15 articles in this issue
Abbas Sivandi-Pour, Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, Izuru Takewaki
Floor vibration due to human activities (walking, running, etc.) and operating machines generally makes inconveniences for residents. The natural vibration frequency of beams is determined as the main source and also the controlling parameter of such the ... see more
Tutuk Djoko Kusworo, B Budiyono, andri Cahyo Kumoro, Q Qudratun, Bastian Widodo, Bilal Teguh Prabowo, dani puji Utomo
Energy supply has been one of the world’s main problems. Thus, the development of new energy and renewable energy resources can be a promising solution. As one of the promising energies from biomass is bio-methane obtained from biogas purification. Membra... see more
kifah mohammed khudair
ABSTRACTThe design of Pre-sedimentation basins is based on design criteria including surface overflow rate and detention time. The previous studies differ in specifying the criteria values and, subsequently, it is difficult to choose the suitable ones acc... see more
Amani S A S Bu Qammaz, Rufaidah Y AlMaian
Construction experts are aware of the risk associated with the construction industry. The uniqueness of the delivered projects represents one of the main challenges while conducting business in this industry. Therefore, to succeed construction organizatio... see more
Matish Garg, Rajender Nath
Mobile Cloud computing is a recognized computing platform and is being considered as a business model due to its potential growth in offering required services to the users. However, it poses a number of challenges, among which the consumption of energy i... see more
Adnan Gutub, Adel Al-Qurashi
Counting-based secret sharing is presented recently as a promising approach serving multi-user authentication applications. The scheme originally generates its shares via simple flipping of one or two 0-bits within the entire secret key at various locatio... see more
Arindam Mondal, Prasanta Sarkar, Aliprio Hazra
The parameterization of the dynamic system using delta operator provides a unified framework for modelling, analysis and control in which the continuous time results can be obtained from the discrete time results at high sampling limit. In this paper, a s... see more
Muhammad Shahzad
This paper presents a fuzzy logic based prediction algorithm using nearest neigh-borhood clustering for the prediction of time series. The proposed algorithm hasbeen developed by using nearest neighborhood clustering scheme and optimalfuzzy system. The pr... see more
Engin ERBAYRAK, Seda Erbayrak
In this study, the impact damage threshold point of the composite material was determined using the optimum design parameters obtained from Fuzzy Based Taguchi Method (FBTM). It is known that both Taguchi and Fuzzy methods provide optimization of design p... see more
Yavuz Selim Özdemir, Ali Üsküdar
Competitive market conditions today are becoming more challenging in every sector. Companies must determine their road maps in terms of short, mid and long-term strategies. The selection of the most suitable strategy by a group of decision makers is a ver... see more
Khaled Ali Alkhaledi, Hossam Mostagab
The environment in Kuwait had suffered a massive damage by the Iraqi tropes during the 1990 - 1991 military invasion. 734 oil wells were damages and burned causing huge amount of oil spill on the soil surface and sub-surface. The majority of the soil arou... see more
Betsy Dayana Marcela Chaparro-Rico, Daniele Cafolla, Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda, Marco Ceccarelli
This paper presents the design and testing of arm exercises for rehabilitation assistance. The description of the human arm is presented together with the arm motion impairments. The motion planning for four arm exercises and the experimental procedure fo... see more
ThankGod E. Boye, Olusegun David Samuel
The utilization of computational fluid dynamics tools continue to gain growing interest from pipeline designers and transient flows simulators. Transient flow software with robust graphical user interface (GUI) capable to compute transient flows character... see more
muhammad alrumah, Faisal Aladwani, Saad Alatefi
Wellhead choke is an integral part of production systems. Wellhead chokes act as regulators to protect surface facilities from high rate slugs, formation damage, and water coning. These chokes also control the decline rate of reservoir p... see more
KHALED SAHNOUNE, Abderrahmane Benbrik, Ahmed Saeed Mohamed Mansour, Oussama Rekik
Turbodrills are axial hydraulic turbines which are used in drilling hydrocarbons in extreme conditions, possessing advantages over other drilling techniques with their high speed of rotation, and higher operating torques.In The present work, a numerical s... see more