To manufacture quality products at lowest cost in industries, optimization is an effective technique which can be applied to find out the best manufacturing conditions. The objective of this research work is to examine the effect of control factors and to choose the correct settings of these factors...

The purpose of heat treatment will be to modify the structure of material and relieve the stresses set up in the material. Rejection of Gears is susceptible, after heat treatment process, due to excess distortion. This leads to risk of getting PCD Runout fired owing to its chronicle failure. Analysis...

An important factor in welding process is selection of appropriate welding electrode. If a wrong welding electrode is selected then it may give rise to various welding defects and ultimately lead to failure of weld. In this paper, best welding electrode is selected from available alternatives of general...

A numerical study was conducted to find the effect of wrinkle in a metal sheet on its stiffness under tensile, compressive and flexural loading conditions. To define wrinkle of different sizes in model 'wrinkle factor' - ratio of thickness of specimen at wrinkle location to thickness of the specimen...

India is a great country with about 160 million hectares of arable land. It is the second highest producer of agro-products in the world. 40% of its GDP is agriculture based. However, in the recent times, the contribution of agriculture to the GDP and area of arable land has reduced considerably mainly...

This paper presents the construction and performance evaluation of a solar dryer. The objective of this work is to study the performance analysis of solar dryer system with and without Tono Therm m-65 PCM. In this heated air from a separate solar collector is passed through a food tray, and the drying...

Surface is very critical from quality point of view which affecting the life and the performance of products. Surface properties can be improved by number of methods, but electroplating is preferred because of its enhanced results at lower cost. In this work nickel chrome is selected for experimentation...

In the present investigation, synthesis of Cd, Sr doped ZnO semiconducting material was carried out by ecofriendly simple mechanochemical method. The grinding of Oxalic acid, Zinc acetate, Cadmium acetate and Strontium acetate in mortar and pestle at non-stoichiometric proportion allowed these reactant...

Semiconductor nanoparticles have drawn significant attention due to their excellent application in optoelectronics and photonics. Cadmium Sulphide extended its application in the field of photoluminescent materials. In present study, Zr and Sn doped Cadmium Sulphide nanoparticles prepared by Chemical...

Mechatronics is an immerging branch in the present era which deals with mechanical systems, instrumentations and electronic systems. Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems are the vital elements of Mechatronics system. The actuation of hydraulic and pneumatic system can be done using a PLC or a microcontroller....

The right selection of the machining process parameters may help to achieve the desired dimensional and geometric tolerances, to meet the functional requirements. In the present study to know the effect of machining parameters, during face milling operation, on surface roughness and flatness various...

Powder coating of metal product is essential to avoid corrosion and to improve surface properties. The coating thickness alone doesn't ensure the corrosion resistance. If surface is not covered completely, the micro-gaps can initiate rusting. Hence, microstructures should be observed for various coating...

Hemming is a metal sheet forming procedure to obtain tight fit or minimum gap when folding of sheet edges takes place over another. Bending of sheet metal edges takes place to 1800 in the last step of production line. This process is assumed to be a critical as it affects the surface quality of any enclosure...

Numerical modeling and simulation of an electromagnetic crimping process will give us better insight how different phenomenon relate and affect the result of deformation significantly. This paper focuses on modeling and simulating of electromagnetic crimping of Al6016-T6 tube on a steel rod with single...

This paper investigates the effect of material removal rate (MRR) and mainly machining environment on resultant surface integrity in high-speed machining (HSM) of Inconel 718. For this high-speed turning is carried out for three different cutting speeds, feedrates and depth of cut under dry, flood coolant...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a widely employed non-traditional machining process. Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) are newly developed materials having favourable mechanical properties like high strength, hardness, wear resistance and strength to weight ratio. In this study, experimental...

The aim of research work is to analyze residual stresses generated during shaper machining. This paper presents the simulation of single point cutting process by finite element method and compared with experimental work results. Taguchi L9 experimental design is used to obtain effective process parameters...

The objective of this research is to find out the optimized process parameters for minimum shrinkage. For this purpose, the injection molded General Purpose Polystyrene (GPPS) part which is used in refrigerators is taken. The Taguchi method is used for design of experiments. For five parameters with...

Optimization of process parameters for machining Heat Resistant Super Alloys (HRSA) is a very challenging task for researchers. Many techniques are being used to find out optimized process parameters for machining these alloys. This paper presents the use of Technique for Order Preference by Similarity...

This study shows the effect of etching condition on microchannel of 100 µm width. Microchannels were fabricated on Monel 400 substrate by using different concentration of Ferric chloride (FeCl3) and nitric acid (HNO3) in water. Effect of exposure time on channel width and peel off resistance of photoresist...

