In this paper the effect of random geometric imperfections on the critical load of isotropic, thin-walled, cylindrical shells under axial compression with rectangular cutouts is presented. Second moment characteristics of geometric imperfections are estimated by data of available measurements, a simulation procedure based on the Karhunen-Loève expansion is applied for generating realizations of...

Abstract Nowadays, with the extensive development and utilization of coastal engineering, research on flow field around pile groups is becoming more important. In this paper, velocity water level distribution tandem cylindrical rectangular piles are calculated studied by numerical simulation method based delft3D. The results show that in front row group increases greatly, influence rear small d...

A practical study was conducted to improve the performance of conventional pyramidal solar stills (CPSS) using two types fins with differing geometries, as well nanocomposites TiO2 and graphene. The first fin hollow, cylindrical, perforated (HCPF), whereas second an inclined rectangular (IPRF). were integrated base a still evaluate their in comparison CPSS. obtained experimental results demonst...

Let A be a set of trivariate irreducible integral polynomials and let D be an A-invariant cylindrical algebraic decomposition (cad) of three-dimensional space. This paper presents a new algorithm for determining the interstack adjacencies in D over a given non-nullifying (for A) 0-cell, 1-cell adjacency in the cad D 0 of the plane induced by D. We show that this new adjacency algorithm for thre...

Context: Test-Driven development (TDD) is a software development approach where test cases are written before actual development of the code in iterative cycles. TDD has gained attention of many software practitioners during the last decade since it has suggested several benefits in the software development process. However, empirical evidence of its dominance in terms of internal code quality,...

weirs have widely been used for the flow measurement, flow diversion and its control in the open channels. attempts have been made to study flow over different shapes of normal weirs, side weirs and oblique weirs. this paper is connected with the development of the discharge coefficient measurement. in the present study four different weirs in different height are considered for validation purp...

lif, mg and ti cubical tld chips (known as tld-100) are widely used for dosimetry purposes. the repeatability of tl dosimetry is investigated by exposing them to doses of (81, 162 and 40.5 mgy) with 662kev photons of cs-137. a group of 40 cubical tld chips was randomly selected from a batch and the values of element correction coefficient (ecc) were obtained 4 times by irradiating them to doses...

Several national and international organizations have developed various types and levels of external audits for radiotherapy dosimetry, either based on on-site review visits or using mailed dosimetry systems. Three major TLD (thermoluminescent dosimetry) networks make available postal dose audits to a large number of radiotherapy centres on a regular basis. These are the IAEA/WHO TLD postal dos...

In 1954, Cohen and Barner discovered that a thymine auxotrophic (thyA) mutant of Escherichia coli undergoes cell death in response to thymine starvation. This phenomenon, called thymineless death (TLD), has also been found in many other organisms, including prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Though TLD has been studied intensively, its molecular mechanism has not yet been explained. Previously we repo...