This volume contains a selection of revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in The 26th World Congress on Engineering (WCE 2018) which was held in London, U.K., July 4-6, 2018.
Topics covered include engineering mathematics, electrical engineering, communications systems, computer science, chemical engineering, systems engineering, manufacturing engineering, and industrial applications. With contributions carefully chosen to represent the most cutting-edge research presented during the conference, the book contains some of the state-of-the-art in engineering technologies and the physical sciences and their applications, and serves as a useful reference for researchers and graduate students working in these fields.
Chapter
1. A New Mathematical Model for a Membrane MEMS Device (Luisa
Fattorusso and Mario Versaci).
Chapter
2. Study of Changes of the Individual
Parameter of Resources in the Modelling of Renewable Systems (Oleksandr
Karelin, Anna Tarasenko, Oleksandr Barabash, Manuel Gonzalez-Hernandez and
Joselito Medina-Marin).
Chapter
3. Topological Invariants in Engineering
Sciences and Quantum field theories (Philippe Durand).
Chapter
4. Flow Of
Ferrofluid Over An Inclined Stretching Sheet In The Presence Of A Magnetic
Dipole (L. S. Rani Titus and Annamma Abraham).
Chapter
5. Fundamental
Solutions of Dynamics Of Anisotropic Elastic Medium (G.K. Zakiryanova).-
Chapter
6. Modelling the Performance of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with
Cambered Tubercle Leading Edge Blades (Ian Carlo M. Lositaño and Louis Angelo
M. Danao).
Chapter
7. Investigation on Wearable Airbags for Motorcyclists
through Simulations and Experimental Tests (Edoardo Marconi, Franco Gatto and
Matteo Massaro).
Chapter 8.The Surface Curvature Effect on Performance of a
Laboratory Scale Tidal Turbine (Kaiming Ai, Eldad Avital, Xiang Shen, Abdus
Samad, Nithya Venkatesan).
Chapter
9. Gas Turbine Engine: Design,
Application and Performance Analysis (Abdulkarim Nasir, Abubakar Mohammed and
Jonathan Y. Jiya).
Chapter
10. A FMECA-Based Analysis of the Plant
Controlling Variable Pitch Propeller (VPP) System for Ships Propulsion
(Lorenzo Damiani, Pietro Giribone, Rommy Bartoli, Roberto Revetria).
Chapter
11. Cfd Prediction of Multiple Jet Impingement in a Reflow Soldering Process
(Flávia V. Barbosa, João P. V. Silva, Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira, Delfim F.
Soares, Duarte N. F. S. Santos, Isabel A. C. C. F. Delgado and José Carlos.
F. Teixeira).
Chapter
12. Frost Measurement Sensors for Demand Defrost
Control Systems: Purposed Applications in Evaporators (Martim Lima de Aguiar,
Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Pedro Dinho da Silva).
Chapter
13. Modelation,
Simulation and Analysis of a Switched Reluctance Machine for Flywheel
Replacement (Daniel Filipe da Silva Cardoso and Paulo Manuel Oliveira Fael).-
Chapter
14. Inference for Survival Models with Doubly Interval Censored Data
and Fixed or Time Dependent Covariate (Kaveh Kiani and Jayanthi Arasan).-
Chapter
15. Managing Enterprise End-Point Devices (William R. Simpson and
Kevin E. Foltz).
Chapter
16. Archive Browsing System for the Roads in Miyagi
Prefecture with Extremely Delayed Recovery after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
(Noriaki Endo, Shouyi Gao, and Jieling Wu).
Chapter
17. Implement and
Evaluation of Collaborative Optimization on Testing and Mapping For NOC
(Zhengfei Jin,Ying Zhang, Xiaokai Zhang, and Xin Chen).
Chapter
18. Effect
of Pipe Materials on Background Leakage Estimate Using Graph-Based Hydraulic
Model: An Extended Study (Kazeem B. Adedeji, Yskandar Hamam, Bolanle T. Abe,
and Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz).
Chapter
19. Extended Performance Research on IEEE
802.11 A 54 Mbps WEP Laboratory Links (J. A. R. Pacheco de Carvalho, H.
Veiga, C. F.Ribeiro Pacheco, A. D.Reis).
Chapter
20. Smart-Phone Based
Improved Multifloor Indoor Localization System (Sushil Tiwari and Vinod Kumar
Jain).
Chapter
21. Computation of Ratios Using Chemical Reactions and DNA
Strand Displacements (Iuliia Zarubiieva, Joyun Tseng and Vishwesh Kulkarni).-
Chapter
22. Application of Factorial Design to Study the Effect of Moisture
and Rice of Varieties on the Production of Paddy Husker Machine
(Suwattanarwong Phanphet, Narong Sukprasert, Aphiwat. Wangmai, Surapong
Bangphan, and Phiraphan Bangphan).
Chapter
23. Measuring the Impact of
Healthcare Governance on Its Quality Managemnt Using Artificial Intelligence
(Yousuf Nasser Al Khamisi, Jose Eduardo-Munive Hernandez, and Mohammed
Khurshid Khan).
Chapter
24. Challenges and Opportunities towards an Industry
4.0 Production (Beatrice Paiva Santos, Fernando Manuel Bigares Charrua
Santos, and Tania Daniela Miranda Lima).
Chapter
25. Layout and Industrial
Efficiency A Case Study (F. Charrua-Santos, J. Calais, B. Paiva Santos and
T.M.Lima).
Chapter
26. Linguistic Information Based Selection Methodology
for Building Certification (Deniz Uztürk, Gülçin Büyüközkan, A. Fahri Negüs,
and M. Yaman Öztek).
Dr. Sio-Iong Ao finished his doctoral research in The University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral researches in the University of Oxford and Harvard University and is a former visiting professor of Cranfield University, UK and University of Wyoming, USA.
Professor Len Gelman is Professor and Chair in Signal Processing and Condition Monitoring, and Director, the Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, School of Computing and Engineering, The University of Huddersfield, UK. He has more than 25 years experience in signal processing and vibro-acoustic monitoring of complex mechanical systems (e.g. rotating, reciprocating machinery, etc.) both in industry and academia. He has been Principal Investigator on numerous contracts and grants, including grants from the USA National Academy of Sciences, USA National Research Council, USA International Science Foundation, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation (twice), USA MacArthur Foundation,Lady Davis, Israel, Centro Volta, Italy. He is Principal Investigator on UK EPSRC, UK DTI (three times), UK Royal Society, Rolls Royce (two times) and Shell grants.
Professor Haeng-Kon Kim is a Vice President of Research and Information, a Dean of engineering college and a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering Catholic University of Daegu, in Korea. He has been a research staff member in Bell Lab. and NASA center in U.S.A. Professor Kim is chief editor of KIPS SE-Sig journal and Korea Multimedia Society, an editorial board of KISS (Korea Information Science Society) and a steering committee of KIPS (Korea Information Processing Society).
