Obtaining of steel from pig iron coming from blast furnaces is mainly done in special furnaces called BOF (basic oxygen furnace) converters. During operation, a foamy slag is created to improve the converter performance. ...

In matters of Engineering Projects, it is desirable to have both standardized methodologies, such as formal tools designed both to guide and make decisionmaking. In response which we propose a mathematical model based on ...

Ergonomic assessment methods identify the exposure of workers to risk factors associated to their workstations. Nowadays, many assessment methods analyze same risk type. For example, to assess manual load handling different ...

Nowadays ergonomists and health and safety professionals apply a great variety of ergonomic assessment methods to the workstations analysis. The aim of this paper is to determinate the degree of applicability of ergonomic ...

The National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work (INSHT) has developed a manual load handling guide, with the purpose of facilitating the fulfillment of the effective legislation for occupational health and safety ...

The design of industrial plant layouts is a complex problem. In order to solve this problem, many authors have used Genetics Algorithms (GAs) with the goal of reaching an efficient plant layout design. The GAs require to ...

This paper presents an integral solution for the automatic design of corridors of any type of floorplan. One key point on the generation of layouts is the interconnection of all different spaces (rooms). This article shows ...

Abstract. The previous regulations about acoustics in buildings ruled only isolation, forgetting other important subjects. The new code in Spain, specifically the DB-HR document, also include the regulations of excessive ...

This work deals with the design and development of an experimental apparatus that allows the tribological characterization of the dental mastication human activity, namely in what concerns the friction and wear phenomena. ...

This paper describes the point at which the steel and iron industry has progressed with the development of technologies coming from other enterprises, in this particular case, those enterprises that manufacture hidraulic ...