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Reducing occupant injury in frontal crashes for a low-floor city bus
, Article 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE 2005, Orlando, FL, 5 November 2005 through 11 November 2005 ; Volume 2006 , 2006 , Pages 113-120 ; Darvish, K ; Parnianpour, M ; Bateni, A ; Sharif University of Technology
2006
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In this research, the effect of beam buckling in a predefined direction is used to reduce occupant injuries in frontal crashes of an ultra-low-floor (ULF) city bus. In ULF buses, the floor structure consists of several longitudinal long beams, which in case of a frontal crash may buckle due to the axial impact. The direction of rotational acceleration of the driver seat due to buckling is highly affected by the position of the driver seat. A finite element model of an ULF bus was developed using LS-Dyna. The driver model, a Hybrid III 50 th male dummy with deformable jacket and abdomen, was restrained to the seat with a 3-point belt. An Elastic-Plastic material model was used for the bus...
Synthesis and characterisation of β-tricalcium phosphate coating on zirconia toughened alumina by biomimetic method
, Article Advances in Applied Ceramics ; Volume 112, Issue 3 , 2013 , Pages 140-145 ; 17436753 (ISSN) ; Nemati, A ; Salahi, E ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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The present work studied bioactive coatings on the surface of ceramic biomaterials. Zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) composites containing 15 mol.-%. Partially stabilised zirconia was prepared after 1 h sintering at 1550°C. Apatite layers were then coated onto the surfaces of composites by the biomimetic method using 1·5-2 multiply concentrations of simulated body fluid (SBF). Before treatment in SBFs, a sodium silicate layer was employed as nucleating agent to induce the formation of a calcium phosphate layer. The effect of immersion time on the morphology of the precipitate was monitored with a scanning electron microscope. X dot maps revealed that there is a relationship between...
The effects of composition and sintering conditions on Zirconia Toughened Alumina (ZTA) nanocomposites
, Article Advanced Materials Research, 7 December 2009 through 9 December 2009 ; Volume 93-94 , December , 2010 , Pages 695-698 ; 10226680 (ISSN) ; 9780878492855 (ISBN) ; Nemati, A ; Salahi, E ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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Zirconia Toughened Alumina (ZTA) Nanocomposites were prepared using Nano sized Zirconia (ZrO2) powders doped with 3% mol of yttria (Y 2O3) nanopowders. Diffusion of α-alumina (Al 2O3) nanoparticles as well as yttria into the Zirconia lattice network drives monoclinic - tetragonal martensitic transformation. Zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) composites containing different amount of partially stabilized Zirconia (PSZ) 5, 10, 15 and 20% mol, were prepared via wet mixing and axial pressing. After sintering at different temperatures,1450, 1550 and 1650 °C, phase change in the samples were monitored. X-ray diffraction patterns showed that at constant composition, tetragonal zirconia was increased...
Effect of power randomization on saturation throughput of IEEE 802.11 WLAN
, Article IEEE International Conference on Communications, 23 May 2010 through 27 May 2010, Cape Town ; 2010 ; 05361486 (ISSN) ; 9781424464043 (ISBN) ; Ashtiani, F ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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In this paper, we evaluate the saturation throughput for an IEEE 802.11 based wireless network considering capture effect at the receiver, while nodes transmit with random powers. In this respect, we consider a scenario consisting of a specific number of wireless nodes. Then, we derive the transmission as well as collision probabilities with respect to the perfect capture effect. In order to maximize the saturation throughput we set up an optimization problem and obtain how to compute optimum values for the probabilities corresponding to different power levels. By providing the numerical results, we deduce that power randomization may lead to a significant improvement in saturation...
