University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

About: University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy is a education organization based out in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Finite element method & Beam (structure). The organization has 3808 authors who have published 3822 publications receiving 30736 citations. The organization is also known as: Sofia Polytechnic.

Discounted cash flow: accounting for uncertainty

Abstract: Purpose – Valuation is the process of estimating price. The methods used to determine value attempt to model the thought processes of the market and thus estimate price by reference to observed historic data. This information is utilised in the discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation model to determine the single point valuation figure. However, the valuation will be affected by uncertainties: uncertainty in the comparable data available; uncertainty in the current and future market conditions and uncertainty in the specific inputs for the subject property. These input uncertainties will translate into an uncertainty with the output figure, the estimate of price. This paper discusses ways in which uncertainty can be incorporated into the DCF model.Design/methodology/approach – This paper looks at the way in which uncertainty can be incorporated into the explicit DCF model. This is done by recognising that the input variables are uncertain and will have a probability distribution pertaining to each of them. T...

Effect of surface work hardening on wear behavior of Hadfield steel

Abstract: Shot peening has become an effective method to strengthen alloy. In this investigation, it has been used to work-harden Hadfield steel. It has been regarded that the surface hardness of Hadfield steel has been increased greatly after shot peening. Using electron scanning microscope (SEM), high resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, the microstructure of shot penned surface layer was examined. It has been observed that a nanocrystalline surface layer is formed. The grain sizes of surface were decreased to 11.1–17.4 nm and the maximum hardened layer can reach to 100 μm after the treatment. Surface hardness was also increased with increasing shot peening period. Two-body and three-body abrasive wear experiments were carried out for work hardening and original specimens, separately. The results showed that the three-body wear resistance of the nanocrystallized Hadfield steel has distinctly been improved using soft abrasive particles. For harder abrasive particles like emery paper, the increased hardness and grain refinement by shot peening cannot improve two-body abrasive wear resistance.

The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the cabbage butterfly, Artogeia melete (Lepidoptera: Pieridae).

Abstract: The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Artogeia melete was determined as being composed of 15,140 bp, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and one control region. The gene order of A. melete mitogenome is typical of Lepidoptera and differs from the insect ancestral type in the location of trnM. The A. melete mitogenome has a total of 119 bp of intergenic spacer sequences spread over 10 regions, ranging in sizes between 1 and 48 bp. The nucleotide composition of the A. melete mitogenome is also biased toward A 1 T nucleotides (79.77%), which is higher than that of Ochrogaster lunifer (77.84%), but lower than nine other lepidopterans sequenced. The PCGs have typical mitochondrial start codons, except for cox1, which contains the unusual CGA. The cox1, cox2, nad2, and nad5 genes of the A. melete mitogenome have incomplete stop codons (T). The A. melete A 1 T-rich region contains some conserved structures that are similar to those found in other lepidopteran mitogenomes, including a structure combining the motif ‘ATAGA’, a 19-bp poly(T) stretch, a microsatellite (AT)n element, and a 9-bp poly(A) upstream trnM. The A. melete mitogenome contains a duplicated 36-bp repeat element, which consists of a 26bp core sequence flanked by 10-bp perfectly inverted repeats.