A concept of "Fractal Fracture Mechanics" for HDR .(Hot Dry Rock) geothermal reservoir design has been developed as an extension of conventional rock fracture mechanics. It is suggested that this concept is successfully applicable to characterize and model subsurface fracture network in HDR geothermal reservoir. Furthermore, this modeling procedure makes it possible to evaluate the thermal ener...

The paper investigates systems thinking and systems engineering. After a short literature review, the paper presents, as a means for systems thinking, twelve thinking tracks. The tracks can be used as creativity starter, checklist, and as means to investigate effects of design decisions taken early in the process. Tracks include thinking about time, risk and safety, and different types of life-...

The aim of this study is to design the excellence in Mobarakeh Steel Company's strategic knowledge management. To achieve this goal, the researcher has used qualitative and quantitative methods. Therefore, the research method is the mixed one. This study, based on the nature of the data and data collection procedure, is a descriptive, exploratory research. It follows and applies development obj...

This paper presents a model-based control design for trajectory tracking of two-wheeled mobile robots based on Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) optimal control. The model proposed in this article has been implemented on a computational model which is obtained from kinematic and dynamic relations of KHEPERA IV. The purpose of control is to track a predefined reference trajectory with the best po...

When a train is traveling along the transition such as slab and ballasted track, dynamic behaviors of rail system and train are abruptly changed. In R&D project, the newly-developed precast slab track system and track transition between slab and ballasted track was planned to construct in 2006 on the newly-built Jeolla-line. Maintenance demand, settlement and component degradation were predicte...

Regarding increasing importance of tank wagons and efficiency in fluids transportation, their usage is increasing every day. Thus paying attention to their designs just as dynamic analysis of wagons during travelling time is vitally important. In this task, sloshing coefficient as prominent parameter in tank wagons designing has been investigated. To ease of efficient design, theses parameters ...

in this work an improved method for designing a linear vibrational absorber, excited by random vibrations is presented and analyzed. first, analytical expressions, for non-stationary white noise accelerations, are derived. the criterion is different from the conventional criteria, used for structural design under random vibration, and it is based on minimum displacement or acceleration response...