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Musculoskeletal disorder and psychosocial work demands in Insurance industry: A case study
Abstract: ABSTRACTIntroduction- Insurance sector is a group of professionals who perform under time pressure. The use of computer increases in the insurance industry which is linked with musculoskeletal pain. The objective of the study is to analyze the prevalence of MS pain during past 12 months and to correlate it with these work related factors. Methods- Insurance office workers from various companies in Punjab responded to the questionnaire which is related …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2017 · pp. 37–42 Read article
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Review of MB Lal Committee Recommendations for Petroleum Product Terminals
Abstract: AbstractThe IOCL Jaipur terminal fire and explosion on 29th of October 2009 led to 29 fatalities and amounted to a total monitory loss of $60 million. 60,000 KL of product was consumed in fire. The MB Lal committee was setup to analyse the incident and suggest various improvement measures to be undertaken to prevent such incidents in the country. The committee gave 118 recommendations. This review paper recollects the incident …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 44–48 Read article
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SAFETY CLIMATE AND SAFETY SYSTEMS FACTORS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF EMPLOYEES IN MAJOR ACCIDENT HAZARDOUS INDUSTRIES IN KARNATAKA STATE, INDIA
Abstract: The present work evaluates the existing critical safety climate and safety system components in the Major Hazardous Industries in Karnataka state, India and establishes the quantitative relationship between them with the organisational and demographic characteristics using a Questionnaire method (containing 81 questions of various safety climate parameters and 53 questions of various safety engineering system parameters among 1029 employees in 22 major hazardous industries in Karnataka). A research instrument using …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 20–35 Read article
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Corrosion Behavior of Welded Austenitic Stainless Steel in Different Environments
Abstract: Corrosion behavior of welded austenitic stainless steel in 0.5 M hydrochloric acid and wet-steam corrosive media has been studied. The immersion time in the corrosive media was 30 days to simulate the effect on stainless steel structures/equipment in offshore and food processing applications. Annealing heat treatment was carried out on the samples. The gravimetric technique was used for the corrosion tests. Seawater sample has highest weight loss of 4.0 mg …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2014 · pp. 18–30 Read article
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Evaluation of the Impact of Organizational and Human Factors on Employee’s Behavior in a Petroleum Refinery
Abstract: According to the WHO, 2.9 billion workers worldwide are exposed to different hazards at workplace. Researchers have focused a lot of emphasizes on work-related illnesses, fatalities, and injuries, which has raised awareness of event causation in the workplace. It is speculated that workers' at-risk behaviors, which can be decreased through behavior modification, are what lead to the bulk of workrelated accidents. A study was conducted to analyze the organizational and …
Published in Journal of Industrial Safety Engineering · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2022 · pp. 11–16 Read article
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Seasonal Variation of Electric Vehicles Autonomy: Application to AC/DC Dual Voltage Operation
Abstract: In this work, a study to predict battery performance and autonomy for a dual type of electric engine, 480 VAC and 360 VDC, has been developed. The study has been conducted in vehicles of mass between 1000 and 3000 kg with battery capacity in the range of 40 to 100 kWh. The process has been simulated using reference values and modeled for specific driving conditions. The simulation has been developed …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2020 · pp. 1–15 Read article
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Development of Automated System for Facilitating the Movement of Differently Abled Persons
Abstract: There are numbers of people who suffer from partial paralysis (paresis) or other neurological strokes.The proposed work mainly focuses on physical therapy to improve the level of mobility of strokevictims. For helping neurologically damaged patients during therapy, an upper limb robotic orthoticis developed. The system consists of four servo motors which are used for pattern generation for thefour fingers with a crank-shaft mechanism attached, which converts their rotational motion intolinear …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2021 · pp. 20–27 Read article
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Investigation on Open Loop Position Control of Amplified Piezoactuator
Abstract: Amplified piezoelectric actuators (APAs) consist of stacked piezoelectric actuators inside a flexural mechanical amplifier which helps in amplifying the displacements of the piezostacks in static and dynamic conditions. Accounting for their precision movement and dynamic characteristics, these actuators are extensively used in micropositioning, active damping, and microactuation applications. In this paper, FEM analysis of mechanical flexural amplifier of APA230L piezoactuator was performed to estimate its stiffness in the horizontal direction …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 16–24 Read article
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Evaluation of J-Integral and Fatigue Crack Growth Rate of Semi-elliptical Crack in Compressor Blade
Abstract: Gas turbine compressor blades are subjected to centrifugal, gas bending and vibratory loads. This repeated loading and unloading can reduce the life of compressor blades. This research aims at the estimation of fatigue crack growth rate of various three-dimensional cracks in a compressor blade considering the J-integral calculations for a semi-elliptical crack, subjected to centrifugal loading. Static stress analysis was carried out to ascertain the critical region or crack zone …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 39–46 Read article
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Textile Antenna with Partial Ground for Multiband Applications
Abstract: AbstractIn this article, the dominant textile antenna is presented. The proposed antenna has various applications like satellite communication, military and medical applications. The proposed antenna gives dual frequency bands with bandwidth from 8.96 to 14.456 GHz with 46.73% and second band from 14.98 to 17.46 GHz with 15.289. The intended textile antenna is applicable for wireless communication systems as it has wide dual bandwidth and high directivity of 6.379 dBi.Keywords: …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2017 · pp. 15–18 Read article
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Wi-Fi Shaped Quad-band Microstrip Antenna for RF Energy Harvesting Applications
