Safety and failure in gas pipelines are very important in gas and petroleum industry. For this reason, it is important to study the effect of different parameters in order to reach the maximum safety in design and application. In this paper, a three dimensional finite element analysis is carried out to study the effect of crack length, crack depth, crack position, internal pressure and pipe thi...

Face milling is an important and common machining operation because of its versatility and capability to produce various surfaces. Face milling is a machining process of removing material by the relative motion between a work piece and rotating cutter with multiple cutting edges. It is an interrupted cutting operation in which the teeth of the milling cutter enter and exit the work piece during...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Microbial caffeine removal is a green solution for treatment of caffeinated products and agro-industrial effluents. We directed this investigation to optimizing a bio-decaffeination process with growing cultures of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes through Taguchi methodology which is a structured statistical approach that can be lowered variations in a process through Des...

Cognitive radio (CR) engines often contain multiple system parameters that require careful tuning to obtain favorable overall performance. This aspect is a crucial element in the design cycle yet is often addressed with ad hoc methods. Efficient methodologies are required in order to make the best use of limited manpower, resources, and time. Statistical methods for approaching parameter tuning...

Many manufacturing industries involve machining operations. In metal cutting the turning process is one of the most fundamental cutting processes used. Surface finish and dimensional tolerance, are used to determine and evaluate the quality of a product, and are major quality attributes of a turned product. In this paper experimental work has been carried out for the optimization of input param...

Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is an advance machining process which is used to machine complex shape and is used to deburr, remove recast layer and radius surfaces. This research uses a developed abrasive flow machine and an experiment employing abrasive flow machining was conducted on plunger body fabricated on stainless steel SS 446. In this research AFM parameters such as abrasive particle s...

Zeolitization of fly-ash by a direct route and a fusion method (two-step process) was studied using an orthogonal array of Taguchi experimental design. The effect of different processing conditions, such as type and concentration of the mineralizing agent, fusion and crystallizing temperatures and times and stirring speed, on the quantity of the zeolitic phase obtained, were evaluated. By means...