Plant Layout Problem by Considering Aisle Structure
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Eshghi, Kourosh (Supervisor)
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The layout problem is directly related to the material handling system; therefore, these two concepts are always being considered together. The main criterion for evaluating the layout in the objective function, is the cost of controlling and moving the materials. In order to calculate the material handling cost, it is necessary to provide an accurate information on the distance between departments, number of goods transported, and the cost of moving a unit of goods per unit of distance; therefore, accurate calculation of the distance between departments is an issue of paramount importance. In the literature, the distance between the departments is measured in three ways: Euclidean distance,...
Assessment of head injury in a low-floor citybus in frontal crash
, Article 2005 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Vail, CO, 22 June 2005 through 26 June 2005 ; Volume 2005 , 2005 , Pages 1616-1617 ; 0974249211 (ISBN); 9780974249216 (ISBN) ; Darvish, K ; Parnianpour, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2005
Fourier optics approach in evaluation of the diffraction and defocus aberration in three-dimensional integral imaging
, Article Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications III - Proceedings of the International Symposium, CompIMAGE 2012 ; 2012 , Pages 81-84 ; 9780415621342 (ISBN) ; Kavehvash, Z ; Mehrany, K ; Sharif University of Technology
CRC
2012
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The unwanted effects of diffraction and defocus aberration in three-dimensional integral imaging are taken into account by using the Fourier optics approach. The concepts of point spread function and optical transfer function widely in use for conventional two-dimensional imaging are generalized and applied to three-dimensional integral imaging systems. The effects of diffraction and defocus aberration are then studied and the performance of the conventional single lens imaging system is compared against that of the integral imaging
On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutability
, Article International Journal for Philosophy of Religion ; Volume 96, Issue 1 , 2024 , Pages 23-34 ; 00207047 (ISSN) ; Azadegan, E ; Esfahani, M ; Sharif University of Technology
2024
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We argue that there is an incompatibility between the two basic principles of Molinism, i.e., God’s middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, and divine immutability. To this end, firstly, we set out the difference between strong and weak immutability: according to the latter only God’s essential attributes remain unchanged, while the former affirms that God cannot change in any way. Our next step is to argue that Molinism ascribes strong immutability to God. However, according to Molinism, some counterfactuals of freedom need to be actualized by divine will. We argue that this claim does entail a change in God because it attributes a knowledge to God that involves moving...
Idle time and gelation behavior in gelcasting process of PSZ in acrylamide system
, Article Ceramic Transactions, 31 May 2009 through 5 June 2009 ; Volume 212 , JUL , 2010 , Pages 105-113 ; 10421122 (ISSN) ; 9780470876466 (ISBN) ; Faghihi Sani, M. A ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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Gelcasting is a novel forming method in fabricating complex three dimensional ceramic parts, and has many parameters and characteristics required to be specified. Up to now, few articles have been published on determination of the idle time of gelation precisely. In this work the chemorheology of gelation in aqueous solution of acrylamide and N, N′ methylenebisacrylamide monomer, and zirconia (PSZ) suspensions of this solution was investigated. As the viscosity of gel system increases abruptly in gelation point, idle time can be determined precisely by measurement of viscosity against time. Idle time can also be determined through temperature measurement against time since the reaction of...
Analysis and interaction of exergy, environmental and economic in multi-objective optimization of BTX process based on evolutionary algorithm
, Article Energy ; Volume 59 , 2013 , Pages 147-156 ; 03605442 (ISSN) ; Farhadi, F ; Boozarjomehry, R. B ; Sharif University of Technology
2013
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In this paper sustainability analysis (exergy, environmental and economic) and multi-objective optimization for an aromatic plant are provided and interactions between decision variables are discussed. Environmental evaluation shows that the cancer human toxicity and global warming are the most important environmental concerns and the weight of EIs (environmental impacts) are mainly due to process wastes. The optimizations results demonstrate parameters like reactor temperature have a wide range in the optimizations while some variables, such as extraction unit variables have the same value. Utility EI reduction occurred in economic and exergy optimizations rather than environmental...
