Showing papers in "Ain Shams Engineering Journal in 2020"

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review is conducted to identify the main problems which delay the implementation of IR 4.0 related technologies within the construction industry and opportunities attained in the long run.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine the influence of BIM benefits from the Malaysian construction stakeholders' perception towards its implementation, which revealed that most of the construction companies lack of awareness about BIM technology and its implementation could significantly increase project productivity and performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a realistic solution for energy demand in Makadi Bay, Red Sea, Hurgada, Egypt using energy system crossbred of Renewable Wind Energy System (WES) and Photovoltaic System (PVS) in the presence of battery energy storage (BES).

TL;DR: A detailed investigation has been done on the developed methodologies in the field, and the findings from other works are summarized in this article, which would motivate researchers and practicing engineers to use it as a comprehensive guide and reference for their future works.

TL;DR: An overall review of 50 recent research work studies, including proposed and compared approaches and techniques, objective functions, approaches, the utilised FACTS devices, constraints, contingency conditions and all the analysed and simulated parameters, is provided and discussed in details.

TL;DR: In this article, the surface roughness values of a titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) was analyzed using vegetable oil-based dielectric fluids and conventional dielectrics.

TL;DR: This paper presents an implementation of the stochastic fractal search (SFS) algorithm to solve the distribution network reconfiguration (DNR) problem in the presence of distributed generations (DGs).

TL;DR: The superiority of hTLBO-PS based TID is illustrated by comparing the published results with Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Differential Evolution (DE) tuned I/PI/PID controllers for the identical test scheme.

TL;DR: The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) is employed in conjunction with the BONMIN solver to solve the classical problem of optimal location and sizing of distributed generators (DGs) in radial distribution networks by presenting a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model.

TL;DR: This paper proposes to use the fuzzy logic technique in the actual implementation of the MPPT controller, a FPGA-based PV system that includes a photovoltaic panel, a boost converter and an fuzzy logic controller.

TL;DR: In this article, the boundary value problems are modeled by Taylor series and the boundary conditions are used to identify the unknowns involved in the approximate solution, which can be extended to fractal calculus.

TL;DR: This work presents a new meta-heuristic optimization approach, called Parasitism-Predation Algorithm (PPA), which mimics the interaction between the predator, the parasite and the host in the crow–cuckoo–cat system model to overcome the problems of low convergence and the curse of dimensionality of large data.

TL;DR: This study provides a review on the basic theories and main recent algorithms for optimizing the ANN, and different types of nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithms are presented; outlining the concepts and components that are used in order to give a summary and ease of the state-of-the-arts to find suitable methods in real world applications for the readers.

TL;DR: In this paper, electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) aggregate is used as aggregate in the production of high-volume batches of hydraulic concrete mixes that show interesting properties in both the fresh and the hardened state.

TL;DR: The city of Bogota located in Colombia is one of the cities with the most traffic in the world, as a result a rigorous evaluation of different neuronal architectures will be shown to alleviate the congestion of some streets of the city.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optimum coagulant dose for various co-agulants was determined using the one-way analysis of variance (One-Way ANOVA) of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 17.

TL;DR: A nature inspired metaheuristic algorithm based on the behavior of ant lions named as Ant Lion Optimization (ALO) is used to design the fractional order PID controller (FOPID) for controlling first order and higher order systems.

TL;DR: Bat Algorithm is solved by injecting one flying bat to search for greater power than the value of current global best to avoid reinitialization of bats and the convergence time is reduced by at least 566% compared to the state of the art strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, an impulsive differential equation model is proposed to study the plasma glucose control for diabetic patients with impulsive insulin injections, which is regarded as a deterministic mathematical model related to the diabetes mellitus fractional derivatives.

TL;DR: This research addresses the topic of using machine learning techniques to diagnose faults of satellite subsystems using its telemetry parameters and classified data using Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) in order to generate positive patterns for each failure class to get the most probable cause that lead to satellite failure.

TL;DR: It is concluded that only a few tool and techniques were explored a number of times by the researchers and few countries were dominating in terms of publication were the UK, and the USA has 15, 14 articles respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an experimental program on concrete specimens by non-destructive tests including ultrasonic pulse velocity and rebound number then an efficient approach namely; Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is applied to estimate the compressive strength of concrete with more accuracy rather other available models in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the free convective flow of time-independent hybrid nanofluid flow above a rotating upright cone in the mutable permeable medium was premeditated and the heat transmission was deliberated in the attendance of nonlinear radiative heat flux.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of electroplated steel alloy 4130 with Ni, Cu, and Cd immersed in a solution containing weight by volume 3.5% sodium chloride was simulated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the steady-state three dimensional momentum and internal energy change in rotating viscoelastic fluid flow along with convective boundary conditions and found that the minimum force required to initiate the fluid motion increases with an increment in local rotation parameter Ω.

TL;DR: In this paper, a steady, laminar, incompressible and two-dimensional micropolar fluid flow between a porous disk and a nonporous disk is considered, and similar similarity transformations are suitably applied to reduce the complex governing equations into a set of nonlinear boundary value problems with velocity slip conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the physical, mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of the synthesized composite films and determine their feasibility for use in food packaging and showed that the composite thin films can perhaps compete with current thermoplastic synthetic polymers fabricated by melting techniques and serve as an alternative for synthetic plastics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the hypothesis of vertical gardening as a restorative tool in urban spaces and found that the group exposed to vertical gardening was with higher restorative effect and lower stress levels.

TL;DR: In the classification problem of this paper, the neural network is used with four optimization techniques, which are whale optimization algorithm (WOA), dragonfly algorithm (DA), multiverse optimization (MVA), and grey wolf optimization (GWO), which provide accurate results over both WO, and DA in terms of convergence, runtime, classification rate, and MSE.