Extensive laboratory model tests were conducted on a rectangular embedded foundation resting over homogeneous sand bed and subjected to an eccentric load to determine the ultimate bearing capacity. The depth of embedment varies from 0 to 1B with an increment of 0.5B; where B is the width of foundation and the eccentricity ratio (e/B) varies from 0 to 0.15 with an increment of 0.05. Based on the laboratory model test results, a neural network model is developed to estimate the reduction factor...

Laboratory model tests have been conducted on a strip foundation resting over multi-layered geogrid-reinforced dense and loose sand subjected to inclined load. Based on the laboratory model test results, a neural network model is developed to estimate the reduction factor for bearing capacity. The reduction factor obtained by ANN can be used to estimate the ultimate bearing capacity of an inclined loaded foundation from the ultimate bearing capacity of a vertically loaded foundation. A thorou...

Purpose: This research aims to understand the impact of antecedents of users’ information privacy concerns (UIPC) on privacy protection behavior (PPB) in social networks. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The conceptualization of the research model is grounded in the Social Cognitive and Protection Motivation theories. Survey questionnaires were used to collect empirical data from 337 university students; out of which 306 samples were included in analyses. The proposed research model was ...

Thin plated structures of different geometries are widely used in the field of civil, mechanical, aerospace and naval engineering. The structures can be subjected to any time varying loading like blast or impact loads. This paper thus presents nonlinear transient vibration analysis of arbitrary thin plates using a superparametric element. The geometry of the plate is represented by cubic serendipity shape function and the displacement field is defined by an ACM plate bending element along wit...

Chilika lake is a brackish water lagoon as well as the largest coastal lagoon in India and the second largest lagoon in the world, of Odisha state on the east coast of India covering an area of over 1,160 km2. The size of the lagoon is decreasing over the years due to large siltation of the rivers joining Chilika lake and dredging is required to deal with siltation. Utilization of dredging sand from Chilika for construction purposes is a sustainable method to deal with siltation. In the prese...

Red mud is an alkaline by-product which is generated during the processing of bauxite. Generally red mud is considered as a waste material which is disposed into large lagoons. Red mud contains large amount of Fe2O3, Al2O3 and small amounts of CaO, SiO2 and some valuable metals such as titanium however it devoid of reactive alumino-silicates. As red mud is highly alkaline, it is possible to stabilize red mud by adding industrial waste materials rich in alumino-silicates by geopolymerization. ...

The use of compacted bentonite-sand mixes as landfill liner has been accepted worldwide. However, the non-availability of sand at all landfill sites triggers a search for an alternate material. Pond ash is an industrial waste and has the distinct advantage of a geotechnical material as it resembles the natural earth material. Moreover, it has the similar mineralogical composition to conventional earth materials and needs special attention for its effective utilization rather than disposing of...

Expansive soil is one of the most devastation types of soil damaging roads, building, and pipe line each year. Various efforts are being done to stabilize the soil and mitigate the damage due to it. Utilization of industrial waste as low CO2 cement is one of the sustainable method for industrial growth. In the present study alkali activated fly ash used as an alternating cementitious material to stabilize an Indian expansive soil. Different combination of sodium hydroxide and sodium sil...

In the present study, NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as ibuprofen in anionic form has been intercalated in-situ into the interlayer space of Mg Al LDH nanoparticle during co-precipitation of hydroxides. LDH nanohybrids are characterized by XRD, FTIR and UV spectroscopy. Mg1-xAlx(NO3)x (OH)2.nH2O nanoparticles were synthesized using co-precipitation method from an aqueous solution of Mg(NO3)2.6H2O and Al(NO3)3.9H2O. Ibuprofen was intercalated in inter layer space of Mg-Al L...

In this work, a new grid synchronization control strategy is developed for a single stage three phase grid coupled Photovoltaic system that employs Kalman Filter Algorithm (KF) to estimate the fundamental sinusoidal components of the Point of common connection (PCC) voltage and load current respectively. The DC-link bus capacitor voltage is regulated employing a Proportional-Integral (PI) controller. KF effectively extracts the fundamental components by updating the Kalman gain such that it m...

Hybrid composites have been prepared by solution processing method using various MWCNT concentrations in reduced graphene oxide/poly(3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (rGO-PEDOT:PSS) matrix. Structural and morphological characteristics of the prepared composite films have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, UV–visible spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectrosco...

The use of thermal treatments to enhance mechanical properties of metal components is an ancient art which is used until today. But lately focus of researchers shifted towards the concepts of sub-zero treatments. In the present investigation, PVD coated and uncoated carbide inserts were subjected to deep cryogenic treatment(-1960C) in order to investigate the machinability of stainless steel. Micro-structural study, elemental characterization and crystallographic phase orientations were studi...

Cerium oxide (CeO2) is one of the most interesting oxides industrially because it has been widely used as a catalyst, three-way automotive catalytic converters for purification of exhaust gases, oxygen sensors, and so forth for long periods of time. Recently, CeO2 nanoparticles has also emerged as a fascinating and lucrative material for environmental remediation applications. The key for most of the above mentioned applications of CeO2 based materials is its extraordinary ability to rel...

PGA based product development companies need third party IP cores to complete the product design time effectively and cost effectively. The one-time payment upfront licensing of IP cores is impractical for FPGA based products, which does not benefit either IP core vendors or product engineering companies. There is a need for good competitive pricing scheme which benefit product development companies and also secure the revenue to IP core vendors. The Pay-per-Device (PPD) pricing model scheme...

Hardware Trojan (HT) is one of the well known hardware security issue in research community in last one decade. HT research is mainly focused on HT detection, HT defense and designing novel HT’s. HT’s are inserted by an adversary for leaking secret data, denial of service attacks etc. Trojan benchmark circuits for processors, cryptography and communication protocols from Trust-hub are widely used in HT research. And power analysis based side channel attacks and designing countermeasures agai...

The research on magnetoelectric composites has been busted up by their potential applications in microwave devices, sensors, transducers, information storage, spintronics and multiple-state memories. In the present work, ferroelectric BaTiO3 (BT) - ferromagnetic NiFe2O4 (NF) composites were prepared by different powder synthesis route namely solid-state, auto-combustion, and hybrid precipitation to tailor the phase connectivity of the constituent phases. Functional properties (dielectric, pie...

Abrus agglutinin (AGG), a type II ribosome-inactivating protein has been found to induce mitochondrial apoptosis. Initially, we documented that AGG-mediated Akt dephosphorylation led to ER stress resulting in the induction of autophagy-dependent cell death through the canonical pathway in cervical cancer cells. At the molecular level, AGG induced ER stress in PERK dependent pathway and inhibition of ER stress by salubrinal, eIF2a phosphatase inhibitor as well as siPERK reduced autophagic deat...

Magnetic and dielectric properties exhibited by magneto-dielectric composite systems can be tunable using electrical and magnetic fields due to mechanical coupling effect, which may led to potential application such as electrically readable magnetic memories, phase shifters, miniature antennas and magnetic sensors. The mechanical coupling effect strongly depends on morphology of the phases (magnetic and dielectric) present in the composites along with their orientation and interaction, which ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) P300 speller can be used as a powerful aid for severely disabled people in their everyday life. The character recognition using P300 speller involves two stages for classification. First stage is to detect the P300 signal and second one is to determine the right character from the detected P300. Classification of P300 is a challenging task in character recognition process. Ensemble of classifiers is a robust method for classification as it reduces the classifier...