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Adaptive Switching Hybrid Blast-STBC MIMO System

Mohammed Salemdeeb & Ammar Abu-Hudrouss · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Fading in a wireless channel has negative effects on the performance of communication systems. Bell Laboratories layered space-time (BLAST) has been used to get a high data rate while space-time block codes (STBC) have been used to get a low bit error rate (BER) performance. Unde...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017396

Repair and Maintenance Cost Estimation for Two Power Sizes of Agricultural Tractors as Affected by Hours of Use and Age in Years: A Case Study, Dongola Area, Sudan

Mohamed H. Dahab, Montasir A. Gafar & Abdul Gadir M. Abdul Rahman · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Repair and maintenance cost is considered as one of important items for machinery management and selection especially agricultural tractors. The present study was carried out in Dongola area for tractor repair and maintenance costs estimation. The data was collected from records...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017395

Velocity Slip Effect on MHD Power-Law Fluid over a Moving Surface with Heat Generation, Viscous Dissipation and Thermal Radiation

Falana Ayodeji & Babatope. O Pele · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The problem of laminar boundary layer flow of power-law fluid over a continuous moving surface in the presence of a transverse magnetic field with velocity slip was investigated. The governing partial differential equations for the flow and heat transfer were transformed into non...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017394

Studying the effect of Eliminating Repeated Individuals from the Population in a Genetic Algorithm: Solution Perspectives for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Laura Michele Báez Villegas & Santiago Omar Caballero Morales · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the main routing problems in the Logistics and Supply Chain Management fields. Given its computational complexity, metaheuristics are frequently needed to solve it to near-optimality. In this aspect, Genetic Algorithms (GA) are prom...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017393

Development of High Sensitivity Illuminance Meter for Measurements in Lighting Engineering and Photometry

Eduard V. Kuvaldin · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Possible ways of solving the main problems arising in development, manufacture and calibration of high-sensitivity Illuminance meters are considered. Methods of reducing the lower limit of measurement of Illuminance to 10-5 lux are proposed. Errors of correcting light filters of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017390

An Optimised Traffic Control Scheme with Preference to Emergency Vehicles Leveraging RFID

Kenneth Akpado, Samuel Usoro & Nneka Ezeani · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Emergency Vehicles (EV) such as ambulances, fire fighting vehicles, Road safety vehicles and other emergency vehicles encounter delays on their missions at traffic light control points due to traffic jams. The direct consequence of these delays results in unwarranted loss of live...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017391

The effect of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Epoxy Paint Formulation on Metal Surfaces

Le Huy Hai, Le Mai Xuan Truc & Nguyen Quoc Trung · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Currently, epoxy paint is being widely used in the industry. Nanotechnology can create many small nanometer-sized materials with many applications, it has brought many outstanding properties to epoxy paints. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of TiO2 nanoparticles...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017392

A Literature Review on the Development of Remote Sensing in Damage Detection of Civil Structures

Khaled Ghaedi, Meisam Gordan, Zubaidah Ismail, Huzaifa Hashim & Marieh Talebkhah · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Remote sensing technologies have a direct impact on gaining structural damage information due to their powerful flexibilities, such as wide field of view, non-contact, low cost, and fast response capacities. It is because remote sensing is often applied to monitor near-real-time...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017388

Investigation on the Flexural Modulus of Silicon Dies to Improve Die Mechanical Modeling Accuracy

Jefferson Talledo · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Mechanical modeling of integrated circuit (IC) dies is commonly performed using the mechanical properties of the bulk silicon material. However, modeling results such as die deflection and the actual results were observed to have significant difference. This paper discusses the i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017389

RSOB Shorting Defect Resolution through Looping Optimization and Ball Placement at Wirebond Process

Norman S. Calma, Jonathan C. Pulido & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Wirebonding process is one of the most challenging assembly manufacturing process in semiconductor packaging industry. This paper discussed the wirebonding challenge and the solution to resolve the wire to die shorting on reverse stitch on ball (RSOB) and prevent irregular loopin...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017387

Design of a Microcontroller Based Community Security System for Developing Nations

O. O. Akinwole, A. S. Adewale & A. J. Ojo · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

There can never be any time in the history of mankind that issue of community security secures the rapt attentions of all and sundries. It is believed in many security circles that the upsurge may not be unconnected from craves for materialism, ubiquitous social media technologie...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017386

Elimination of Non-stick on Leads Defect through Re-designed WCTP

Richard G. Mariano, Alyssa Grace S. Gablan & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

This paper presents the reformation and fabrication resolved on the wire clamp and top plate (WCTP) design to eliminate the presence of lead finger bouncing resulting to high rejection of non-stick on leads (NSOL). Problem experienced was that the hollow or half-etched portion of...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017385

Development of Optimal Design and Circular Broach Modular Design of Disc Cutters with the Development of a Parametric Model

Ezekiel Oluwadamilare Akintona, Okeagu Fredrick & Nwufo Maduka Augustine · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Cutting tool is one of the most important instruments in production. It is used for machining of different components on machine tools. A material is cut into a chip to incur the desired work piece surface currently used in engineering various cutting tools. The directions of dev...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017384

Structural Assessment Considering Architectural Constraints with Seismic Retrofitting

Abdulrahman Sanoufi, Hani Bawazeer, Yoseff Sebaei, Yousef Shaheen & Muhammad Tayyab Naqash · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is located in a low to medium earthquake zone. Therefore, the inclusion of seismic loads in building design was limited to specific building structures such as highrise and midrise in the past decades. Recently, the development and adoption of the Saud...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017383

Process Simplification on Integration of UV Cure Machine with Tape Saw Singulation

Mariane A. Mendoza, Alyssa Grace S. Gablan, Hardy L. Tierra & Frederick Ray I. Gomez · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2021

Strips that have undergone tape saw singulation will not be completed without the ultraviolet (UV) curing process. To detach the units from the tape, the singulated strips have required further assistance to be loaded for UV cure. Otherwise, hard-to-pick units will be the outcome...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i1017382