The objective of present research is to design of SCC and to investigate the effect of inclusion of chopped basalt fiber, glass fiber & carbon fiber on fresh properties and hardened properties of SCC. Fresh properties comprise flow ability, passing ability, and viscosity related segregation resistance. Hardened properties to be studied are compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural strength. Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) is widely practiced with high ductility and sufficient durability. Fiber-reinforced self-compacting concrete uses the flow ability of concrete in fresh state to improve fiber orientation and in due course enhancing toughness and energy absorption capacity. In the past few years there has been a boost in the development of concretes with different types of fibers added to it. In the present work the mechanical properties of a self-compacting concrete with chopped Basalt, glass & Carbon fiber of length 12mm, added in various proportions will be studied in fresh and hardened state.

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Renewable energy sources play an important part in electric power generation; solar energy is a good choice of an electric power generation. As the solar energy is directly converted by solar photovoltaic modules. In this paper we present the output variation and check compatibility with different load conditions. R, L, C type loads are used in standalone SPV system. Every system behavior and harmonics are changed according to its designing and modeling. We have designed Simulink model of SPV system. In this model we are discussing different types of factor like temperature, seasonality, soiling, system voltage and loads. This reviews the generalized mathematical modeling and simulation of Solar Photovoltaic System. a diode equivalent circuit is employed in order to investigate load characteristics of a solar module MPPT algorithm, Step up DC-DC converter and a Single phase grid tied inverter using MATLAB/Simulink.

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Marble dust is a waste material which is obtained from the marble quarrying plants. This is generally of used in landfills, in this project a study has been carried out on concrete to check suitability of marble dust in concrete and its effects, marble dust is added in concrete from 0 to 100% at an interval of 25% as a partial and full replacement of fine aggregate and its properties like workability, compressive strength is check. For this project M 40 concrete is casted and marble particle between 90 micron to 4.75 mm is used in this study which is differentiate by IS sieve.

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A pressure vessel is a closed container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure different from the ambient pressure. The end caps fitted to the cylindrical body are called heads. The aim of this research is to carry out detailed design & analysis of a pressure vessel for the application of air storage. It is a low pressure vessel since the internal pressure is 1.48 MPa. In this research paper geometrical and finite element model of Pressure vessel has been created using ANSYS 15.0 software. Optimization process has been also applied using ANSYS 15.0 by screening method. This optimized value reduces the stresses (13.10 % for head & 9.088 % for shell) in the pressure vessel, which will increase the life of the pressure vessel and reduce the chances of bursting the pressure vessel. The optimized value of mass reduces the weight (18.57% for shell), hence reduce the material cost of the vessel. Also using optimized values of shell and head obtained by screening method Pressure vessel has been fabricated.

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A Mobile Ad-hoc networks formed by a collection of mobile nodes that are connected dynamically, in which each node act as router to all other nodes. Because of the absence of centralized administration this network is self-organising. Efficient routing protocol can make MANET more reliable. MANET is expected to be very useful for the formation of temporary networks in battlefield and disaster recovery such as fire, safety and rescue operations, meetings in which people likes to quickly share information. Mobile nodes in such network communicate with each other via wireless links because the nodes are moving, routing in such setup is always a challenge. In MANET, we are using Trust based QOS aware routing protocol i.e. TAODV for identifying the nodes in the network. Since, trust is mandatory in routing for transmission of data securely. We purpose a trust based routing protocol for mobile adhoc network known as TAODV. This paper presents a comprehensive study about the working of AODV protocol and for improvement /enhancement in AODV, a new protocol TAODV is purposed to improve the end to end delay, Packet delivery ratio, Throughput, Energy consumption, Network routing load and also discusses its comparison with AODV, MAODV, and RAODV protocol.

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fiber reinforced concrete is the mixture of concrete with discontinuous discrete fibers. Fibers in concrete increase the tensile strength and also reduce the growth of micro cracks in the concrete. Fiber reinforced concrete is very effective and economical process to enhance the physical and mechanical properties of the concrete. Polyester fiber is a synthetic resin in which the polymer units are linked by ester groups. Use of polyester as fibers greatly effects the properties of concrete, In this paper an attempt is made to review the effects of acidic curing on treated and untreated polyester fiber reinforced concrete and its properties.

