{"title":"Development of a Computer Based Gas Turbine Instruments Test system","authors":"E. T. Yousif, Faris Osman Mohamed, A. Alamin","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i2.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i2.70","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the significant importance of gas turbine engines as it is the core of the aircr aft, the engine health status should be tested periodically. Testing methodologies are needed to conduct the engine tests required as a part of airworthiness certification. In this project, a Data Acquisition System (DAQ) was developed as a turboshaft engi ne (GTD 350) testing system. This system was developed to monitor the engine parameters for determining its condition. A PIC 16F877A microcontroller was used as the heart of the DAQ. Internal Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) acquired data from analog sig nals. The analog signals gathered from temperature, tacho generator, throttle, and pressure sensors were transformed into digital format, and then the corresponding data was sent serially to Personal Computer (PC) through a microcontroller serial port. The visual basic program was designed to convert, scale, and display these data. Furthermore, the system was designed to analyze, compare the displayed data with standard stored data, and provides automatically a troubleshooting list whenever upnormal data oc curred. The developed test system had been applied successfully and the results are accurate, reliable, and acceptable.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130388068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Method for Correcting Deviation of Volatiles Content and Chamber Pressure for Single Base Propellant","authors":"H. Elbasher, A. Ibrahim","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i2.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i2.82","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, special treatment was applied to two production batches of single-base propellant to correct three of the most important properties in the final product. These properties are internal and external volatile content (IV%, EV% respectively) and chamber pressure, the special treatments depend on mixing two batches with different percentages of mixing starting with sieving and ended with blending to guarantee the homogeneity of the final batch. The batches under study (A and B), batch A with (IV% 0.53%) which must be not less than 0.6%, so it deviated from standard requirement and Bach B with (IV =0.88%), the treatment applied for these batches to generate (C and D) batches. Batch C was a mixture composed of (25% of batch A and 0.75% of batch B). batch D was a mixture composed of (50%batchA and 50% of batch B). Six samples were subjected to sieving and blending according to calculations to correct internal and external volatile content and chamber pressure. For all samples lab, ballistics test, and executive calculations were done. After the test observed that no significant difference between the test and the results of calculations for all samples with different mixing ratios either volatiles content or chamber pressure so according to the result achieved the procedure (Method) was dependable for correcting the deviation of volatiles content and chamber pressure. The selectivity of the optimum mixing ratio can be controlled by using the equation used in this study. The importance of this study in reducing material losses due to the non-conformity of the final product with the specification.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130406511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abdulaziz Abdulmajid Sulieman, A. Ibrahim, T. Hassan
{"title":"Enhancing the Bending Stiffness of Nanosatellite Composite Panel","authors":"Abdulaziz Abdulmajid Sulieman, A. Ibrahim, T. Hassan","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i2.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i2.99","url":null,"abstract":"The extreme working environment presented in many forms such as inevitable vibrations caused by various sources can lead to problems of the impairment of the nanosatellite functionality and integrity of its structure, as well as weakening the protection of internal components, which may trigger minor structural damage to total failure. To solve these addressed problems in this work, the bending stiffness of square laminated composite panel used in the structure of CubeSat, a version of nanosatellite, has been improved. A literature review for the previous studies and publications related to the current work has been studied. A mathematical equation that describes the stiffness behaviour of the composite panel has been derived based on the classical laminated plate theory (CLPT). The equation of motion (E.O.M) is also derived according to the Euler-Lagrange energy equation of the second kind. For determining the eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes of vibrating panel, Fourier series is used to solve the E.O.M of plate supported with a numerical solution using finite element method (FEM) for verification. The optimisation process is conducted to improve the bending stiffness of the structure, which is indicated by the increased value of first mode fundamental frequency, by finding the optimum stacking sequence for a set of design constraints using Miki Diagram method. The obtained results and conclusion from the addressed problem have been reported at the end of this work presenting the enhanced composite-panel bending stiffness and showed a promising findings that believed to contribute solving problems relevant to structural performance of aerospace structures.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128391079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ali Zain, Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub Mohammed, Mohamed Fadllala Karar, S. Majeed, A. Mahjoub
{"title":"Experimental Research on Lethal Range for 122 mm Carbon Fiber Warhead","authors":"Ali Zain, Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub Mohammed, Mohamed Fadllala Karar, S. Majeed, A. Mahjoub","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i2.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i2.83","url":null,"abstract":"A composite material is a combination of two materials with different physical and chemical properties. The main features of composite materials are durability is much greater than metals, easy to form for complex shapes, good resistance to chemicals and atmospheric factors and low thermal conductivity compared to minerals. In line with the development of the world and the technological progress in materials science and its properties, the idea of improving efficiency of warheads has emerged by finding alternatives materials to used in the manufacturing the outer body of warheads. In order to evaluate the lethal range two types of warhead confinement with preformed fragments were researched by means of experiment, this warheads body consists of composite casings Carbon Fiber and Kevler/Carbon Fiber (50/50%), balls fragments and high explosive. Experimental results show that the lethal range of charge with composite shell is higher than that of charge with steel shell by 10 to 12.5% and weight decreased by 11.5 %.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123731786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and Implementation of an Encryption Unit to Enhance Satellite Communication Security","authors":"Mustafa Atta M. Alhassan, Yasir M.O. Abbas","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i2.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i2.97","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite projects consume very high resources in all of their phases (research, design, manufacturing, testing and launching), they also extend for significant amount of time, and hence satellites must be protected against intrusion and data perception. Over the past years, satellite security has been overlooked except for military satellites because satellite intrusions were inconceivable as they far away from earth, but recently commercial satellite manufacturers realized the importance of satellite security because satellite intrusion became not an impossible task. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of encryption unit to secure satellite communication system by ciphering tele-commands using advanced encryption algorithm (AES) with random key generation, Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm and Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) digital signature algorithm.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125642796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Moatasim Attaelmanan, Mahgoub Elhaj Mahgoub Kambal, Mohammed Izzeldeen Mansour
