81 articles in this issue
Karim Soliman, Khalid Naji, Murat Gunduz, Onur Tokdemir, Faisal Faqih, Tarek Zayed
While building information modeling (BIM) is used to design and develop new buildings, one major challenge to BIM adoption for existing buildings is capturing accurate initial building data and converting them into BIM model objects. This study, therefore... see more
Rania Moussa, sara Magdy
Over the past two centuries, mankind has increased the concentration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from 280 to more than 380 parts per million by volume, and it is still increasing every day. If Earth continue to emit carbon without control, t... see more
Aako Noory M. Shari, Amjad Muhammed Ali
This study discusses architectural skins in buildings with parametric design to verify whether they have certain limits, which is a great property of architectural skins essence in buildings designed in ordinary ways, or whether it is not easy to distingu... see more
Raslan A Alenezi
Fuel vapors are released from storage tanks through vent pipes and from filling pumps fuel dispensary stations. These petroleum-based by-products are introduced into ambient atmospheres and neighboring areas and may become potential health risk. With aim ... see more
Bader Albusairi, Adam Al-Mulla
The rheological characteristics of four Kuwaiti crude oils (MG 23T, MG 29T, MG 34T and MG 108T) in the temperature range 298–313 K were investigated using the Bingham, Ostwald–de Waele, Herschel–Bulkley, Casson, and modified Casson models. The experimenta... see more
Abdulwahab Almusallam
Large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) was carried out on non-Newtonian minor phase in Newtonian matrix phase polymer blends. The blend consists polybutadiene (PBD) as the droplet phase and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as the matrix phase. The PBD drople... see more
Feroz Shaik
An aerobic fluidized biofilm process of treating oil-polluted wastewater has been studied. A series of batch experiments were conducted and the kinetic coefficients were evaluated for efficient operation of fluidized bed bioreactor (FBBR). It was observed... see more
Nagam Obaid Kariem, Mohammed Ali Rasheed, Zainab T. Al-Sharify
This research work deals with the performance of high-density polyethylene sheets arranged in splash used as a fill for a cooling tower. “A forced-draught counter flow cooling tower” of 400 mm × 400 mm cross-sectional area and 1.7m in height was built. Th... see more
Asep Bayu Dani Nandiyanto
Lanthanum nickelate (La2NiO4) is a precursor for producing lanthanum pentanickel (LaNi5) alloys for nickel–metal hydride battery (NiMH; a type of rechargeable battery), which has been developed quite rapidly for many applications, such as Hybrid Electric ... see more
S. Neelamani, Dana AL-Houti, Alanoud AlRagum, Abeer Al-Saleh, Khaled Al-Salem
Kuwait is investing significantly for the development of coastal infrastructures in many of its coastal areas. It is essential to know the vulnerability of the coast of Kuwait for the future sea level rise and other physically influencing parameters. For ... 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
Nabil Fathi Ismael, Monera Al-Otaibi
Ground improvement was required for construction of the new Jaber Al-Ahmed city located about 25 km west of Kuwait City, Kuwait. Loose to medium poorly graded sands, and silty sands extended from ground level to a depth ranging from 5m to 9m. Dynamic comp... see more
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
ehab soliman
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
MUSTAFA KESKIN, MURAT KARACASU
Civil engineering science has evolved into the 21st century with concepts of recycling and sustainability. There are many studies has included the concerns in this sense and design tries to create a minimum effect on the natural state of environment. In t... see more
Lang Liu, Xian Le Zhang, Jie Wang, Hong Yang
The traffic on highway bridges has been increasing in both volume and magnitude, which even has become one of the main reasons leading to damages and collapse of bridges. Most of the existing regulations for overloading checking are carried out based on v... see more
Anh Kiet Bui, Pakawat Sancharoen, Somnuk Tangtermsirikul, Ganchai Tanapornraweekit, Pruettha Nanakorn
Safety evaluation is an important task to verify performance of a dam during its service. For an old dam, the material properties vary from the designed value significantly affecting structural performance. This study investigates the effects of material ... see more
Weiwei Lin, Bo Cui, Jiajun Wang, Dong Kang
The effective evaluation of the compaction quality is a key issue for the safety of the earth-rock dam. However, the existing prediction models of compaction quality are devoted to improving the prediction accuracy, ignoring the generalization ability and... see more
