Volume 15, 2018

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Automobile speed-breaker systems constructed across major roads in many developing countries are primarily meant to control and reduce accidents caused by over-speeding. Recently studies show that renewable energy could be generated from speed breaker systems. These systems have been improved for kinetic energy of moving vehicles to be converted into electricity to power street lights, road signs and traffic lights. The concern of majority of decision makers has been how to select the best-fit design out of many different mechanisms speed-breaker systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop a methodology for prioritizing the different mechanism of the speed-breaker system in order to effectively determine the most suitable mechanism for power generation. The proposed technique integrated Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS) and Standard Deviation (SDV) methods. While the SDV approach was applied to determine decision criteria weights, the COPRAS technique was used to rank the different mechanism.

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Mechanical Engineering

Automobile speed-breaker system mechanisms analysis: complex proportional assessment approach

Emovon I, Okaro IA

Automobile speed-breaker systems constructed across major roads in many developing countries are primarily meant to control and reduce accidents caused by over-speeding. Recently studies show that renewable energy could be generated from speed breaker systems.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 1-8

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Risk assessment of a tyre manufacturing industry plant: A comparative study of grey relational analysis and PROMETHEE approaches.

Emovon I

The key to sustainable growth in the tyre manufacturing industry is the reliable operation of tyre manufacturing plant equipment at minimum cost and these cannot only be attained through implementation of a sound maintenance management system.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 9-18

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Aerospace Engineering

Redesign of Air Bettle Aircraft Nose Landing Gear

Enigbe OS, Uguzo SO, Lawal MS, Thomas S

The content of this re contains the first attempt at redesigning the Nose Landing Gear of the Air Bettle-18 (ABT 18) to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The nose landing gear is an in-line single-wheeled nose gear of tricycle configuration.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 19-28

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Flight performance of ABT 18 unmanned aerial vehicle

Christopher AO, Shinkafi AA, Oyenusi FI, Thomas S

This Paper presents the analysis of flight performance of ABT-18 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). This work was a subtask of a Group Design Project (GDP) where the overall aim was to modify the ABT-18 Standard version aircraft into a UAV which could be deployed for long endurance surveillance missions.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 29-46

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Materials Engineering

Investigation of optimal parameters in turning of AL-Mn Alloy under soluble oil cutting fluid.

Bello Yekini

This paper investigates the optimal parameters in turning of aluminium manganese alloy under soluble oil as cutting fluid using Taguchi method. The three process parameters considered in this work are spindle speed, feed rate and depth of cut.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 47-56

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Architectural Engineering

Assessment of water absorption of concrete by Initial surface absorption test

Balakrishna MN, Fouad Mohamad, Robert Evans, Rahman MM

The deterioration of reinforced concrete usually involves movement of aggressive gases or liquids from the surrounding environment into the concrete through the near surface concrete. In turn followed by physical or chemical actions in its internal structure.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 57-65

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Electrical Engineering

Experimental Investigation into Powder Mixed EDM of High Speed Steel T1 Grade by GRA Approach

KanwalJit Singh

This Paper is developed an innovative process of powder mixed electrical discharge machining of high speed steel T1 grade and conducted an investigational to optimize the machining parameters associated with multiple performance characteristics using Grey relational analysis.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 66-78

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Architectural Engineering

Strengthening of corrosion damaged RC beams by ferrocement composite laminates

Balakrishna MN, Fouad Mohammad, Robert Evans, Rahman MM

This present paper reports the results of an experimental program designed to provide a more realistic assessment of the potential of using fibre-ferrocement polymer (FFP) materials in the repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete flexural members

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 79-90

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Mechanical Engineering

Crack detection in structures using statistical parameters

Ezekiel KC, Okwu MO, Edward B, Enarevba DR, Nwaoha TC

In this paper, a simple cantilever beam has been considered to detect the presence of crack from measured vibration data using signal processing techniques. A beam with crack at different locations and without crack was considered for the experiment.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 91-97

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Effect of nonlinearities on actuation of a smart Cantilever beam

Mohammad Mursaleen Butt, Sheikh Nazir Ahmad

Considering as an electro-mechanical continuum and obtaining the variational form for smart cantilever beam with full length ferroelectric patch brazed at the upper and lower side of host aluminum core using higher order beam bending theory

