19 articles in this issue
Nabil Fathi Ismael, Aseel R. AL-Sanea
The properties and behavior of compacted cemented sands in Kuwait were examined by laboratory and model tests. Upon excavation the cementation bonds are destroyed and the material , locally known as gatch , is transformed into clayey sands with fines cont... see more
Duaij Alrukaibi, Ahmad AlSalem
Kuwait is among the leading countries in the world in terms of its per capita consumption of electricity and water based on the energy outlook report released in 2019. High rates of per capita consumption of both electricity and water place a large burden... see more
Ahmed Khalafallah, Ehab Soliman, Khaled Alrasheed
The impacts of pandemics on construction project management are not documented and not well understood, which leaves project stakeholders with no guiding information to respond to the pandemic threats and no lessons learned to speed up the recovery of the... see more
Yilmaz Ogunc Tetik, Ozge Akboga Kale, Irem Bayram, Selim Baradan
Occupational injuries and fatalities are one of the most significant issues in the construction industry. Variables, such as workers’ behavior, age, worksite condition, and type of activity, play key roles in the occurrence of construction accidents. In r... see more
Sundarambal Balaraman, Partheeban Pachaivannan, P. Navin Elamparithi, S. Manimozhi
In recent times, air pollution has attracted the attention of policymakers and researchers as an important issue. The pollution that contaminates the air that people breathe is from pollutants such as oxides of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur as well minuscu... see more
Manuel Madroñal-Ortiz
This work has evaluated the reflection of the organizational functions of the support activities linked to the different main areas in the Facility Management profession through the review of the literature. An analysis of the different documents was carr... see more
Hamad H. Almutairi, Ali Alajmi, Nabil A. Ahmed
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Sudhir Kumar, Sachin Jambhale, Manish Maurya, Sanjeev Kumar, Saurabh Pandey
This experimental work investigates the tensile behavior of friction stir spot welded joints from 3 mm thick aluminum alloy AA6082-T6 sheets. Taguchi L9 Orthogonal array was used for process parameters - Tool rotational speed (TRS), Dwell time (DT) and Sh... see more
Bharathiraja M
The present investigation mainly focuses on to overcome the limitations of gasoline fumigation in diesel engine by adding up of nanofuel additives. Experiments were conducted to ascertain the engine working characteristics in a single cylinder, four strok... see more
Setti suresh, M Srinivas, Dr. VPS Naidu
The gearbox is one of the critical subsystems in any rotating machinery, which plays a major role in mechanical power transmission in terms of speed and torque. It plays a vital role in patching different industrial functionalities. The advent of developi... see more
Sarathbabu RT, Kannan M
In the occurring period of now, the study of a single-cylinder 4-stroke direct injection diesel engine was used, which was naturally aspired, and two modification methods were used. One is the low-heat rejection method (LHR) and the other is the low - tem... see more
Laxmanaraju salavaravu, Lingaraju Dumpala
Friction stir welding (FSW) can be made to improve the mechanical properties in the weld zone. The main aim of this article is to obtain the optimum FSW process parameters used for two plates of AA5083 welded joint. In the FSW process, the most important ... see more
Satish Namdev, Anand Pandey, Arun Kumar Pandey, Rakesh Kumar
Micro-drilling of AISI316L is very challenging task. Unconventional machining process may be used for such type of operation. Laser beam drilling (LBD) is a best for micro drilling. High thermal energy and converging-diverging property of laser beam affec... see more
Manoj Kumar Chaudhary Manoj Chaudhary, S. Prakash
In this research work, the investigation and optimization of small horizontal axis wind turbine blade at low wind speed is pursued. In this paper, an optimized design method based on BEM Theory is explained blade radius of 0.2 m rotors investigated with a... see more
Prakash S. Patil, K. K. Dhande
Experimentation was conducted to find out the influence of rib spacing on thermal performance in a rectangular channel. Semicircular shape rib was studied for three rib spacing (P/e) = 8, 10 and 12 and located on lower wall of the channel. Reynolds number... see more
Manoj Kumar Chaudhary, S. Prakash
In this study, small horizontal-axis wind turbine blades operating at low wind speeds were optimized. An optimized design method based on blade element momentum (BEM) theory was used. The radius of the blade 0.2 m, 0.4 m and 0.6 m and blade geometry with ... see more
Muhammad Usman Bashir, Anees Ur Rehman, Aashir Waleed, Umar Siddique Virk, Muhammad Rameez Javed
Turbomachinery has a vital role in industrial engineering and is used for transfer of energy. Bladed disks such as compressor, impeller pumps, turbine generator and jet engines are the critical components of turbomachinery. In this research we have focuse... see more
Oguzhan Das
This study measures the impact of the cut-out shape on the fundamental frequency and the harmonic response of thin composite circular plates under fixed boundary conditions. For this purpose, the Finite Element Method has been employed using the SHELL181 ... see more
Wang Fei, Xiong Deng
The article presents an analytical model to study the deformation and mechanical behavior of the drill pipe during subsea production tree (SPT) installation. Lateral and axial loads were considered, including the ocean wave, ocean current, drill pipe size... see more