Showing papers in "Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal in 2020"

TL;DR: A 3-stage approach which is formed by combining empirical mode decomposition (EMD) technique, sine cosine algorithm (SCA), and extreme learning machine (ELM) technique is constructed for short-term PV power forecasting.

TL;DR: In this article, a new formulation for moment capacity of ferrocement members based on GMDH approach is presented, which is significantly better than some previous models and comparable to some other methods.

TL;DR: In this study, a fuzzy controller designed to control the wind turbine blades is optimized with a genetic algorithm that is improved and results show that optimization makes the output power even better.

TL;DR: The peculiarities that make energy consumption one of the challenging problems in wireless communication networks are identified and EE metrics used to gauge energy consumption rate and performance trade-off are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a single and double layer of coir geotextile mat at various depths have been placed to evaluate the effect of reinforcement on expansive soil subgrade, and the experimental results analyzed indicate that the lime treated coir geo-textextexel mat reduces the upward swelling pressure by 52.19% in single layer and 81.89% in double-layer.

TL;DR: A chaotic squirrel search algorithm (CSSA) is suggested to optimally multitask scheduling in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud atmosphere to enhance cloud computing general efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed hydrodynamic flow behavior of multiphase radiative Casson and Maxwell fluids with the appearance of nano-sized particles and found that the thermal and mass properties significantly improved mostly in the case of Maxwell fluid.

TL;DR: In this paper, ultrasonication is considered to be an alternative to get the advantage of microstructural changes which in turn improve the properties of AA6061-B4C composite system.

TL;DR: In this article, the machinability of Nimonic 80A superalloys was evaluated by using the cutting forces in both the turning experiments and simulations by finite element method (FEM) in order to approve the precision of the predetermined Johnson-Cook (JC) parameters.

TL;DR: This study presents modelling of a Solar PV-Wind Hybrid Micro-grid and the increase of the stable operating limit of the system in case of the incorporation of STATCOM is examined and the optimization of gain parameters of four PI controllers in STATCOM control circuit based on genetic algorithms and Bacteria Foraging Algorithm is optimization.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of stress level, stress concentration and frequency on the fatigue life of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites have been investigated under tension-tension fatigue at a stress ratio of 0.1.

TL;DR: The proposed method used Discriminative Restricted Boltzmann Machines to recognize fingerprints accurately against fabricated materials used for spoofing.

TL;DR: Experimental results show that DTSA is another qualified and competitive solver on discrete optimization in nature inspired population-based iterative search algorithm.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extensive review of the current practices and new opportunities for using prefabricated composite jackets for structural repair is presented and analyzed, and important design considerations to effectively utilise prefabilized FRP composite jackets in repairing structures are presented and analysed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface roughness of the thermally drilled hole on galvanized steel is predicted and then optimization is carried out, employing an integrated adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and GA approach.

TL;DR: Artificial Algae Algorithm, which has a nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization algorithm, is proposed for training Artificial Neural Network and is shown to be a reliable approach.

TL;DR: The design steps and performance analyses including energy consumption of a fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) and it is found that FW concept without multi-rotor system with four propellers have much more endurance compared to VTOL-FW concept.

TL;DR: A full-swing high-speed hybrid Full Adder cell based on Gate Diffusion Input technique and Conventional Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CCMOS) logic has been proposed and achieved the best performance parameters in large cascaded circuits.

TL;DR: The simulations reveal the advantage of DTC over IFOC and the superiority of the proposed sliding mode controller for EV applications, in terms of improved tracking accuracy and increasing energy efficiency.

TL;DR: The results and experimental analysis prove that proposed scheme is highly random in encrypted domain and it possesses excellent sensitivity, and the entropy inencrypted domain is considerably higher than other similar state-of-art schemes.

TL;DR: In this article, morphological characterization and wear behavior of micro graphite (Gr) and nano zirconia (ZrO2) reinforced aluminium (Al) hybrid composites were investigated.

TL;DR: This article explores machine learning techniques for user authentication on HugaDB database which is a human gait data collection for analysis and activity recognition (Chereshnev and Kertesz-Farkas, 2017).

TL;DR: This work tackles the problem of energy efficient task scheduling on modern cloud data center architecture and proposes a novel hybrid metaheuristic scheme harmony-inspired genetic algorithm (HIGA) to reduce makespan and computing energy and reduce execution overhead associated with scheduler.

TL;DR: Evaluations have been made on brake disc-pad mechanisms which are the most important components in all brake systems in terms of safe operation especially for freight and high-speed trains.

TL;DR: Evaluating the fault-detection performance of algorithms in terms of F-measure and Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve demonstrated that ensemble predictors might improve fault detection performance to some extent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a novel household refrigerator design for reducing energy consumption, where the necessary air for the cooling process will be provided from outdoor ambient in appropriate weather condition.

TL;DR: In this article, the combined effects of compression ratio and the engine load on the mixture of first, second and third generation biodiesel with diesel fuel for the assessment of piston force, sauter mean diameter, tip penetration and soot formation of a direct injection diesel engine have been analyzed numerically.

TL;DR: A novel framework to recognize human actions using 3D skeleton information using Fisher Vector representation and encoding is proposed and achieved competitive results compared to the other methods in the literature.

TL;DR: The proposed integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) is employed to regulate the rotor speed of the five-phase PMSG to track the reference speed at different wind speed and the overall WECS efficiency is improved.

TL;DR: This work proposes an efficient and novel image fusion algorithm for constructing a fused image through total variation (TV-L1) model using an optimized adaptive weighting scheme and suggests that the proposed method achieves better quality and accuracy as compared with the available state-of-the-art techniques.