In present scenario, online monitoring and control of dynamic mechanical systems drives an attention of many researchers. Present paper explores design, development and fabrication of an Electrorheological fluid damper done in laboratory, which can be used as a semi-active variable damping device for...

The fundamental machining techniques were established long back. However, machining operations consume a large amount of money annually worldwide. Advanced engineering materials, such as ceramics, MMC, Titanium (Ti), Inconel and its alloys offer properties like high strength at elevated temperature,...

The recent development in manufacturing sector has brought the world closer. The development in manufacturing techniques is due to advancement in material sciences for getting better quality of tool and secondly utilization of alternate energy sources. Wet chemical machining process is a non-traditional...

Red mud (Bauxite residue) is an industrial by-product produced in Bayer's process of production of alumina. An inventory of 3 Billion tons of high alkaline red mud is awaiting in stock-pilling yards for its bulk utilization at global level. Annual generation of 120 MTPA of red mud is putting an additional...

Sustainability requires diligent use of resources to avoid impairing the environment and addressing factors of scarcity. Recently the life of the products has decreased drastically which has made it necessary to plan for End-of-Life (EOL) options for the product. The design factors for the same need...

Aluminium and its alloys provide the solution in many applications as it is light in weight, strong and is highly and easily recyclable. Good part is large amount of material is available for recycling that is easily recycled by just 5% energy required to produce ,without deteriorating the properties...

Turning is widely employed as a material removal process for roughing or semi-finishing operation. However, turning of a workpiece material needs use of an appropriate cutting tool insert. Insert material and its geometry play quite significant role in obtaining desired machinability. For obtaining better...

In the present work, a hydraulic scissors lift is developed to lift up to 300 kg load at a height of around one meter. This mechanism is specially designed for loading and unloading press tool dies by considering press machine shop where installation of Gantry cranes and use of forklift is not convenient....

This paper presents a new method of manufacturing 3D components by using Flow-Controlled Chemical Machining (FCCM). FCCM can be used for fabrication of 3D components using flow control set-up (or pattern) and suitable etchant. In this investigation, pattern used is perforated and having wettability which...

This study proposes an approach for the development of a three dimensional transient heat conduction finite element model (FEM) for grinding process. FEM simulates the temperature field in conventional and nanofluid based environmental friendly minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) grinding process. For...

The Infrared non-destructive evaluation (IRNDE) is an emerging approach for non-contact inspection of various solid materials such as metals, composites and semiconductors for industrial and research interest. Data processing is an essential step in IRNDE in order to visualize the subsurface defects...

This research presents observation of the microstructure of 1018 mild steel in the heat affected zone (HAZ) region. For SAW process various parameters are chosen such as current, voltage and welding speed. The welding experiments were conducted as per the Taguchi L9 method. The samples of 1018 MS were...

In the last few years, industries have been facing challenges to fabricate the complex shaped geometries and arrayed structures on difficult to cut materials. Recently, various researchers have successfully applied reverse electro-discharge machining (R-EDM) process for manufacturing of the arrayed structures...

Machining process simulation is an important aspect in the manufacturing context that generates a scenario to enhance the process performance in terms of time and cost. With unique high temperature and stress properties and applications of Inconel 718 material in various sectors of engineering, the machinability...

Geometrical inaccuracies, in a statically clamped workpiece subjected to cutting forces, are mainly caused by the contact deformations at the locators and the structural deformations in the body of the workpiece. In addition, during machining the structural deformations continuously increase as the workpiece...

To manufacture quality products at lowest cost in industries, optimization is an effective technique which can be Electrochemical micro-machining (EMM) appears to be very promising as a future micro-machining technique, since in many areas of applications it offers several advantages, which include higher...

Most of the manufacturing industries produce similar components where the designer has to model similar products again and again which is not only time consuming but also introduces operator fatigue and reduction in the productivity of the designer. Different activities of the CAD division can be automated...

Decisive requirement for the long-term stability of the artificial joint is to minimize the release of debris particles. The wear/debris induced osteolysis and aseptic loosening are the result of failure of metal-on-metal joint implants. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) processes have been used to adapt...

In any combustion process of a fuel there will be always some unburned carbon (soot) generated and some ash carried with the stack gas stream. Soot, ash, and molten ash (slag) will accumulate at the tube banks of the heat exchangers. Some ash will even melt down at the tube surface. The final result...

The paper reports the effects of machining parameters on performance of biodegradable magnesium calcium alloy implant in terms of surface roughness, microstructure, microhardness, chip morphology and degradation rate in face milling using CVD diamond like carbon coated carbide inserts. The result shows...

