Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	The Development of a School Management Software Module
Country	::	Iraq
Authors	::	Atul Sharma ||, Ali Qasim ||, Omead Hussain Agha
Page No.	::	01-10
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In the near future, Jim Corbett School will have a larger number of students as the number of students is increasing every year as the population of the city grows. Key to Jim Corbett School success will be to have an automated system which can take care of most of tedious manual efforts put in by the personnel. There comes the need to adopt a quick and efficient system to take care of all our manual time consuming exercises. The development and implementation of an automated system will lead to better time management. On the other hand it will also bring in the efficiency in most of the covered fields. This solution will involve the development of a relational database in the FileMaker Pro software platform. To achieve this goal, significant efforts will need to be invested in the development of an all-encompassing process flow diagram. This development will lead to the development of repository tables in which data will be collected and stored. The integration of these repository tables into the process flow diagram will lead the developer to the establishment of a data relationship map; hence a relational database has been proposed as a potential solution to the management of the school with respect to development growth. Successful completion of the relational database solution will involve the development of agile scripting, a software development style in which the developer controls the user‟s fate through clever manipulation of the user‟s navigational and transactional options within the database dashboard.

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Creates a New GIS Tool for Classifying Lands Around selected monument
Country	::	Iraq
Authors	::	Samira A. Hussain ||, Sundos A. Hameed
Page No.	::	11-19
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The proposed system of this paper creates a new GIS tool which classifies the lands around the selected monument by taking a set of sub-images . The system will extract a vector of textural features for each sub-image using second order statistics Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and calculate eight textural feature. The vector of features will be the input to Minimum distance classifier and the Euclidean distance used to measure distance between vectors of features . The system then classifies the lands around the selected monument to find a flat area used for building a museum or a visitors rest.

 

Keyword:-: sub-image Classification, Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Texture features, Geographic Information System (GIS).

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[4] F. R. Renzetti et al., "Use of a Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix to Characterize Duplex Stainless steel Phases Microstructure", University of Roma, 2011.

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	A Study on the Estimation of Compressive Strength of Structural Timber using Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Method
Country	::	South Korea
Authors	::	Yongtaeg Lee ||, Jihee Ahn ||, Chulsoo Kim ||, Seunghun Kim ||, Seonguk Hong
Page No.	::	20-24
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Diagnosis is essential, in order to understand the poor construction and the status of structures. There are several kinds of the maintenance of the structure, and nondestructive test method sare the easiest methods that can diagnosis the status of the structures. As a tool to evaluate the effects of defects on structural timber strength, nondestructive test methods are being actively researched recently. Therefore, we were proposed the estimation equations as the analyzed the correlation between the compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity of structural timber using the Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity method. As a result the correlation coefficient of the strength estimation equation was 0.88-0.997 and average is 0.965. In this experiments carried out that ultrasonic pulse velocity method has a high reliability.

 

Keywords: -Compressive Strength, Estimation, Structural Timber, Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Method

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Highway Alignment Using Geographical Information System
Country	::	India
Authors	::	T.Subramani ||, D.Pari
Page No.	::	32-42
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Planning a new road or highway can be expensive and time consuming process. There are numerous environmental issues that need to be addressed. The problem is exacerbated where the alignment is influenced by the location of services, existing roads and buildings, and the financial, social and political costs of land resumption. GIS, a powerful tool for the compilation, management and display data associated with geographic space, is used for the preparation of digital maps and analysis purposes. The conventional manual methods were difficult, time consuming and expensive. In this study the shortest and the economical path is identified using GIS software. The factors considered are mainly related to the land use, geology, land value and soil. The weights and ranks are assigned to each of the above themes, according to expert opinions, for GIS analysis. After assigning weights and ranks these themes are overlaid to get an overlaid map. The final overlaid map has the most suitable area to align the highway from Erode to Karur which is both are textile and enriched with water potential which is passing along the channels of Karur and Erode.

 

Keywords: Highway, Alignment, Geographical Information System, Karur and Erode

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Experimental Study on Concrete Using Cement With Glass Powder
Country	::	India
Authors	::	T.Subramani ||, S.B.Sankar Ram
Page No.	::	43-53
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	::	3021-0505-0353

Cement manufacturing industry is one of the carbon dioxide emitting sources besides deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. The global warming is caused by the emission of green house gases, such as CO2, to the atmosphere. Among the greenhouse gases, CO2 contributes about 65% of global warming. The global cement industry contributes about 7% of greenhouse gas emission to the earth's atmosphere. Glass is used in many forms in day-to-day life. It has limited life span and after use it is either stock piled or sent to landfills. Since glass is non-biodegradable, landfills do not provide an environment friendly solution. Hence, there is strong need to utilize waste glasses. Many efforts have been made to use waste glass in concrete industry as a replacement of coarse aggregate, fine aggregate and cement. Its performance as a coarse aggregate replacement has been found to be non-satisfactory because of strength regression and expansion due to alkali-silica reaction. The research shows that there is strength loss due to fine aggregate substitution also. Efforts have been made in the concrete industry to use waste glass as partial replacement of coarse or fine aggregates and cement. In this study, finely powdered waste glasses are used as a partial replacement of cement in concrete and compared it with conventional concrete. This work examines the possibility of using Glass powder as a partial replacement of cement for new concrete. Glass powder was partially replaced as 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% and tested for its compressive, Tensile and flexural strength up to 28 days of age and were compared with those of conventional concrete; from the results obtained, it is found that glass powder can be used as cement replacement material up to particle size less than 75μm to prevent alkali silica reaction.