Abstract: AbstractIn this paper, author proposed a Wi-Fi shaped microstrip antenna for the RF energy harvesting applications. The proposed antenna is operating at the frequencies 0.9, 1.7, 1.9 & 2.4 GHz. The antenna radiates at the quad-band frequency having an application in GSM Band and Wi-Fi Bands. The antenna consists of four different strips which correspond to each frequency in the result. The co-axial probe is connected from the side of …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2018 · pp. 11–19 Read article
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An Extended Semi-circular Microstrip Patch Antenna with DGS for UWB Applications
Abstract: This paper presents the design of a semicircular patch with an extended length for UWB applications. The proposed antenna is fabricated on FR4 substrate with relative permittivity of =4.4 and dimensions of 29.5x38x1.57 . The feed used in proposed design is 50 Ω microstrip feed line. The partial ground structure with a T-shaped slot and dual right angled isosceles triangular notches of side 3 mm each has been introduced to …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2017 · pp. 13–18 Read article
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Design of Ultra-Wide Band Slotted PIFA for Wireless Devices
Abstract: The design of an ultra-wideband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) is proposed for mobile phone applications in this paper. The different slots are introduced on radiating patch and ground plane. The volume of the radiating antenna is 40x40x3.5 mm3 which is small as compared to reported work. The ultra-wide bandwidth with acceptable return loss –6 dB is obtained from 4.6 to 30 GHz with good matching and radiation characteristics. Different performance …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 1–6 Read article
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N-Shape Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wireless Communication
Abstract: A new compact dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) for ultra-wideband (UWB) is presented and studied. This antenna is designed on FR4 substrate with dielectric constant of and overall size of proposed DR antenna is 20×35 mm2. The dielectric resonator of N-shape is only of 5.12 mm thickness and has a very low permittivity constant (10.2). The simulated DR antenna operating from 4.4 to 11.7 GHz covers most of the existing wireless …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 13–18 Read article
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Simulation and Analysis of S-CSRR PIFA for C-band 5G wireless networks
Abstract: In this paper, S-CSRR (Square-Complementary Split Ring Resonator) Planar Inverted F Antenna model is designed and simulated in the HFSS software. For compact and portable devices being preferred in 5G technology, the proposed antenna is helpful. The PIFA antenna with metamaterials (MTM) is beneficial for 4G and 5G wireless communication applications and covers C-band frequencies. The C-band frequency range of 3300-4200 MHz and 4400-5000 MHz is used in the research. …
Published in Journal of Microwave Engineering and Technologies · Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2022 · pp. 15–25 Read article
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Structure and Cube Texture Development Trend of Al4.5MgMn Alloy at Variable Annealing Conditions
Abstract: Hot-rolled Al4.5MgMn alloy was cold rolled to true strain levels 0.8, 1.6 and 2.3. Annealing at 300°C, 350°C and 400 °C was done to develop annealing structure. The annealed structures were measured by SEM-EBSD. The average grain size and grain size distributions were measured using Sigma-scan-Pro 5 structure analysis software. The average grain size and grain size distributions showed higher number frequency of lower annealing grain size with the increase …
Published in Journal of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering · Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2013 · pp. 32–38 Read article
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Effect of Time Exposure on Human Blood by Laser Flash Photolysis
Abstract: Diffuse reflectance laser flash photolysis has been used in blood sample to measure transient triplet spectra of free radical or reactive oxygen species (OH, O2, H2O2) generated in free cell systems was investigated using laser flash photolysis and electronic absorption spectra. In all cases, triplet–triplet absorption spectra with the application of this technique to studies concentration of normal human blood sample. The concentration of normal human blood sample is reduced …
Published in Journal of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering · Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2020 · pp. 15–20 Read article
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Preparation and Characterization of a Novel Lignocellulosic Fiber from Calotropis gigantea Stem Fiber for Thermoplastic Composites
Abstract: In the current article, Calotropis gigantea fiber mat (CGM)/thermoplastic polypropylene (PP) strengthened non-woven unidirectional composites were successfully manufactured by hot compression molding using the film piling method. Micromechanical and physicomechanical properties such as tensile, flexural, compressive, impact properties, thickness, swelling, and water absorption of CGM/PP composites were evaluated for the effects of CGF composition, mercerization of CGF as well as the inclusion of two types of coupling agents (vinyltriethoxysilane and …
Published in Journal of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering · Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2022 · pp. 15–33 Read article
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Study on High Strength Ti-Al-V Alloy at Cryogenic Temperature
Abstract: The α+β type high strength titanium alloy is usually used as a structural biomaterial for the manufacturing of orthopaedic prostheses as well as surgical and dental implants. The Ti-Al-V alloy had been deliberately solution treated at 860°C for 1 h (subsequently quenched in variable mediums) just below the β transus but within the α+β region to avoid grain coarsening for single β region as well as accomplish optimum balance properties …
Published in Journal of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering · Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2023 · pp. 1–14 Read article
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Implementation of FIR Filter with Reverse Converter based RNS Kogge–Stone Adder
Abstract: AbstractLow power very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits are pertinent for designing of steep overall performance and adjustable devices. In current technology VLSI plays a vital role to reduce power consumption and delay. In analog to digital converter process, adder plays a crucial role. The authority of nonviolent issue is increasing regularly because of changing that a way, packaging and cooling cost, transportable route of motion and reliability. This freebie …
Published in Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2018 · pp. 34–43 Read article