With the concern to global environment issues, researchers are encouraged to find alternate for scarce and rapidly diminishing fossil fuels. From the variety of options, fuels obtained from vegetable oils or animal fats ...

Toyota started practicing TPS (Toyota Production System) since 1950, successfully. Due to success of TPS, many companies across the world started using the same. Later in 1990s, Womak and Jones gave the name it as a ...

Wind energy is one of the important renewable energy generation resources for the solution of global energy problem. Wind turbine blades experiences wind and gravity loading which are critical factors for the performance ...

At present, Modern machining processes face cost pressures and have expectation of high quality. To remain competitive a company must frequently identify cost reduction opportunities in production and continuously improve ...

This paper reviews the recent research and development in the area of corrosion management, cathodic protection in particular related to safety and reliability of ship structures. Corrosion is naturally occurring phenomenon ...

Jigs and fixtures are the special production tools which make the standard machine tool, more versatile to work as specialized machine tools. They are normally used in large scale production by semi-skilled operators; ...

Horizontal pressure vessels supported with the saddles are subjected to high stresses near saddle vessel interface area. An accurate analysis of the local stresses and displacements of the vessels is thus of great importance. ...

Productivity improvement is the need of current market and manufacturing sector globally and machining time plays a very important role reducing cost and time. The NC machining time of any product depends on the machine ...

The paper deals with the tentative survey on the heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of CNT glaze on a stainless steel substrate in a rectangular comprehensive channel with water as the working fluid. The ...

Duplex stainless steel (DSS) consists of dual structure, austenite and ferrite in equal proportion, which exhibits excellent resistance to corrosion. Various industries, i.e., pharmaceutical, marine, petrochemicals, ...