Issue · 2015
Vol.34, Iss. 2
11 articles · All issues →
ArticlesCOST AND PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF PRECAST POST TENSIONED PRE-STRESSED GIRDER BRIDGE SUPERSTRUCTURES
Salman Saeed, Akhtar Naeem Khan, Rashid Rehan, Sikandar Hayat Sajid, Muhammad Sagheer Aslam, Khan Shahzada
Bridges are the most costly components of a road transportation network. Pre-stressed concrete girders with cast in place concrete decks are widely used for short to medium span bridges. The design and subsequent cost of a bridge depends on key geometric varia…
31 Jul 2020- Articles
OPEN MP-BASED PARALLEL AND SCALABLE GENETIC SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT
Asif Ali Khan, Laiq Hassan, Salim Ullah
In bioinformatics, sequence alignment is a common and insistent task. Biologists align genome sequences to find important similarities and dissimilarities in them. Multiple heuristics and dynamic programming based approaches are available for sequence alignmen…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
INVESTIGATION OF USING PAPER INDUSTRY WASTE (HYPO SLUDGE) IN CONCRETE MIX
Faisal Shabbir, Naeem Ejaz, Daulat Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Jawad Hussain, Muhammad Fiaz Tahir
Cement industry is one of the major producers of carbon dioxide gas (a greenhouse gas) and ordinary concrete contains about 12% cement. The world’s annual production of cement is 1.6 billion tons which accounts for about 7% emission of carbon dioxide gas…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW VOLTAGE AC TO DC CONVERTER FOR MESO AND MICRO ENERGY HARVESTERS
Farid Ullah Khan, Tashfeen Ali, Khubroo Jamil
Energy harvesting is widely used for the operation of wireless sensor nodes. Most of the energy harvesters generated voltage levels are sinusoidal or random in nature, moreover, the output voltage levels these produce are in low (in mV range). For sensor opera…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR HEAVY EARTH MOVING EQUIPMENT
Anwar Ullah, Sabir Islam, Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Safi Ur Rahman, Shahid Maqsood, Misbah Ullah et al.
Heavy earth moving equipment’s are critical for completion of any developmental projects. Dams, schools, bridges or any mining related initiations are part of these infrastructure development projects. Usually the delays are due to the inefficient and in…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
MODELING, SIMULATION AND FABRICATION OF AN UNDERSHOT FLOATING WATERWHEEL
Farid Ullah Khan, Adeel Ahmed, Uzair Khan Jadoon, Fahim Haider
This paper presents modeling, simulation and fabrication of an undershot floating waterwheel for power generation for run-of-the-river applications. For the undershot floating waterwheel, analytical modeling and simulation are performed to estimate the optimal…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
SINGLE FACILITY LOCATION SELECTIONPROBLEM FOR A PAKISTAN BASED ICE CREAM COMPANY: A CASE STUDY
Suhaib, Shahid Maqsood, Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Misbah Ullah, Rehman Akhtar, Rashid Nawaz et al.
The facility location optimization problems are economically justifiable and play a critical role in reducing the overall running cost. An optimal facility location is directly proportional to traveling cost between facility and destinations. In past decade, e…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
IMPLEMENTATION OF TAST CODES IN DS-CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Zahoor Ahmed Baloch
The fundamental principle of threaded algebraic space-time (TAST) block code and DS-CDMA are retrospectedand their integrationare studied and analyzed. Simulation results show that a substantial improvement in bit error rate (BER)can be achieved in CDMA networ…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
DEVELOPMENT OF OPTIMIZED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE FLEET
Rahim Haider, Al Mustaan Kakar, Sikandar Bilal Khattak, Safi ur Rahman, Shahid Maqsood, Misbah Ullah et al.
Vehicle fleet holds a firm ground in both manufacturing and service industry. Fleet management plays a substantial role in an organization’s growth. Maintenance of vehicle fleet is critical in terms of cost, availability and customer satisfaction. The ma…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
THE REDUCTION OF SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES
Sahib Khan, Abdur Rehman, Nasir Ahmad, Muhammad Naeem
This Paper is about the reduction of specific absorption rate (SAR) of wearable rectangular patch antenna for 1.8GHz and 2.45GHz wireless applications. Antenna is designated on a 3mm X 3mm X 3mm resolution truncated Hugo body model in Computer simulation techn…
31 Jul 2020 - Articles
MACHINERY SELECTION FOR DEMOLITION AND RECYCLING OF PAVEMENTS: A SIMULATION-BASED TOOL
Hassan Nasir, Rashid Rehan, Rizwan Younis, Fazal Mabood, Salman Saeed, Muhammad Sagheer Aslam
Proper selection of the type and number of machinery on construction is critical to the total cost and duration of projects. This especially applies to projects involving using of heavy machinery such as earthmoving projects. Currently, many construction manag…
31 Jul 2020