IMPROVE SHIP PROPELLER EFFICIENCY VIA OPTIMUM DESIGN OF PROPELLER BOSS CAP FINS


The responsibility of the contractor for project deficiencies

In this paper the author analyzes a civil law responsibility of the Contractor for project Changing Table deficiencies resulting in reduced quality of the construction, i.e.not affecting its solidity.Primary obligation of the Contractor is to perform works in compliance with professional standards, the contract and the approved project.The Contract

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Semantic segmentation of thermal defects in belt conveyor idlers using thermal image augmentation and U-Net-based convolutional neural networks

Abstract The belt conveyor (BC) is the main means of Bar Board horizontal transportation of bulk materials at mining sites.The sudden fault in BC modules may cause unexpected stops in production lines.With the increasing number of applications of inspection mobile robots in condition monitoring (CM) of industrial infrastructure in hazardous environ

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SLIME MOULD ALGORITHM FOR PRACTICAL OPTIMAL POWER FLOW SOLUTIONS INCORPORATING STOCHASTIC WIND POWER AND STATIC VAR COMPENSATOR DEVICE

Purpose.This paper proposes the application procedure of a new metaheuristic technique in a practical electrical power system to solve optimal power flow problems, this technique namely the slime mould algorithm (SMA) which is inspired by the swarming behavior and morphology of slime mould in nature.This study aims to test and verify the effectiven

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