18 articles in this issue
WANG Zhisheng, Yukari Nagai
Based on an investigation by the Liaoning Provincial Museum, the lighting environment designed by artificial lighting was used to improve tourists' emotional response levels. The investigation concentrated on tourists' visual factors. Forty observers were... see more
Yi Hu, Junhai Zhao
In this paper, cross braces are implemented to mitigate the dynamic responses caused by column-remove scenarios of steel composite frames. To evaluate the effective of cross braces with different layout on enhancing the progressive collapse resi... see more
Muhamamd Auchar Zardari
Modern earth buildings constructed of Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs) are low-cost, energy efficient, and sustainable. Environmental regulations suggest for zero emission of greenhouse gases. The strength of CEBs is usually enhanced with the addition... see more
Jianda Xin, Guoxin Zhang, Yi Liu, Zhenhong Wang, Zhe Wu
This paper presents a numerical analysis of concrete restraint tests conducted on a temperature stress testing machine (TSTM). Two numerical methods, namely a 1-D method using Matlab software and 3-D method using Midas software, were adopted. Factors, suc... see more
Vasamsetti Srinivas, Santhi rani
The field of speaker recognition found a major challenge among the research community due to the lack of robustness of earlier methods against environmental noises. To effectively handle the robustness in the speaker recognition method, this paper aims to... see more
Mahmut Dirik, Adnan Fatih Kocamaz, Emrah Dönmez
In this paper, we utilized two vision-based go-to-goal robot control approaches and compare them to the non-holonomic indoor mobile robot. In the proposed methods, an overhead camera image data is used as the input parameters when the robot wheel speeds a... see more
Ou ZHANG, Shuxin YAN
Estimating flaw profiles from measurements is a typical inverse problem in magnetic flux leakage (MFL) testing. Defect profile reconstruction implies the reconstruction of defect parameters and profiles based on detected MFL signals, and it is of importan... see more
Parikshit Kishor Singh, Surekha Bhanot, Hare Krishna Mohanta, Vinit Bansal
pH control is a benchmark for control of nonlinear processes because of its importance in number of industrial process applications. Fuzzy Knowledge Based Control (FKBC) of such nonlinear processes incorporates the method for constructing nonlinear contro... see more
Zakariae JAI ANDALOUSSI
In this article, we present a new cells connection topology for Photovoltaic panel. The purpose is to interconnect the cells using cubic topology.A typical photovoltaic panel can be connected in a string configuration in order to achieve desired current a... see more
Saleh Alshamali
This paper considers the trajectory tracking of a unicycle-type mobile robot. The nonlinear dynamics of the mobile robot is treated as two subsystems for the robot’s orientation and position. A Lyapunov-based adaptive control law is proposed for asymptoti... see more
Rajiv Srivastava, Pronaya Bhattacharya, Amod Kumar Tiwari
Optical packet switch/optical interconnect will be integral part of high speed switching and datacenter applications. In recent past Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) based designs have shown promising solutions for contention resolution and packet routing.... see more
Neeraj Gupta
This paper presents a model of Sub-threshold current and Sub-threshold swing model for Dual-Halo Dual-Dielectric Triple-Material Cylindrical Gate All Around/Surrounding Gate (DH-DD-TM-CGAA/SG) MOSFET for improved leakages. The virtual cathode method is us... see more
Tahir Mahmood
Linear profiles are quite popular in establishing relationship among different variables associated with each other in an ongoing process. Control charting methodologies for these linear profiles are used to monitor and improve the performance of a proces... see more
Afef Bouguerra, Christophe Sauvey, Nathalie Sauer
Purpose - In this paper, non-elective patients are assigned in an already existing operating block schedule, both respecting health and cost-efficiency objectives.Design / methodology / approach - We designed and developed assignment strategies, in functi... see more
Adel Ebrahem Alshayji, Shikha Ebrahim
In this study, the performace of using radiant barrier in inclined roof was numerical investgated by using the COMSOL Multiphysics software package. A roof was simulated as two parallel plates with an air gap in between for enhancing ventilation through c... see more
Yakup KAYA
In this study, ship steel-stainless steel composite plates were produced by joining ship steel with stainless steel using explosive welding process. The characterization of the joining interface of the plates was carried out by optical microscopic examina... see more
Sulaiman F. Alyaqout, Anwar F. Alyaqout
The present article introduces an approach that uses the analytical target cascading (ATC) method for managing nonlinear optimal control problems. Using this ATC approach, a decomposed nonlinear optimal control problem is obtained. This decomposed nonline... see more
Rasid Ahmed Yildiz, Hakan Sen, Safak Yilmaz
The paper deals with simulating the springback behavior of DP 600 sheet metal, widely used in automotive industry, after the bending process. ANSYSY commercial software was used to analyze the forming operation. Tensile tests had been conducted to obtain ... see more