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 98-110

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Agricultural Engineering

Fabrication and testing of a manually operated citrus juice extracting machine

Unuigbe Odion Michael, Olawepo Babatunde Bamidele, Imanogor Patrick Aromuegbe

This research work was centered on the fabrication and testing of a manually operated citrus juice extracting machine. During fabrication of the machine, considerations were given to material of construction, simplicity of operation, easy mechanisms of extraction of the juice and extruding of the chaff after extraction

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 111-116

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Electrical Engineering

Progressive usage of the synchronous machine in electrical power systems

Famous O Igbinovia, Ghaeth Fandi, Zdenek Muller, Josef Tlusty

In traditional electric-power systems, synchronous generator based center electric-power plants have been the main origin of dynamic reactive power sustenance, but owing to the steady growth in the number of renewable power generating plants across the globe and the concurrent dismantling of these rotating synchronous machines principally driven by the demand to decrease carbon emission and reliance on fossil fuels, the need for grid-stabilizing systems is increasing

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 117-126

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Agricultural Engineering

Developments of a motorized maize shelling machine

Imanogor Patrick Aromuegbe, Olawepo Babatunde Bamidele, Itsisor Daniel Omomoh

Maize shelling is an important step towards the processing of maize to its various finished products. Threshing or shelling operations of maize follow the harvest and whatever pre-drying of the crop is undertaken. In this studies, A maize shelling machine was designed, fabricated and its performance evaluated

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 127-133

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Industrial Engineering

Improving the performance of warehouse loading and unloading system using simulation

Setareh Abedinzadeh, Hamid Reza Erfanian, Amirhossein Mostofi, ParisaTavafi

In a warehouse, all the progressions in the loading and unloading systems are run concurrently. Due to the voluminous transportation of cargoes in different industries, simulation of a warehouse of an automotive company in Tehran, Iran is performed in this paper. The main goal of this study is to define strategies to decrease average waiting time of personnel

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 134-142

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Mechanical Engineering

Study of the diffusion behavior of water vapor sorption in natural fiber: Rhecktophyllum camerunense

Betene Ebanda, Noutegomo Boris, Atangana Ateba

The present work focuses on the study of the water adsorption phenomenon in Rhecktophyllum camerunense fiber. Indeed the diffusive behavior of this natural fiber was investigated. The fibers samples of 0.1g were submitted to hygro-thermal ageing in an environmental enclosure of 23%, 54% and 75% relative humidities at 23±1°C.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 143-150

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Effect of combustion duration on the emission characteristics of a hydrogen-ethanol dual fuelled engine

Syed Yousufuddin

This paper focuses the results of the effect of combustion duration on the emission characteristics. A spark ignition engine is modified as compression ignition engine and employed with dual fuel mode of hydrogen-ethanol.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 151-159

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Development and fabrication of semi- automatic glass pane cleaning robotic device using Arduino Uno microcontroller

Jeffin Steve T, Mohan Krishna SA, Sudev LJ, Suraj K Yadav M, Karthikeyan S, Madhusudhan S

The rate at which our country is developing is increasing day by day. The number of buildings rising towards the sky everyday is astonishing. Gone are those days where buildings were just bricks laid out vertically towards the sky. Now creativity is what designs the building.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 160-165

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Chemical Engineering

Production of Cement from Mixture of Palm Kernel and Periwinkle Shell

Ukpaka Chukwuemeka Peter, Okochi Godspower Ikechukwu

Periwinkle and palm kernel shell were sourced, cleaned and incubated in an electric furnace at temperature of 6000C and 1400C respectively, and thereafter grinded and sieved through BS sieve (75microns) to fine ash.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 166-179

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Electronics & Communication Engineering

Power line interference cancellation from ECG signal using multiband structured sub band adaptive filter algorithm

Bhaskara Rao B, Prabhakara Rao B

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) record is a procedural electrical activity of the heart which is noninvasive recording and is acquired by surface electrodes at designated locations on the skin of patient’s body during which noise such as power-line interference (PLI) with 60 Hz frequency is acquired from power mains.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 180-197

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Electrical Engineering

Reactive power producing capability of wind turbine systems with IGBT power electronics converters

