{"title":"Artificial Neural Network Based Prediction Hardness of Al2024-Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Composite Prepared by Mechanical Alloying","authors":"M. Jafari, G. Khayati","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, artificial neural network was used to predict the microhardness of Al2024-multiwall carbon nanotube(MWCNT) composite prepared by mechanical alloying. Accordingly, the operational condition, i.e., the amount of reinforcement, ball to powder weight ratio, compaction pressure, milling time, time and temperature of sintering as well as vial speed were selected as independent input and the mean micro-hardness of composites was selected as model output. To train the model, a Multilayer perceptron neural network structure and feed-forward back propagation algorithm has been employed. After testing many different ANN architectures an optimal structure of the model i.e. 7-25-1 is obtained. The predicted results, with a correlation relation between 0.982 and 0.9952 and 3.26% mean absolute error, show a very good agreement with the experimental values. Furthermore, the ANN model was subjected to a sensitivity analysis and determined the significant inputs affecting hardness of the samples.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"25 1","pages":"1726-1733"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87116821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel Generalized Topology for Multi-level Inverter with Switched Series-parallel DC Sources (RESEARCH NOTE)","authors":"G. Sridhar, P. Satishkumar, M. Sushama","doi":"10.11591/IJEECS.V4.I1.PP41-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11591/IJEECS.V4.I1.PP41-51","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel topology of Single-phase multilevel inverter for low and high power applications. It consists of polarity (Level) generation circuit and H Bridge to generate both positive and negative polarities. The proposed topology can produce more output voltage levels by switching dc voltage sources in series and parallel. The proposed topology utilizes minimum number of power electronic devices which leads to the reduction of cost, size, and weight low and consumes low power which improves the efficiency. Switching pulses are generated using Phase disposition (PD) pulse width modulation technique. Finally the effectiveness of the proposed topology is verified using MATLAB/SIMULINK software tool. 7level asymmetrical multilevel inverter prototype hardware is prepared to support the proposed topology to verify the effectiveness and its validity.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"40 1","pages":"851-858"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90970080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Ahmadi, M. H. Abooie, Milad Jasemi, Y. Z. Mehrjardi
{"title":"A Nonlinear Autoregressive Model with Exogenous Variables Neural Network for Stock Market Timing: The Candlestick Technical Analysis","authors":"E. Ahmadi, M. H. Abooie, Milad Jasemi, Y. Z. Mehrjardi","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.10","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the nonlinear autoregressive model with exogenous variables as a new neural network is used for timing of the stock markets on the basis of the technical analysis of Japanese Candlestick. In this model, the “nonlinear autoregressive model with exogenous variables” is an analyzer. For a more reliable comparison, here (like the literature) two approaches of Raw-based and Signal-based are devised to generate the input data of the model. The correct predictions percentages for periods of 1- 6 days with the total number of buy and sell signals are considered. The result proves that to some extent the approaches have similar performances while apparently, they are superior to a feed-forward static neural network. The created network is evaluated by the measure of Mean of Squared Error and the proposed model accuracy is calculated to be extremely high.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"96 1","pages":"1717-1725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76172841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of Multi-period Vehicle Routing Problem and Economic Selection of Customers with the Objective of Optimizing Distribution, Sales and Discounts Planning","authors":"A. Zarei, H. Zare, M. N. Nezhad","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.09","url":null,"abstract":"Making decisions about the economic selection of the customers plays a significant role in the sale and logistic management of the companies. Furthermore, another issue affecting the relationship between the suppliers and the customers is the proper and timely distribution of the products as well as the optimum mixing of the distribution routes to reduce transportation costs. In this paper, the issues of the integration of routing, and the economic selection of customers has been explored aiming at minimizing the transportation, maintenance, and discount costs and maximizing the products selling profits. In addition to the amount of customer's purchasing, costumers' collection period is effective to offer them discounts. The economic customers are selected due to three factors: the discount on the price of the product, the marginal profit of the requested products, and the distance from the supplier's warehouse. Games software was used for the exact solution of the model, and Simulated annealing algorithm was used to solve the model in larger dimension. The efficiency and applicability of the proposed model was approved comparing the optimum results with a high preciseness as 98.91 percent. Moreover, in the case study of Kalleh Company, the results revealed 14% increase in pure profits.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"26 1","pages":"1704-1716"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84734589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Shahidi, A. Ghorbani-HasanSaraei, M. Mohebbi, A. Motamedzadegan
{"title":"Kinetics of Reshteh Khoshkar Color Changes During Atmospheric and Vacuum Deep-fat Frying","authors":"S. Shahidi, A. Ghorbani-HasanSaraei, M. Mohebbi, A. Motamedzadegan","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.05","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of frying pressure on the kinetics of color changes during atmospheric and vacuum deep fat frying of Reshteh Khoshkar has been studied. The Hunter color parameters redness, yellowness, lightness and total color difference were used to estimate color changes during frying as a function of process. Lightness (L*) decreased from 85.37 to 75.01 with vacuum frying time, while redness (a*), yellowness (b*) and total color difference increased from -2.09, 4.92 and 0 to 1.22, 37.01 and 31.56, respectively. It was observed that the severity of colour change was higher in atmospheric frying process than the vacuum frying process. The changes in color parameters were modeled by zero-order, first-order and a combined kinetics model. The two first-order and combined kinetics models fitted properly the values of color changes during frying, with good coefficient of determination. The combined model used can describe the experimental colour parameters better than the other studied kinetics models.