Real-time parameter identification for highly coupled nonlinear systems using Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization
, Article Mechanika ; Volume 86, Issue 6 , 2010 , Pages 43-49 ; 13921207 (ISSN) ; Nemati, A ; Safavi, A. A ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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The In this paper, an Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) method is proposed for parameter identification of highly coupled electromechanical systems. Using some modifications on the APSO, better computational efficiency is achieved. In this way, the speed of real-time identification procedure is improved. In addition, to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, it is implemented on a real ball on plate setup and its dynamic model is achieved. Both the simulation and the experimental results show that parameter identification of the proposed algorithm is significantly improved when compared with other existing identification methods based on the traditional PSO and Genetic...
Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control approach for swarm formation control of multi-agent systems
, Article ASME 2010 10th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, ESDA2010, 12 July 2010 through 14 July 2010 ; Volume 5 , 2010 , Pages 485-490 ; 9780791849194 (ISBN) ; Nemati, A ; Farshchi, M ; Meghdari, A ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
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In this paper, an adaptive control scheme for multi-agent formation control is proposed. This control method is based on artificial potential functions integrated with adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control technique. We consider fully actuated mobile agents with completely unknown dynamics. An adaptive fuzzy logic system is used to approximate the unknown system dynamics. Sliding Mode Control (SMC) theory is used to force agents' motion to obey the dynamics defined by the simple inter-agent artificial potential functions. Stability proof is given using Lyapunov functions, which shows the robustness of controller with respect to disturbances and system uncertainties. Simulation results are...
Sharif-Human movement instrumentation system (SHARIF-HMIS): Development and validation
, Article Medical Engineering and Physics ; Volume 61 , 2018 , Pages 87-94 ; 13504533 (ISSN) ; Akbari, A ; Zobeiri, O ; Rashedi, E ; Parnianpour, M ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2018
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The interest in wearable systems among the biomedical engineering and clinical community continues to escalate as technical refinements enhance their potential use for both indoor and outdoor applications. For example, an important wearable technology known as a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) is demonstrating promising applications in the area of biomedical engineering. Accordingly, this study was designed to investigate the Sharif-Human Movement Instrumentation System (SHARIF-HMIS), consisting of inertial measurement units (IMUs), stretchable clothing, and a data logger—all of which can be used outside the controlled environment of a laboratory, thus enhancing its overall utility....
A higher index theorem for foliated manifolds with boundary
, Article Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques ; Volume 136, Issue 2 , 2012 , Pages 201-238 ; 00074497 (ISSN) ; Sharif University of Technology
2012
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Following Gorokhovsky and Lott and using an extension of the b-pseudodifferential calculus of Melrose, we give a formula for the Chern character of the Dirac index class of a longitudinal Dirac type operators on a foliated manifold with boundary. For this purpose we use the Bismut local index formula in the context of noncommutative geometry. This paper uses heavily the methods and technical results developed by E. Leichtnam and P. Piazza
On vanishing of low-degree higher Â-genera
, Article Differential Geometry and its Application ; Volume 43 , 2015 , Pages 56-59 ; 09262245 (ISSN) ; Sharif University of Technology
2015
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In this short note we apply methods introduced by B. Hanke and T. Schick to prove the vanishing of (low degree) higher Â-genera for spin manifolds admitting a positive scalar curvature metric. Our aim is to provide a short proof for this beautiful result
A novel robust decentralized adaptive fuzzy control for swarm formation of multiagent systems
, Article IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics ; Volume 59, Issue 8 , 2012 , Pages 3124-3134 ; 02780046 (ISSN) ; Shabaninia, F ; Nemati, A ; Stan, S. D ; Sharif University of Technology
IEEE
2012
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In this paper, a novel decentralized adaptive control scheme for multiagent formation control is proposed based on an integration of artificial potential functions with robust control techniques. Fully actuated mobile agents with partially unknown models are considered, where an adaptive fuzzy logic system is used to approximate the unknown system dynamics. The robust performance criterion is used to attenuate the adaptive fuzzy approximation error and external disturbances to a prescribed level. The advantages of the proposed controller can be listed as robustness to input nonlinearity, external disturbances, and model uncertainties, and applicability on a large diversity of autonomous...
