Volume 10, Issue 2 (2017) | American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Synthesis and Characterization of Au@TiO₂ NWs and their Catalytic Activity by Water Splitting: A Comparative Study with Degussa P25

Abniel Machín — 2017-06-06

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.298.311

Different amount of gold nanoparticles (1, 3, 5, 10 wt%) were deposited on the surface of synthesized titanium oxide nanowires (TiO2 NWs) and Degussa P25 (TiO2-P25). The results evidenced the presence...

Integrations of Seismic Data, Petro-physical Evaluation and Reserve Estimation in Fimkassar Oil Field of Eastern Potwar, Pakistan

Muhammad Ishfaque — 2017-04-13

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.312.326

In upper Indus basin Potwar plateau is a successful exploration area for hydrocarbon. The study area is consisting of Fimkassar oil field and research data is obtained from Land Mark Resources with th...

Internet-Based Teleoperation of Carts Considering Effects of Time Delay via Continuous Pole Placement

Theophilus Okore-Hanson — 2017-04-03

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.327.333

A new control design for teleoperation considering time delay is presented. Unlike existing methods for communication delays, the design presented here identifies and continuously moves the rightmost ...

A Review on Cognitive Radio for Next Generation Cellular Network and its Challenges

Nandhakumar Pandi — 2017-04-04

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.334.347

Cognitive Radio (CR) is considered an intelligent technology. It improves the utilization of the radio spectrum. The increasing number of new devices has resulted in growing congestion of the ISM band...

Block-Matching Twitter Data for Traffic Event Location

Amal Shuqair — 2017-04-12

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.348.352

We used a block-matching approach that is data-driven and relies mostly on patterns of tagged speech in Twitter streams as a way to identify events in road traffic. Events are useful because their loc...

Characterization and Evaluation of Charcoal Briquettes Using Banana Peel and Banana Bunch Waste for Household Heating

Sumrit Mopoung — 2017-04-12

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.353.365

The charcoal briquettes from banana peel and banana bunch wastes from dried banana industry for household heating were characterized and evaluated. A 200 L pyrolyzer was used for charcoal and wood vin...

Study on Danger Index for Ship’s Tanker

Muhammad Badrus Zaman — 2017-04-13

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.366.372

Navigational safety is an important factor for the ship navigation. In this research, the study area is the Malacca Strait. The Malacca Straits has a high level of danger. The navigator should be care...

Fenton Process for the Degradation of Methylene Blue using Different Nanostructured Catalysts

María del C Cotto-Maldonado — 2017-07-19

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.373.381

In many places of the world, water is a scarcity resource. The possibility of reusing water increases the relevance of developing different water treatment methods. The goal of this research was to de...

Forces at Internal Combustion Engines

Relly Victoria V. Petrescu — 2017-04-27

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.382.393

The paper presents an algorithm to set the parameters of the dynamics of the classic mechanism the main of internal combustion. It shows the distribution of the forces (on the main mechanism of the en...

Inverse Kinematics at the Anthropomorphic Robots, by a Trigonometric Method

Relly Victoria V. Petrescu — 2017-04-27

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.394.411

A robot is a machine especially programmable one through a computer capable of performing a complex series of actions in the automatic mode. Robots may be guided by a control device or external contro...

Modelling and Assessment of Effect of Operation Parameters on Gas Turbine Power Plant Performance using First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Sunday Olayinka Oyedepo — 2017-05-03

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.412.430

In this study, modelling of gas turbine engine performance is carried out using thermodynamics relations. The model reveals that the influence of operation parameters such as compression ratio, turbin...

Prediction of Residual Axial Load Carrying Capacity of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Columns Subjected to Extreme Dynamic Loads

Masoud Abedini — 2017-05-05

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.431.448

The evaluation of residual axial load carrying capacity of Reinforced Concrete (RC) columns to explosion load is significant for protection of buildings. The few investigations conducted on residual a...

Fluid-Solid Coupling Analysis on Evolution of In-Situ Stress Field by Water Injection in Oilfield

Jianjun Liu — 2017-05-06

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.449.456

Water injection in oilfield may break initial balance of reservoir and lead to re-distribute of stress and deformation of strata. For further research of the evolution characteristics of in-situ field...

Gears-Part I

Relly Victoria V. Petrescu — 2017-05-10

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.457.472

The gears are today the most widespread and most frequently used mechanical transmissions, all over the world. They must be the factory on an industrial scale, everywhere and have a variety of uses, b...

Gears-Part II

Relly Victoria V. Petrescu — 2017-05-10

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.473.483

The paper presents an original method for the determination of the yield of the gearbox, gears forces, gearbox and power. It analyzes the influence of certain parameters which affects the efficiency o...

A Dynamic Model for Gears

Aversa Raffaella — 2017-05-10

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.484.490

Nearly all models studying the dynamic of gearing with parallel axes are based on classical mechanical models and known which are studying the spinning vibration of shafts gears and determine their ow...

Cam-Gears Forces, Velocities, Powers and Efficiency

Raffaella Aversa — 2017-05-12

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.491.505

The paper presents a method of the original type in order to determine the effectiveness of a mechanism camshaft and adept. The originality of this method consists of eliminating the friction. In this...

On Semicontinuous Nonclassical Ordinary Differential Inclusions with Nonlocal Condition

Sheila Amina Bishop — 2017-05-23

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.506.510

In this study, we examined existence of lower semicontinuous solution of Nonclassical Ordinary Differential Inclusions (QSDIs) with Nonlocal Conditions. Here the multivalued stochastic processes are l...

p-n Junction of 1.95 nm Carbon Nanotube: Fabrication, Properties and Performance

Soheli Farhana — 2017-05-23

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.511.516

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) is the substitution of silicon material for designing of transistor device due to the shortcoming of silicon properties. In this study, 1.95 nm diameter of CNT is fabricated and ...

