This book contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science (London, U.K., 3-5 July, 2013). Topics covered include mechanical engineering, bioengineering, internet engineering, image engineering, wireless networks, knowledge engineering, manufacturing engineering, and industrial applications. The book offers state of art of tremendous advances in engineering technologies and physical science and applications, and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working with/on engineering technologies and physical science.
Author(s): Gi-Chul Yang, Sio-Iong Ao, Len Gelman (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 700
Tags: Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Engineering, general; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Viscous Fingering of Reversible Reactive Flows in Porous Media....Pages 1-15
Prediction of Thermal Deformation for a Ball Screw System Under Composite Operating Conditions....Pages 17-30
Shear Strength and Fracture Surface Studies of Ball Grid Array (BGA) Flexible Surface-Mount Electronics Packaging Under Isothermal Ageing....Pages 31-41
Optimum Parameters for Machining Metal Matrix Composite....Pages 43-57
Base Isolation Testing Via a Versatile Machine Characterized by Robust Tracking....Pages 59-71
Active Vibration Isolation Via Nonlinear Velocity Time-Delayed Feedback....Pages 73-86
Project of Mechanical VVA Systems for Motorcycle Engines....Pages 87-99
Performance Evaluation of the Valveless Micropump with Piezoelectric Actuator....Pages 101-115
Role of Offset Factor in Offset-Halves Bearing....Pages 117-128
Relative Position Computation of Links in Planar Six-Bar Mechanisms with Joints Clearance and Complex Chain....Pages 129-140
Flutter Analysis of an Aerofoil Using State-Space Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling....Pages 141-148
WRS-BTU Seismic Isolator Performances....Pages 149-162
A CFD Study of a pMDI Plume Spray....Pages 163-176
Harmonic Decomposition of Elastic Constant Tensor and Crystal Symmetry....Pages 177-194
DLC Coated Piston Skirts Behavior at Initial IC Engine Start Up....Pages 195-212
Mineralogical and Physical Characterisation of QwaQwa Sandstones....Pages 213-225
Spatial Prediction of a Pre-curved Bimetallic Strip Under Combined Loading....Pages 227-240
Development of a Glass-Fibre Reinforced Polyamide Composite for Rotating Bands....Pages 241-254
Design and Development of the Ultrasound Power Meter with a Three Axis Alignment System for Therapeutic Applications....Pages 255-269
Mass Transfer Properties for the Drying of Pears....Pages 271-280
The Application of Negative Hamaker Concept to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Blood Interactions Mechanism....Pages 281-293
Modeling and Analysis of Spray Pyrolysis Deposited SnO 2 Films for Gas Sensors....Pages 295-310
SISO Control of TITO Systems: A Comparative Study....Pages 311-326
Fuzzy-Logic Based Computation for Parameters Identification of Solar Cell Models....Pages 327-338
An ANFIS Based Approach for Prediction of Threshold Voltage Degradation in Nanoscale DG MOSFET Devices....Pages 339-353
A Novel Feedback Control Approach for Networked Systems with Probabilistic Delays....Pages 355-370
A Probabilistic Method for Optimal Power Systems Planning with Wind Generators....Pages 371-384
Four Quadrant Operation of Field Weakened FOC Induction Motor Drive Using Sliding Mode Observer....Pages 385-402
The Investigation of the Optical and Electrochemical Characteristics for the Pani Thin Film by Cyclic Voltammetry and Potentiostatic Methods....Pages 403-413
Influence of Titanium Dioxide Layer Thicknesses and Electrolyte Thicknesses Applied in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells....Pages 415-424
Fabrication of Real-Time Wireless Sensing System for Flexible Glucose Biosensor....Pages 425-437
Gate-Passing Detection Method Using WiFi and Accelerometer....Pages 439-453
Extended Performance Studies of Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a, b, g Laboratory WPA Point-to-Multipoint and Point-to-Point Links....Pages 455-465
An Experimental Study of ZigBee for Body Sensor Networks....Pages 467-481
Closed Form Solution and Statistical Performance Analyses for Regularized Least Squares Estimation of Retinal Oxygen Tension....Pages 483-499
Identification of Multistorey Building’s Thermal Performance Based on Exponential Filtering....Pages 501-512
DC-Image for Real Time Compressed Video Matching....Pages 513-527
Automated Diagnosis and Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Using Relevant Prosodic Features....Pages 529-542
Parallelization of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms Using Distributed Memory Architectures....Pages 543-554
Experiments with a Sparse Distributed Memory for Text Classification....Pages 555-568
CO 2 Purify Effect on Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Indoor Vertical Greening....Pages 569-580
Eliciting Usability from Blind User Mental Model for Touch Screen Devices....Pages 581-595
Numerical Solution and Stability of Block Method for Solving Functional Differential Equations....Pages 597-609
Semi Supervised Under-Sampling: A Solution to the Class Imbalance Problem for Classification and Feature Selection....Pages 611-625
Claims-Based Authentication for an Enterprise that Uses Web Services....Pages 627-639
Multilevel Verification and User Recognition Strategy for E-mail Clients....Pages 641-654
Securing Information Sharing Through User Security Behavioral Profiling....Pages 655-670
Filtering of Mobile Short Messaging Service Communication Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Social Network Analysis....Pages 671-686
Back Matter....Pages 687-700