The main objective of this study is to analyze the effect of cutting speed, feed, and depth of cut on response variables such as surface roughness, tool wear, and material removal rate (MRR). Turning of NIMONIC 80A was carried out at three levels of cutting speed, feed, and depth of cut. Analysis of...

Analysis of double strap bolted lap joint was carried out using Finite Element Method (FEM). Angle of interfacial pressure distribution between the plates to be joined using preloaded bolted connection has been a debatable point though widely researched. Shigale's Pressure cone approach for the determination...

As the automotive industry is growing at an increasing pace today, there is severe competition and pressure to produce vehicles, which meet the ever increasing expectations of the consumers. The demand for increased vehicular refinement ensures that many manufacturers implement stringent Noise, Vibration...

This review is intended to highlight and discuss the various experimental techniques used to obtain the mechanical behavior of soft tissues at varying strain rates. A variety of techniques used to obtain the mechanical properties of soft tissues and soft materials from low to intermediate and high rates...

Undercut plays a crucial role in the industry of photochemical machining technology. This paper inspects the effect of undercut on the process parameter in Photochemical Machining (PCM) of SS304. A full factorial (33) Design of Experiments (DoE) were performed consisting of twenty-seven experimental...

The Electric Discharge machine (EDM) has evolved from a non traditional machining process and positioned itself in industries as a most indispensable conventional machine. It is multipurpose and excels with ability of precisely producing difficult-to-machine, geometrically complex component of any hardness....

The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental work attempting to model and optimize the influencing process parameters involved in powder-mixed electrical discharge machining (PMEDM). Looking at available literature it is observed that a lot of work can be done in the field of electric discharge...

In this work analysis of fundamental aspects of orthogonal micro cutting was carried out in terms of variables like shear angle, chip thickness, chip morphology as a function of cutting speed, depth of cut, tool rake angle and heat treatment provided to the work specimen. Analysis of results shows that...

Developments in PVD coating technique for cutting tools enable high speed and dry machining with superior cutting parameters in commercial manufacturing sectors. The present research work investigate the microstructure and the mechanical properties of the AlTiCrN, AlCrN coatings deposited by High Impulse...

The lubricants added with nanoparticle additives have achieved a predominant position in the field of research on development of sustainable lubricating oils. The efficient physical and chemical properties of metal oxide nanoparticles as lubricant additives have widely extended its purview. The surface...

Human Skin detection deals with the recognition of skin-colored pixels and regions in a given image. Skin color is often used in human skin detection because it is invariant to orientation and size and is fast to process. A new human skin detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The three main...

In today's era data security is an important concern. It is most demanding issue now days. It is essential for people using online banking, e-shopping, reservations etc. The two major techniques that are used for secure communication are Cryptography and Steganography. Cryptographic algorithms scramble...

Scheduling tasks on different resources spread over a grid computing system is an NP complete problem. Assorted researchers are developing adaptation scheduling algorithms for getting optimality. Hence they have proved a good result for tasks scheduling about resources selection. In this review, we study...

Arithmetic operations are important and most commonly used functions in VLSI applications. 1-single bit full adder digital circuit is the building block that performs the operations such of addition, subtraction, multiplica-tion, etc. Designing, Implementation of single bit full adder circuits in nm...

The detection of a fade in and a fade out in the video segmentation is very difficult as compared to the detection of abrupt transition. Mostly, the disturbances are caused due to the object/camera motion and the illumination arising from flashlight, fire, flicker and explosion. This mainly results into...

To investigate the short channel effect for Dual Material Gate Silicon on Insulator junction-less Transistor (DMG SOI JLT) of a two dimensional channel potential model is developed. This model is validated by simula-tion (COGENDA Visual TCAD) result. It has been observed that for a junction-less transistor...

Information Retrieval (IR) is the need of todays digital world. It is important for a user to get appropriate document from the sets of documents. In order to do so, researchers are working in the domain of IR mainly on the concepts like Document Clustering and classification, Ontology of document, Thematic...

This paper describes design, development and deployment of a fuzzy based agricultural decision support system which help farmers to make wise decisions regarding selection of a crop. Various parameters for decision making are understood and Fuzzy interface systems are developed. This study finds application...

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by the existence of recurring seizures. Like many other neurological disorders, epilepsy can be appraisal by the electroencephalogram (EEG). The EEG signal is highly non-linear and non-stationary and consist of lot of data including significant data and...

Solid state rectification of ac power using diodes and thyristors are drawing harmonic current and reactive pow-er from ac supply and behave as non-linear load. During unbalancing of the three-phase supply voltage causes excessive neutral current, which results into low power factor, derating of equipment,...

