Evaluation of passive building design parameters for Izmir city

Güçü, İlker

The housing sector is one of the largest sector responsible for energy consumption in the world and Turkey. Sustainability is an emerging issue as energy related problems arises throughout the world. The sustainable sources are both clean energy sources and mostly renewable. Therefore, especially in terms of economy, these new energy sources are important opportunity for countries dependent on other countries energy. Turkey is rich in sustainable resources and especially Izmir province has good potential in terms of solar, wind and geothermal energy which are the most important sustainable sou ...Daha fazlası

Improvement of engineering properties and liquefaction reduction of sandy soils using electric arc furnace slag and roof tile powder

Agolli, Drinela

The scarcity of suitable land for construction of engineering facilities and shortage of natural earth aggregates has highlighted the need for finding innovative way of construction. Nowadays problematic soils such as: soft clay, organic soils and liquefiable soils can be improved to the required civil engineering requirements by application of soil stabilization. Soil stabilization is a method intended to increase or preserve the stability of soil mass and chemical alteration of soil to improve engineering properties. Generally, ground treatment techniques used are: densification, reinforcem ...Daha fazlası

Investigation of concrete barriers with recycled rubber, steel slag and roof tile

Kurar, Ali

The purpose of aggregating rubber is to increase concrete’s flexibility, elasticity, and capacity to absorb energy. In some application of concrete, it is desired that concrete should have low unit weight, high toughness and impact resistance. Although concrete is the most commonly used construction material, it does not always fulfill these requirements. In order to improve elastic properties of concrete and recycle the waste materials, new applications have been realized recently. One of these applications is the utilization of discarded tires in order to use together with aggregate. ...Daha fazlası

Control and simulation of swarm mobile robots

Şen, Hayrettin

This thesis presents both control of mobile robots that can move by using collective motion algorithm and simulation of the robots during the motion. The orientation of the robots was controlled remotely by one user during the collective motion. The transmission of orientation data from the remote controller to the robots was done by using XBee modules. The control algorithm of collective motion was developed by using individual-based model. Two modes are considered during the control. These modes are search and swarm mode. The collective motion was performed by robots that are moving with re ...Daha fazlası

The effect of pulsed electromagnetic fields for in vitro wound healing exposure systems

Gümüşay, Mehmet

THE EFFECT OF PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FOR IN VITRO WOUND HEALING EXPOSURE SYSTEMS SUMMARY Electromagnetic fields have achieved important role as stimulator and therapeutic facility in biology and medicine (Blank & Findl, 2013). The effects of low magnitude, low frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields have been a period of study since past few decades, which was mainly on the treating soft tissue injuries, skin ulcers, nonuniform bone fractures and degenerative nerve healing (Hug & Röösli, 2012b). Chronic wounds are a major healthcare problem for patient morbidity and contribute signi ...Daha fazlası

Social media analysis based on mobile systems

Yavuz, Levent

The use of internet and social media has increasing with the developing new technologies and large number of people have actively using of the internet. At the same time the development of mobile technologies and the widespread usage of the mobile devices that can be shown as the reason for that. In this way, social media has become a virtual environment in which people interact with each other. Some of social media platforms such as Twitter have become very popular and most of people share some information about themselves on these platforms. They also share their ideas, thoughts, live ...Daha fazlası

Modelling, Analysis and Experimental Verification of Pneumatic Brake System

Güleryüz, İbrahim Can

As the technology develops, the development in vehicle safety becomes an area, which takes the attraction of the researchers who are working in automotive industry. Although systems like air bag system, lane departure warning system (LDWS) and tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) improve the safety of the vehicle, main studies, in which advanced technology is used mostly focus on the brake system including anti-lock braking system (ABS), traction control system (TCS), electronic stability control (ESC), advanced emergency braking system (AEBS), adaptive cruise control (ACC). Thus, det ...Daha fazlası

The evaluation of innovative insulation materials for energy efficiency in civil engineering

Thermal insulation term is the most important measure that provides the thermal comfort which human being has been looking for as a natural habit from the first residential lifestyle begins. The inventions in this topic, especially has been arisen in last centuries and specifically in the last century it has been carried forward and both aesthetic and performance based products have been researched to be discovered. In the light of researches each in academic and practical fields, the hope of this demand to be provided is increased via innovative insulation materials. Accordingly, to c ...Daha fazlası

Development of vibration performances of hybrid laminated composite materials by using stochastic methods

In recent years, laminated composites are fairly utilized in marine, automotive, aerospace, military and other engineering applications because of their high specific modulus (ratio between the young modulus and the density) and high specific strength (ratio between strength and density). In addition to these features, fiber reinforced composites have inherent tailorability such as fiber orientation and stacking sequence and provide great possibilities to designers against isotropic materials. Determination of the fundamental frequency performance of laminated composite plate is crucial for th ...Daha fazlası

Synthesis, characterizatıon and application of new organic electroactive molecules for photovoltiıc devices

PEDOT:PSS is with its acidic property solves the indium atoms from ITO and indium atoms diffuses in active layer in an organic solar cell. This event causes an decreasing in solar cell efficiency. In the same strategy, SAM molecules can be used as hole injection layer. On the other hand MoO3 can be used as anode buffer layer. In this thesis it is wanted to make SAM molecules have to not absorb visible range of solar spectrum for the efficient harvesting of solar energy by donor molecule. Otherwise the HOMO level of SAM molecule have to be between work function of ITO and HOMO level of donor mo ...Daha fazlası

New grade of thermoplastic polyurethane with high thermal conductivity and low coefficient of friction

Semiz, Seçkin

Today, thermoplastic polyurethane materials are widely used in many different applications. There are many types of thermoplastic polyurethanes which offers different mechanical and chemical properties according to application area. In addition to the existing properties, thermoplastic polyurethane materials mixed with various additives to obtain specific, targeted thermoplastic polyurethane materials in order to impart different properties to the material for application. In this study, materials of the sealing elements are approached which is one of the most important parts of the hyd ...Daha fazlası

Detection of dyes in water using smartphone technology for environmental sustaınability

Kocakuşak Özdemir, Gizem

The goal of this thesis is to develop the applicability of an ultra-low cost, field-deployable, plastic fiber based smartphone spectrometer system to study dye adsorption from water. A custom cradle using smartphone’s built-in flash and camera was designed for visible absorbance spectroscopy without any need for external electrical components. We firstly investigated the performance of smartphone spectrometer for methylene blue (MB) absorbance in water with a detection limit of 0.5 ppm, and compared it to that of a commercial spectrometer. We elaborated on the contribution of image formats to ...Daha fazlası