Usually RC framed high rise building structures are designed neglecting the effect of masonary infill walls. Wheras the masonary infill walls are used for partition. The masonary infill walls are treated as non-strucutural elements. RC frame structures having open first storey is known as soft storey . The intermediate soft storey is such an element where it is left open as service soft storey without infill. Therefore the soft storey located at the lower part of high rise building experience severe seismic forces being acting on them. In satellite bus stop where bottom soft storey height is more than double height, will have more undesirable impact by the seismic forces. Meanwhile the soft storey located in the upper part of high rise building does not significantly effect the overall performance compared to the performance of the fully infill frame.

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A ZigBee sensor network for data acquisition and monitoring is presented in this paper. A ZigBee module is connected via a USB interface to a Microsoft Windows PC, which works as a base station in the network. Data collected by sensor devices are sent to the base station PC, which is set as Wireless sensor Network (WSN). ZigBee is low power consumption, built-in security method and ratified specifications make it very suitable to be used with medical sensor devices. This application of Zigbee based network consists of a transmitter section and a receiver section. Transmitter section consists of heartbeat sensor, body temperature sensor, microcontroller, Zigbee and LCD module. In the proposed system the patient’s health is continuously monitored and the acquired data is analyzed at a personal computer using Graphical User Interface(GUI). If a particular patient’s health parameter is higher or lower the threshold values, an alarm system is used to alert the doctor. The aim of this system is to know the condition of patient’s health by the doctor immediately and to reduce the load of the staff taking care of the patient in the hospitals.

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While studying the performance based seismic design the prediction of inelastic seismic responses and the evaluation of seismic performance of a building structure are very important subjects. The seismic performances of reinforced concrete buildings are evaluated by nonlinear static pushover analysis in this research. A finite element model that can accurately simulate nonlinear behaviour of building is formulated by considering several important effects. Both global response such as system ductility demand and local response such as inter-story drift are investigated in this research. A numerical example is performed on a 9-story reinforced concrete building has been simulated. The performances have also been compared by changing the different sizes of the rectangular columns. Finally, the global and local responses obtained from the modal pushover analysis are compared with those obtained from the nonlinear dynamic analysis of MDOF system.

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Human impacts are more devastating to vegetation and biota than those occurring naturally. Anthropogenic disturbances, it play an important role in change, loss or maintenance of plant biodiversity and more recent phenomenon of micro climate change will also be responsible for the change in species composition and other ecosystem activities sacred grove sites. The sacred groves of the sites plant species once having sufficient area are facing the threat of more utilizations and reduced biomass. Therefore, preserving the abundance and richness of plant communities is necessary for maintaining healthy sacred grove site and for sustaining their essential ecosystem function and services.

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The e-RTO and automated toll collection system is work together. At toll plaza using passive Radio Frequency Identification tag emerges as a convincing solution to the manual toll collection method employed at toll-plaza. Time and efficiency and theft vehicle detection are a matter of priority of present day. In order to overcome the major issues of vehicle theft detection, congestion and time consumption RTO app and RFID technology is used. RFID reader fixed at toll-gate and reads the tag attached to windshield of vehicle. The object detection sensor in the reader detects the approach of the incoming vehicles tag and toll deduction takes place through a prepaid wallet assigned to the concerned RFID tag that belongs to the owners account. In this system the theft vehicle is easily track by using RFID at toll plaza and inform to police using mobile application. In that police application have features for online RTO fine collection when people break rule of RTO. In Police mobile already install e-RTO app. When driver break rules, police enter vehicle number, the vehicle number is connected to owner bank account which is use in toll collection system and amount is deduct belong to RTO rules.

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All living organism on this earth chiefly depends on essential and vital elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, and others; for their growth and survival. Water is universally considers as food for all living beings and all waters, whether natural occurring and/or groundwater(GWs) contains significant amounts of Fe2+in them This cation is ubiquitous regarding the beneficial and ill-health of human beings and significant amount of Fe2+ in water pose several potential socio-economic and socio-wellbeing effects to human. So, the modern society seeking GW as source for various consumption purpose (domestic and/or industrial), considerable technological efforts in softening the inevitable hard water. In spite of the availability of plenty of advanced softening techniques, the conventional ion exchangers are still being adopted, of course with the blended version with novel technologies due their public acceptability and demands. Varieties of resins are being made to suit the requirements of diversified consumers. The applicability of ion exchangers–cum-electrochemical methods might be successful in the years to come. The commercial available cation exchange resin INDION 220 Na was properly dried at room temperature, sieved to appropriate sizes, thoroughly washed in distilled water, and later stored in clean glass containers under moist condition .The investigation was done by using fixed bed reactor(FBR) systems under room temperature. Few preliminary investigations were conducted to assess the appropriate size of resin, in FBR system. The fixed-bed studies covered the important experiments such as generation of breakthrough curves (including the effects of initial Fe2+ concentration, resin size, and flow rate).

