Energy based seismic design getting attraction since it accounts for all structural (hysteretic behavior of members), earthquake (amplitude, duration and frequency content) soil (bearing capacity, characteristics. To develop an efficient energy procedure, accurate determination the fundamental periods deposits is crucial. Hence, several analytical, numerical approximate methods were suggested i...

This paper employs one-dimensional numerical ground response analysis models to investigate seismic response of shallow cohesive and non-cohesive soil deposits on vertical propagation of horizontal shear waves. Soil response is modelled by traditional equivalent-linear (EL) frequency-domain analysis using DEEPSOIL software and nonlinear (NL) time-domain analysis using OPENSEES software. The ana...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of soil moisture condition and irrigation regime on the bioelectric potential of crops with different growth stages. The bioelectric potential of broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) plants at the initial and mid-growth stages was measured under different soil moisture conditions and irrigation regimes using pot experiments. The result...

the morphological diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) at the anguran zn and pb mining region (zanjan province, iran) were studied along a transect from the mine to 4500 m away. within each plot, a composite sample of root and rhizospheric soil from a dominant indigenous plant was collected. the soil samples were analyzed for their physico-chemical characteristics. spores were extrac...

Some of the design requirements for power transmission line grounding in highly resistive soil to reduce lightning flashback rate are often contradictory, such as: low values of both low-frequency ground resistance and high-frequency (HF) ground impedance. Former requires larger dimensions of the grounding electrodes that lead to higher values of their HF impedance due to inductive effects. Pap...

background: the adverse effects of noise are well known and noise problems due to industrialization of communities are increasing over the time. oil industries due to the process and nature of production; contain many noise sources such as compressors, turbines, and pumps, which cause excessive noise exposure. the objective of this study was to evaluate the noise characteristics of compressors ...

Microorganisms drive much of the Earth's nitrogen (N) cycle, but we still lack a global overview of the abundance and composition of the microorganisms carrying out soil N processes. To address this gap, we characterized the biogeography of microbial N traits, defined as eight N-cycling pathways, using publically available soil metagenomes. The relative frequency of N pathways varied consistent...

Time series are collected and studied extensively for the knowledge about the data source characteristics such as the trend or the spectral landscape. Some peaks in the spectral landscape correspond to dominant frequencies. The approach here is empirical: all time series are discrete and finite.