In Pakistan, mostly flexible pavements are constructed which have a higher susceptibility to rutting, moisture damage and stripping. Under current economic conditions, one such solution overcome this is the addition of economical locally available additives in bitumen being produced by our refineries. This study investigates effects bakelite as an additive on various mechanical properties. Bake...

This paper presents the usefulness of simulation in studying the impacts of system failures and delays on the output and cycle time of finished weldments produced by a robotic work cell having both serial and parallel processes. Due to multiple processes and overlapped activities, process mapping plays a significant role in building the model. The model replicates a non-terminating welding fabr...

The combination of lab automation and design experiments for the execution screening increases productivity reduces error-prone manual work. A self-developed software tool allows creating fractional-factorial experimental (FFED). Application FFED on a Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling leads to 93 % reduced compared full-factorial design. resulting regression model qualitatively shows positive effec...