Two dimensional low-pass filters were used to prepare West Anatolian Bouguer gravity maps for interpretation. Talwani method was applied to the profiles obtained from appropriate directions of the regional Bouguer gravity anomaly map, and West Anatolian crustal thickness geometry has thus been modelled. West Anatolian crustal thickness starts at 30 kms in the north at the Black sea coast and increases to 35-40 kms at the Lake District (Isparta-Turkey). The thickness decreases to 32 kms at the Mediterranean coast. In the West-East direction the crust starts with 32 kms at the Aegean coast and increases to 40 kms towards central regions.

In the present study, an easy programmable, low cost and high sensitively control unit has been designed and implemented for a friction welding machine. For this aim, a microcontroller has been used for design of control circuit. Parameters such as friction time, forge time and breaking time have been set up by using keypad. It has been observed from joint of the samples that the system works successfully.

Performance of the spark ignition engines may be increased by changing the geometrical compression ratio according to the amount of charging in cylinders. The designed geometrical compression ratio can be realized as an effective compression ratio under the full load and full open throttle conditions since the effective compression ratio changes with the amount of charging into the cylinder in spark ignition engines. So, this condition of the spark ignition engines forces designers to change their geometrical compression ratio according to the amount of charging into the cylinder for improvement of performance and fuel economy. In order to improve the combustion efficiency, fuel economy, power output, exhaust emissions at partial loads, compression ratio must be increased; but, under high load and low speed conditions to prevent probable knock and hard running the compression ratio must be decreased gradually. In this paper, relation of the performance parameters to compression ratio such as power, torque, specific fuel consumption, cylindir pressure, exhaust gas temperature, combustion chamber surface area/volume ratio, thermal efficiency, spark timing etc. in spark ignition engines have been investigated and using of engines with variable compression ratio is suggested to fuel economy and more clear environment.

In this study, for designing of the fault-tolerant control systems by using standard personal computers, the ports have been investigated, different structure versions have been designed and the method for choosing of an optimal structure has been suggested. In this scope, first of all, the ÇÝFTYAK system has been defined and its work principle has been determined. Then, data transmission ports of the standard personal computers have been classified and analyzed. After that, the structure versions have been designed and evaluated according to the used data transmission methods, the numbers of ports and the criterions of reliability, performance, truth, control and cost. Finally, the method for choosing of the most optimal structure version has been suggested.

Bronzes which copper based alloys is widely used because of properties physical, thermal and tribological as journal bearing material. This material that has tribological performance good conclusions gives at journal bearings. In this study, CuSn10 bronze that were manufactured journal bearings friction and wear properties has been examined and compared. SAE 1050 steel shaft has been used as counter abrader. Experiments have been carried out 10 N and 20 N loads, 750 and 1500 rpm, dry and lubricated conditions by using radial journal bearing wear test rig. As a results, high friction coefficient and weigh loss have been obtained at dry condition more than lubricated condition.

The losses in the power systems should be low as possible as. Saving energy instead of loses (kWh) in power utilities can supply much more energy to the consumers. The lower losses the more energy is saved and thus the power system becomes more economical. In recent years, the increasing number of applications and power ratings of the devices which have nonlinear voltage-current characteristics cause voltage waveform distortion and additional losses. While evaluating losses considering harmonics will provide more contribution to obtain more accurate results. In this study, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) method has been presented to predict the harmonic losses in unbalanced power systems by using the data from balanced power system with nonlinear loads.

Within the urban area of Denizli Municipality and its vicinity, the hydraulic picture is a combination of three aquifer systems in the (a) alluvium (b) alluvial fan and (c) the Neogene lacustrine deposits. At different locations free surface, semi-confined and confined aquifers are observed. These aquifers are recharged by rain water and groundwater flow coming from the metamorphic rocks located at the southern parts of the study area. The groundwater exploitation potential (artesian and pumping) is high. The total ion concentration in the groundwater increases in the flow direction. At the same time, the chemical composition changes from calcium bicarbonate to magnesium sulfate type. This is due to the solution of the salts in the Neogene sediment deposits which get in contact with the groundwater. This brackish groundwater is not potable.

In this study, mineralogical, petrographical and chemical properties of volcanic rocks (Denizli Volcanics) with basaltic trachyandesite composition which are located in southern of Denizli province have been investigated. Their physical and mechanical tests have been carried out on the samples to find out their performance both as an aggregate in concrete and as building stone in the construction sector. Unit weights, water absorption, porosity and uniaxial compressive strength of the tested samples are between 2250-2960 kg/m3, % 0.06-0.4, % 0.15-10.22 and 52.4-170.2 MPa, respectively. Average 28-day compressive strengths of the concrete are 94.44 MPa and the results fit the mineralogical and petrographical characteristics. There is a total of 2750 million ton probable reserve and it is an alternative aggregate to limestone which has already been produced in the region. High strength concrete production is vital for high quality construction especially in earthquake zones.

