Volume 13, 2016

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Over 70% of Earth’s surface comprises from ocean, which makes satellite remote sensing a logical and significant component of an overall effort to meet societal needs for weather and water information; support commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation; and provide information for better coastal preparedness. Ocean surface vector winds (OSVW) are crucial pieces of information needed to understand and predict the short-term and longer term processes that drive our planet’s environment. The purpose of this paper, the intensity and direction of tropical cyclones are forecasted and their impacts are analyzed using Matlab software

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ANALYSIS

Forecasting Intensity and Direction of Tropical Cyclones and Investigating their Impacts on Renewable Energy Power Plants in Iran

Hossein Sarabadani, Seyed Siavash Karimi Madahi

As one of the biggest vectors on ocean’s surface, winds influence a great range of ocean’s surface from little waves to great streams. Winds also balance interactions between atmosphere and ocean by stabilizing heat, moisture and gases with ocean’s air. In addition, oceanic vector winds can cause devastating forces which are called tropical cyclones

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 11-15

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Simulation of Tropical Cyclones and Their Impact on Renewable Energy Power Plants

Hossein Sarabadani, Seyed Siavash Karimi Madahi

Over 70% of Earth’s surface comprises from ocean, which makes satellite remote sensing a logical and significant component of an overall effort to meet societal needs for weather and water information; support commerce with information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation; and provide information for better coastal preparedness

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 16-20

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A comparative study on various brain tumor classification methods

Ganesh S

Today, Brain Tumor is one of the major important problems among various other existing life threatening diseases. People at any age, both adult and child are affected by this brain tumor. Brain tumor are classified into two types, primary and secondary .

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 27-33

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Design of a Low Cost Weather Monitoring Station using Raspberry Pi

Shyamala C, Divya PA, Ifrah Naaz

Weather affects a wide range of activities. So monitoring weather and environment is very crucial. This project is based on the concept of using the Raspberry Pi as an interfacing device as well as a web server

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 51-58

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Certain Investigation on Latent Fingerprint Improvement through Multi-Scale Patch Based Sparse Representation

Sheikdavood K, Surendar P, Manikandan A

Latent fingerprint recognition plays a key task for recognizing and convicting criminals in enforcement society. Latent fingerprint pictures area unit a lot of typically than not of poor quality with blurred ridge structure and numerous overlapping patterns

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 59-64

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RESEARCH

Collaborative User Security Using Nearest Neighbor Approach in OSN

Chander Kumar M

Online Social Network (OSN) connects users to share information from one to another or group. Information sharing process requires high security. But in OSN, information security and trusted users identification is in low level. Because information shared with friends of friends affects security policy mechanisms

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 75-81

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Hardware implementation of fuzzy controlled isolated Zeta converter fed BLDC motor drive

Sreelakshmi K, Caroline Ann Sam

A fuzzy controller based isolated zeta converter fed BLDC motor drive is proposed here. The non-linear load like rectifier with capacitor, adjustable speed drives etc add current spike and distorts the supply current. Due to this injected harmonics the quality of power degrades. Active power factor correctors are suitable for the harmonics caused due to the non-linear loads

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 82-88

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Four quadrant operation of BLDC motor drive using a non inverting buck boost converter

Annie Bincy CA, Salitha K

Brushless DC motors are widely used in many applications such as traction, appliances, instrumentation and aerospace. Thus operation of BLDC motor in all four quadrants becomes very essential. Motor is operated in all quadrants of torque-speed plane without any power loss and energy is conserved during the generation period

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 89-97

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Outlier Detection on High Dimensional Data Using RNN

Rohini R, Blessa Binolin Pepsi M

Dealing with dimensions is the great challenge, due to “curse of dimensionality”, for effective outlier detection. In a high dimensional data space, it is difficult to detect most related points and most unrelated points. Outlier is the most unrelated points and in the high dimensional data all data points seemed to be a good outlier, which is a great challenge to identify

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 98-107

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Induction motor- fault diagnostic system simulation and analysis

Kiruba Shankar R, Koushalya K, Priyanka EB

Induction motor faults are diagnosed using Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) since the spectrum of the input stator current signals hold the information of the faults present in the motor. Frequency of the fault signals depend on the slip of the induction motor, thus it depends on the actual speed of the rotating part of the motor