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As the data grows exponentially exploding on the 'World Wide Web', the orthodox clustering algorithms obligate various challenges to tackle, of which the most often faced challenge is the uncertainty. Web documents have become heterogeneous and very complex. There exist multiple relations between one web document and others in the form of entrenched links. This can be imagined as a one to many (1-M) relationship, for example a particular web document may fit in many cross domains viz. politics, sports, utilities, technology, music, weather forecasting, linked to e-commerce products etc. Therefore there is a necessity for efficient, effective and constructive context driven clustering methods. Orthodox or the already well-established clustering algorithms adhere to classify the given data sets as exclusive clusters. Signifies that we can clearly state whether to which cluster an object belongs to. But such a partition is not sufficient for representing in the real time. So, a fuzzy clustering method is presented to build clusters with indeterminate limits and allows that one object belongs to overlying clusters with some membership degree. In supplementary words, the crux of fuzzy clustering is to contemplate the fitting status to the clusters, as well as to cogitate to what degree the object belongs to the cluster.

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Human hair is a waste product and its disposal is concern for environment due to its non-biodegradable nature. The human hair possess similar properties to that of other synthetic fibers. The hair fiber reinforced concrete is the type of concrete the mixture of concrete with discontinuous discrete fibers which results in the tensile strength and also reduces the growth of micro cracks in the concrete. Hair fiber reinforced concrete is very effective and economical process to enhance the physical and mechanical properties of the concrete. In present study an attempt is made to review the use of human hairs in concrete and its properties. It is observed that hair fibers can successfully be used in concrete and it also results in improvement of mechanical properties of concrete.

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According to the latest researches, this paper outlines the development of wireless power transmission and introduces the latest applications of wireless power transmission in life. To describe the wireless power transmission technologies in detail, the paper presents the short-range, medium-range and long range wireless power transmission, respectively. In addition, the paper also depicts some unique properties of wireless power transmission system to make readers understand WPT system better. At last, the existing problems and developing trends are presented. This paper proposes application of wireless power transfer for charging of electric-powered Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)

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Circular silos are constructed for many industries to store the material such as food grains, cement, clinker etc. in large quantities. The lateral loads such as earthquake and wind have a vital effect on the structure causing a lot of damage, failure of structure and huge loss to the industry. Hence it is necessary to study the response of such structures under earthquake forces. The behavior depends upon the ground motion characteristics as well as the mass ensiled in the silo. In order to reduce the effect of such forces, various lateral load resisting systems are provided in supporting sections i.e. in between columns. The present study is about the static and dynamic behaviour of silo subjected to earthquake forces situated in all zones of India. Shear plate elements as well as bracing elements are used as lateral load resisting units between adjacent columns. The 3D modelling and analysis is carried out using structural analytical tool SAP-2000. The combinations of loads are defined as per guidelines provided in Indian standard codes. Response spectrum method of analysis is used for the dynamic analysis of silo structure. In this study, results are obtained and compared in the form of base shear, maximum displacement, natural time period and stresses. From the comparison of results the best suitable element is obtained and suggested to enhance the performance of the silo structure under earthquake loads.

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In SDLC, Testing is the technique to evaluate a software to detect differences between given input and expected result. Testing evaluates the standard of the software deliverable. In other words, Testing is a process of verification and validation. Manual testing is performed by a tester carefully executing the test cases. In Automation Testing, an automation tool to execute your test case suite. The automation tool can also feed the test data into the System under Test, compare actual and expected behaviors and produce detailed test reports. Test Automation demands resources and considerable amount of investments of money. Using a test automation software, it is possible to record the test suite and play it again if it is required. No human effort is required, once the test suite is automated. Automation increases Test Coverage and speed of test. The goal of the thesis is to present a comparative analysis of automation tools such as Selenium RC, Selenium Web Driver. The aim of the thesis is to analyze two automation software testing tools and evaluate to determine their productiveness and usefulness. Selenium is a most likely automated testing suite. Selenium is developed in a way to support and promote the automation testing of behavioral outlook of web based applications and a broader range of browsers and platforms. Due to its presence in the large open source community, it has become one of the most desired tools among the testing professionals. Selenium is not just a single automated tool, rather a package of several automated testing tools.