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"43 1","pages":"1670-1676"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76917450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE STUDY OF ORGANIC REMOVAL EFFICIENCY AND MEMBRANE FOULING IN A SUBMERGED MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR TREATING VEGETABLE OIL WASTEWATER","authors":"E. Sharghi, A. Shorgashti, B. Bonakdarpour","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.12c.02","url":null,"abstract":"The characterizations of vegetable oil wastewater (VOW) are unpleasant odor, dark color, and high organic contents, including large amounts of oil and grease (O&G), chemical oxygen demand (COD), fatty acids and lipids. Therefore, VOWs should be treated efficiently to avoid the environment pollution. The aim of present study was the investigation of VOW biological treatment using membrane bioreactor (MBR) in terms of organic pollutant removal performance and membrane fouling. During the 30 days MBR operation at hydraulic retention time and solid retention time of 48 h and 20 days, respectively, there was a consistently low turbidity (","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"64 1","pages":"1642-1649"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89188235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of Three Soft Computing Methods in Estimating Apparent Shear Stress in Compound Channels","authors":"Z. S. Khozani, H. Bonakdari, A. Zaji","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.06","url":null,"abstract":"Apparent shear stress acting on a vertical interface between the main channel and floodplain in a compound channel serves to quantify the momentum transfer between sub sections of this cross section. In this study, three soft computing methods are used to simulate apparent shear stress in prismatic compound channels. The Genetic Algorithm Artificial neural network (GAA), Genetic Programming (GP) and Modified Structure-Multi Layer Perceptron (MS-MLP) are applied to about 100 different data to predict apparent shear stress. The modelling procedure with three models were extended and the best of each model was selected after each step. In modeling with the GAA and GP different input combinations, fitness functions, transfer functions and mathematical functions were investigated for obtaining the optimum combination. The results showed B/b, H/B, nf/nc and h/b as input combination, fitness function MSE and transfer function tan-pur is the best combination for GAA model. The best GP model introduced with B/b, (H-h)/h, nf/nc and h/b as input variables, fitness function MAE and as the mathematical function set. Finally, the most appropriate GAA, GP and MS-MLP models were compared to select the best of them in estimating apparent shear stress in compound channels. According to the results, MS-MLP improved with RMSE of 0.3654 over GAA with RMSE of 0.5326 and the GP method with RMSE of 0.6615.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"50 1","pages":"1219-1226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84769337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF ROAD ACTUAL CONDITIONS TO EVALUATE THE OPTIMAL POSITIONING OF GEOGRID USING FINITE ELEMENTS AND DYNAMIC METHODS","authors":"G. Shafabakhsh, Mana Motamedi","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"1 1","pages":"1235-1241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89685619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations of Well Cementing Materials in High-Pressure, High-Temperature Conditions (RESEARCH NOTE)","authors":"S. T. Moradi, N. Nikolaev","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.05","url":null,"abstract":"As worldwide demand of hydrocarbon is growing fast, the oil and gas companies have been forced to explore reservoirs with more hostile conditions, such as high-pressure, high-temperature conditions. Improved technology, material selection and testing procedures are required to overcome the common problems in these conditions. One of the main phases of well construction is cementing job. Appropriate selection of cementing material can guarantee a successful cementing job. Many researchers investigated the required cement properties for applications in high-pressure, high-temperature conditions. However, the focus of their work was on the mechanical properties of set cement, while the other properties have not been studied enough. The purpose of this work is to produce a high resistant cement system, which can satisfy the other essential requirements at the same time. The main other requirements include free fluid content, thickening time and expansion capability, which have been investigated in this work. The results show that although some cement systems have high mechanical resistant, but their application is limited due to undesirable values of other properties. Therefore, different additives have been used to adjust the properties of the final cement system. The high-resistant cement is produced by adding siliceous material. Free fluid content, thickening time and expansion capability of the high-resistant cements are adjusted by adding polyvinyl alcohol, lignosulfonate and MgO, respectively. The combined effect of these additives is investigated to develop a high-resistant system, which has optimum values of other essential properties too.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"25 1","pages":"1214-1218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81635516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Removal of Dimethyl Phthalate from Aqueous Solution by Synthetic Modified Nano Zeolite Using Cu2O Nanoparticles","authors":"H. Esfandian, M. Sharifzadeh, Elham Yousefi","doi":"10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.ije.2016.29.09c.03","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel nano crystalline sodalite was synthesized and characterized by XRF, XRD, SEM and FTIR analysis. Cu2O nanoparticles (30-60 nm) were loaded on nano zeolite bed and utilized as an adsorbent to remove dimethyl phthalate. The SEM-EDX of modified zeolite indicates that the amount of copper loading on the zeolite was 4.5 wt%. Modified nano zeolite was used as an effective adsorbent for removal of dimethyl phthalate from aqueous solutions in batch method. Results showed that Cu2O nanoparticles have a significant effect on the dimethyl phthalate sorption (adsorption rates were 92.98% with 10, 0.4g and 55min of pH, adsorbent dose and contact time, respectively for modified zeolite). The kinetic studies showed that the dimethyl phthalate sorption process was well described by the pseudo second order kinetic model. Also, Langmuir isotherm provided the best fit to the equilibrium data with maximum adsorption capacity of 20.41 mg/g for modified zeolite. Experiments showed increase of temperature has a posetive effect on the dimethyl phthalate sorption process by nano zeolite. Thermodynamic parameters showed that the sorption of dimethyl phthalate onto zeolite was feasible, spontaneous and endothermic under studied conditions.","PeriodicalId":14066,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering - Transactions C: Aspects","volume":"21 1","pages":"1198-1207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83241313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}