an important issue in power generation and petrochemical industries is the monitoring of pipe wall thickness and corrosion/erosion rate. the pipes are usually subject to erosive and/or corrosive environments and any failure could be catastrophic. while periodic manual ultrasonic thickness measurement is the common practice in many industries, in certain cases, where higher accuracies are requir...

abstract t he relationship between public sector deficits and inflation is one of the important and controversial issues in the academic literature as well as in economic policy field. on the other hand, a major objective of macroeconomic policies is to foster economic growth and to keep inflation on a low level. so keeping the price stability plays an important role in determining the growth r...

Construction equipment production rates are considered an influential factor in construction projects’ success as 30–40% of cost overruns attributed to insufficient rates. The tower crane is one the heavy equipment, and its rate has a huge impact on project’s performance. Current estimations sites not backed by universally accepted applicable methodology. However, vision-based technologies have...