In this paper, theoretical works that were done about weavability limits by researchers in the past were critically reviewed. Firstly, researcher’s assumptions, their geometric models that were developed as based on these assumptions and their mathematical equations derived from the geometrical models were introduced. Later, the equations fabric parameters in the equations were pointed. In conclusion, theories were discussed in terms of capable of predicting weavability limits and some new works were advised.

The coating process of food products with various mixtures prior to frying is a common application in kitchens whereas it still requires much investigation in technological area. In this study, batter and breading technology used in coating of foods is reviewed. The coating process was defined, and the function of predusting, battering and breading, the general composition of batter and breading mixtures and the functions of the ingradients were explained. In the coating application, the most important problem known as adhesion and the effects of it on the efficiency and cost were investigated. Batter and breading processing equipments used in the industry and the process lines were reviewed, and the problems, new designs and the latest patents relating them were discussed. New coating systems known as tumbling and fluidization were investigated and compared with other systems.

In this study, by using Normalized Full Gradyant (NFG), Andreev-Griffin variation and statistical methods, gravity data were evaluated. The influences of hydrocarbon existence on theoretical anomalies were produced by performing analytical downward continuation of the NFG field. With performing Andreev-Griffin variation and statistical methods, the affect of existence of hydrocarbons on curvature of theoretical anomalies was observed. In the study area, Hasankale-Horasan, along the one profile measured gravity data were processed and interpreted by NFG, Andreev-Griffin variation and statistical methods. As a result of this study, by using NFG, Andreev-Griffin variation and statistical methods, potential hydrocarbon existence areas along the profile have been identified.

Today, changing of competition conditions and customer preferences caused to happen many differences in the viewpoint of firms’ quality studies. At the same time, improvements in computer technologies accelerated use of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence technologies are being used to solve many industry problems. In this paper, we investigated the use of artificial intelligence techniques to solve quality problems. The artificial intelligence techniques, which are used in quality improving process in the recent years, are artificial neural networks, expert systems, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic.

It is known that the temperature as the result of the heat developed during machining at the tool-chip interface has an influence on the tool life and workpiece surface guality and the methods for measuring this temperature are constantly under investigation. In this study, the measurement of tool-chip interface temperature using toolworkpiece termocouple method was investigated. The test were carried out on a AISI 1040 steel and the toolchip interface temperature variation was examined depending on the cutting speed and feed rate. The obtained groups show that cutting speed has more influence on the temperature than feedrate has.

Nowadays, the usage of computer has become inevitable in the solution of the engineering systems and problems. In this study, the development of easy-to-use and application specific computer programming is considered. The program is based on the GUI of MATLAB technical programming language, which is widely used at the engineering area. As a programming application, a solution of static and dynamic characteristics of different type of electromagnetic circuits is investigated. With the program, user can select the type of magnet and material, and can calculate the size of magnet by entering parameters of the design.

This paper presents a method of optimum parameter tuning of a PID controller to be used in driving an inertial load by a dc motor thorough a gearbox. Specifically, the method uses genetic algorithms to determine the optimum controller parameters by minimizing the sum of the integral of the squared error and the squared controller output deviated from its steady state value. The paper suggests the use of Ziegler-Nichols settings to form the intervals for the controller parameters in which the population to be formed. The results obtained from the genetic algorithms are compared with the ones from Ziegler-Nichols in both figures and tabular form. Comparatively better results are obtained in the genetic algorithm case.

Any traditional or computerized metal removal process needs a prototype, a technical drawing and a database for production of a part. Design, process planning and manufacturing problems such as modeling, the necessity data extraction from standard data exchange formats, and part programme preparation for machine tools can be solved by the operators or experts as soon as possible while they occurred in the traditonal approach. In circumstances of the production efforts spent by the computer, all experiences of expert can be saved in a database for foresight of the possible problems. This data can be used at any stage in the product cycle. In this paper, it is presented the results of research efforts which aimed to extract information from the defacto industry standard DXF files to determine features existing on rotational parts to be machined on horizontal machining centers. After process extraction and definition, process unifications and frame preparation for machining parameters of the part are introduced.

Two commercially available medium carbon and low carbon microalloyed steel were evaluated in this study. The steels were cold strained in tension 5 % and were aged at 100-450 ºC for 1 hour. Strained and aged specimens were then retested to fracture and mechanical properties of steels were measured. Changes in mechanical properties such as ultimate tensile strength and yield strength were observed at ageing temperatures. This ageing is assºCiated with interaction between interstitial solutes and dislºCations which are preferential sites for solute atom diffusion. Indications are that the medium carbon microalloyed forging steel is more susceptible to strain ageing than the low carbon microalloyed steel as evidenced an increase in yield strength and tensile strength.

For boundary conditions of constant wall temperature, unsteady natural heat transfer at vertical plate have been investigated as numerically. In this study, laminar boundary layer equations have been solved based on Bousinessq assumption. In the computations, Gr and Re numbers have been taken as variables. By using some programs developed for finite difference and finite element codes for the related equations, the velocity and temperature distributions have been obtained. The obtained numerical results were shown with graphics and tables. Results were compared with similarity and integral methods.