USING ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR FINDING SUITABLE SITES FOR SOLAR POWER PLANTS
Published In: 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): AMIN BASIRI , ANAHID BASIRI , NEDA NOURI
Abstract: The demand for the renewable energy sources is very high and this is mainly due to the fact that fossil fuels are finishing and they may not be environmental friendly. While it is highly important that the remaining amount of non-renewable energy resources are preserved for the future generations, other resources of energy can become more and more important. This is in particular very important for the developing countries such as Iran, which most of its export income is on the basis of selling oil, despite the huge potential of using renewable resources such as wind and solar; The amount of solar energy reception and average annual sunny hours (i.e. over 2900 hours), Iran is considered as one of the suitable countries in terms of capability for creating solar power plants. In the present paper, it has been attempted to recognize the appropriate locations to take advantage of this energy. In this regard, at first, the influencing factors on the solar energy are investigated, and then,
- Publication Date: 16-Dec-2016
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-114-6-63
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THE STRESS FIELDS OUTSIDE AN ELLIPSOIDAL INHOMOGENEITY BY ELLIPSOIDAL POTENTIALS AND EQUIVALENT INCLUSION METHOD
Published In: 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Author(s): SHYH-CHYANG LIN
Abstract: By applying the equivalent inclusion method and utilizing ellipsoidal harmonic functions, the stress fields of an infinite body which contains an ellipsoidal inhomogeneity were solved and given in closed form. Since ellipsoidal coordinates are used, the stresses along the principal axes and on the surface of the ellipsoid are easily calculated. The exact solution is presented for an infinite elastic medium which contains an ellipsoidal inhomogeneity subjected to principal stresses at infinity. The equivalent inclusion method is applied to obtain the stress field of ellipsoidal inhomogeneity that is used to solve the stress fields outside the inhomogeneity. The difference of this approach and the Eshelby’s method is that in our analysis the ellipsoidal coordinates are employed and the corresponding harmonic functions, Lamé functions are used as Boussingesq stress functions. This paper provides an alternative solution for the stresses outside ellipsoidal inhomogeneity other than Eshelby’
- Publication Date: 16-Dec-2016
- DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-114-6-64
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