Volume 7 - 11, 2014

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Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have evoked a keen interest in recent times for potential applications in aerospace and automotive industries owing to their superior strength to weight ratio and high temperature resistance. Reinforcement to the aluminium metal by carbon nanotubes along with graphene enhances the mechanical properties like strength of the aluminium composite material. It is important to understand the variation in hardness before and after reinforcement to the aluminium. In this paper hardness test is analyzed along with experimental procedure for aluminium.

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ANALYSIS

Genetic Algorithm Based Control and analysis of PMSM with PID

Vishwanath TS, Subhash SK, Mallikarjun T

In recent years, a remarkable evolution has been achieved by control systems in different application in Robot and many other Areas. One of the significant applications of developing control systems is the Acceleration control in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 7(17), 6-13

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Effect of nozzle opening pressures on diesel engine fuelled with Madhuca Indica biodiesel and its blend with diesel fuel

Solaimuthu C, Vetrivel P, Subbarayan MR, Channankaiah

The engine performance, combustion and emission characteristics of Mahua (Madhuca Indica) biodiesel (Methyl Ester of Mahua Oil) and its blends with diesel is presented. The thermo-physical properties of all the fuel blends have been measured and presented.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 7(17), 14-22

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RESEARCH

Effect of brining on drying kinetics of Tilapia (Tilapia Zilli) fish fillets

Elijah George Ikrang, Joseph Udoudo Okoko, Nnam-Ntefon Udo Etuk

The influence of pre-treatment (salting) on Tilapia fish filets were studied in a direct passive solar dryer. A factorial experiment laid out in a completely randomised design (CRD) with two factors being fish and salt at three levels replicated ten times was chosen for the work Results showed that the fish fillets dried in the falling rate period and also salt concentration had significant effect (p< 0.01) on drying kinetics

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 8(18), 6-10

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Optimization of storage parameters to enhance the shelf life of malta using response surface method

Richa R, Pandey JP, Khan Chand, Shahi NC, Anupama Singh

In this study, the response surface method and experimental design were applied for optimization of independent variables to enhance the shelf life of four months stored malta. Box-Benkhen design, with, 12 factorial points and 5 replicates at the centre point were used to build a model for predicting and optimizing storage process parameters.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 8(18), 11-19

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Comparative Analysis of Different Image Fusion Techniques for Sensor Application

Prashant Sangulagi, Raj reddy

Image processing is one of the hot research topics for the researchers where processing/transformation of the images are done. Image fusion is the part of image processing where the unwanted data or redundancy in the sensed information is eliminated in the order to reduce the energy consumption and bandwidth of the sensor nodes present in the WSN.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 8(19), 23-30

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Analysis of effect of air-fuel ratio on two different designed producer gas carburetors using CFD

Raj reddy, Prashant Sangulagi

In the present situation emission affects a lot to the environment, so we need to reduce emission effect on the environment as much as possible. In this regarding it is found that Biomass is one of the viable and sustainable renewable resources. Producer gas produced from gasification system clean enough to be used in Direct Injection gas engines.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 8(19), 31-38

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ANALYSIS

3D Modeling and virtual manufacturing of a machine component using Catia V5 and Mastercam

Adarsh Adeppa, Shivkumar biradar

It has been human nature to innovate, discover, invent new things and so has been his creation. Design may be pronounced as the synonym for creation. So there is no end to man’s creation, design and hence CAD. By passage of time it will be even smarter, quicker and sophisticated.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 9(20), 6-13

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RESEARCH

Performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine operating on mahua methyl ester and blends

Shivakumar Biradar, Adarsh Adeppa

The use of biodiesel fuels derived from vegetable oils as a substitute for conventional petroleum fuel in diesel engine is receiving an increasing amount of attention. This interest is based on a number of properties of biodiesel including the fact that it is produced from a renewable resource, its biodegradability, and its potential to reduce exhaust emissions.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 9(20), 14-21

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PERSPECTIVE

Virtual prototyping of a solar tracking system

Veerbhadrappa Telagane, Sudarashan adeppa

The subject of the seminar is now-a-days a priority on international level, because energy crisis is the most important issue in today’s world. Conventional energy resources are not only limited but also the prime culprit for environmental pollution.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(21), 7-14

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ANALYSIS

Security threads and quality of service challenges for wireless sensor networks: A Survey

Mallikarjun Talwar, Mallikarjun C Sarasamba

Security and quality of service (QoS) issues in cluster-based wireless sensornetworks are investigated. The QoS perspective is mostly at application levelconsisting of four attributes, which are spatial resolution, coverage, and system lifetime and packet loss due to collisions.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(21), 15-23