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Electrical discharge machining is the non-traditional machining process. In this machining the material removal is done by using electrical spark generated between tool and work piece. The objective of this review is to study the effect of process parameters such as current, voltage, pulse on time, pulse off time, spark gap on material removal rate and surface roughness. This study gives idea to find optimum solution for process parameters in EDM by using Taguchi Method in Design of Experiments.

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A new Zero-Voltage Transition based DC-DC converter sufficient to draw power from two distinct sources feeding a common dc-bus is presented in this paper. This converter belongs to higher-order family and behaves as buck converter for one dc source also it acts as both buck and boost converter with the other source. The significant feature of the proposed converter is that both the sources either singly or simultaneously supply power to the subsequent load at minimal ripple current. This feature is particularly attractive for photo-voltaic power processing applications. The main objective here is to realize the soft-switching by integrating the ZVT cell into the two input DC-DC converter enabling to improve the efficiency by reducing the switching losses in the converter.

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For a structural design to be satisfactory, generally four major objective-utility, safety, economy and elegance must be fulfilled. And should be designed and constructed to satisfy the design requirements for stability, strength, serviceability, fire durability etc. In comparison with conventional steel structure these are widely used in light and moderate loads. For such type conventional type of hot rolled steel is not economical so that in order to overcome these problem cold form steels are used. mostly single storey type industrial structure well suited for industrial building. In this present paper the single storey industrial structure, roof truss supported by column is made up steel and cold form steel are modelled and analysed for same member force under different seismic zone is calculated and the results being compared by using STAAD.pro V8i SS5.A model which contains X bracing system to resist lateral force are used. The parameter which are studied in these analysis are Nodal displacement, cost.

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Intention of this project is to design a renewable energy source based around a piece of exercise equipment. The energy expended in a typical workout at the gym is usually wasted in the mechanics of the equipment. This project harnessed the mechanical energy of the machine and converted it to electrical energy using a generator-based system. The exercise equipment, attached to the shaft of the generator. Thus produced electrical energy is used in The powering a piece of equipment such as lamp. This project will help one develop engineering skills while learning about a clean way of generating electricity.

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The continuous fermentation machine had a major role in the tea factory regarding the quality of the tea smash. In the existing method the monitoring and controlling is done manually. There are much possibilities to have a human error. The system is designed to assist and provide support in order to fulfill the needs of the industry through automated manure. In this project, it is intended to propose an arudino based control with IoT to maintain the humidity level using continuous fermentation machine which is essential for good quality of tea. IoT module is used for displaying the required data for the users through the web page. When the humidity level of the tea leaves is measured used humidity sensor, the microcontroller controls the sprayer by solenoid valve with respect the set value of humidity. The temperature across the fermentation bed is also monitored through the display. The system intended to maintain the humidity of the continuous fermentation machine in tea factory. As humidity increases, the hot air is blown and humidity level is reduced to 94% rH (which gives better quality). If the humidity goes low the desired value the water sprinkling is done automatically using the processor. This method is proposed in order to have the better quality of the tea product.

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Data mining has many useful applications in recent year and it can help to discover the interesting knowledge in a large data set. Data reduction becomes a challenging issue in the data mining. Data reductions easily make the availability of the required space. Here analysis of the simple Apriori and the apriori over reduction data set using the transaction reduction technique, existing reduction technique are not appropriate for data mining due to lack of consistency of maintaining the reduced data set. Three different approaches are proposed in which first is to sort the data set, the second one is grouping the data set and last is merging the data set. By performing this process it can define the time variation in processing time for large data set by using the reduction technique in this research an approach called DSMRTT-Data Sorted merging reduction table Techniques are used by sorting and merging technique to solve this problem and reduce the data set. Then reduce dataset is maintained in the future as input of Apriori algorithm. The apriori algorithm is used to find the frequent item set in the data set. As simple apriori generates extremely large number of redundant rules which makes the algorithm inefficient and it does not fit in main memory. Therefore the proposed work will take care of these issues and will try to solve it.

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New innovative materials needs to be utilized for highway construction. The present paper thus enlightens the procedure to find out optimum bitumen content by Marshall Mix design method for BC mix which attains maximum stability by using innovative nanotech chemical material. To 5.4 % optimum bitumen content for BC mix obtained in the laboratory investigations, required dosages of Zycosil* chemical in 0.02%, 0.03% and 0.04% is added and changes in properties are recorded showing improved good results for the mix to be suggested for flexible pavement construction.

