An aqueous solution of boric acid, as an efficient and green catalytic system, was efficiently utilized four-component cascade reaction of aryl aldehydes, dimedone, β-ketoesters and ammonium acetate to give hexahydroquinolines. By the reaction of boric acid with water, H+ was generated and efficiently catalyzed the reaction under mild and green condition. Also, optimization of the reaction cond...

in this paper a survey to determine the spring and damper settings of itm285 tractor’s cabin which ensured optimal ride comfort of tractor operator was conducted. analysis has been done in terms of root mean square acceleration response (rmsar) in one-third-octave band and international standard organization (iso). optimization was performed using particle swarm optimization (pso) method on a 2...

The present study sets out to integrate the performance-based seismic design approach with the connection topology optimization method. Performance-based connection topology optimization concept aims to simultaneously optimize the size of members and the type of connections with respect to the framework of performance-based seismic design. This new optimization concept is carried out for unbrac...

In this study, the finite element model updating was simulated by reducing the stiffness of the members. Due to lack of access to the experimental results, the data obtained from an analytical model were used in the proposed structural damage scenarios. The updating parameters for the studied structures were defined as a reduction coefficient applied to the stiffness of the members. Parameter v...

There are several different approaches used for the optimization of multiple response surface problems. Recently desirability functions and neural network approaches are used in many related studies. In this study multiple response optimization is investigated using desirability functions in response surface methodology and artificial neural networks. The results of these approaches are investi...

This study is investigated the optimum parameters for a tuned mass damper (TMD) under the seismic excitation. Shuffled complex evolution (SCE) is a meta-heuristic optimization method which is used to find the optimum damping and tuning frequency ratio for a TMD. The efficiency of the TMD is evaluated by decreasing the structural displacement dynamic magnification factor (DDMF) and acceleration ...

Bayesian optimization (BO) aims to minimize a given blackbox function using a model that is updated whenever new evidence about the function becomes available. Here, we address the problem of BO under partially right-censored response data, where in some evaluations we only obtain a lower bound on the function value. The ability to handle such response data allows us to adaptively censor costly...

We consider a consumer of a resource, such as electricity, who must pay a per unit charge to procure the resource, as well as a peak demand charge. We will present an efficient linear programming formulation for the demand response of such a consumer who could be a price taker, industrial or commercial user of electricity that has some ability to self-generate. We will establish a monotonicity ...