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Gesture recognition has gained lot of popularity and become the new generation user interface. Developing an interactive user interface is the trend and gesture recognition provides a very good platform to build it. Gestures have been an important part of our life from a very long time, used to convey message or communicate without the need of language. To use these interactive system based on gestures, one does not require any prerequisite knowledge as in the case of touchscreens, keyboard etc. The aim is to develop a plug and play gesture recognition system (GRS) which can be scalable to any kind of application like playing a game or displaying an interactive advertisement. To build a complete plug and play device so that it is portable and easy to carry. This device provides a natural user experience at an economical price and opens a wide platform for future enhancement. To obtain a small device we have used Raspberry Pi along with the gesture recognition sensor which communicates with Raspberry Pi over I2C bus protocol.

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This study was initiated with a view to understand the essentiality of IT in MI. The conceptual framework is developed for the understanding of MI in international context as well domestically. Marketing intelligence is “a continuing and interacting structure of people, equipment and procedures that, in combination, gather, sort, analyse and distribute pertinent, timely and accurate information for use by marketing decision makers to improve their marketing planning, implementation and control” Although many professionals do much of their own information gathering and analysis, there still needs to be a clear focal point of the Marketing Intelligence System responsibility. This may be a named individual or a small group of people who have the distinctive skills needed The system represents a decision support system for marketing activity. It consists of information technology – mainly based on internet system, marketing data and modelling capabilities that enable the system to provide predicted outcomes from different scenarios and marketing strategies, so answering "what if?" questions. An electronic collections of information obtained from data sources within the company.

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In the past few years research on digital communication systems has been greatly developed and it offers a high quality of transmission in cooperation of wired as well as wireless communication environments. Coupled by advances in recent modulation techniques, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a well-known digital multicarrier communication technique along with one of the most excellent methods of digital data transmission in excess of a limited bandwidth. For wireless communication, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is becoming the selected modulation technique. OFDM can offer high data rate, large spectrum efficiency with adequate robustness to radio channel impairments. Cooperative diversity in wireless communication is a hopeful technique to mitigate multi-path fading, which results in a fluctuation in the amplitude of the received signal. Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV)

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Many sophisticated electronic systems depends on transducers like temperature sensors, pressure sensors, vibration sensors, shock and strain gauge to measure the parameters in engineering units. ADC and DAC with support of high end microcontrollers will play a major role in data acquisition systems. The resolution of ADC will define the accuracy of the system. ADC with analog multiplexer will provide multiple channels to acquire pressure, temperature, vibration and shock. Most of the pressure channels will provide DC voltage from 0 to +5v range full scale. The selected ADC with highly stable reference voltage, the signal conditioner and a low pass filter to suppress the noise will make full fledged data acquisition channel for measurement of pressure in Bar. High end microcontroller ADuC7026 with built in 12 ADC, 4 ADC/DAC, set of timers, general purpose I/O’s and UART will provide accurate results to design multichannel data acquisition systems. Now a day’s microcontrollers with built in ADC and DAC’s, timers, UART’s are available to make system very small and compact. One can develop embedded software to suit the system requirement with well defined communication protocol with user defined sampling rates. Data will be provided on RS-232 interface to application software. Where, pressure data will be displayed in tables with time stamp. Application (GUI) will be provided with a set of plots and graphs, where user can visualize the pressure data in engineering units. Data can be logged into excel sheets for feature reference. Advance microcontrollers and application software makes realization of data acquisition system with high degree of accuracy and ease.