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The Steel fibers have widely been used in the past to reinforce brittle materials in many nonstructural applications such as concrete, tunneling lining, etc. On the basis of numerous earlier studies, ACI 318-11 [2011] has recently accepted the steel fiber as a minimum shear reinforcement replacement with minimum 0.76% volume fraction for both reinforced concrete and fiber reinforced concrete members. However, not much previous research has talked about the strength behavior of fiber reinforced concrete (FRC). As the ACI 318-11 for tension-controlled sections, net the tensile strains in the outermost layer of the steel, t, should be greater than or equal to 0.006. In this project, six large scale reinforced concrete beams with or without the steel fiber along with some material test were tested. Our experimental investigations indicated that even with inclusion of small percentage volume of fraction of the steel fiber (Vf =0.76%) could not only increase the ductility and shear strength of the SFRC beam. but also change the failure pattern by increasing usable strain in the concrete and steel. Any standard material test results have to ensure the FRC. . Various tests were carried out in order to assess peak and residual strength, stiffness, strain hardening and softening, toughness and the other post crack properties. It could be used to optimization of the peak strength, residual strength, toughness stiffness and different SFRC mixtures with and without steel fiber.

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AUTOMATED OVERTAKING DECISION MAKER is a very essential part of safety driving system. It is very helpful as it informs the driver the conditions that occur during driving, the intrusion detection and prediction of the collision with other vehicles and preventing it. AODM includes the sensors like infrared sensors along with wi-fi tethering techniques. These types of techniques are very useful and cost effective. Hence, it is used widely. The occurrences of interferences between the vehicles are very minimal as they approach to overtake the other moving vehicles.

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Cu K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure(EXAFS) spectra have been obtained for three copper (II) mixed ligand complexes using BL-8 Dispersive Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) beamline at the 2.5-GeV INDUS-2 Synchrotron Source, RRCAT(Raja Ramanna Center for Advance Technology),Indore, India. The complexes are [Cu2(L1)2(H2O)8] CH3COO)2, [Cu(L2)(0.2H2O)] (CH3COO)2, and [Cu(L3)2(H2O)2(CH3COO)] (0.2)H2O. The ligands L1 = (p-methoxy anilino)-p-methoxy phenyl acetonitrile, L2 = (p-methoxy anilino) phenyl acetonitrile and L3 = (p-methoxy anilino) –P– chloro phenyl acetonitrile were prepared which included the reaction of p-methoxy benzaldehyde, benzaldehyde and p chlorobenzaldehyde with p-anisidine respectively. The data obtained has been processed using EXAFS data analysis program Athena and the computer software Origin 6.0 professional. EXAFS maxima and minima positions have been obtained from the normalized spectra. The normalized EXAFS spectra have been Fourier transformed. The position of the first peak in the Fourier transform gives the value of first shell bond length .This distance is the phase-uncorrected bond length and has also been determined by Lytle, Sayers and Stern s (LSS) graphical method. It is found that the results obtained from LSS and the Fourier transformation methods are in good agreement with each other, i.e. both the LSS method and Fourier transformation method give nearly the same value of the phase-uncorrected bond lengths. In this paper, the first shell bond length has also been estimated by Lytle’s and Levy’s methods from the EXAFS data.

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Soil plays an important role in static as well as dynamic response of structure. Hence evaluation of the site specific effect of soil stiffness on structure becomes important to understand behavior of structure. Flexibility of soil increases natural period of structure which in turn changes the seismic response of structure. G+14 story building is analyzed considering soil base. Soil data of 3 location in Kutch region are collected upto 35 m depth. Three synthetic time history are prepared at that location using time frequency approach and nonlinear time history analysis had been carried out. Effect of soil structure interaction on natural period, base shear, roof displacement, maximum bending moment and torsion moment in column are compared with fixed base analysis. Midas Gen is used for the analysis tool.

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In civil engineering industry Concrete is an extraordinary and key structural material in the human history. Presently Portland cement and supplementary cementitious materials are cheapest binders which maintain the performance of concrete. However, out of these binders, production of Portland cement is very energy exhaustive along with CO2 production. About 1 tonne of CO2 is produced in manufacturing of each tonne of Portland cement (PC). Concrete is a heterogeneous mix of cement, aggregates and water. The samples were tested at the age of 7 days, 28 days. The test on hardened concrete are destructive test while the destructive test includes compressive strength test as per IS: 516-1959, split tensile strength test as per IS: 5816-1999, flexure strength test as per IS: 516-1959.The research is carried out in total three phase. In first phase, mix of M 30 grades concrete with replacement of 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% of quarry sand with natural sand is carried out. From this first phase to determine the optimum percentage of quarry sand this gives maximum compressive strength. It is observed that maximum strength is achieved when natural sand is partially replaced with 60% quarry sand. In second phase, the cement is partially replaced with GGBS by 10%, 20% and 30%. In third phase, combination of GGBS and RHA is partially replaced with cement. It is observed that the composition of 7.5% RHA + 22.5% GGBS+ 60% of quarry sand gives good strength results.