{"title":"Study the Effect of Using Ceramic Waste Powder as Partial Replacement for Cement on Concrete Properties","authors":"Moatasim Attaelmanan, Mahgoub Elhaj Mahgoub Kambal, Mohammed Izzeldeen Mansour","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i1.125","url":null,"abstract":"Ceramic waste is one of the most active research areas that encompass a number of disciplines including civil engineering and construction materials. Ceramic waste powder is settled by sedimentation and then dumped away which leads to environmental pollution, in addition to forming dust in summer and threatening both agriculture and public health. Therefore, utilization of the ceramic waste powder in various industrial sectors especially the construction, agriculture, glass and paper industries would help to protect the environment. It is most essential to develop eco-friendly concrete from ceramic waste. In this research replacing the (OPC) cement by ceramic waste powder has been studied accordingly in the range of (0, 10, 15, and 20) % by weight of M-30 grade concrete. Concrete mixtures were produced, tested and compared in terms of compressive and tensile strength to the conventional mixture. These tests were carried out to evaluate the mechanical properties for 7 and 28 days. As a result, the CWP cement concretes decreased the workability retention. The values of average hardened concrete density for concrete mixes with CWP cement are higher than the reference mix in 7 days, but lower than the reference mix in 28 days. The maximum value of compressive strengths at 7 and 28 days and tensile strength was achieved at about 5% CWP concrete mix. CWP slowed the compressive strength development especially at early ages. All mixtures with CWP showed good strength development at 28 days. It was observed that all CWP replacement ratios achieved higher compressive strength than characteristic compressive strength which is equal to 30 N/mm2 in 28 days, except the 20% ratio gives 29.72 N/mm2. Test results showed that CWP has potential to be used as an ingredient in concrete mixtures to partially replacing cement. The study showed that concrete mixtures with ceramic waste powder (CWP) had variable performance of the measured properties depending on the replacement level used.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114364752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nadir Siddig, Abdallah Mokhtar, Ahmed Abualnor, Zeqiang Zhang
{"title":"Optimizing Disassembly Line Balancing Problem Using Multi-objective ADAM Optimizer Algorithm","authors":"Nadir Siddig, Abdallah Mokhtar, Ahmed Abualnor, Zeqiang Zhang","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i1.15","url":null,"abstract":"Disassembly for the end of life products considered a very important issue nowadays, to keep an environment is clean as much as possible and reduce pollution by reducing industrial waste, the disassembly line is to solve this problem, but the disassembly line is facing more problems such as smoothness of workload in workstations, hazard parts in disassembly products, etc. To optimize these problems in the disassembly line, we proposed a multi-objective ADAM optimizer algorithm to optimize and balance the objectives. An automatic disassembly line is assumed to increase disassembly processes rather than manually. The mathematical model embedded in the proposed algorithm simulated in default disassembly line, a Pareto set used to detect for non-inferior solutions in the algorithms, and the results indicated to improve the productivity of between 400% to 500%, reduced the energy consumption between 50% to 75%, reducing the number of workstations between 80% to 95%, and reduced cycle time between 70% to 85%. ","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121233951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonlinear Finite Element Modelling and Parametric Study of Prestressed Steel Box Girder","authors":"Mahgoug Elhaj Mahgoub, Mohammed Awad, M. M. Ali","doi":"10.54388/JKUES.V1I1.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/JKUES.V1I1.123","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The prestressing technique is easy to apply and is generally used to strengthen steel bridges and controls their gross deflection. ANSYS has been used to establish a numerical model for the mechanical behavior of a steel box girder and prestressed by external tendons. In this paper, steel plate girders with and without strengthening technique was tested to assess the effectiveness of this technology. The results showed that prestressing improves the mechanical behavior of a girder and that its effect is proportional to magnitude of the applied external load. The results of the numerical model showed good agreement with the experimental data. A full-course simulation was conducted with ANSYS for a parametric study to analyze the influence of prestressing force magnitude, span-height ratio, and tendon configurations in increasing the effectiveness of prestressed technique.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128067144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Simulation of Sudanese Sugar Cane Bagasse Gasification Process Using ASPEN PLUS","authors":"M. Mutaz, Ibrahim H.Elamin, Hamid M. Mustafa","doi":"10.54388/jkues.v1i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54388/jkues.v1i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Bagasse has traditionally inefficiently burned in boilers for steam and electricity generation which still suffers from significant inefficiencies creating; therefore there is a need for alternative processes to be analyzed. Among the biomass utilization technologies, biomass gasification is an attractive solution for utilizing biomass effectively. In this study Aspen Plus simulation package V8 was used to develop a model for the gasification of Sudanese sugar cane bagasse in a fluidized bed reactor for syngas production. The developed model is based on Gibbs free energy minimization applying the non-stoichiometric equilibrium method for optimization of the gasifier performance. The objective is to study the effect of important operating parameters including gasification temperature, steam to biomass ratio (SBR) and air to biomass ratio (ABR), on syngas composition, low heating value (LHV) of syngas and cold gas efficiency (CGE). The optimal values of syngas composition, LHV and CGE were located at gasification temperature range from 750C to 950C, steam to biomass ratio around 0.5 to 0.8 and air to biomass ratio values equal to or below 0.4.","PeriodicalId":129247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Karary University for Engineering and Science","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133739332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}