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In modern IC amplifiers an essential building block is the differential amplifier. Many electronic devices internally use differential amplifiers. There is a type of electronic amplifier is differential amplifier that multiplies the difference between two inputs by some constant value and this constant value is called differential gain. In this paper we propose a differential amplifier implemented using dual gate organic thin film transistors (OTFTs). P-type pentacene dual gate OTFT structure is used to design amplifier device. Implementation and simulation of device is done using industry standard Atlas (Silvaco) 2-D device simulator. Results show that the amplifier has well behaved large signal characteristics and good linearity for inputs between -1 and 1 V.

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India is country in which agriculture plays one important role in enhancing the country‘s GDP rate and enriching the country’s pride. Hence it is end of the hour of a to emphasize something innovative towards agriculture. Water plays an important role in the world economy. Agriculture consumes more water than any other source and also wastes much of that through inefficiencies. Our proposed system makes efficient use of available water through automatic Water Management system. An Intelligent Irrigation system is the sensor network which senses the information about soil moisture using copper plates and the sensed information is sent to the microcontroller. The microcontroller then compares the sensed soil moisture value with the threshold moisture value. When soil moisture in the field is less than the threshold level, then the motor is turned ON through the registered mobile phone user. When the motor is started, soil moisture is constantly monitored and once the soil moisture reaches the sufficient level then the motor is turned off by the user and the notification is sent to the user through Global System for Mobile communication network. Thus this system can effectively reduce water wastage compared to the conventional systems.

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In this paper an experimental investigation is carried out on Sixteen HSC beams with constant width (125 mm) and varying depth (130mm and 100mm) by varying (i) shear span to depth ratio, (ii) the longitudinal reinforcement ratio and (iii) the minimum, maximum and no web reinforcement ratio were casted and tested to understand the shear behavior of the beams. The study is also carried for no web reinforcement. The load-deflection behavior and the failure pattern of the beams, ultimate shear strength and reserve shear strength are studied with varying a/d ratio, varying the cross-section and longitudinal reinforcement. The results obtained are compared with the different codal equations. Based on these observations, it can be concluded that, there are many parameters influencing the shear behavior of RC beams such as shear span to depth ratio (a/d ratio>2), depth of the beam and the percentage of the longitudinal reinforcement.

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Lubricants play a vital role in machine performance, machine life, reducing wear and friction and preventing component from failure. Poor performance of lubricant can cause significant energy and material losses. To improve the lubricating properties of bearing oil, nanoparticles can be added in bearing oils. In this research Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3) nanoparticles were added into the SN-500 base oil and tribological properties were examined. The concentrations of Al2O3 nanoparticles prepared in SN-500 base oil are 0.1 wt. %, 0.5 wt. %, 0.75 wt. % and 1 wt. %. The trials of friction and wear were carried out on a pin on disc tribotester, with varying the concentration of nanoparticle and by varying load (10N, 30N & 50N). The obtained results were compared between Al2O3 nano oil and SN-500 base oil. The results showed that 0.5wt% for Al2O3 nano fluid concentration was an optimum concentration for wear. For the friction reduction test, when Al2O3 nanoparticles were added into a base oil, the coefficient of friction reduced by 19%, 35% & 52% at 1wt% concentration as compared to base oil without nanoparticles.

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Data mining is also called as knowledge discovery in database (KDD). The concept of data mining include several research field such as statistics, database systems, machine learning concepts etc, and computer processing all have their influence on data mining concepts. The data is the most essential vital asset of any company however, in case the data is changed or a bad data entry is created certain errors like duplicate detection arises. Duplicate detection is that method of identifying the multiple representations of same real world entities. Duplicate detection methods need to process every larger datasets in every shortest period, maintaining the quality of a dataset becomes increasingly difficult. In this paper, presenting the two novels of progressive duplicate detection algorithms such as PSNM and PB that significantly increase the efficiency of detects the duplicates, if the execution time is limited. They maximize the gain of the overall method within the available time by reporting most results are significantly much earlier than traditional approaches. A comprehensive experiment shows that progressive algorithms will double the potency over time of traditional duplicate detection and considerably improve upon related work. This survey discuss about both method such as progressive Sorted Neighborhood method and Progressive Blocking method.