Deepak Kumar Tiwari, 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
Maninder Singh, bsaini@nitkkr.ac.in Saini, H. D. Chalak
Generation of solid waste materials from various sources and durability performance of hydraulic structures under environmental loadings (aggressive substances) has become a worldwide problem. Present paper investigated the durability performance of engin... see more
Pothinathan SKM
The main purpose of the study is to understand the underlying bonding mechanism, which acts as an interface between the old as well as new concrete. Specimens are fabricated to measure the shear bond strength with different surface preparation. Five types... see more
Aamer Najim Abbas, Maha AL-SOUDANI AL-SOUDANI , Hesham A. Numan
The effect of wind and earthquake on the structures can be specified briefly by the effect of horizontal forces act on structures varied in its value and direction depending on the position and the distance from the sea in case of wind load, and the dista... see more
Ali Al-Maliki, Mohammed Sahib Mohammed, Maha Al-Soudani, Haifaa Nasser Husein
The infill walls may either respond out of infill plane or crush in a brittle manner during the first stages of earthquakes and, accordingly, they may lose their positive effects. For this reason, the strengthening of infill walls before a design earthqua... see more
Suprabeet Datta, S. ROKADE, S P S Rajput
The objective of this paper is to develop and assess motorized level of service (MLOS) models using advanced artificial intelligence techniques like functional networks (FN), multi-gene genetic programming (MGGP), and multi-variate auto-regressive spline ... 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
Mohd Khaled Yousef Mohammed Shambour, Adnan Gutub
Mobile Applications (apps) are one of the most important tools that provide many services in different and varied fields of human life such as social, health, commercial, political, and other services. These apps make information easily available to every... see more
Justin Varghese, T Abdul Razak, Omer Bin Hussain, Saudia S.
Digital watermarking provides copyright protection and proof of ownership by inserting watermark metadata as owner’s identity in digital documents to prevent authenticity and copyright violations. The paper introduces a new hybrid image watermarking schem... see more
Wael Farag
In this paper, based on the fusion of Lidar and Radar measurement data, high-definition probabilistic maps, and a tailored particle filter, a Real-Time Monte Carlo Localization (RT_MCL) method for autonomous cars is proposed. The lidar and radar devices a... see more
Ali Alghamdi, Abdelhady Ramadan, Salah Kamel, Nabil Neggaz
Nowadays all the world does its best to develop the power generation systems that depend on nature in order to reduce the dependence on fuel. Photovoltaic (PV) systems are considered one of the most important renewable energy resources. Scientific researc... see more
Mousaab Nahas
Microstrip patch antenna is attractive for various applications due to its easy fabrication, low cost andsmall size. It simply comprises of a radiating patch and ground plane that are separated by a dielectricsubstrate. However, the resonance bandwidth of... see more
In this paper, based on the fusion of Lidar and Radar measurement data, a real-time road-Object Detection and Tracking (LR_ODT) method for autonomous driving is proposed. The lidar and radar devices are installed on the ego car, and a customized Unscented... see more
Prof.Rashad M. Kamel
Photovoltaic (PV) power generation and the types of connected loads both have an effect on protective impedance relays’ readings. This paper investigates this effect in a real distribution system installed in the State of Kuwait. It is found that, both th... see more
Himan Hamedi, Vahid Talavat, Ali Tofighi, Reza Ghanizadeh
In this paper, the interaction between energy sellers and buyers in utilizing active distribution networks is modeled with considering two networked and non-networked modes of microgrids (MGs). A retail electricity market is modeled as a bi-level problem.... see more
Prasad Miska, Almoataz Youssef Abdelaziz, Ashok Kumar Akella
All customers requires quality voltage, quality current and quality power from the utility, but usage of nonlinear loads, generates voltage sag, swell and harmonics. This paper discusses the renewable energy (RE) fed different topologies such as, Th... see more
Narmadha G
Low power is an essential requirement for suitable multimedia devices, image compression techniques utilizing several signal processing architectures and algorithms. In numerous multimedia applications, human beings are able to congregate practical inform... see more
Duggirala Venkata Naga Ananth, T.VenkateswaraRao
