The Indo-Swiss collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB) initiated in Phase IV a pigeon pea network considering the importance of pulses in the food and nutrition security of India. Pulses are grown on rainfed marginal lands with meagre nutrient and pest managements. Pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.) is the second largest pulse crop and is an important source of dietary proteins in India. India contrib...

In this paper we investigate, numerically, unsteady Poiseuille flow of an elastoviscoplastic fluid. The material is described by the rheological model Putz and Burghelea (2009). can describe elastic solid regime for low stresses, a solid–fluid phase stresses in vicinity yield stress fully fluid large stresses. We impose time dependent pressure ramp with form triangular function to drive flow. c...

The industrial demand for increased component performance with concurrent reductions in component weight, development times and verifications using physical prototypes drives the need to use the full potential of casting and Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations to correctly predict the mechanical behavior of cast components in service. The mechanical behavior of the component is determined b...

The yield and quality of field crops are affected by abiotic stresses such as water deficit, which can negatively impact crop growth, productivity, quality. However, nanotechnology holds great promise for increasing yield, maintaining quality, thus mitigating stresses. Therefore, the current study was conducted to examine influences 0, 50, 100 mg L?1 zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles 25, 50 silico...

this research was conducted to evaluate the effect of mild and intense drought stresses on root traits and some anti-oxidative enzymes and to identify drought tolerant genotypes in tall fescue. twenty-four genotypes were assessed under three levels of moisture regime (control, mild and intense drought stresses) according to a factorial experiment based on a completely randomized design with thr...

In this study, the tensile strength, impact strength, and the hardness of the weld are determined. A criterion is proposed for describing the effect of residual stress on the weld mechanical properties. Dimensionless parameters such as Rya (the average of residual stress over the material yield strength), Rym (the maximum residual stress over the material yield strength), ...