Market Demand and Production Capacity Expansion of Hydrogen Peroxide in Bangladesh

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam — 2017-05-23

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.517.528

The work on production capacity expansion of hydrogen peroxide plants is part of an extensive research. In this research, the expansion of hydrogen peroxide plant, including the local current producti...

An Efficient Resource Provisioning Technique in Inter-Cloud using Peer-to-Peer Approach

Manbir Kaur — 2017-05-24

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.529.539

Resource discovery is the process of computing systems; it supports resource management and scheduling of applications. It searches for the apposite variety of resource that satisfies the user's requi...

Bending Stress and Deflection Analysis of Meshing Spur Gear Tooth during the Single Tooth Contact with Finite Element Method and Determination of the Bending Stiffness

Antonios D. Tsolakis — 2017-06-03

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.540.550

Purpose of this study is the study of loading and contact problems encountered at rotating machine elements and especially at tooth gears. Tooth gears are some of the most commonly used mechanical com...

Dynamics of Mechanisms with Cams Illustrated in the Classical Distribution

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2017-06-05

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.551.567

The paper presents an original method to determine the general dynamics of rotating cam and lifting, customized to flat-plate mechanism. First, the dynamic cinematic is presented. Then the Lagrange eq...

Testing by Non-Destructive Control

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2017-06-05

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.568.583

This paper describes an application of industrial robots that gain ground mainly in the aerospace industry. It is a TTT manipulator whose task is to automatically position the end-effector, in this ca...

Electron Dimensions

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu — 2017-06-05

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.584.602

In this study, the theoretical principles necessary to determine the exact magnitude of a moving electron, depending on the speed of movement, will be exposed. The equations are specifically discussed...

End Discharge Relationship for Free Overfall Affected by Upstream Bed Roughness and Slope

Jaafar S. Maatooq — 2017-06-05

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.603.610

The experimental program of this paper was restricted to free vertical drop structure at the end of the rectangular channel. The roughness and slope of the bed of approach channel are the aim of this ...

Experimental Investigation of Limonene-based Environmental-Friendly Emulsion Drilling Mud

Olaitan Oluwaseum Micheal — 2017-06-12

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.611.621

The use of emulsion drilling mud in the oil and gas industry has gained wide acceptance. However, the disposal of drill cuttings and the waste of such emulsion drilling mud usually poses environmental...

Discrete Vortex Prediction of Flow around Two Cylinders in Side by Side using Simple Grid System

Wisnu Wardhana — 2017-06-17

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.622.631

Modelling of flows around two cylinders in side by side arrangement using a simple overlapping grid system is carried out. The use of such grid system is intended to give a considerable reduction in t...

Comparison of Denoising Algorithms for Urban Scenes

Samuel Kozaitis — 2017-06-20

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2017.632.638

Several new denoising algorithms have recently been presented that display comparable performance and it is unclear which provide the best results. We used the practical example of urban scenes to com...

Volume 10, Issue 2 (2017) | American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Synthesis and Characterization of Au@TiO2 NWs and their Catalytic Activity by Water Splitting: A Comparative Study with Degussa P25

Integrations of Seismic Data, Petro-physical Evaluation and Reserve Estimation in Fimkassar Oil Field of Eastern Potwar, Pakistan

Internet-Based Teleoperation of Carts Considering Effects of Time Delay via Continuous Pole Placement

A Review on Cognitive Radio for Next Generation Cellular Network and its Challenges

Block-Matching Twitter Data for Traffic Event Location

Characterization and Evaluation of Charcoal Briquettes Using Banana Peel and Banana Bunch Waste for Household Heating

Study on Danger Index for Ship’s Tanker

Fenton Process for the Degradation of Methylene Blue using Different Nanostructured Catalysts

Forces at Internal Combustion Engines

Inverse Kinematics at the Anthropomorphic Robots, by a Trigonometric Method

Modelling and Assessment of Effect of Operation Parameters on Gas Turbine Power Plant Performance using First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Prediction of Residual Axial Load Carrying Capacity of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Columns Subjected to Extreme Dynamic Loads

Fluid-Solid Coupling Analysis on Evolution of In-Situ Stress Field by Water Injection in Oilfield

Gears-Part I

Gears-Part II

A Dynamic Model for Gears

Cam-Gears Forces, Velocities, Powers and Efficiency

On Semicontinuous Nonclassical Ordinary Differential Inclusions with Nonlocal Condition

p-n Junction of 1.95 nm Carbon Nanotube: Fabrication, Properties and Performance

Market Demand and Production Capacity Expansion of Hydrogen Peroxide in Bangladesh

An Efficient Resource Provisioning Technique in Inter-Cloud using Peer-to-Peer Approach

Bending Stress and Deflection Analysis of Meshing Spur Gear Tooth during the Single Tooth Contact with Finite Element Method and Determination of the Bending Stiffness

Dynamics of Mechanisms with Cams Illustrated in the Classical Distribution

Testing by Non-Destructive Control

Electron Dimensions

End Discharge Relationship for Free Overfall Affected by Upstream Bed Roughness and Slope

Experimental Investigation of Limonene-based Environmental-Friendly Emulsion Drilling Mud

Discrete Vortex Prediction of Flow around Two Cylinders in Side by Side using Simple Grid System

Comparison of Denoising Algorithms for Urban Scenes

Synthesis and Characterization of Au@TiO₂ NWs and their Catalytic Activity by Water Splitting: A Comparative Study with Degussa P25