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 108-115

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SURVEY

Survey on Sinkhole Attack Detection in WSN

Vidhya S, Sasilatha T

Wireless Sensor Network security is the important consideration of the aspect of security. Sensor networks are deployed for various applications due to their usability and cost effective nature. Designing a network is a critical part of the designer of the network while considering the security aspect. It is prone to all types of attacks by the intruders

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 127-129

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CASE ANALYSIS

Analyzing Reliability Indices in Special Protection Schemes in Order to Increase Reliability and Capacity of Transmission Lines

Abbas Farahani, Jalil Ghahramani

Special protection schemes (SPS), known also as remedial action schemes, are those designed to detect one or more predetermined system conditions that have a high probability of causing unusual stress on the power system, and for which preplanned remedial action is considered necessary

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(31), 130-134

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RESEARCH

Using Super Conductive Fault Current Limiter to Retrieve the Protection Coordination of Networks in the Presence of Distributed Generation

Ali Saemi, Jalil Ghahramani

Distributed Generation Resources are increasingly used in distribution systems due to their great benefits. The application of DG, however, can cause different problems such as miss-coordination, false tripping, blinding and reduction of reach of protective devices.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 135-141

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ANALYSIS

Accurate and Faster Converging Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks in the Presence of Collusion Attacks

Kanmani R, Meenalochini M, Keerthana R

In WSN the computational power of very low power processors dramatically increases, mostly driven by demands of mobile computing. When the cost of such technology drops, WSNs will be able to afford hardware which can implement more sophisticated data aggregation and trust assessment algorithms.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 172-176

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Sleep scheduling with load balancing in sensor-cloud based on mobile user location

Priya R, Mahendran N

The mobile cloud computing (MCC) with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology gets a more attraction by researchers, because its combines the data gathering ability of sensors with the data processing capacity of the cloud. This new approach overcomes the limitation of data storage capacity and computational ability of sensor nodes.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 177-183

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Efficient data access using distributed cache network central location technique

Gomathi Nayaki S, Swathika S, Leena B

Disruption tolerant networks are characterized by low node density, node mobility, and lack of global network information. Most of research efforts in DTNs focus on data forwarding, but only limited work has been done by an efficient data access to mobile consumers.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 184-199

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Spatial filtering techniques on reducing speckle noise in medical images

Praneesh M, Shrividhya B

Filtering is one of the main pre-processing techniques in digital image processing techniques characterized by the fact that both its input and output are images. One of the most commercially successful applications of spatial filtering is ultrasound medical images.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 240-244

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A Mind Controlled Wheel Chair with Patient Monitoring and Indoor Positioning System

Kripan Mihira

This paper describes a Mind controlled wheel chair with patient monitoring system based on Brain Computer Interface (BCI). BCIs are systems that may bypass typical channels of communication (i.e., muscles and thoughts) to supply direct communication and management between the human brain and physical devices by translating different patterns of brain activity into commands in real time.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 245-250

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Security Based Protocol Design for In-Vehicle Controller Area Network

Soumya Sukumaran, Neenu George

Vehicle networks which are currently connected to external networks permit a conflicts to perform a long-range wireless attack using CAN susceptibilities. In this article shows that a long range of wireless attack is feasible using a real vehicle and a destructive smartphone application in a connected car scenario.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 263-269

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Survey on Image Processing Based Fire Detection Techniques

Jayashree S, Janeera DA

Fire accidents are very frequently occurring disasters, which causes great loss. This gives rise to the urgent need to detect fire as fast as possible. The traditional fire detection system detects the fire using temperature sensors by sense the heat generated by the fire.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(32), 288-295

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REVIEWS

Continuous improvement philosophy for manufacturing productivity: critical review

Lakhan Patidar, Vimlesh Kumar Soni, Pradeep Kumar Soni

In the current age of science, Indian industries are facing many challenges especially with the increasing product demand, complexity and competitiveness along with tightened quality, yield and productivity improvement. For the same purpose industries require to identify the potential area for improvement and diagnose the bottleneck.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 300-310

