Plastic pipes, especialiy polyethylene pipes have grown to become one of the freguently utilized material in pipeline systems owing to its advantages of corrosion, biological and chemical resistance over traditional metal ...

This work evaluates the performance of the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) for truss system optimization problems and presents a novel method called the modified salp swarm algorithm (MSSA). Five truss structures, previously ...

Determination of the optimal route in transportation activities is one of the major problems in transportation. Therefore, efficient techniques deserve our utmost attention to detect optimal routes. In this study, a novel ...

Son yıllarda bütün dünyada dağlık bölgelerin sosyal ve ekonomik gelişmelerine yönelik çalışmalar yapılmaktadır. Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi topraklarının bir kısmı dağlık alanlardadır. Bu çalışmada, Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi'nde ...

Hydrocarbons, originating from oil and gas industries, are considered a potential risk for Nayband Bay, a natural marine park with extended mangroves, located on the north coastlines of the Persian Gulf, Iran. This paper ...

Drought forecasting is a vital task for sustainable development and water resource management. Emerging machine learning techniques could be used to develop precise drought forecasting models. However, they need to be ...

This study investigates the impact of pneumatophores (the aerial roots of Avicenna marina) on water flow rate, retention time, contact time, and consequently on nutrient absorption through the sediment in sub-tropical salt ...

There is no standard accepted by highway authorities on the compaction procedures of 100 mm diameter gyratory compactor specimens. In previous studies on gyratory compaction, the utilisation of either coring from 150 mm ...

In this article, meteorological and agricultural droughts across the Erbil province, Iraq, were assessed using remote sensing data and satellite products. To this end, the long-term (2000–2022) Standardized Precipitation ...