M. T. Ahmed, Teresa Gonçalves, A. Albino, M. R. Rashel, Angela Veiga, M. Tlemçani
{"title":"Different parameters variation analysis of a PV cell","authors":"M. T. Ahmed, Teresa Gonçalves, A. Albino, M. R. Rashel, Angela Veiga, M. Tlemçani","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810183","url":null,"abstract":"The paper states an introduction, description and implementation of a PV cell under the variation of parameters. Analysis and observation of a different parameters variation of a PV cell are discussed here. To obtain the model for the purpose of analyzing an equivalent circuit with the consisting parameters a photo current source, a series resistor, a shunt resistor and a diode is used. The fundamental equation of PV cell is used to study the model and to analyze and best fit observation data. The model can be used in measuring and understanding the behaviour of photovoltaic cells for certain changes in PV cell parameters. A numerical method is used to analyze the parameters sensitivity of the model to achieve the expected result and to understand the deviation of changes in different parameters situation at various conditions respectively. The ideal parameters are used to study the models behaviour. It is also compared the behaviour of current-voltage and power-voltage by comparing with produced maximum power point though it is a challenge to optimize the output with real time simulation. The whole working process is also discussed and an experimental work is also done to get the closure and insight about the produced model and to decide upon the validity of the discussed model.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121988084","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":"Modal sensitivity enhancement of few-mode fiber Bragg gratings for refractive index measurement","authors":"M. M. Ali, S. Memon, E. Lewis, K. Lim, H. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810208","url":null,"abstract":"Few-mode fibers (FMFs) offer several distinct features from single mode fibers and multimode fibers, in terms of medium core size which is capable of accommodating several transverse modes (2–6 modes). In this work, fiber Bragg grating (FBG) has been inscribed in FMF which exhibits more than one resonant Bragg wavelengths. Few-mode fiber Bragg grating (FM-FBG) can be used as sensing device because of its modal sensitivity to the changes in an ambient environment, such as temperature and refractive index in terms of concentration of the solution. To increase its modal sensitivity for solution concentration, the cladding of FM-FBG is removed, and the Bragg wavelength difference of the modes increases during the etching process. It has been observed that by decreasing the core radius through chemical etching, the Bragg wavelength difference of respective modes increases whereas the power confinement ratio in the core for the respective modes decreases. Therefore we have optimized the core radius as at approximately 7 µm for the enhancement of refractive index modal sensitivities. The fabricated sensor has been characterized with the different concentrations of sodium chloride (NaCl(aq)) solution.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"12 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121013203","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}
I. López, Pak Sing Leung, F. Inam, Clare Till, Andreas Paulsen
{"title":"Mechanical characterization of protective coatings for offshore wind turbine towers and transition pieces","authors":"I. López, Pak Sing Leung, F. Inam, Clare Till, Andreas Paulsen","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810207","url":null,"abstract":"Marine coatings develop residual stresses in all stages of their lifetime; excessive residual stresses affect adhesion and can compromise the integrity of both the coating system and substrate. The mechanical properties of three epoxy-based paint systems for offshore wind turbine towers and transition pieces were determined by dynamic mechanical analysis in 3-point bending mode. The coatings were airless sprayed onto steel substrates and cured. A mathematical model using composite beam stress analysis was developed to determine the Young's modulus of the coatings. The results show that the mechanical properties of the coatings depend on the film thickness. The composite modulus and Young's modulus of the coatings decrease when the coating thickness increases. Understanding the mechanical properties of marine coatings, and the factors which influence them, could lead to further improvements in the coating and corrosion protection of offshore structures in general.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125987448","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":"Biologically-inspired object recognition system for recognizing natural scene categories","authors":"Ali Alameer, P. Degenaar, K. Nazarpour","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810174","url":null,"abstract":"Visual processing has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. Hierarchical approaches for object recognition are gradually becoming widely-accepted. Generally, they are inspired by the ventral stream of human visual cortex, which is in charge of rapid categorization. Similar to objects, natural scenes share common features and can, therefore, be classified in the same manner. However, natural scenes generally show a high level of statistical correlation between classes. This, in fact, is a major challenge for most object recognition models. Rapid categorization of a natural scene in the absence of attention is a challenge. However, researchers have found that 150 ms is enough to categorize a complex natural scene. We tested the capability of our recent and bio-inspired En-HMAX model of visual processing for scene classification. The results show the En-HMAX model has a comparable performance to state of the art methods for natural scene categorization.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126513329","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":"Progressive collapse resisting mechanisms of reinforced concrete structures","authors":"Kamal Alogla, L. Weekes, L. Augusthus-Nelson","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810223","url":null,"abstract":"Reinforced concrete buildings may be vulnerable to progressive collapse due to lack of sufficient continuous reinforcement. The design of structures against progressive collapse has not been an integral part of structural design. However, some guidelines have detailing requirements to reduce the likelihood of progressive collapse. It is difficult to predict the structural behaviour of building members during progressive collapse because the dynamic nature of the event and the limited experimental tests conducted to understand the nature of progressive collapse. The behaviour of RC beams under compressive and tensile membrane actions is not yet fully understood. In order to investigate and quantify the structural resisting mechanisms of reinforced concrete (RC) structures against progressive collapse, two large-scale specimens have been tested under quasi-static loading. Non-linear response is then converted into the