They have developed eminently. Because of energy crisis there are much attention for their improving and optimizing. The purpose of improving of internal combustion engines performance is increasing the ratio of output brake power to engine fixed size. An improved engine should be tried to work near of the maximum power span, whereas an automobile engine (original engine) works at its middle power. In other hand, if an improved engine and original engine work for a long time, improved engine has critical conditions. In attention to above discussions, improving and reforming of an improved engine cooling system are... 

Solid-state micro/nanopores have been widely used as a sensor for detection, counting, sizing, and measuring the surface charge of micro (such as cells and bacteria) and nanoparticles (such as viruses, exosomes and DNA) in the last decades and there have been numerous studies regarding the fabrication of single micro/nanopores. Most of the conventional methods require the use of advanced devices such as electron and ion microscopes to fabricate these micro/nanopores. Therefore, the final cost of them is generally high. Given that, in this study, a novel and affordable method is developed for the fabrication of single micro/nanopores of different sizes. This method is based on molding the... 

Different parts of this research are focused on developing FO membranes and improving their performance. For this purpose, thin film composite (TFC) membranes with fixed composition of polyethersulfone/polyamide (PES/PA) have been used to investigate the effect of nanocomposites containing transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) on their performance. The support layer in all cases is PES, which is prepared through the phase inversion process and does not contain any nanofillers. The modification process takes place in the polyamide layer by dispersing the desired nanoparticles in the aqueous monomer solution necessary to form this active layer. Identification and characterization of... 

The first part of this thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of several Mn, Fe and Mo complexes containing tridentate Schiff base and oxazoline ligands and their reactivities as catalysts in the oxidation of organic compounds like olefins and sulfides, as well. The crystal structures of newly prepared cis-dioxo-bis[2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)-oxazolinato]molybdenum(VI), cis-[MoO2(phox)2] and (N-hydroxyphenyl-salicylidenamine)(acetylacetonato)ethanol iron(III), [FeIII(N-OPh-sal)(acac)EtOH] complexes have been described by X-ray crystallography. Due to the difficulties in the preparation of suitable single crystals of novel... 

This thesis deals with the front-End of an Integrated RFID Reader operated in 860MHz to 960MHz, which integrates a RF transceiver including PA, LNA and Mixer. In the receiver part, a power amplifier was fabricated and measured and in the transmitter part, LNA and Mixer were designed. There is a growing interest in utilizing CMOS technologies for RF power amplifiers (PAs). Although several advances have been made recently to enable full integration of PAs in CMOS, it is still among the most difficult challenges in achieving a truly single-chip radio system in CMOS. This is exacerbated by supply voltage reduction due to CMOS technology scaling and on-chip passive losses due to the conductive... 

Inert gold become catalytically active when dispersed in the form of nanoparticles. Isolated gold nanoparticles have demonstrated high catalytic activity for both oxidation and reduction reactions. In order to obtain high catalytic activity, gold nanoparticles are generally dispersed on support materials, among which oxides are commonly used. However, a substantial decrease in activity and selectivity of the immobilized catalysts is frequently observed due to the heterogeneous nature of these support materials in reaction media. In the course of our study on the metal-based catalysis for synthesis of organic compounds, we herein report that rod-shaped Au nanoparticles in aqua solution... 

In this work, synthesized Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles andcoated with SiO2 to prepare magnetic core-shell nanoparticles. Then immobilized Schiff baseof iron and vanadium complexes on magnetic core-shell nanoparticles was prepared as a recoverable magnetic nano catalysts. These catalysts were named Fe3O4@SiO2@L1@Fe, Fe3O4@SiO2@L2@Fe and Fe3O4@SiO2@L3@V. Furthermore,olefines epoxidation, sulfides and alcohols oxidation were studied with using iron and vanadium magnetic nano catalysts. The supported catalysts were characterized by atomic absorption, FT-IR and UV–Vis spectra.The catalytic performance of the synthesized iron catalyst was tested for the epoxidation of cyclohexene, styrene and... 

This thesisconsiders new fundamental approaches to yield heterogeneous catalysts in to three sections. The first section described the immobilization of the molybdenum-Schiff base complexes in pores of SBA-15 in two different methodologies depending on the actual structure of the complexes., (i) stepwise formation of the complex by initial covalent anchoring of one of the components and consecutive solid phase synthesis consisting of the condensation of the other components of the salen complex (iii) one-step complex immobilization by covalent binding through the ligand.Based on the first methodology, we report the preparation of ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15 containing a molybdenum...