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An experimental study on natural fibre reinforced concrete

Although conventional concrete used in nowadays has got sufficient strength, the major concern is on reducing the overall cost, material consumption and environmental hazards. Therefore, various materials are incorporated or replaced partially in concrete to improve its strength, savings in cost and material as well. The present work is concerned with use of natural fibers which are cheap and locally available such as dry grass straw in concrete as additive material. Dry grass straw is an agricultural by-product and naturally available fiber in southern India which doesn’t have any economic value is used as a additive or reinforcement in concrete and its positive results in achieving tensile strength was determined which will not only enhance future research but also helps in reduce cost and eco-friendly construction. Compressive strength, split tensile strength and two-point load flexural test for different mix proportion are done to analyze the strength variation, behavior and properties of concrete

Published by: Karthik M., Varsha S. Danavandi, Pramod B. V.

Author: Karthik M.

Paper ID: V5I3-2037

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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An exploratory study to assess the lifestyle risk factors associated with obesity among undergraduate students of selected colleges of District Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health. People with obesity are at higher risk for health complications, such as diabetes, heart disease and some forms of cancer. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable deaths after smoking. Worldwide obesity was more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older were overweight. Overall 650 million people were obese. 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 13% were obese. Objective: To explore the lifestyle risk factors among undergraduate students. Material and Methods: The study adopted exploratory research and was conducted at selected colleges of District Sirmour, H.P. A total of 30 undergraduate female students in the age group of 17-25 years were selected by multistage cluster random sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire was used to assess the lifestyle risk factors associated with obesity among undergraduate students. Results: Data analysis was done with descriptive and inferential statistics. The pilot study finding shows that 33.3% of undergraduate girls were pre-obese. And 6.7 % of girls come under obese class 1 and 60% of girls having BMI in the normal range. The finding shows that the girls who were obese having menstrual irregularity and 33.3% of girls suffered from the polycystic ovarian disease. 33.3% Girls having a family history of obesity. There is a significant association between psychological factors and gynecological problems i.e 0.001**. Conclusion: The pilot study results show that unhealthy dietary habits and lifestyle behavior that should be targeted and can be modified. This could be achieved through promoting intervention program that leads to changing the built environment, weight management practices, counselling and affecting behavioral modification of student’s life style and dietary habits.

Published by: Archana Kumari, Isha Thakur Dharni

Author: Archana Kumari

Paper ID: V5I3-2035

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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Enhancement of multi-machine power system stability by using Power System Stabilizer

In this paper, we are going to deal about the enhancement of system stability, by using Eigen-values we can say how system stability is varying. We can use different devices like Facts controllers, Power system stabilizers, and automatic voltage regulators to improve system stability. Power system stabilizer had been used for improving two machine three bus system stability. We have different linear and nonlinear methods to design controller parameters for power system stabilizers. Genetic algorithm technique had been used to design pss for two machine three bus system

Published by: Devaki Bhavani Divya

Author: Devaki Bhavani Divya

Paper ID: V5I3-2031

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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Synthesis of ZnSnO3 cubic crystallites at room temperature

The work presented in this report is aimed to synthesize Nanocrystalline Zinc Stannate powder. The general objective was to synthesize crystalline zinc Stannate (ZnSnO3) Cubic crystallites by employing a simple chemical route. In this work, the zinc Stannate Cubic Crystallites (length 1-1.2m) were successfully synthesized at low cost by using simple chemical method the experimental result demonstrated a low cost, simple, rapid and suitable simple chemical method for the synthesis of ZnSnO3 cubic crystallite This topic discusses the simple chemical route for the synthesis ZnSnO3 Cubic Crystallites, its importance and finally it concludes with the objectives of the present work.

Published by: Chaudhari Devanand Prakash, Gopal Panda

Author: Chaudhari Devanand Prakash

Paper ID: V5I3-2032

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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Determination of tensile properties of sugarcane bagasse fiber reinforced with different proportions of polymer composite

Now it had become necessary to search new materials and implementation of those materials for manufacturing industries due to huge consumer pressure and new environmental policies. Because of this, in the recent years, the use of natural fibers as reinforcement in thermoplastic and thermosetting matrices has gained much interest, due to their good qualities such as low cost, low density, huge availability, biodegradability quality, and renewability. So in this aspect sugarcane bagasse fiber is one of the best options due to its availability and also it is an end product in sugar industries. In this paper it is focused on the tensile strength of sugarcane bagasse in the mat form is reinforced with the epoxy resin matrix and how it can be achieved or replaced with existing that is sugarcane bagasse fiber in the discontinuous and random orientation fibers reinforced with the epoxy resin matrix. This study also compares the percentage of fibers reinforced with epoxy resin to increase the strength.

Published by: Sudheendra H. N., Dr. Dilip Kumar K.

Author: Sudheendra H. N.

Paper ID: V5I3-2021

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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Improving quality of service in the smart grid using data compression and encryption technique

In this paper, to improve the quality of service in terms of embedding capacity and resource utilization of the database has done using data compression and lightweight encryption technique for the smart grid. In the proposed technique, the run-length encoding technique used for data compression and ANU lightweight algorithm has been used for data encryption. The algorithm has designed and simulated in MATLAB 2013a. The experimental results show that the proposed technique has taken fewer resources and consume less file size as compared to conventional AES techniques.

Published by: Simrandeep Singh, Puneet Jain, Ravinder Kumar

Author: Simrandeep Singh

Paper ID: V5I3-2015

Paper Status: published

Published: June 29, 2019

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