1. Hydraulics and Blading of Centrifugal Pump Impellers: A Systematic Review and Application

   • Qihua Zhang
   • Li Cao
   • Weidong Zhang

   Review Paper 30 May 2018 Pages: 1 - 12

   

2. Exergy Analysis and Optimization of Multi-effect Distillation with Thermal Vapor Compression System of Bandar Abbas Thermal Power Plant Using Genetic Algorithm

   • Jamshid Khorshidi
   • Nafiseh Sardari Pour
   • Taleb Zarei

   Research Paper 25 January 2018 Pages: 13 - 24

   

3. Active Vibration Control of a Functionally Graded Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Composite Beam Subjected to Follower Force

   • Behzad Hasanshahi
   • Mohammad Azadi

   Research Paper 19 December 2017 Pages: 25 - 35

   

4. A Computationally Efficient Inverse Dynamics Solution Based on Virtual Work Principle for Biped Robots

   • Majid Khadiv
   • Mahdokht Ezati
   • S. Ali A. Moosavian

   Research Paper 12 December 2017 Pages: 37 - 52

   

5. Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Porous Metal Matrix Composites Produced by Recycling of Bronze and Iron Chips

   • Ömer Sinan Şahin
   • Aydın Güneş
   • Ahmet Akdemir

   Research Paper 14 December 2017 Pages: 53 - 60

   

6. Hygrothermal Effects on the Free Vibration Behavior of Composite Plate Using nth-Order Shear Deformation Theory: a Micromechanical Approach

   • Abdelmalek Abdelmalek
   • Mokhtar Bouazza
   • Noureddine Benseddiq

   Research Paper 26 December 2017 Pages: 61 - 73

   

7. Structural Design Optimization of Multi-layer Spherical Pressure Vessels: A Metaheuristic Approach

   • Tolga Akış
   • Saeid Kazemzadeh Azad

   Research Paper 11 January 2018 Pages: 75 - 90

   

8. Investigation of Different Activities on the Hemodynamic Parameters of Left External Carotid Artery Using Fluid–Structure Interaction

   • Reza Kamali
   • Sasan Kheirandish
   • Khalil Paktinat

   Research Paper 30 January 2018 Pages: 91 - 106

   

9. Modeling and Simulation of Mild Wear of Spur Gear Considering Radial Misalignment

   • Paras Kumar
   • Harish Hirani
   • Atul Kumar Agrawal

   Research Paper 16 February 2018 Pages: 107 - 116

   

10. Numerical Study of Methane–Oxygen Premixed Flame Characteristics in Non-adiabatic Cylindrical Meso-Scale Reactors with the Backward-Facing Step

    • Mohammadreza Baigmohammadi
    • Sadegh Tabejamaat
    • Zeinab Javanbakht

    Research Paper 13 February 2018 Pages: 117 - 140

    

11. Self-Similar Solution of Radial Stagnation Point Flow and Heat Transfer of a Viscous, Compressible Fluid Impinging on a Rotating Cylinder

    • Asghar B. Rahimi
    • Hamid Mohammadiun
    • Mohammad Mohammadiun

    Research Paper 17 February 2018 Pages: 141 - 153

    

12. Analysis of Chip Geometry in Hot Machining of Inconel 718 Alloy

    • Asit Kumar Parida

    Research Paper 28 February 2018 Pages: 155 - 164

    

13. Numerical Investigation of Laminar Forced Convection and Entropy Generation of Nanofluid in a Confined Impinging Slot Jet Using Two-Phase Mixture Model

    • Babak Yousefi-Lafouraki
    • Abas Ramiar
    • Ali Akbar Ranjbar

    Research Paper 19 February 2018 Pages: 165 - 179

    

14. Development of a Connector Element for Single-Bolted, Single-Lap Joint Under Flexion–Torsion

    • O. Omran
    • V.-D. Nguyen
    • P. Coorevits

    Research Paper 15 February 2018 Pages: 181 - 192

    

15. Energy, Exergy and Economic Feasibility Analyses of a 60 MW Conventional Steam Power Plant Integrated with Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors Using Nanofluids

    • Muhammad Sajid Khan
    • Muhammad Abid
    • Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala

    Research Paper 20 February 2018 Pages: 193 - 209

    

16. Nonlinear Vibration Analysis of Laminated Magneto-Electro-Elastic Rectangular Plate Based on Third-Order Shear Deformation Theory

