Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology: Volume 20 Issue 6

Design, fabrication, testing and operation of a simulation facility for high temperature molten salt studies

Harinath Venkata Yadavalli, T.V. Krishna Mohan, Rangarajan S., Shaju K. Albert

Concentrated solar power and molten salt reactors use molten salts for heat energy storage and transfer. FLiNaK salts are being proposed to be used in these plants. However…

Systematic analysis of driverless technologies

David John Edwards, Jahangir Akhtar, Iain Rillie, Nicholas Chileshe, Joseph H.K. Lai, Chris J. Roberts, Obuks Ejohwomu

The advent of Industry 4.0 has engendered opportunities for a coalescence of digital technologies that collectively enable driverless vehicles to operate during the construction…

Production pressures in the building sector of the construction industry: a systematic review of literature

Jack Neale, Argaw Gurmu

The building sector of the construction industry incorporates a precipitous and volatile nature with poor safety conditions being prevalent, owing to its inability to determine an…

Experimental evaluation of bond behavior in controlled, binary and quaternary concretes developed using SCMs

Niragi Dave, Ramesh Guduru, Anil Kumar Misra, Anil Kumar Sharma

The consumption of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) has increased enormously in the construction industry. These SCMs are often waste materials or industrial…

Sailfish optimizer algorithm (SFO) for optimized clustering in wireless sensor network (WSN)

Battina Srinuvasu Kumar, S.G. Santhi, S. Narayana

Inspired optimization algorithms respond to numerous scientific and engineering difficulties based on its flexibility and simplicity. Such algorithms are valid for optimization…

Use of waste foundry sand as fine aggregates for structural concrete – A review

Manjunatha M., Rakshith S.G.K.

Waste foundry sand (WFS) is a by-product of the metal casting industries and is used for land filling purposes. Disposing of waste creates problems to environment and increases…

Optimizing stabilization of laterite as walling unit

Sarfo Mensah, Collins Ameyaw, Blondel Akun Abaitey, Hayford Obeng Yeboah

Over dependence on river/sea sand as building material has impacted the environment negatively. However, laterite, which is an environment-friendly indigenous building material in…

Design and evaluation of a refractance window lab-scale dryer

Shaffic Ssenyimba, Julia Kigozi, Peter Tumutegyereize, John H. Muyonga, Raymonds Mutumba

Refractance window drying (RWD) has been identified as the method that can give high-quality products at a relatively low production cost. However, knowledge about its use and…

Influence of selection criteria on clients’ satisfaction with construction consultancy services in Nigeria

Chukwuemeka Patrick Ogbu, Monday Omogiate Imafidon

To receive a satisfactory consultancy service, a construction client must first select suitable consultants. While numerous criteria for the selection of construction consultants…

A multi-objective opposition-based barnacles mating optimization for image super resolution using hyper-Spectral images

A. Valli Bhasha, B.D. Venkatramana Reddy

The problems of Super resolution are broadly discussed in diverse fields. Rather than the progression toward the super resolution models for real-time images, operating…

Neural network-based estimation of lighting condition in indoor environment with improved brain storm algorithm

Sneha Patil, Mahesh Goudar, Ravindra Kharadkar

For decades, continuous research work is going on to maximize the power harvested from the sun; however, there is only a limited analysis on exploiting the microwatt output power…

A hybrid meta-heuristic scheduler algorithm for optimization of workflow scheduling in cloud heterogeneous computing environment

Reza Noorian Talouki, Mirsaeid Hosseini Shirvani, Homayun Motameni

Improvement of workflow scheduling in distributed engineering systems

The design of a seasonal heat storage system with a geothermal heat pump for a residential building in Tehran

Akbar Alidadi Shamsabadi, Mehdi Jahangiri, Tayebeh Rezaei, Rouhollah Yadollahi Farsani, Ali Seryani, Siavash Hakim

In this study, a solar water heating system along with a seasonal thermal energy storage and a heat pump is designed for a villa with an area of 192 m² in Tehran, the capital of…

Categorising green building features in developing countries: the case of South Africa

Faith Owoha, Eric Kwame Simpeh, Julius Ayodeji Fapohunda, Divine Kwaku Ahadzie, Henry Mensah

This study aims to explore the concept of green building by determining a suitable system for categorising green building features (GBFs) that are considered significant in…

MIMO-Orthogonal space time block code system joint with BCH-TC in Rayleigh fading channel for performance of transmit antenna selection

Nitin Tejram Deotale

To enhance the performance transmit antenna selection (TAS) of spatial modulation (SM), systems technique needs to be essential. This TAS is an effective technique for reducing…

Development of self-compacting concrete using Bailey aggregate grading technique in comparison with Indian standard code of practice

Adithya Tantri, Gopinatha Nayak, Adithya Shenoy, Kiran K. Shetty

This study aims to present the results of an experimental evaluation of low (M30), mid (M40) and high (M50) grade self-compacting concrete (SCC) with three nominal maximum…

Challenges and drivers to data sharing among stakeholders in the South African construction industry

Timothy Oluwafemi Ayodele, Kahilu Kajimo-Shakantu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges to data sharing among construction stakeholders in the South African construction industry and also assess stakeholders’…

Demystifying cost misperception as a challenge to green building adoption in Nigeria

Samuel Ekung, Isaac Odesola, Alex Opoku

The pertinent information about green buildings (GB) is laden with cost misperceptions (CM) that are paraded into adoption decisions without factual clarifications. The…

Understanding users’ behavioral intention to use voice assistants on smartphones through the integrated model of user satisfaction and technology acceptance: a survey approach

Mine Bertan Yılmaz, Kerem Rızvanoğlu

This study aims to determine system quality (SQ) and information quality (IQ) characteristics of voice assistants (VA) on smartphones that are affecting users’ satisfaction and…

A review of the significance effect of external factors of the solar dyer design to dried foods product quality

B. Norerama D. Pagukuman, M. Kamel Wan Ibrahim

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss the external factors of the solar dryer design that influenced the thermal efficiency of the solar dryer that contribute to the…

Accuracy assessment and performance analysis of raster to vector conversions on LULC data – India

Prafullata Kiran Auradkar, Atharva Raykar, Ishitha Agarwal, Dinkar Sitaram, Manavalan R.

The purpose of this paper is to convert real-world raster data into vector format and evaluate loss of accuracy in the conversion process. Open-source Geographic Information…