Ghaeth Fandi, Famous O Igbinovia, Ibrahim Ahmad

As a result of the growing wind power penetration especially of Type-1 and Type-2 wind turbine technology that requires reactive power from the electricity grid rather than producing reactive power and with the current trend in the infrastructure of functional wind power plants in nowadays electric-power systems, the aggregate reactive power differences obtainable for nearly all of the active power functioning points exceeds the reactive power needed by grid code conditions

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 198-208

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Engineering Mathematics

On the action of mobile loads on an uninterrupted cylindrical tunnel

Akhmedov Maqsud Sharipovich, Aslonov Bakhtiyor, Orripov Zayniddin, Adizova Aziza

The stationary transport load acts on the surface of the cavity or on the inner surface of the shell reinforcing cavity. The speed of the load movement is assumed to be subsonic, which corresponds to the modern transport speeds in the underground facilities under study.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 209-218

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Computer Science

Stereo Images Encryption by OSA & RSA Algorithms

Asaad A Alhijaj, MarwahKamil Hussein

The proposed new partial encryption schemes use a secure encryption algorithm to encrypt only part of the compressed data. After application of image compression algorithm the partial encryption will applied. For two pairs of different gray scale images with the size (256 ´ 256) pixels, only 0.0244%-25% of the original data is encrypted.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 219-227

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Civil Engineering

Impacts of petroleum fuel oil contamination on the geotechnical properties of fine-grained soils

Karkush MO, Abdul Kareem MS

The effects of light fuel oil on the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of silty clay soil have been investigated in the present work. The contaminant is light fuel oil (incidental product) disposed from a thermal electric power plantand the intact soil sample was collected from the countryside of Alexandria city in the central region of Iraq.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 228-237

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Comparative assessment of pedestrian crossing behavior at Baghdad and Nasiriya

Alaa Yousef Al-Musawi, Saad Issa Sarsam

To design safe pedestrian facilities, much work is required to evaluate the pedestrian characteristics and behavior regarding age group, clothes tradition and gender while crossing the roadway. Little attention have been paid on such researches in Iraq and the published work on this subject was scares and scattered.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 238-249

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Use of salt compounds for the stabılızatıon of expansive soils

Souhila Rehab Bekkouche, Ghania Boukhatem, Djenette Mendjel, et Fadila Benayoun

The present research aims to study the influence of salts used at different concentrations: potassium chloride KCl and sodium chloride NaCl on the behavior of a swelling reconstituted soil.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 250-256

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Experimental Characterization of the Sand-Bentonite Mixture

Dj. Mendjel, Rehab Bekkouche S, Boukhatem G

Environmental pollution caused by seepage of leachates from solid waste contained in landfills is a widespread problem and has been studied extensively.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 257-262

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Architectural Engineering

Determination of chloride diffusion coefficient in pre-conditioned concrete slabs

Balakrishna MN, Fouad Mohamad, Robert Evans, Rahman MM

The damaging effect of de-icing chemicals and various exposure conditions such as dry/partially/fully saturated condition on concrete slabs was investigate.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 263-272

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Agricultural Engineering

Performance characteristics of pump-as-turbine for energy generation

Daniel Adu, Jinfeng Zhang, Fang Yujian, Desmond Appiah, Ransford O Darko

Using pump in reverse mode as hydraulic turbine is one of the best alternatives for small hydropower generation. It is also one of the best options for meeting energy needs and providing electricity in remote and rural areas.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 273-279

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Architectural Engineering

Interpretation of chloride diffusion coefficient in pre-conditioned concrete cubes

Balakrishna MN, Fouad Mohamad, Robert Evans, Rahman MM

The chloride ions arise from marine exposure/de-icing salts were the most important threat factors to the durability of concrete structures.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 280-290

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Industrial Engineering

Adsorption Isotherms and Kinetics Studies of Ni(II) Adsorption from Aqueous Solution onto Activated Carbon Prepared from Lapsi Seed Stone

Rajeshwar Man Shrestha

Present study explored the studies of adsorption isotherms and kinetics of the adsorption Ni (II) using activated carbon prepared from the waste material, Lapsi Seed Stone.

Indian Journal of Engineering, 2018, 15, 291-298

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