 

Keywords: Experimental Study, Concrete, Using Cement, Glass Powder

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Production Of Activated Carbon From Agricultural Raw Waste
Country	::	India
Authors	::	T.Subramani ||, P.K.Revathi
Page No.	::	54-63
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	::	3021-0505-0363

Our project is on resource assessment of raw materials show there is more than enough of the agricultural waste raw material available for activated carbon production to meet local demand. In view of these facts, we proposed to do project in the area of study in activated carbon. Activated carbon is used in gas purification, decaffeination, gold purification, metal extraction, water purification, medicine, sewage treatment, air filters in gas masks and respirators, filters in compressed air and many other applications. Due to its high degree of micro porosity, just one gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 500 m2, as determined by gas adsorption. An activation level sufficient for useful application may be attained solely from high surface area; however, further chemical treatment often enhances adsorption properties .One major industrial application involves use of activated carbon in the metal finishing field. It is very widely employed for purification of electroplating solutions. For example, it is a main purification technique for removing organic impurities from bright nickel plating solutions. Projecting on the available raw materials, it is established that industrial demand for activated carbon can be met locally. The characterization of two types of factory wastes showed that paper waste was a better option over rice husk. The activated carbon produced from pyrolysis of paper mill waste was chemically activated with various activating agents like zinc chloride, potassium hydroxide and potassium chloride. A systematic investigation of the effect of impregnation ratio, activation temperature and activation time on the properties of the activated carbon was done. The optimum preparation conditions together with the effected of these conditions on the yield and efficiency of produced AC have been studied .The chemically activated carbons were characterized by measuring iodine and yield percentage. The activated carbon prepared from paper mill waste in this study had maximum iodine of 764.80 mg/g with ZnCl2 as the activating agent.

 

Keywords: Production, Activated Carbon, Agricultural, Raw Waste

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Experimental Investigation Of Coarse Aggregate With Steel Slag In Concrete
Country	::	India
Authors	::	T.Subramani ||, G.Ravi
Page No.	::	64-73
	::	0.4/3021-05536473
	::	3021-0505-0373

Cement manufacturing industry is one of the carbon dioxide emitting sources besides deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. The global warming is caused by the emission of green house gases, such as CO2, to the atmosphere. Among the greenhouse gases, CO2 contributes about 65% of global warming. The global cement industry contributes about 7% of greenhouse gas emission to the earth's atmosphere. Glass is used in many forms in day-to-day life. It has limited life span and after use it is either stock piled or sent to landfills. Since glass is non-biodegradable, landfills do not provide an environment friendly solution. Hence, there is strong need to utilize waste glasses. Many efforts have been made to use waste glass in concrete industry as a replacement of coarse aggregate, fine aggregate and cement. Its performance as a coarse aggregate replacement has been found to be non-satisfactory because of strength regression and expansion due to alkali-silica reaction. The research shows that there is strength loss due to fine aggregate substitution also. Efforts have been made in the concrete industry to use waste glass as partial replacement of coarse or fine aggregates and cement. In this study, finely powdered waste glasses are used as a partial replacement of cement in concrete and compared it with conventional concrete. This work examines the possibility of using Glass powder as a partial replacement of cement for new concrete. Glass powder was partially replaced as 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% and tested for its compressive, Tensile and flexural strength up to 28 days of age and were compared with those of conventional concrete; from the results obtained, it is found that glass powder can be used as cement replacement material up to particle size less than 75μm to prevent alkali silica reaction.

 

Keywords: Experimental , Investigation, Coarse Aggregate, Steel Slag, Concrete

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Paper Type	::	Research Paper
Title	::	Modeling and Optimization of the Compressive Strength of Latertic Concrete Using Scheffe's Theory
Country	::	Nigeria
Authors	::	P.N. Onuamah
Page No.	::	74-86
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	::	3021-0505-0386

The paper presents the report of an investigation carried out to model and optimize the compressive strength of Lateritic Concrete. The laterite is the reddish soil layer often belying the top soil in many locations and further deeper in some areas, collected from the Vocational Education Building Site of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The work applied the Scheffe's optimization approach to obtain a mathematical model of the form f(xi1,xi2,xi3), where xi are proportions of the concrete components, viz: cement, laterite and water. Scheffe's experimental design techniques are followed to mould various block samples measuring 220mm x 210mm x 120mm, with varying generated components ratios which were tested for 28 days strength. To carry out the task, we embark on experimentation and design, applying the second order polynomial characterization process of the simplex lattice method. The model adequacy is checked using the control factors. Finally a software is prepared to handle the design computation process to select the optimized properties of the mix, and generate the optimal mix ratios for the desired property.

 

Keywords: Concrete, laterite, pseudo-component, Simplex-lattice, model.

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