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ANALYSIS

Automotive Manual Transmission Gear shift Performance Improvement by Synchronizer Design

Vikas Manjrekar, Brahm Pratap

In 4000 BC Mesopotamian vase had shown a glimpse of cart design, leading the development of wheels by wooden disc in 2500 BC resulting EULER / Watt to propose the theory of gear box in automotive world.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 317-323

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Interlaminar shear stress distribution for laminated composite plate with a center circular hole under transverse loading with different boundary conditions

Moon Banerjee, Jain NK, Sanyal S

Stress concentration factor (SCF) for a laminated composite plate under transverse loading with four different boundary conditions are analyzed. This research aims to study the layer wise shear stress distribution in the laminate for all boundary conditions considered.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 324-330

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Influence of different cone angle of projectiles on the perforation of steel plate

Nand Mohan Jha, Vinod Pare, Manoj Chouksey

Numerical simulations with ANSYS/DYNAMIC EXPLICIT have been performed to study the Ballistic perforation of 12 mm thick Weldox 460E steel plate struck by projectiles with different cone angles (30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 180°) under normal impact.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 331-337

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A State of the Art Review of Online Condition Monitoring Tools using NDT as Principal Testing Technique

Aashish Khaira, Dwivedi RK, Sanjay Srivastava

The non-destructive techniques are the suitable solution for testing and quality control but in present cut-throat scenario where margin of companies are decreasing and pressure for providing good quality is increasing day by day. Therefore offline condition monitoring techniques are losing their importance.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 338-346

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Improving reliability for SMES in India by using faults classification

Waghmare SN, Raut DN, Mahajan SK, Bhamare SS

In today’s dynamic environment, a reliable production system has been anticipated as a critical factor for competitiveness, SMEs in India are facing challenges due to growing competition to sustain themselves. Enhancing their quality and also quality of the products is absolutely essential to sustain growth

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 354-361

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Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Chicken Keratin Fiber Reinforced Isophthalic Polymer Matrix Composite

Arul Mozhi Selvan V, Mohit H

Natural fibers such as hemp, flax, sisal, coir, hyacinth, kapok, feathers, kenaf etc. have been used as reinforcement material with polymer composite. Feathers are waste products and generated every year by poultry industry when birds are handled in dressing plants and the disposal of these feathers create environmental pollution.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 371-378

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Fabrication, Processing and Assessment of Mechanical behaviour of Hydroxyapatite (HAp) reinforced Polycarbonate (PC) Composite for Bio-medical Applications

Mehar AK, Mahapatra SS, Patel SK

A composite can be defined as a material having two or more chemically distinct phases, which at the microscopic scale are separated by a distinct interface. A composite have light weight, high strength to weight ratio and stiffness properties and replaces the conventional materials.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 386-393

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Experimental analysis on friction stir welding process parameters on temperature distribution

Prasanna Kutum, Manash Jyoti Borah

In most cases fusion welding of aluminium and its alloys is difficult because of their low melting point despite many useful properties like high thermal conductivity, less corrosive nature and light-weight.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 394-400

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A new product development framework: combining analytic hierarchy process & structural equation modeling approach

Sudeshna Roy, Nipu Modak, Pranab K Dan

Identification of factors contributing to product development success in Indian manufacturing firms becomes essential for every organization to sustain in the competitive and volatile market environment which in turn reflects the ultimate achievement of the company.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 401-407

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Optimization of electric discharge machining parameters for AL–3 weight % nano SiCp composites using copper electrode

Rajesh Purohit, Krishna CM, Rana RS, Vikas Kumar, Krishan Kumar patel

Aluminium matrix composites have seen the most wide spread applications and it is the most emerging material in the automotive, aircraft, defence and other applications. Silicon carbide particles have a high modulus of elasticity, higher hardness, low coefficient of thermal expansion and density which when reinforced with Al-alloys make them highly attractive materials.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 408-414

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Investigations on the surface roughness of drilled hole on carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite

Ravi Sankar B, Umamaheswarrao P

The present work aims to analyze the drilling parameters namely speed, feed and point angle for surface roughness of drilled hole on carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite. Three factors, three levels, Box Behnken design matrix is deployed to minimize number of experiments.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 415-421