MiR-9-5p and miR-106a-5p dysregulated in CD4+ T-cells of multiple sclerosis patients and targeted essential factors of T helper17/regulatory T-cells differentiation
, Article Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences ; Volume 21, Issue 3 , March , 2018 , Pages 277-283 ; 20083866 (ISSN) ; Hosseini, A ; Ghaedi, K ; Kiani Esfahani, A ; Tanhaei, S ; Shiralian Esfahani, H ; Rahnamaee, S. Y ; Mowla, S. J ; Nasr Esfahani, M. H ; Sharif University of Technology
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
2018
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Objective(s): Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered as a chronic type of an inflammatory disease characterized by loss of myelin of CNS. Recent evidence indicates that Interleukin 17 (IL-17)-producing T helper cells (Th17 cells) population are increased and regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are decreased in MS. Despite extensive research in understanding the mechanism of Th17 and Treg differentiation, the role of microRNAs in MS is not completely understood. Thereby, as a step closer, we analyzed the expression profile of miR-9-5p and miR-106a-5p, and protein level of retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-related orphan receptor C (RORC; Th17 master transcription factor) as direct target of miR-106a-5p...
A simple catalyst for aqueous phase Suzuki reactions based on palladium nanoparticles immobilized on an ionic polymer
, Article Science China Chemistry ; Volume 59, Issue 4 , 2016 , Pages 482-486 ; 16747291 (ISSN) ; Paunescu, E ; Bagherzadeh, M ; Fei, Z ; Laurenczy, G ; Dyson, P. J ; Sharif University of Technology
2016
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Palladium nanoparticles immobilized on a cross-linked imidazolium-containing polymer were evaluated as a catalyst for Suzuki carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions using water as the solvent. The nanocatalysts show good catalytic activities for aryl iodides and aryl bromides and moderate activity with aryl chloride substrates. Coupling of sterically hindered substrates could also be achieved in reasonable yields. The heterogeneous catalyst is stable, can be stored without precautions to exclude air or moisture, and can be easily recycled and reused
Robust Design Optimization for Fatigue Life with Geometric and Material Uncertainties of Mechanical Parts Under Random Loading Based on Maximizing Fatigue Life and Minimizing Uncertainty in Fatigue Llife Prediction
, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Khodaygan, Saeed (Supervisor)
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Fatigue life prediction of a mechanical part is one of issues which a group of engineers are engaged with it and always they try to design the parts with the maximum of lifetime. Although many researches have been done in this field but yet we can see that predicted life are different from that happens in the reality because there are some uncertainties in the phenomena. Our effort in this project is creating an algorithm design so that the parts are designed by it, have the maximum fatigue life and the minimum uncertainty in prediction. In this project we have considered geometrical, material and random loading uncertainties as error resources. Older methods those are presented in this...
Real-time trajectory generation for mobile robots
, Article 10th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI IA 2007, Rome, 10 September 2007 through 13 September 2007 ; Volume 4733 LNAI , 2007 , Pages 459-470 ; 03029743 (ISSN); 9783540747819 (ISBN) ; Manzuri, M. T ; Razvan, M. R ; Tajfard, M ; Khoshbakht, S ; Sharif University of Technology
Springer Verlag
2007
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This paper presents a computationally effective trajectory generation algorithm for omni-directional mobile robots. This method uses the Voronoi diagram to find a sketchy path that keeps away from obstacles and then smooths this path with a novel use of Bezier curves. This method determines velocity magnitude of a robot along the curved path to meet optimality conditions and dynamic constrains using Newton method. The proposed algorithm has been implemented on real robots, and experimental results in different environments are presented. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007