Image quality assessment is used for automatic evaluation of the image accurately. In this article, objective reference image quality assessment metric is used to evaluate the quality of retargeted images. The metric measures perceptual geometric distortion and information loss of retargeted images using...

This paper proposes a method for raindrop measurement based on image processing using 2D double density dual tree DWT.Concept which make this project is to use a technique apart from disdrometer to abstract parameter values such as drop size from image.Trasform technique 2D double density dual tree DWT...

This paper introduces a scalable and flexible solution for face recognition using distributed Hadoop cluster. With the increase of use of CCTV for security purposes there is a need of efficient solution to utilize the vast data generated by them .In case of an investigation it is ideally required that...

With strategic vision, to define objectives and to identify control strategy, requirements of energy and power should be known. To minimize peak power demand, Size, Cost and maximize efficiency, operating life of bat-teries hybridization of Battery and Ultra-Capacitor with power flow control is preferred....

In this paper, the effect of meditation on the seven load arithmetic tasks using Electroencephalogram (EEG) is investigated. The focused attention on breathing is taught to 11 healthy subjects as a simple meditation tech-nique. EEG signals have been recorded at the beginning of meditation and after four...

Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) is widely used error detection technique in many contemporary communication systems such as Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile Communication-Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Ad-vanced, Wi-Fi, Wireless LAN. For real time embedded systems, code size (Memory), Processor Machine...

A three dimensional symmetrical fractal tree antenna using chemical deposition technique is presented. The fractal antennas are used to enhance antenna properties due to their self - similarity behavior. The tree design Microstrip antenna provides miniaturization and multiband operation. The chemical...

Anomalies in video scenes means unexpected or unusual activity which is usually not frequently observed. Such activities hence are rare and require sudden attention so that it can be detected as early as possible. There is a need to automatically identify and locate where such anomaly is present. Optical...

In the present era of the digital world, digital images and videos are the main carriers of information. However, these sources of information can be easily manipulated by using readily available photo editing softwares such as Photoshop etc. Nowadays, it is possible to add or remove some important objects...

Photo plethysmography (PPG) is used to estimate the blood flow using light. Researchers from different domains of science have been working with PPG because of its advantages as non-invasive, inexpensive, and convenient diagnostic tool. Traditionally, it has been used to measure the oxygen saturation,...

Artificial intelligence techniques are being used effectively in medical diagnostic tools to increase the diagnostic accuracy and provide additional knowledge. Electromyography (EMG) signals are becoming increasingly im-portant in clinical and biomedical applications. Detection, processing and classification...

Distribution system (DS) delivers electrical power to the end users and is the first interface of the utility with the consumers. Due to deregulation and competition amongst distributors, distribution utilities are under pressure to minimize the losses and to improve reliability to enhance the overall...

The emergence of new operating systems and applications for mobile phones and tablets has necessitated the need for power optimization. Storage space has become another matter of concern as new operating systems have started supporting video codec and formats originally meant for desktop application...

Facial Sketches are most widely used in law enforcement agencies for identification and apprehension of suspects, which may involve in several criminal activities. If the photographs of the suspect is stored in the mug shot data base, then the identity of the suspect is possible, but in most of the cases...

This paper presents a classification scheme for Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) pattern using Patch based approach and ANN classifier. Various methods are proposed for classification of ILD patterns but still accuracy can be improved when ILD cases are complex. In this paper, we have extracted features...

Present day is witnessing a very rapid growth of wireless communication, for which antenna with very large bandwidth are in strong demand, so that various application are covered with fewer or preferably with single antenna. Fractals are profoundly intricate shapes that are easy to define. Fractals are...

Phoneme recognition is a vital task in the automatic speech recognition process. The set of algorithms used for phoneme recognition requires effective handling of raw acoustic input data and demands huge amount of computations. New measures proposed in the pre-processing step and back propagation of...

Shot change detection is a significant step in content based video indexing and retrieval. There are different types of transitions between the shots. Most of the shot change detection algorithms deal with these transitions separately. In this paper, we have carried out the analysis of shot change detection...

In recent years, the popularity of portable devices for capturing images, video, text extraction, etc. become key problems to detect and recognize the text in images. Extraction of text information from images or scene involves binary, text detection, text localization, word segmentation, and enhancement...

Identification of abnormalities in the chromosomes is a tedious job. Conventionally gray-scale imaging was used for chromosome analysis and was based on features like relative length, banding pattern, centromere posi-tion. As an alternate, Multiplex fluorescence in-situ hybridization (M-FISH) is a combinatorial...