The brushless DC motor (BLDC) is a low cost, reliable and efficient motor for low power applications. In general, the speed, torque and current of the BLDC motor are controlled using a well tuned PI controller in the inner and outer control loops. This co... see more
Yagmur ARIKAN
The optimization of operations of subway systems has critical importance in terms of energy efficiency and costs. Therefore, driving management of subway vehicles has been gaining more importance day by day. Optimal Driving Management (ODM) is the optimiz... see more
Geetha Mani, Joshi Kumar Viswanadhapalli, Albert Alexander S
Air is one of the most fundamental constituents for the sustenance of life on Earth. The meteorological and traffic factors, consumption of non-renewable energy sources, and industrial parameters are steadily increasing Air pollution. These factors affect... see more
neeraj julka, A.P Singh
Present paper reports on the development of an automated machine vision system for detection of foreign materials in wheat kernels using regional color descriptors. The said pipeline was executed in the form of an integrated flowing pipeline after having ... see more
Sarada Musala, Aswini Valluri
There is an immense necessity of several kb of embedded memory for Biomedical systems which typically operate in the sub-threshold domain with perfect efficiency. SRAMs dominates the total power consumption and the overall silicon area, as 70% of the die ... see more
Asim Munir, Abraiz Khattak, Kashif Imran, Abasin Ulasyar, Azhar Ul Haq, Adam Khan
Khairy Sayed, Ahmed Abo-Khalil, Ahmed Elnozahy, B. G. Yu
As interest in emergency power has increased, research on engine generators has been actively conducted. Permanent magnet synchronous generators (PMSGs) are suitable for small-capacity engine generators because they have higher efficiency and faster respo... see more
Nazmat Surajudeen-Bakinde, Nasir Faruk, Abdulkarim Oloyede, Abubakar Abdulkarim, Lukman Olawoyin, Segun Popoola, Emmanuel Adetiba
Today, the world is technology-driven and so of these technologies are driven using wireless systems. Signal coverage and quality of service are pertinent for network providers and path loss prediction is very important in the design and planning of these... see more
Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar Debnath, Mohamed KCHAOU, Bengir Ahmed Shuvho, Atiqur Rahman, Biplov Kumar Roy
The incorporation of a ceramic particles like SiC, Al2O3, and TiO2 into aluminum matrices results in Aluminum composite better mechanical and physical properties that make them attractive for various applications such as Aircraft, Helicopter,&nb... see more
R. Alahmadi, K. Almutairi
With the increasing global concerns about greenhouse gas emissions caused by the extensive use of fossil fuels, many countries are investing in the deployment of clean energy sources. The utilization of abundant solar energy is one of the fastest growing ... see more
Farhad Bavar, Majid Sabzehparvar, Mona Ahmadi Rad
In this study, a green routing model is provided in a two-level network of cross-docking given the shipping price. Three objectives were proposed in this model including total cost reduction, shipping costs reduction, and carbon emissions reduction. The o... see more
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility study in the production of sieve shaker for teaching particle size to students with visual impairment. The sieve shaker is important as a tool for giving understanding the definition of particles a... see more
Jafar Gheidar-kheljani
Proper sequencing between activities has always been one of the major issues in project management. In some projects, especially new product development projects, an improvement in repetitions will cause rethink in the activities and possibly redo them. T... see more
Qasim Rehman Siddiqui, Muhammad Shafiq
Lead time is an important indication of production process and plays a vital role in meeting targets. The main aim of this study is to optimize lead time of a sugar industry through effective management of resources to ensure timely completion of the proj... see more
Gurcan Atakok, Mufit CUN
Most companies have adopted the use of computer integrated engineering software to cope with the increasing competition and pressure to produce better quality and at a faster rate, enhancing their systems on this basis. Models are designed on computers, d... see more
Dr. Mohammed Almeshaal
The study of fluid flow, subjected to an external magnetic field has become an attractive and demanding research area because of huge applications. In this work, water base magnetic nanofluid dynamics, taking into account the Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) ph... 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
Manoj Modi, Gopal Agarwal, Swati D Chaugaonkar