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Machinability study on drilling of Al7075/Al2O3P /GRP hybrid metal matrix composites

Shrinivas Balraj U, Anitha P

In this paper, an investigation has been made to explore the thrust force, torque and surface roughness that contain important information related to the quality of the hole produced during the drilling of hybrid aluminum metal matrix composites - Al7075/Al2O3p /Grp using low cost HSS twist drill bits.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 422-428

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Development of response surface regression model for optimizing wear rate of boron steel

Dushyant Singh, Mondal DP

Prediction of wear rate of boron steel (50B50) influenced by a combination of three factors namely applied load, hardness and peening intensity, was attempted by developing a second order response surface regression model.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 429-436

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Combustion simulation in a differentially heated diffuser under free convection

Rajesh Gupta, Pankaj Dubey, Gopal Kumar Deshmukh

The present work is aimed to explore combustion in a vertical diffuser with an emphasis on the buoyancy-induced nature of the flow. This combustion problem is similar to the combustion of pyrolysis gases in an annular vertical diffuser which is widely used in rural areas for cooking

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 437-445

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Performance analysis of cold storage with energy heat recovery wheel

Aharwal KR, Faneshwar Sahu

A cold storage is place where the various items such as vegetables fruits, medicines and potato etc. are stored to protect them from getting spoiled and to prolong their preservation period.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 461-468

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Experimental investigation for natural convection heat transfer between two vertical plates with symmetric heating in vertical channel

Anu Nair P, Anoop G Das, Ajish Soman

The thermal problems of most electronic components have been solved in recent year. Passive cooling of electronic component by natural convection heat transfer has major advantage of no vibration, least expensive and most authentic method of heat rejection.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 469-476

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RESEARCH

Design and Implementation of a Programmable Logic Controller Based Day Lighting Control System

Aldi BI, Kadadevarmath JS, Bannibagi NP

Automatic lighting in building automation is a technology mainly designed for energy efficiency and uniformity of illumination during working hours. In this paper design and implementation of automatic lighting controller, consists of low cost and simple approach of electric lighting interface module with Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is presented.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 477-486

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ANALYSIS

Optical Pressure Sensing Using Fp Etalon

Sripriya T, Jeyalakshmi V

One of the most vital application technology needed in various industries is to calibrate the pressure. This project helps to acquire the measure of pressure by intensity of light using Fabry Perot Interferometer. Attaining exact pressure measurements in the tough environments has always braved the obtainable measurement technologies

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 487-492

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RESEARCH

Stress Strain Characteristics of Flyash Based Geopolymer Concrete

Revathi S, Vasantha Priya T, Naveen Kumar S

Geopolymer concrete prepared from class F fly ash and mixed alkali activator of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate solution were investigated. Sand and M-Sand were used as Fine aggregates.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 493-507

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ANALYSIS

Design of flight data transmitter for black-box detection at airplane crash

Meivel S, Maguteeswaran R, Rajalakshmi S

With any airplane crash, there may be many problems arise related to the crash. The only answer is found in the black box which is the combination of Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder. Instead of waiting for a long period for scanning the black box the valuable information can be recovered instantly via RF transmitter and receiver using GPS is an existing system.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(33), 508-518

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A comparison on medical image fusion of CT and MRI images using transform domain techniques

Sheefa Ruby Grace D, Mary Immaculate Sheela L

This paper presents a comparative analysis on medical image fusion of CT and MRI images using various transform domain techniques. Image fusion is the process of combining two images to form a single image. The new image will be more informative than these two input images

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 550-556

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Detection of Exudates in the Color Retinal images Based on Morphological Techniques

Karthika S, Shenbagavalli R

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the complications resulted from prolonged diabetic conditions usually affected after ten to fifteen years of having diabetes. It causes damage to the tiny blood vessels inside the retina.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 577-582

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Motion detection using background subtraction for video surveillance

Baby Sakunthala M, Lakshmi Praba V

This project presents moving object detection based on background subtraction under complex wavelet transform domain for video surveillance system. The object detection in frequency domain will be approached to segment objects from foreground with absence of background noise.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 583-588