    • Saeid Shabanpour
    • Soheil Razavi
    • Alireza Shooshtari

    Research Paper 23 April 2018 Pages: 211 - 223

    

17. Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Carbon/Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Intra-ply Hybrid Composites

    • Farzin Azimpour Shishevan
    • Hamit Akbulut

    Research Paper 28 February 2018 Pages: 225 - 234

    

18. A New Form of Frequency Equation for Functionally Graded Timoshenko Beams with Arbitrary Number of Open Transverse Cracks

    • Tran Van Lien
    • Ngo Trong Duc
    • Nguyen Tien Khiem

    Research Paper 20 February 2018 Pages: 235 - 250

    

19. Experimental Study on the Thermal Conductivity of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized Using Sargassum Angostifolium

    • Y. Bakhshan
    • F. Samari
    • A. Kakoee

    Research Paper 20 February 2018 Pages: 251 - 257

    

20. Modeling and Analyzing of Energy Harvesting from Trapezoidal Piezoelectric Beams

    • Arman Kianpoor
    • Kamal Jahani

    Research Paper 16 February 2018 Pages: 259 - 266

    

21. Natural Frequency and Modes for a Sine Movable Tooth Drive

    • Lizhong Xu
    • Wenping Wang

    Research Paper 16 February 2018 Pages: 267 - 273

    

22. Effects of the Synchronous Variation of the Static and the Kinetic Friction Coefficients on Stick–Slip Vibration of Drillstring

    • Liping Tang
    • Xiaohua Zhu
    • Jinhe Li

    Research Paper 15 February 2018 Pages: 275 - 283

    

23. On the Free Vibrations of Piezoelectric Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Microbeams: A Multiscale Finite Element Approach

    • M. Ahmadi
    • R. Ansari
    • H. Rouhi

    Research Paper 17 February 2018 Pages: 285 - 294

    

24. Experimental Investigation of Deterministic and Random Cyclic Patterns in HCCI Engine using Symbol Sequence Approach

    • Rakesh Kumar Maurya

    Research Paper 23 March 2018 Pages: 295 - 306

    

25. Crack Estimation of Beam Under the Moving Mass Using the Dynamic Characteristics Based on Two Contact Point Theory

    • Tanuja Vaidya
    • Animesh Chatterjee

    Research Paper 11 May 2018 Pages: 307 - 326

    

26. Dynamic Analysis of Flexible Robotic Manipulators Constructed of Functionally Graded Materials

    • V. Rezaei
    • A. M. Shafei

    Research Paper 22 May 2018 Pages: 327 - 342

    

27. Effects of Size, Surface Energy and Casimir Force on the Superharmonic Resonance Characteristics of a Double-Layered Viscoelastic NEMS Device Under Piezoelectric Actuations

    • Sasan Rahmanian
    • Mohammad-Reza Ghazavi
    • Shahrokh Hosseini-Hashemi

    Research Paper 16 May 2018 Pages: 343 - 355

    

28. Numerical Simulation and Experimental Analysis of Grease Friction Properties on Textured Surface

    • Xijun Hua
    • Julius Caesar Puoza
    • Jilin Din

    Research Paper 15 May 2018 Pages: 357 - 369

    

29. Design and Performance of a Novel Hybrid Photovoltaic–Thermal Collector with Pulsating Heat Pipe (PVTPHP)

    • Hassan Kavoosi Balotaki
    • Mohammad Hassan Saidi

    Research Paper 22 May 2018 Pages: 371 - 381

    

30. Potential of Solar Cells Performance Enhancement Using Liquid Absorption Filters

    • Mohammad A. Hamdan
    • Eman M. Alqallab
    • Ahmad H. Sakhrieh

    Research Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 383 - 398

    

31. A New Resistive Belt Sensor for Multipoint Contact Detection of Robotic Wheels

    • Saeed Ebrahimi
    • Arman Mardani

    Research Paper 18 May 2018 Pages: 399 - 414

    

32. Adaptive Backstepping Extremum Seeking Control of a Class of Nonlinear Systems

    • Shakiba Yaghoubi
    • Maryam Dehghani
    • Mohammad Khayatian

    Research Paper 23 May 2018 Pages: 415 - 423

    

33. Semi-analytical Solution for Nonlinear Transverse Vibration Analysis of an Euler–Bernoulli Beam with Multiple Concentrated Masses Using Variational Iteration Method