The SKD-11 steel was machined by the hybrid S-EDDG machining-process with an aim to determine optimum setting of process parameters for multi-output optimization and thereafter developed the mathematical-models of MRR and Ra through Dimensional Analysis m... see more
Ahsan Shahzad, Aamir Sohail, Tauseef-ur- Rehman, 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
ali belhocine, Oday Ibraheem Abdullah
In this work, we presented a numerical modeling using the ANSYS software adapted in finite element method in which, the transient thermal analysis and the static structural one is performed here sequentially with the coupled thermo-structural method. A nu... 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
Mohanraj Thangamuthu
This work discusses the design of tool condition monitoring system (TCMs) during milling of AISI stainless steel 304 using sound pressure and vibration signals. Response Surface Methodology (RSM) was used to design the experiments. The various milling par... see more
Thi-Thao Ngo, Chi-Chang Wang, van the than, Ming-Lun Chang
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
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
Abdulla Sherif Mahmoud Fathalla, Farid Ali Akhavan, Reza Moezzi, Seyed Saeid Rahimian Koloor
Load distribution has been studied extensively for ISO thread, but the load distribution on power screw threads, specifically ACME and Square threads, has not been studied yet. In this article, axisymmetric two-dimensional and three-dimensional Finite Ele... 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
Selcuk Selimli
The hemodynamic performance of the Celect Platinum vena cava filter and the modified forms of it with helical flow inducer strut attachments were studied, possible positive and negative effects of it were assessed. In this respect, computational fluid dyn... see more
Dr. Mabkhout Al-Dousari, Salah Almudhhi, Ali Garrouch
Predicting the flow zone indicator is essential for identifying the hydraulic flow units of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Delineation of hydraulic flow units is crucial for mapping petrophysical and rock mechanical properties. Precise prediction of the flow zon... see more
Hossam El-Din Fawzy, Ali Basha, Marco N.Botross
A new design of soil erosion and rainfall simulator is presented at this study as an attempt to deduce a mathematical formula of soil surface erosion phenomenon to describe the behavior of the sandy soil under the rainfall simulation, soil deformation suc... 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
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
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
Tushar, Rahul, Jitendra, V K GUPTA THAMMANA
Haynes 25 is cobalt based superalloy gaining its importance in aerospace, heat treatment applications, chemical handling equipment, commercial gas turbine engines, bearing material, etc. This alloy is featured with low thermal conductivity, wear and corro... see more
Nana Kofi Amponsah-Gyenin
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
Alpa Bhatt, Dr Piyush P Gohil, Vijaykumar Chaudhary
Vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) is a fiber reinforced composite (FRC) making process in which resin is impregnated to fabric by application of vacuum. The critical issue in VARTM process is void generation. Voids form due to variety of reas... see more
This research aims to study the surface characteristics of low carbon steel JIS G3101 SS400 processed by sandblasting using steel grit G25. The sandblasting process is conducted at a fixed nozzle pressure of 5 bar and pressure angle of 90o, and varying no... see more
Ø£Hannachi Mohamed Tahar
We tented to study the mixed mode of failure with two angles of inclination, of a steel treated by cementation, for that we tried to determine the parameters of failure as the stress intensity factor and the energy in mixed mode of a rupture at the interf... see more
Ching Yu Hsu
The idynamic iapproach ito ian iunderwater iexplosion i(UNDEX) iis ia icomplex iepisode ithat iinvolves ishockwave ipropagation, ibubble ipulse iwith ihigh ipressure, iand iwater ijet iimpact. iThis ipaper iproposes ilinkage iof iFinite iElement iAvenue i... see more
Kumaraswamy Sivasailam, Dhanasekaran Arumugam
The interaction between the rotor and stator is a major source of high amplitude pressure fluctuation and ?ow-induced vibration in multistage centrifugal pumps. the pressure fluctuation is detrimental to the reliable operation of pumps. The sensitivity of... see more
Manish Maurya
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
Yeddula Chandrasekahr Yadav, Dr Desu Venkata Sreekanath
The roads are getting more and more crowded everywhere. As a consequence, the pollution by exhaust gasses produced by the growing number of vehicles also increases. People are searching for ways of reducing automotive pollution. Alternative fuels can be f... 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