{"title":"Numerical Study on the Performance and Behavior of Two-way Reinforced Concrete Slabs with Different Types of Styropor Blocks","authors":"Rand Tariq Kanaan, A. Al-Ahmed","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.023","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the performance of two-way reinforced concrete slabs with different sizesand shapes of cavities numerically under uniform load. Nineteen simply supported slab models were modeled with dimensions of (1060 1060 70) mm. One of them wasthe reference model which was solid slab and the others were with different shapes, sizes and numbers of cavities.The slab models with cavities divided into three groupsaccording to the shape of the cavities, each group contained six slab models, first group contained slab models with square shape of cavities while the second group contained the models with diamond cavities and third group contained models with circular cavities.In each group there were different numbers of cavities (9, 16 and 25), and the thickness was either 2 cm or 4 cm. \u0000The numerical results show that, when the percentage reduction of models weight was (14 %) which is corresponding to the cavities thickness of (2 cm), for this case the ultimate load capacity reduced by (3.40 - 13.61)%. While when the percentage reduction in weight was (28 %) which is corresponding with the cavities thickness of (2 cm), the ultimate load capacity reduced by (14.97 - 24.49) %.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125883348","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":"Deterministic Wind Load Dynamic Analysis of High Rise Steel Buildings Including P-Delta Effects","authors":"A. Dheeb, R. M. Abbas","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.017","url":null,"abstract":"This study concerns with the investigation of the second-order geometric nonlinearity effects of P-Delta analysis on the dynamic response of high rise steel buildings due to deterministic wind load. Linear and nonlinear time history analyses were conducted to analyze different tall steel building models adopted in the study. Five steel building models ranging from 10 to 50 stories were numerically modeled and analyzed using finite element code ETABS (version 16.0.3). Deterministic dynamic wind load per ASCE 7-10 is applied to the buildings as a main lateral load. Comparative study between linear and nonlinear time history analyses reveals that nonlinear time history analysis including P-Delta effects displayed larger values of buildings lateral sway than those of linear time history analysis. Generally, including P-Delta effect in the nonlinear analysis increases the flexibility of the building structure, and thus increases response peak values and that peak values occur at a longer time periods indicating lesser response oscillations. The study recommends that P-Delta effect need to be addressed by any dynamic wind analysis for tall steel buildings with 20 story height or more.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126771933","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":"Single and Binary Adsorption of Cu(II) and Ni(II) Ions from Aqueous Solutions by Sunflower Seed Husk","authors":"Shahad A. Abdulhussein, Abeer I. Al wared","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"This research presents the possibility of using sunflower seed husk as an adsorbent for the removal of Cu+2 and Ni+2 ions from simulated aqueous solution. A series of experiments were carried out in a batch reactor to obtain equilibrium data for adsorption of single and binary metal solutions. Experiments parameters such as pH, sorbent dosage, contact time, agitation speed and initial metal ions concentration were studied to optimize the best conditions. The results showed that the best parameters were evaluated to be 5, 7g/l, 120 min, 175rpm and 10mg/l for both ions, respectively. At these parameters, the monolayer adsorption capacity calculated from Langmuir model was obtained 23.4940, 11.3051 mg/g for Cu+2 and Ni+2 ions, respectively in single component system and it decreased to 18.6962, 9.2366 mg/g for binary component system, respectively and the sequence for metal ions removal in single and binary systems was Cu(II) > Ni(II) with 92.5% and 84.8% maximum removal efficiencies. Kinetic studies showed that a pseudo second order model was more suitable than the pseudo first order model.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125278346","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":"Behavior of Plain Concrete Beam Analyzed Using Extended Finite Element Method","authors":"Ali I. Taj, A. H. Al-Zuhairi","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.016","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, plain concrete simply supported beams subjected to two points loading were analyzed for the flexure. The numerical model of the beam was constructed in the meso-scale representation of concrete as a two phasic material (aggregate, and mortar). The fracture process of the concrete beams under loading was investigated in the laboratory as well as by the numerical models. The Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) was employed for the treatment of the discontinuities that appeared during the fracture process in concrete. Finite element method with the feature standard/explicitlywas utilized for the numerical analysis. Aggregate particles were assumedof elliptic shape. Other properties such as grading and sizes of the aggregate particles were taken from standard laboratory tests that conducted on aggregate samples.Two different concrete beamswere experimentally and numerically investigated. The difference between beams was concentrated in the maximum size of aggregate particles. The comparison between experimental and numerical results showed that themeso-scale model gives a good interface for the representing the concrete models in numerical approach. It was concluded that the XFEM is a powerful technique to use for the analysis of the fracture process and crack propagation in concrete.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128088465","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":"Secure Mobile Sink Node location in Wireless Sensor Network using Dynamic Routing Protocol","authors":"Ahmed R. Zarzoor, M. Abdullah, N. A. Shiltagh","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.015","url":null,"abstract":"The important device in the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the Sink Node (SN). That is used to store, collect and analyze data from every sensor node in the network. Thus the main role of SN in WSN makes it a big target for traffic analysis attack. Therefore, securing the SN position is a substantial issue. This study presents Security for Mobile Sink Node location using Dynamic Routing Protocol called (SMSNDRP), in order to increase complexity for adversary trying to discover mobile SN location. In addition to that, it minimizes network energy consumption. The proposed protocol which is applied on WSN framework consists of 50 nodes with static and mobile SN. The results havw shown in each round a dynamic change in the route to reach mobile SN, besides prolong the network lifetime in compare with static SN.