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Our main objective is to build a prototype of hover bike in order to get a transport facility. Primarily we are planning to work on basic body frame of our prototype. The intention of this project is to show the future evolution of transporting. Also it can be used for various field of application area surveillance, material handling, cattle mustering, movie industries, Military and Emergency Services. In this system, we will use electric power in order to get required thrust at the start of hovering. As per our research; major issue while hovering is to balance the entire weight of prototype. In our project we will apply a new concept of using 4 motors at a time to get a required thrust. Also we will incorporate the concept of overlapping propellers which reduces the entire weight and floor area. We will take some reduced ratio to the actual hover bike so our main aim is to design a prototype which will be in working condition.

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Football, being a global sport, has started to gain popularity in India in the past few years. Playing football in football arena, also known as “turfs”, has now become a growing trend. Every football player knows that how difficult it is to find an opponent team to play. The conventional method is to make your own team by calling up a few friends, book the slots on the phone and also search for an opponent team which is a very tedious task. Finding a good opponent team is the biggest problem that the players face. Till date the whole process is manual from forming the teams to booking the turf. This is where the Derby brings in a major change. “Derby” is a football app which provides features such as match making, challenging other teams, booking turfs, and creating and managing your own team. This app provides each user to create their own clan i.e. team and challenge the opponents based on their preferences. Users can also search and book turfs.

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The tank is considered two degrees of freedom system with a large mass is located at the top, supported by columns or frame supporting system. The behavior of tank under earthquake loading is greatly depending on the height of staging and mass of located at the top of staging. This studying work is shown the effect of container height on seismic behavior of R.C elevated rectangular water tank as well as the comparison of the Indian and USA seismic design codes. The elevated water tank with various container heights such as (3.5m, 3.6m, 3.7m and 3.8m) and same supporting system with four capacities such as (200,300,400, & 500 m3) in IV seismic zone were studied in STAAD.pro and Excel sheet developed program. The spring mass model as per IS 1893:2006 (part) 2 draft code the water mass consisting of the convective and impulsive masses was used for analysis. Parameter of studying such as maximum displacement, maximum base shear and maximum overturning moment for different container height and IV seismic zone. Also compared the base shear value of water tank by using the seismic design code of USA and IS with subjected to IV seismic zone.

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In this survey paper introduced the literature survey on the image retrieval using different technologies. Image retrieval techniques are the future of search engine technology. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is the retrieval of relevant images from an image database based on automatically derived features, such as color, texture, and shape which represent the information content of the image. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems help users to retrieve relevant images based on their contents such as color and texture. There are different methods of image revivals are current present in the current world. In this survey paper discuss some of them techniques and its properties. In the image retrieval process for the classification of the image that extracted by features used SVM, multi-level SVM and other classifier.

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In today world Internet usage is growing fast in nowadays and used by all age people with variety of devices. Everyday tasks are handled through internet and user spent more time in the internet to research, entertainment and many other areas. Web usage mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover usage patterns from Web data, in order to understand and better serve the needs of Web-based applications. It focuses on the techniques that discover the usage pattern from web log. It uses the data mining techniques like association rule analysis, clustering, classification and machine learning and create new pattern for better user recommendation system for users.

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Life is intricately woven with many necessities. One such essential need of life is electrical energy. We are all aware about the load sheds and power cut which is all due to the scarcity of electrical energy. The fast moving pace of life would slow down drastically without generation of adequate amount of electrical energy. On the other side of the scenario the world is everywhere facing noise pollution in abundance. If we can ‘non -technically’ define what sound energy is, we would say it is the most neglected form of energy which is only considered to be a wastage. The theorem of energy conservation very well states that Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed; it can be converted from one form to another. So noise being one form of energy cannot be destroyed for reducing pollution but surely can be transformed into another form of energy. Here arises the idea of generating usable energy from unwanted sound, and this usable energy could be in the form of electrical energy.

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A lathe machine is the mechanical device in which work piece is rotated against a suitable cutting tool for producing cylindrical forms. Parting is the operation performed in CNC lathe to cuts a work piece from a piece of stock. During parting operation of fastener on CNC lathe machine, there was a tip remained at the center of the fastener and this tip is removed separately on the grinding wheel which was time consuming. This project is depends upon the problem faces by the PRECISION TURN COMPONENT INDUSTRY. In this article, we accumulate data from precision turn-component. Later on we did hand calculation and then designed special attachment fixture on PTC CREO PARAMETRIC V5 (PRO-E). After CAD we perform FE modeling and FE Analysis.

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