Browsing Division of Mechanical Sciences by Title
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Passive Earth Pressure Coefficients And There Applications In The Uplift Capacity Of Anchors
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-10-13)The problem of passive earth pressure is one of the important topics in Geotechnical engineering. At attempt is made in this thesis to generate passive earth pressure coefficients for general c-Φ soils using logarithmic ... -
Passive Interfacial Evaporation-based Thermal Desalination Systems
Desalination offers a promising solution to the global water shortage by utilizing the vast resource of seawater. With 26% of the world’s population lacking access to potable water currently, there is a growing need to ... -
Patterns of variability of Indian monsoon Rainfall
The study of variability of southwest monsoon (SWM) rainfall is of considerable scientific importance. The complexities in understanding the behaviour of SWM rainfall are due to the strong space–time variation involved in ... -
PDMS-Based Nanocomposite for EMI Shielding application
Lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-integrate solutions are in great demand in electronic devices. The present work deals with the preparation of Poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS) based nanocomposite for suppressing electromagnetic ... -
Performance analysis and improvent of submersible pumps
The prediction of performance and efficiency of turbomachines based on test results with geometrically similar physical models using scale effect formulae has been done for the past several decades. Now, with the introduction ... -
Performance Analysis Of A Photovoltaic Powered Cold Store
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Performance Evaluation of Public Bus Transport Operations in Karnataka by using Non-parametric and Multivariate Analysis
(2018-01-31)Indian cities rely predominantly on buses for public transport. The issues of performance measurement and efficiency analyses for the bus company have been gaining significance due to severe operating conditions and financial ... -
Periodically Perforated Sheets : Design And analysis
(2013-06-17)Periodically perforated sheets(PS) are ubiquitous in nature as well as in engineered artifacts developed for aerospace, automotive, marine, nuclear and structural applications. PS are indispensable for saving weight and ... -
Permeability Modeling for Single Scale and Dual Scale Fabrics and its implementation to Fabrics Undergoing Shear
Composites have found applications, right from high-end aerospace structures to naval and land-based structures. These structures are realized by manufacturing processes like, autoclave and vacuum assisted resin transfer ... -
Phase Behaviour of Oppositely Charged Nanoparticles : A Study of Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices
Binary nanoparticle superlattices or BNSL’s have been a major area of research in nanotechnology for the last decade. The conventional lithographic techniques are limited to fabricate features only within a plane while ... -
Phase transitions of fluids confined in nanopores
Confined nanoscale fluids occur in many technologically important phenomenon such as boundary lubrication, adsorption, adhesion and catalysis. Fluids confined at these length scales are spatially inhomogeneous and fluid ... -
Phase-field modeling of equilibrium shapes of precipitate and growth instabilities in the presence of coherency stresses
Precipitation-hardened alloys are one of the most technologically significant materials that are used for structural applications, where an important mode of strengthening is due to the impediment to the movement of ... -
A phenomenological one-dimensional model for elastic ribbons
Ribbons exhibit fascinating buckling-dominated behavior under mechanical loading because of a unique combination of geometric dimensions. The recent interest in examining engineering applications of ribbon-like structures ... -
Phononic bandgap engineering in cellular periodic structures and mechanical metamaterials
A methodology has been developed for the computation of phononic band structure of cellular periodic structures, structures with spatially repetitive patterns, using Frequency domain Spectral Finite Element Method along ... -
Photocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic systems for water remediation and energy applications
This PhD work consists of two main parts. The first part focuses on photocatalytic systems for water remediation from bacteria and phenolic compounds, and the second part deals with photoelectrocatalytic systems for biomass ... -
Physical and mathematical modelling of boron carbide manufacturing process
Boron carbide is produced in a heat?resistance furnace using boric oxide and petroleum coke as the raw materials. In this process, a large current is passed through the graphite rod located at the center of the cylindrical ...