Hijazi, Ahmad(Lebanese American University, 2023-07-10)
This study proposes a novel vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) design with flexible blades aiming to improve their energy extraction capability. The blade deformation is achieved using Ansys Fluent dynamic mesh and user-defined ...
With the rapid advancement of electronic and microelectronic technologies, it has become crucial to efficiently characterize and simulate semiconductor devices and systems under various operating conditions. These circuits ...
Landslides are a natural hazard that can cause severe damage to property and infrastructure. Satellite imagery is a valuable tool for monitoring and evaluating landslide risk because it can provide a comprehensive view of ...
Youssef, Joanna(Lebanese American University, 2023-01-24)
Shear walls are the main lateral-load-resisting system in reinforced concrete buildings. This study examines the seismic performance of slender, under-reinforced shear walls, and proposes retrofit guidelines to enhance the ...
Al Sayegh, Houssam(Lebanese American University, 2023-01-24)
Shear walls are key structural elements when it comes to resisting lateral loads in reinforced concrete buildings. Thus, they are exposed to extensive loading during earthquakes. Shear walls designed according to modern ...
Daou, Christy; Othman, Jana; Bedran, Ryan Sam; El Fata, Jad(2022-05-17)
Powerline inspections have always been a challenge due to its cost and safety issues. As a result, it has been crucial to create new methods/mechanisms for inspecting the powerlines. Moreover, existing solutions typically ...
Many methodologies have been developed for the problem of optimal siting and sizing of photovoltaic (PV) distributed generation in distribution networks. However, clear solar potential assessment and variability of load ...
In this paper, we introduce the Robot Quadruped Materials Dataset (RQMD), which is a collection of RGB color images as well as a friction coefficient associated with each image for 5 different material types taken
in ...
Ghosn, Michelle Leba(Lebanese American University, 2022-09-27)
Assessing the environmental impacts of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is a growing concern that needs to be addressed. Although several studies have been published on the environmental performance of WWTPs, few have ...
Gerges, Zeina(Lebanese American University, 2022-12-16)
Rotary friction welding (RFW) is a highly efficient and sustainable process for joining both metals and plastics. The welding process parameters of RFW must be carefully selected to ensure a good quality weld with minimum ...
Sarkis, Serge(Lebanese American University, 2022-12-15)
Ionic polymer metal composites are a type of electroactive polymers, they are composed of an ionomer membrane sandwiched between two conducting high surface area electrodes. They act as an actuator under the application ...
Kfouri, Ronald(Lebanese American University, 2023-01-09)
Distribution System State Estimation (DSSE) remains a challenging problem due to the nature of distribution grids. Conventional methods, which are used to solve state estimation on the transmission level, require the grid ...
The Litani River in Lebanon is subjected to many pollution sources originating from the agro-industries including dairy farms and slaughterhouses. This pollution is leading to a severe degradation in water quality. The aim ...
Zeeb, Reem(Lebanese American University, 2022-12-20)
As the concern of fresh and clean water scarcity is raised worldwide, the necessity of water reuse stands out. In this sense, the AnMBR, an advanced wastewater treatment technology combining the advantages of the MBR and ...
Abdallah, Mohamad(Lebanese American University, 2022-12-20)
With rising issue of wastewater discharge and resulting pollution, anaerobic wastewater treatment has emerged as a prominent technology to overcome these issues. A myriad of anaerobic treatment techniques has demonstrated ...
Nanomaterials are engineered materials with at least one dimension in the range of 1–100 nm. Nanofluids—nanoscale colloidal suspensions containing various nanomaterials—have distinctive properties and offer unprecedented ...
Temperature affects significantly the rheological behavior of neat water Wyoming Na-bentonite dispersions. The results of a very systematic study are presented regarding rheological measurements of 7% mass concentration ...
Access to deeper oil and gas reservoirs in hostile environments necessitates improvement of existing drilling fluids. This work focuses on the lab techniques for developing, assessing and analyzing innovative water-based ...
The adsorption kinetics and adsorption parameters of metolachlor, atrazine, deethylatrazine (DEA), deisopropylatrazine (DIA) and hydroxyatrazine (HA) were investigated in a soil profile in a maize field formed from recent ...
A well-validated analytical method based on microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) and SPE is presented for the combined analysis of alachlor, alachlor–oxanilic acid (OXA), alachlor–ethanesulfonic acid (ESA), metolachlor, ...