A wideband circularly polarized microstrip patch (CP MPA) antenna directly coupled with single feed structure is proposed for wide axial ratio bandwidth (AR BW). The antenna is basically designed for circular polarization and is composed of suspended near square patch with diagonal single feed. The near...

Electro-encephalogram (EEG) is one of the most practiced signals in brain computer interface systems. Several distinct EEG patterns have been analyzed in identifying physiological and psychological states. Work presented here focuses on classification of EEG patterns for alcoholic and controlled states....

The objective of the present paper is to deal with the solution of the third order non-linear boundary layer equa-tion governing the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of a viscous fluid over a stretching permeable surface using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The solution obtained has been constructed...

In the world of mobile wireless communication delivery of content with high quality services by taking into consideration available bandwidth, speed, latency, reliability, became very essential in the fulfillment of demand of services for greatly increasing subscribers on the mobile cellular network....

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the widely used imaging modality for visualizing and assessing the brain anatomy and its functions in non-invasive manner. The most challenging task in analysis of brain MRI images is image segmentation. Automatic and accurate detection of brain tumor is one...

Shot boundary detection is the first step in the video processing applications. The detection of gradual transition is quite difficult compared to the detection of abrupt transition. Among the different gradual transitions, the detection of wipes is more challenging because the wipes are of different...

Dispersion is one of the basic problems in the optical fiber communication. Chromatic dispersion is one of this type of dispersion. Nowadays we require high data transmission without any substantial loss in a communication system, so optical communication serves as a better choice for high data rate...

Confidentiality and security of data attracts attention due to fastest growth in communication and internet world. Communities of data privacy and security has attracted considerable attraction towards Reversible Data Hiding (RDH). The methodology proposes a scheme of reversible data hiding in which...

This paper presents a novel approach to multimodality medical image fusion for better visualization of lesions and calcification. The algorithm utilizes source modalities as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Res-onance Imaging (MRI). It is a feature based fusion technique in which Rotated Wavelet...

The emerging techniques in the sensor field include an antenna as a bio-sensor. A simple Planar Inverted F antenna (PIFA) as an implantable glucose sensor to detect variation in glucose level is presented in this paper. The work includes design of PIF antenna using HFSS software and in vitro testing...

Sparsity of signals is a crucial fundamental concept in diverse fields such as compressed sensing, image processing, dictionary learning, blind source separation and sampling theory. The objective of this paper is to present sparsity analysis of 1-D speech signal and 2-D image using Gini index, L1-norm...

Digital world has developed tremendously. Initially textual information associated with images is used to do image based search. From user's perspective the final result contains both relevant as well irrelevant images. The expected yield from such a system is to get pertinent result. Satisfaction of...

In the present paper, an analytical study of the effects of radiation on the buoyancy induced heat and mass transfer by natural convection from an isothermal paraboloid embedded in a saturated porous medium has been done in case of constant temperature and concentration. For the analysis of the problem,...

This manuscript proposes the low cost, efficient yet effective system for transfer of solar power from photo-voltaic cell to mobile charger using wireless power transfer techniques. The proposed system consists of off-the-shelf electronics components such as Arduino, power MOSFETs, rectifier diodes,...

Economic growth of any country depends on its ratio of population growth and basic requirement merit. The Energy storage and Energy production these are the two basic problems arises due to it in the development of country. This paper focuses on this current scenario and proposes a flexible 3D cube model...

India is one of the well-known country in world, in the area of pharmacy specially food horticulture. India pro-duces nearly 5.00 lacks tones/annum pomegranate. Fruit gradation is one of the most vital parts in fruit horti-culture. The project design presented by this paper is from same problematic area....

Optical burst switching (OBS) is envisioned to be one of the most promising technology to support all-optical switching in the optical Internet. OBS is finding potential in bandwidth hungry applications like, grid computing, video conferencing, video telephony and video on demand. In this critical high...

Memetic Algorithm (MA) is a metaheuristic search method. In proposed memetic algorithm two memes are used in definite proportion of refinement process with random selection. Genetic Algorithm due to its good ex-ploration capability is used as framework algorithm and Swine Influenza Inspired Optimization...

Radio is one of the most common things that people use around the world. Marconi developed it in 1895 and since then there is no stop in its development, some of the domains like the cognitive radio and Software de-fined radio have seen great advancements in communication. In the following paper, we...

Video capturing by non-professionals will lead to unanticipated effects. such as image distortion, image blurring etc. Many researchers focused on these drawbacks to enhance the quality of videos. In this paper an algorithm based on s-R-t transform is proposed to stabilize jittery videos .A stable output...