Volume 8, Issue 2 (2015) | American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

A Review on OFDM and PAPR Reduction Techniques

Arun Kumar — 2015-06-04

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.202.209

OFDM is a multi carrier transmission technique where a single set of data is transmitted over a number of sub-carrier. OFDM takes the advantage of multi-path propagation and reduces the fading effect....

Feasibility Study on Solar Power Plant Utility Grid under Malaysia Feed-in Tariff

M. Pauzi M. Kassim — 2015-05-27

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 May 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.210.222

In Perlis, Northern Malaysia, a solar power plant with an energy capacity of 5 MWp began selling energy to Tenaga Nasional Berhad in January 2013. Upon obtaining Feed-in Tariff approval from the Susta...

Big Data in Design and Manufacturing Engineering

Lidong Wang — 2015-06-25

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.223.232

Big Data helps facilitate information visibility and process automation in design and manufacturing engineering. It also helps analyze trends through analytics and predict inventory, manufacturing out...

Characterization of Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) for Use in Flexible Pavement

Ahmed Ebrahim Abu El-Maaty — 2015-06-20

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.233.248

Due to economical reasons and the need for environmental conservatism, there has been an increasing shift towards the use of Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) materials in the pavement construction indu...

Effect of Sulfonated Acetone Formaldehyde (SAF) on the Firing Resistance and Aggressive Attach of SRC-SF Composite Cement Pastes

Randa M. Osman — 2015-06-22

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.249.262

This work aimed to study the effect of the dosage of laboratory synthesized Sulfonated Acetone Formaldehyde (SAF) on the physic-mechanical characteristics and durability of SF-SRC cement pastes immers...

Basalt as Pozzolana and Filler in Ordinary Portland Cement

H. El-Didamony — 2015-06-24

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.263.274

Pozzolana is defined as a siliceous or siliceous and aluminous materials which in itself possess little or no cementing properties, but will in a finally divided form and in the presence of moisture r...

Nonlinear Control of Variable wind Speed Conversion System Based on a Squirrel Cage Induction Generator (SCIG)

Abouobaida Hassan — 2015-06-25

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2015.275.284

This study presents a control strategy for a Squirrel Cage Induction Generator (SCIG)-based wind energy conversion system. Control strategies of the AC/DC/AC converter is presented along with the math...