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SURVEY

Vehicular Delay Tolerant Network - A Survey

Santhana Devi G, Germanus Alex M

The Vehicle based Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) are emerging research topics that have attracted keen research efforts from both academia and industry. Delay tolerant networks are characterized by frequent network partitioning, intermittent network connectivity, long and variable delays, and high error rates.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 600-606

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ANALYSIS

Cooling Time Estimation on Rotating high temperature Cylinder using CFD technique and verification through Analytical method

Prabhat Kumar Hensh, Sachin Kumar Shrivastava, Narayan Teja A, Dakshina Murty M

Conjugate Heat Transfer study is carried out on a large rotating high temperature cylinder to estimate cooling time using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 617-624

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Adhesive and Abrasive Wear Behavior of AA4015 Alloy/Si3N4 Metal Matrix Composites

Chennakesava R Alavala

In the present work, the AA4015 alloy/Si3N4 metal matrix composites were manufactured at 10% and 30% volume fractions of Si3N4. The pin-on-disc wear test was conducted with different combinations of reinforcement, sliding distance, normal load, sliding speed.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 625-633

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Analysis on Mechanical Properties of Al/TiB2 MMCs and Validated for FEA with Different Mould Condition

Rajaravi C, Lakshminarayanan PR

Aluminum alloy A356/TiB2 In-situ MMCS have been fabricated through salt metal reaction route. In this present study the A356 alloy reinforced with TiB2 particle cast in permanent mould for different pouring temperatures, have showed that the mechanical properties (i.e. Fracture Toughness, Tensile Strength, Hardness) increased as compared to that cast in sand mould.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 634-645

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A comparative study of elephant identification using Euclidean, Manhattan and Chebyshev distance metrics

Fathima G, Arivazhagan B, Basavaraj N, Jeyanth C

The Elephant Identification System (EIS) is used to identify the elephants that roam around the villages near Forest region. The main aim of the Elephant Identification System is to reduce the Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) that occur major in the forest border areas and to identify the intrusion of the elephant into the villages.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 646-654

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H-Maxima Transformation Based Image Segmentation of Clump Nuclei in Phase Contrast Image

Vinothini A, Prasad B

The nucleus segmentation is the most important and tedious process in medical image analysis. The proposed method has three stages: K-means clustering, marker controlled watershed segmentation and texture analysis.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 655-660

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Microarray based disease analysis using spatial EM and SVM classification algorithm

Eniya S, Saravanabhavan C, Kanimozhi A

Diseases classification using gene expression data is known to include the keys for addressing the fundamental harms relating to diagnosis and discovery. The recent introduction of DNA microarray technique has complete simultaneous monitoring of thousands of gene expressions possible.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 661-666

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Analysing the vibration in simply supported beam

Mayank Mangal

A vast amount of published work can be found in the field of beam vibrations dealing with analytical and numerical techniques. This paper deals with the vibration in a simply supported beam (SSB) having varying mass.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 667-671

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Power Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Nagaraj M Lutimath, Suresh L, Chandrakant Naikodi

Advances in wireless technology have made routing popular. Routing is vital research feature in the Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). The role of the protocol is to increase overall throughput and the packet delivery ratio in MANETs. This paper proposes a Power Aware Multipath AODV Routing Protocol (PAMAODV) for MANETs.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 672-679

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RESEARCH

Frictional and Constant Temperature Heating Control of Air Flow in Diverging Part of Horizontal Nozzles

Samheri AR Almuradi

The study is concerned with the interference of friction in constant temperature heating inside the diverging part of a convergingdiverging nozzle working at design condition where the velocity changes to supersonic flow regime from a Mach no. of 1.0. Set of gas-dynamic equations are completed using numerical approximation of the dimensionless derivatives.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 680-697

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Estimation of Heat Transfer Coefficient using CFD techniques on a solid Cylinder

Prabhat Kumar Hensh

Heat transfer coefficient (HTC) is one of the essential parameters to evaluate the thermal stresses in the steam turbine components like rotor, casing, etc, using finite element methods. HTC is used to predict the local temperature distributions and the induced stresses in the component with finite element methods.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2016, 13(34), 698-706

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