in order to investigate the role of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (mwcnts) on fracture mechanism of epoxy nanocomposites, a series of tensile standard specimens reinforced with different carbon nanotube contents (0, 0.3, 0.6 and 1 wt%) were produced. the fracture surfaces of the produced nanocomposites were evaluated using scanning electron microscope (sem). the results show that the surface frac...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the morbidity and mortality rates of Bovine population present in Himachal Pradesh, India. In addition, the effect of age, sex, environmental conditions, management practices and other factors on the morbidity and mortality rate was also analyzed using suitable statistical techniques. Materials and Methods: Himachal Pradesh has been divided int...

In this paper two different methods for Numeral Recognition are proposed and their results are compared. The objective of this paper is to provide an efficient and reliable method for recognition of handwritten numerals. First method employs Grid based feature extraction and recognition algorithm. In this method the features of the image are extracted by using grid technique and this feature se...

In this paper, Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) is used for Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) in Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) instead of Genetic Algorithm (GA). It is an evolutionary approach, and used when the network size grows and the search space increases. When the destination is outside the zone, EDA is applied to find the route with minimum cost and time. The implementation of propo...

The growth of compositionally uniform alloy crystals is promising for variety of applications because lattice parameters as well as electrical and optical properties can be controlled by composition. Among them, InxGa1-xAs bulk crystals are expected as substrates of laser diodes with emitting wavelength of 1.3 μm. High optical gain with small temperature dependence was demonstrated for strained...

five-zone simulating moving bed (smb) system, designed for ternary separation, is a modified form of standard four-zone smb which is only effective in binary separation. it was reported in literature that the five-zone smb separates the extract-ii stream with a lower purity value than that of raffinate and extract-i streams. to address this issue, five zone smb was designed, using safety margin...