    • K. Torabi
    • D. Sharifi
    • A. Mohebbi

    Research Paper 19 May 2018 Pages: 425 - 440

    

34. Effects of Thermal Shock Cycling on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Carbon/Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Intraply Hybrid Composites

    • Farzin Azimpour Shishevan
    • Hamit Akbulut

    Research Paper 16 May 2018 Pages: 441 - 449

    

35. A Study of Shrink-Fitting for Optimal Design of Multi-Layer Composite Tubes Subjected to Internal and External Pressure

    • Saeid Kazemzadeh Azad
    • Tolga Akış

    Research Paper 25 May 2018 Pages: 451 - 467

    

36. A Unified Higher-Order Beam Theory for Free Vibration and Buckling of FGCNT-Reinforced Microbeams Embedded in Elastic Medium Based on Unifying Stress–Strain Gradient Framework

    • Amin Ghorbani Shenas
    • Sima Ziaee
    • Parviz Malekzadeh

    Research Paper 31 May 2018 Pages: 469 - 492

    

37. A Variational Formulation to Find Finite Element Bending, Buckling and Vibration Equations of Nonlocal Timoshenko Beams

    • S. A. M. Ghannadpour

    Research Paper 24 May 2018 Pages: 493 - 502

    

38. A New Model for the Single Mesh Stiffness Calculation of Helical Gears Using the Slicing Principle

    • W. Yu
    • C. K. Mechefske

    Research Paper 22 May 2018 Pages: 503 - 515

    

39. Adaptive Delayed Feedback Chaos Control of a Class of Uncertain Chaotic Systems Subject to External Disturbance

    • R. Hajiloo
    • M. Shahrokhi
    • H. Salarieh

    Research Paper 25 May 2018 Pages: 517 - 525

    

40. Energetic and Exergetic Optimization of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with Dual-Pressure HRSG, Compressed Air Cooling, Steam Injection and Vapor Extraction Systems

    • Nihed Kilani
    • Tahar Khir
    • Ammar Ben Brahim

    Research Paper 22 May 2018 Pages: 527 - 536

    

41. Effects of Tooth Modifications on the Mesh and Dynamic Characteristics of Differential Gearbox Used in Electric Vehicle

    • Chao Xiang
    • Chaosheng Song
    • Wanlong Guo

    Research Paper 23 May 2018 Pages: 537 - 549

    

42. Impact Deformation of Curved Nanocomposite Panels

    • A. Bidi
    • Gh. Liaghat
    • Gh. Rahimi

    Research Paper 07 August 2018 Pages: 551 - 558

    

43. Frequency Domain Analysis of Nano-Objects Subject to Periodic External Excitation

    • E. Ghavanloo
    • A. Abbasszadehrad

    Research Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 559 - 565

    

44. MANFIS–GA Heat Transfer Analysis and Optimization of Fins with Elliptical Perforation

    • C. Balachandar
    • S. Arunkumar
    • M. Venkatesan

    Research Paper 22 May 2018 Pages: 567 - 577

    

45. Nonlocal electrothermomechanical instability of temperature-dependent FGM nanopanels with piezoelectric facesheets

    • S. Sahmani
    • M. M. Aghdam

    Research Paper 20 June 2018 Pages: 579 - 593

    

46. Impact of Geometry Parameters of a Sliding Surface of a Bearing on Tribological Characteristics of Sliding Bearings

    • Radosław Michalak

    Research Paper Open access 23 May 2018 Pages: 595 - 602

    

47. On the Nonlinear Vibrations of Polymer Nanocomposite Rectangular Plates Reinforced by Graphene Nanoplatelets: A Unified Higher-Order Shear Deformable Model

    • Raheb Gholami
    • Reza Ansari

    Research Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 603 - 620

    

48. Numerical and Experimental Investigation on Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of NiTi Shape Memory Alloy Wires

    • Pejman Shayanfard
    • Mohmoud Kadkhodaei
    • Amin Jalalpour

    Research Paper 21 May 2018 Pages: 621 - 629

    

49. Optimization of Tooth Profile Modification Based on Dynamic Characteristics of Helical Gear Pair

    • Cheng Wang

    Research Paper 28 May 2018 Pages: 631 - 639

    

50. Vibration Analysis of Thick Functionally Graded Micro-plates Using HOSNDPT and Modified Couple Stress Theory

    • E. Mohseni
    • A. R. Saidi
    • M. Mohammadi

    Research Paper 04 June 2018 Pages: 641 - 651