dynamic response (Pseudo-Static response) using the energy equilibrium approach proposed by Izzuddin et al. (2008).","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"555 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127076835","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 difficulties of the assessment of tool life in CNC milling","authors":"Zinah J. Ahmed, P. Prickett, R. Grosvenor","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810234","url":null,"abstract":"In the manufacturing process, tool life is an important parameter in milling operations. The main objective of this paper is to explain how difficult is it to assess how much work a tool has undertaken before it must be changed. A number of ways of expressing tool life are currently used, including the conventional method based upon one of several configurations of the Taylor Tool Life Equation. These usually express tool life in terms of known material properties together with primary machining variables like speed, feed and depth of cut. Other approaches are based upon the extrapolation of a tool wear curve and considerations of the volume of metal removed. This initial investigation adopts an approach that is based upon a series of experiments, which produce data indicating the changes in machined feature form and dimension. For this study, a new test piece was designed in order to allow the indirect assessment of the tool flank wear by utilising a Coordinate Measuring Machine to accurately measure the workpieces. This work is intended to indicate how difficult it is to actually apply the existing methods to manage tool wear. The aim is to engineer a better way and to establish a methodology of measuring what the tool is actually doing in real time using the machine controller.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126040752","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}
H. Dakkama, P. Youssef, R. AL-Dadah, S. Mahmoud, Wisam A. M. Al-Shohani
{"title":"Adsorption ice making and freeze water desalination using Metal Organic Framework materials","authors":"H. Dakkama, P. Youssef, R. AL-Dadah, S. Mahmoud, Wisam A. M. Al-Shohani","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810160","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a novel adsorption system for producing ice and potable water using fresh and saline water as refrigerants and Metal Organic Framework material (CPO-27Ni) as adsorbent. In this work, an advanced technique of adsorption ice making integrated with vacuum direct freeze desalination is developed. The effect of fresh water specific volume in the evaporator and the performance of this system in terms of coefficient of performance (COP), specific daily production of ice (SDIP), slurry mixture (SDSP) and fresh water (SDWP) were experimentally investigated. The optimum COP was up to 0.205 whereas 10.5, 29.5 and 1.32 ton/day/ton of adsorbent for SDIP, SDSP and SDWP, respectively. The results are obtained at generation temperature of 95°C, antifreeze temperature of -1°C and fresh water of 450ml.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125153799","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":"Feeding loads via harmonics utilization in AC circuit systems","authors":"Hussein Al-bayaty, M. Ambroze, M. Z. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810192","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers an easy way to take advantage of harmonics current by using passive filter and utilization circuit. The proposed circuit contributes in reduction the total harmonic distortion (THD) and draw harmonics current via using low pass filter (LPF) and then create a useful and sinusoidal power by rectifying the distorted current via full wave bridge rectifier (convert it to DC current) and reconvert it to AC sinusoidal current by using single phase inverter controlled by PWM circuit in order to feed different loads. The circuit has been designed and simulated in the MATLAB-Simulink program.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130580933","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":"Optimal beam radius for LED-based indoor positioning algorithm","authors":"Manisha Ajmani, S. Sinanović, T. Boutaleb","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810217","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor positioning systems have the potential to replicate the success of outdoor positioning systems, but owing to the expensive and less accurate technology currently available for indoor positioning, they have not been able to take-off. LED-based Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems can solve this problem, but owing to complex algorithms and unoptimized parameter values the desired accuracy has not yet been achieved. This research addresses the problem of overlapping light radiation regions, which leads to lower accuracy in a VLC system, and proposes an algorithm to accurately determine the position of a device with respect to pre-positioned LEDs when it is receiving signal from multiple transmitting LEDs. To check the accuracy of this Optimal Beam Radius Indoor Positioning (OBRIP) algorithm numerous possible positions of a device uniformly distributed in a room with an indoor positioning system have been simulated to calculate the error in position estimation. Also, from the simulations, optimal values for beam radius, for a given number of LEDs in an array, separation between adjacent LEDs in an array for different room shapes has been calculated.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131236302","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}
Hassanain Ali Lafta, R. Guppy, G. Whatling, C. Holt
{"title":"Kinematic analysis of the shoulder mechanism in able-bodied non-experienced manual wheelchair users","authors":"Hassanain Ali Lafta, R. Guppy, G. Whatling, C. Holt","doi":"10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAE.2016.7810204","url":null,"abstract":"About 10% of the global population, i.e. about 650 million people, have disabilities [1]. Studies indicate that, of these, some 10% require a wheelchair. Manual wheelchair propulsion is an important form of mobility for those people to become productive members of their communities. The shoulder is a complex mechanism that plays an important role in manual wheelchair propulsion. Better knowledge of upper limb biomechanics during manual wheelchair propulsion can improve understanding of the resulted injuries and lead to improvements in propulsion efficiency. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the simultaneous shoulder complex kinematics during functional manual wheelchair mobility. A protocol for three-dimensional kinematic measurements of the shoulder complex is presented using six degrees of freedom analysis. Each upper limb is treated as a four segments linked system that consists of trunk, upper arm, forearm and hand. Each segment is considered as a single rigid body. Selected temporal and kinematic parameters over the wheelchair stroke cycle are characterised in all three planes of motion.","PeriodicalId":214121,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420456","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}