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Evaluation of Smart Antenna for 3G Network: A Survey

Mallikarjun C Sarsamba, Mallikarjun Talwar

In simple words, smart antenna is such that it can sense its environment and can adjust its gain in different directions accordingly. They provide a smart solution to the problem of communication traffic overload i.e. they increase the traffic capacity.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(21), 24-32

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RESEARCH

Analysis of hardness test for aluminium carbon nanotube metal matrix and graphene

Ebinezar, Bheemraokamble

Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have evoked a keen interest in recent times for potential applications in aerospace and automotive industries owing to their superior strength to weight ratio and high temperature resistance.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(21), 33-39

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ANALYSIS

Detection of gestures across the walls with Wi-Fi vision technology

Sudarshan Adeppa, Veerbhadrappa Telgane

In particular, we can use such signals to identify the number of people in a closed room and their relative locations. We can also identify simple gestures made behind a wall, and combine a sequence of gestures to communicate messages to a wireless receiver without carrying any transmitting device.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(22), 43-49

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Analysis of wear rate test for aluminium carbon nanotube graphene

Rajshakarappa, Ebinezar

Carbon nanotubes make the ideal reinforcement for metal matrix composites material which enhances the mechanical properties as well as tribological properties of base metal. In this paper wear rate study and analysis is conducted on two different composite materials out of which one is prepared from Carbon nanotubes, Graphene as reinforcement with Aluminum as matrix and another only prepared by only Graphene as reinforcement and Aluminum as matrix.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(22), 50-56

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Implementation of FFT for WIMAX Applications

Chandrashekhar M Tavade

The IEEE 802.16d communication standard uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). In the widely used OFDM systems, the fast Fourier transform (FFT) and inverse fast Fourier transform pairs are used to modulate and demodulate the data on the sub-carriers.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(22), 57-62

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Prediction of Real Time Bus Arrival

Aarathi

This system is possible by the use of GPS traces gathered from the prediction of real time bus arrival system implemented vehicles to determine routes, locate stops. This system determines the route served by a given vehicle at a given time and predicts its arrival time at upcoming stops

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(23), 66-77

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RESEARCH

Simulation, Analysis and Design of Swing Massager Morning Walker Mechanism

Rajashekar Matpathi

Traditional “build and test” design methods are now too expensive, too Time consuming, and sometimes even impossible to do. CAD-based tools help to evaluate things like interference between parts, and basic kinematic motion, but neglect the true physics-based dynamics of complex mechanical systems.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(24), 81-91

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Determination and Analysis of Optimal Drilling conditions of Carbon-Carbon composites using Deng’s Grey Theory

Krishna Sastry KV, Seshagiri Rao V, Kumar MS, Velayudham A, Palanikumar K

Carbon-Carbon composites materials are gaining significant place among the various materials, because of their usage in the manufacturing of advanced structures like space shuttles and missiles. These composites are nothing but Carbon fibres reinforced Carbon composites and are generally very costly in nature

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 10(24), 92-100

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RESEARCH

Flow Physics Analysis around three-bladed Savonius Wind Rotor

Sharma KK, Biswas A, Gupta R

In this paper, 2D flow through a three-bucket Savonius rotor is studied by Fluent 6.0 computational fluid dynamics software. The flow physics encompassed in the flow around the rotor is analyzed with the help of pressure, velocity and vorticity contours.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 11(25), 6-17

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Studies on fracture toughness of Banana-Glass fibre hybrid composite

Santhanam V, Chandrasekaran M

Composite materials, especially fibre reinforced plastics are widely used in industrial, automotive and household applications. Environmental impact of synthetic fibres forces us to investigate alternate means in the form of natural fibres. The use of natural fibre reinforced plastics represents attractive and suitable methods for replacing the synthetic fibres like glass fibre and carbon fibre.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 11(26), 21-29

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Evaluation for Defective Density in All the Right Places

Chandrakanth G Pujari, Seetharam K

Investigating the use of a binomial distribution to predict which files in a very large software organizational software system are most likely to contain many defects in the software projects. A new empirical study is described whose subject is an automated software system.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 11(26), 30-37

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ANALYSIS

A Heuristic Genetic Approach Applied To Lawrence Problems of Job Shop Scheduling For Minimization of Makespan

Udaiyakumarr KC, Chandrasekaran M

Last few decades the problem of scheduling several jobs on number of machine with each job having specific machine route has been researched widely. This job shop problem is one of the most well-known hardest combinatorial or non polynomial hard optimization problem.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2014, 11(27), 41-46

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