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In this paper the Burzynski criterion, which was introduced for isotropic pressure-dependent materials, is modified for anisotropic pressure-dependent materials in plane-stress condition. The modified criterion can be calibrated with 10 experimental data points such as tensile stress at 0°, 45° and 90°, compressive stress at 0° and 90° and R-values in tensile stress at 0°, 45° and 90° from rolling...
Thermal comfort study was carried out in the hostels of National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, which is located in a warm humid climatic zone of India. Measurements of ambient temperature, globe temperature, relative humidity, air velocity and illuminance were carried out in eight hostels, and in parallel a paper-based survey was conducted among students to know about their Thermal Preference...
Content-based video retrieval system aims at assisting a user to retrieve targeted video sequence in a large database. Most of the search engines use textual annotations to retrieve videos. These types of engines offer a low-level abstraction while the user seeks high-level semantics. Bridging this type of semantic gap in video retrieval remains an important challenge. In this paper, colour, texture...
The need for the development of novel and innovative materials is instrumental at every stage of societal improvements, leading to the overall development of a country. One such material of abundant source is basalt. The use of basalt in different forms like fibre, rod, grid and laminates has captured the interest of society from the 20th century onwards. Lately, basalt fibre has attracted attention...
Software effort estimation is the process of calculating the effort required to develop a software product based on the input parameters that are usually partial in nature. It is an important task but the most difficult and complicated step in the software product development. Estimation requires detailed information about project scope, process requirements and resources available. Inaccurate estimation...
Reconfigurable architectures (FPGA) with embedded memory elements face problems in retaining data for longer duration due to leakage current as it becomes dominant in nanometer devices in conventional technologies. Also, LUT-based designs consume more area, are slow in processing data and dissipate more power because of complex interconnection network. Memristor, a new nonvolatile memory element,...
Distillation is one of the most widely used separation unit operations in process industries, although it is quite energy intensive. In many cases, the enormous energy requirements for distillation make it economically infeasible to carry out the separation. Thermally coupled distillation system (TCDS) is an advanced distillation method that provides significant energy savings of about 30% as compared...
A process technology has been developed for recovery of naringin from kinnow (citrus) peels, which is a waste. The kinnow peels were boiled with water to extract naringin into water. It was adsorbed on an indigenous macroporous resin, Indion PA-500. Naringin was recovered from the saturated resin by desorption with ethanol as a solvent. The equilibrium and kinetic studies for both adsorption and desorption...
The mechanical properties of concrete under cyclic tensile loading using square waveform, sine waveform and ramp waveform are studied. The experiments are performed on a closed-loop electro-hydraulic servo-controlled material testing system (MTS). The axial strain, dissipated energy per loading cycle, the damage evolution law and deformation modulus are mainly studied. The results show that the three-stage...
This paper proposes a new technique based on Galerkin method for solving nth order fuzzy boundary value problem. The proposed method has been illustrated by considering three different cases depending upon the sign of coefficients with benchmark example problems. To show the applicability of the proposed method, an application problem related to heat conduction has also been studied. The results obtained...
In recent years research on parallel machine scheduling has received an increased attention. This paper considers minimisation of total tardiness for scheduling of n jobs on a set of m parallel machines. A spread-sheet-based genetic algorithm (GA) approach is proposed for the problem. The proposed approach is a domain-independent general purpose approach, which has been effectively used to solve this...
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the buckling and post-buckling behaviour of nanocomposite plate having randomly oriented carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reinforced in magnesium (Mg) under uni-axial compression. The effect of non-bonded interaction at the interface between CNT and matrix is considered through a cohesive zone model, used to predict the elastic property of the interphase, while...
Characteristics of series–series and series–parallel topologies when fed from a constant-voltage fixed-frequency supply have been studied. Characterization helps understanding the fundamentals of the topologies and helps in selection of particular topology for a particular application. For studying the characteristics a prototype of IPT coils has been developed in the laboratory. Parameters of the...
This research is on a realization of control approach in line with the trajectory optimization for the purpose of dealing with overactuated spacecraft in the process of the high-resolution manoeuvres. The idea behind the research is to realize closed control loops to cope with the rotational angles and the corresponding angular rates, synchronously, to handle the spacecraft manoeuvres. It is to be...
In the last few decades, researchers proceeded their foot for analyzing the weld characteristic index of materials since the development of novel materials began tremendously. Presently, evaluation of the optimum synchronization among considered input factors for materials are even now surviving into ill-defined mode; soliciting novel mathematical models as well as robustly designed decision support...
The work reported in this paper is focused on the performance of a thermoacoustic refrigerator under various operating conditions. The experiments were conducted with various stack geometries fabricated with epoxy glass and Mylar material. Four stacks with different pore sizes are used to evaluate the performance of the refrigerator. Stack 1 has parallel plates of Mylar material 0.12 mm thick spaced...
A brief study on a commutation strategy for a current source inverter (CSI)-fed parallel resonant circuit, using switches formed by IGBTs with series diodes, is presented in this paper. The dynamic behaviour of the inverter and different strategies for its reliable operation are discussed here considering parasitic inductance and overlap time between CSI switching devices. The dynamic behaviour of...
The understanding of basic feature of energy transport from a heat source is important from the fundamental point of view as well as from various engineering and technological applications. To enrich the knowledge in this area, this paper presents energy transport phenomena from the heated bottom of an air-filled enclosure using heatfunction and heatlines. Both upward motion and downward motion of...
The work done towards developing a visual aid to help visually challenged people is described in this paper. An ultrasonic device is used for measuring the distance to a nearby object and SIFT algorithm based approach is used for object recognition from the captured image. Features of the recognized object as well as the distance to the object are converted to voice output which is available to the...
In this work, optimum operating condition maps are generated covering wide ranges of refrigeration and sink temperatures for single- and double-effect LiBr–water vapour absorption refrigeration cycle. These optimum condition maps will be useful to choose optimum operating conditions while designing LiBr–water cycle for desired applications. Methodology for generating such maps is discussed in detail,...
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