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130669246","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":"Generate dazzling structural structures in contemporary architecture","authors":"Shahad Raad Hamed, S. Ali","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.026","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary life has been accompanied by a series of technological developments and inventions, which enthuses the designer in new challenges and on a number of its levels, whether architectural or structural, and how to combine the two in a product whose structure reflects the creators' high creative expression. Which may lead to dazzling by employing a number of styles to produce a dazzling structure. And from it emerged the research problem is (The lack of detailed studies of the strategies and mechanisms for the generation of dazzling structures in contemporary architecture) The aim of the research was to construct a theoretical framework that describes the forms of generation of dazzling structures in contemporary architecture, The research approach were concentrated in three stages of the analytical descriptive, The first is to clarify the dimensions of the research and to extract the research problem, the second is to construct a theoretical framework on the concept of dazzling and ways to achieve it; the third is to conduct the case study on the samples. It was concluded that the strategy of creation is the mother strategy to generate the dazzling structure and the other strategies revolve around its mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133109899","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 New Mathematical Analysis of Two–Plane Balancing for Long Rotors without Phase Data","authors":"Mohammed Tariq Sulaiman Al Abbood","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.006","url":null,"abstract":"Two–plane balancing procedure is usually adopted to balance long rotors using both vibration amplitude and phase data. This paper presents a new mathematical analysis of two–plane balancing method for long rotors using vibration amplitude data only. This method requires eight test runs with two balancing planes nearby the bearings. The tests are performed by connecting a known trial mass to eight different positions individually; four at each plane, where each position being advanced ( ) from its previous. In this study, a comparison has been performed between the new mathematical analysis and another traditional analysis presented in a previous study. Firstly, two computer programs based on both analyses have been written using Language in order to compute the magnitudes and locations of the required balancing masses. Secondly, the comparison has been made using balancing simulator for rigid rotors where different sizes of rotors at different rotation speeds have been tested. This study showed that the two–plane balancing method based on the new analysis was always capable of performing a very high grades of balance while traditional analysis showed an observed restriction in achieving a good quality of balance for the rotors been tested.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130292826","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":"Simulation of Ammonia Nitrogen Removal from Simulated Wastewater by Sorption onto Waste Foundry Sand Using Artificial Neural Network","authors":"A. A. Faisal, Laith A. Naji","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated the removal efficiency of ammonia nitrogen from simulated wastewater by waste foundry sand based on 120 batch experiments which were modeled by three-layer artificial neural network technique. Contact time (5-120 min), pH of the aqueous solution (3-10), concentration (400-600 mg/L), sorbent dosage (20-120 g/100 mL) and agitation speed (50-250 rpm) were studied. Results showed that the best values of the above parameters were time of 90 min, pH= 10, 400 mg/L, dosage of 90g/100 mL and 200 rpm respectively with removal efficiency equals to 95%. The sorption process was described in a good manner using ANN model which consisted of the tangent sigmoid and linear transfer functions at hidden and output layers respectively with 8 neurons and the maximum sorption capacity was 0.9 mg/g. The sensitivity analysis signified that the relative importance of contact time equal to 36.9% and it is the influential parameter in the sorption of ammonia nitrogen. However, the relative importance of other parameters was agitation speed of 27.43%, WFS dosage of 17.32%, pH of 9.86% and initial concentration of 9.39%.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129391213","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":"Behavior of Clay Masonry Prism under Vertical Load Using Detailed Micro Modeling Approach","authors":"Ammar Ahmed, A. H. Al-Zuhairi","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.009","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this research is to assess the validity of Detailed Micro-Modeling (DMM) as a numerical model for masonry analysis. To achieve this aim, a set of load-displacement curves obtained based on both numerical simulation and experimental results of clay masonry prisms loaded by a vertical load. The finite element method was implemented in DMM for analysis of the experimental clay masonry prism. The finite element software ABAQUS with implicit solver was used to model and analyze the clay masonry prism subjected to a vertical load. The load-displacement relationship of numerical model was found in good agreement with those drawn from experimental results. Evidence shows that load-displacement curvefound from the finite element model has almost the same shape and pattern of the experimental one. The curves in both situations become more and more resembling as the load increasing till they reach failure.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"11 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132241247","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":"Synthesis and characterization of Graphene produced from Iraqi date syrup","authors":"Hasan Hasan Makki, H. H. Alwan","doi":"10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33261/JAARU.2019.26.1.007","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene is a mono layer of hexagonal honey structure of carbon atoms. Iraqi date syrup was used as a carbon source for synthesis Graphene by expanded dehydration method, in which using of concentrated sulfuric acid as dehydration agent. The method name refers to expanded dehydration because of the increasing in volume with dehydration reaction. Characterization the prepared Graphene was done by FT-IR, XRD, SEM, AFM and UV-Visible techniques and compared with previous work. The final product was obtained by annealing at 600 °C or in other word thermal reduction to reduce all oxide groups combined with structure. Graphene XRD pattern shows wide peak at 002 plane centered at 2θ =23.758°, and d-spacing = 3.37 Å. AFM image shows that prepared Graphene in Nano sheets form. The method exhibit production yield about 9% and this is relatively high in comparison with other Graphene preparation methods.","PeriodicalId":414074,"journal":{"name":"Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116150360","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}