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The vehicle population is quickly increasing in our country as all over the world which reveals the high load on the roads beyond their capability. Rapid increases in vehicle population have put enormous strains in all urban roads in all million plus cities in India. High vehicle ownership and poor supporting public transport facilities are in particularly in the urban cities where the population is between 1 to 2 million. To alleviate traffic congestion problems, several modern cities around the world take measures into consideration including increased investment in public transport and construction of new urban mass transit systems underground or above ground (either at surface or elevated). There is no one right transit decision. The best designed system will depend upon local conditions and local preferences. Geographical and physical situation, topological configuration, financing, know-how, technical capability, institutional capacity, and political constitute local conditions whilst low cost, high customer service level, rapid journey, convenience, comfort, frequent service, safety, and security constitute passengers’ preferences. Therefore selecting an appropriate mass transit system necessitates a several conflicting criteria decision aid which will take all these conditions and preferences into consideration. This study aims such a recommendation by evaluating suitable mass transit systems for urban transit based on the related criteria. In accordance with the proposed decision making process, the research group act as decision analysts and interact with experts in transportation sector for acquiring their knowledge and expertise.

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The paper deals with thermal management of RF-section of 250kW CW C-band Klystron. The thermal analysis of RF section has been done using ANSYS 11.0 (multi-physics) code. The thermal analysis calculates the temperature distribution and related thermal quantities in a system or component. The basis for thermal analysis in ANSYS is a heat balance equation obtained from the principle of conservation of energy. The input parameters used in thermal simulation are geometry of components, heat flux, heat transfer coefficient and output parameter is temperature profile of RF section. The RF section analysed using Poisson’s Superfish, AJ-Disk and Magic 2D soft-wares to observe the electron-beam interaction in the RF-section of the Klystron. The results of these simulations i.e. R/Q, Q and the voltage across the gap of the cavity are then used to calculate heat dissipated in the RF section.

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Biogas technology is a particularly useful system in the Indian rural economy and can fulfill several end uses. Gas is use as a fuel substitute for firewood, dung, agricultural residues, petrol, diesel, and electricity, depending up on task, and local supply conditions and constraints, thus biogas energy is used for cooking and lighting. Biogas systems also used as a residue organic waste after anaerobic digestion that has superior nutrient qualities over the usual organic fertilizer, cattle dung, as it is in the form of ammonia. Anaerobic digesters are function as a waste disposal system, particularly for human waste and prevent potential sources of environmental contamination and the spread of pathogens. Small-scale industries are also alternate from the sale of surplus gas to the provision of power for rural industries. Therefore, biogas also offers the user with additional income generating opportunities. This gas can also use for power engines, in a dual fuel mix with petrol or diesel and may use in pumped irrigation systems or other domestic purpose.

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In this research work an improved way of unloading material from dumper is design. Conventional Dumper unloads material only at back side of dumper which may cause problem of road blockage in limited space area. The right side dropping dumper overcomes problem of unloading the material by using hydraulic cylinder. Modern right side dropping dumper has been conceived by observing difficulty in unloading the material. Hence suitable arrangement has been designed for small vehicle (TATA ace). The vehicles can be unloading material from right side. The concept leads to efficient working.

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Power quality is the major concern in today electrical power system. One of the major issues in improving power quality in distribution network. In distribution system voltage sag, voltage swell, harmonic interruption etc. are the main power quality problem. Among out of these, the voltage sag are most severe disturbances. To solve this problem, custom power devices are used. The DVR is a powerful device or a controller that is commonly used for voltage sags mitigation at the point of connection. DVR is fast, flexible and efficient solution to voltage sag problem. The DVR is a custom power device (CPD) which is connected in series with the network to maintain precise voltage in electrical distribution system. A DVR inject a voltage in series with the system voltage. This paper describes the principle of DVR operation, basic component, DVRs topologies system in distribution system, modeling and analysis of DVR. Fault are applied for DVR in distribution system and response of the system for this disturbances are observed. The result are achieved by using MATLAB

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