20 articles in this issue
Metin Mutlu AYDIN
Passengers’ boarding times at bus stops have a great importance to calculate dwell time and travel time for scheduling process in transport operations. However, there are not so much observed boarding times data in the actual bus transport systems and it ... see more
Khaled A. Al- Rasheed, Ehab Soliman
Project cash flow and contractor S-curve are tools that can be used to measure, control and anticipate project progress. Few studies dedicated to evaluate and judge the behaviour of original S-curve. This study aims to evaluate the similarities and change... see more
Deepak Kumar Tiwari, H L Tiwari, R. Nateriya
Climate change due to anthropogenic activities causing serious threat to environment and its natural processes. Whole world is suffering with water scarcity and its management related problems. So, a reliable method for rainfall-runoff prediction is prere... see more
Ali Al-Maliki, Mohammed Sahib Mohammed, Maha Al-Soudani, Haifaa Nasser Husein
The infill walls may lose their positive effects during the first stages of earthquakes, either by leaving their plane or through breakage. That is why it is common to strengthen these walls before design earthquakes or to repair and strengthen them after... see more
Baki Bagriacik
In this study, the changes in the bearing capacity-settlement behavior were investigated by model experiments before and after the improvement of clay with construction demolishing waste (CDW). Clay has been accepted as the natural soil sample and CDW at ... see more
Kiran Devi, bsaini@nitkkr.ac.in Saini, Paratibha Aggarwal
The structures may be exposed to fire or high temperature conditionally or accidentally. Alteration in the behaviour of concrete structure is prospective under the exposure of elevated temperature. There is an urge to find the materials which can resist t... see more
Eisa Alenzi, Sitti Asmah Hassan, PhD, P. Eng, MIEM Senior Lecturer, Othman Che Puan
Abstract. The car following behaviour of a driver is the process of following the drivers to ?create an adjustment in the leading vehicle behaviour. In a condition, where ?the traffic volume is ?light or in a free-flowing situation, the selection of drive... see more
Jasem albanai
Chlorophyll-a concentration in water is an indicator of phytoplankton density, which in turn is crucial, as it represents the base of the ecological life in seas and oceans. Any increase or decrease in the number of phytoplankton may contribute to disrupt... see more
Mohamed SEDDAK, Amina Assia LAKHDARI
Under the pressure of stricter regulations on pollutant emissions, users seeking better fuel economy and better driving comfort, the control of the engine based on the torque were developed. To be able to provide an accurate estimate of the effective torq... see more
manlai zhang
In the pipeline system for liquid carrying particle, local erosion wear broken has become the main damage mechanism of pipe in the fracturing operations of oil-gas engineering as a large number of particles continually impact on the inner surface of pipes... see more
Ahsan Shehzad , Tauseef-ur- Rehman, Aamir Sohail , Ajmal Shah
In this paper, vortex shedding and suppression of vortex shedding are numerically investigated as autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems respectively. Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) are used as a numerical tool to analyze these systems. Th... see more
S. V. Khandal, T. M. Yunus Khan, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Sarfaraz Kamngar, C. Ahamed Saleel, Maughal Ahmed Ali Baig, Salman Ahmed N J
The paper mainly focuses to determine maximum potential and optimal replacement of diesel by Pyrolysis Oil-Ethanol blends and to compare with neat diesel fuel. The selected combination of fuels was tested on CRDI for different loads at varied engine speed... see more
OM PARKASH, Sikarwar, Arvind
A number of drag models have been suggested for the interaction of fluid particles in slurry flow over the previous centuries. It is necessary to examine the correctness and applicability of these models. Based on this concept, a comparative analysis of t... see more
Chandrasekar Pichandi
Improving engine performance is a constant challenge and various methodologies have been adopted by researcher’s world over. In this work, the dispersion characteristics of a rotating injector is studied by varying the umbrella angle (UA) followed by its ... see more
van the than, Chi-Chang Wang, Ming-Lun Chang, Thi-Thao Ngo
Thermal always has significantly effect on the high speed machine tools. When temperature growing up, it often causes processing errors and further reduces product quality. This paper aims to investigate the magnitude of heat sources and temperature distr... see more
Hardial Singh, Dr. B.B.Arora
In the present work, the performance characteristics of the parallel hub axial flow annular diffuser with divergent casing varying between equivalent cone angle (10°, 15°, and 20°) with area ratio 3 has been evaluated computationally as well as experiment... see more
Xiangliang Jin, zijie zhou, wenjie zhang , huihui yuan, qi jiang, yang wang, yan peng, jun luo
RS485 interface is widely used in the area of industrial control and remote meter reading, which are often subjected to serious electrostatic damage. A new On-Chip TVS (OCT) structure without extra process modification and a novel electrostatic discharge ... see more
Mohamed Al-Dawody, Khaled Al-Farhany, Naseer H. Hamza, Dhafer A. Hamza
Great attention is directed towards the study of the spray phenomena theoretically and experimentally due to its dramatic effect on the combustion process that occurred in an internal combustion engine, in particular, the diesel engine. The spray macrosco... see more
Adhirath Mandal, HaengMuk Cho
The transport vehicles have been using internal combustion engine for many decades. Internal combustion engine is used because of their high reliability. The transport sector plays a vital role in the country’s economy. It is estimated that about 90% of t... see more
Dong Liu, Mohammed Ibrahim Abdelrahman Mohammedsalih, Amponsah-Gyenin Nana Kofi, Nana Kofi Amponsah-Gyenin, Shi-cheng Ding and Si-liang Sun
Heat transfer enhancement is by far an important component in the design of numerous industrial applications of Taylor-Couette flow including electric motors and particularly rotating machinery. To optimize the performances of these machines, superior kno... see more