Engineering

EFFECTIVENESS OF OVERLAPPING HOOPS AS DUCTILITY REINFORCEMENT IN SHORT REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS

ABSTRACTComparative study of the effectiveness of some typica l arrangements of overlapping hoops to ordinary rectangula r hoop was carrie d out. The overlapping arrangements were:- Diamond Shape; Singl e Crossing; and Double Crossing (See appendix). The concret e mix used in this experiment was ...

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📄 90 pages | 🧠 12043 words | 📚 5 chapters

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A STOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND INVENTORY SYSTEMS OF THE NIGERIAN BOTTLING COMPANY (NBC)

A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN ZONE OF NIGERIA

ABSTRACTIn the Nigerian Bottling Company, Production planning has a fundamental role to play. In this study, the particular scenario considered concerns the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) with many production facilities and multi-products production systems. The Products are being distributed to...

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📄 92 pages | 🧠 6112 words | 📚 5 chapters

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ANALYSIS AND OPTIMISATION OF INTER CELL HANDOVER DYNAMICS IN A GSM NETWORK

ABSTRACTEfficient Handover mechanism in a GSM network is one of the parameters critical to GSM network service quality (QoS) and customer satisfaction. Handover is the process that transfers an ongoing call from one cell to another as the users move through the coverage areas of the cellular syst...

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📄 85 pages | 🧠 12576 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OVER SEMI-CIRCULAR BROAD CRESTED WEIR MODELS

ABSTRACTThe overflow characteristics of semi-circular crested weir models were investigated. Twelve models were fabricated and tested. The models were categorized into two groups; normal weirs and oblique weir models. Both group of model had constant weir height and had the crest radius varied th...

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📄 99 pages | 🧠 7805 words | 📚 5 chapters

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CORROSION AND FATIGUE BEHAVIOUR OF WELDED AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS

ABSTRACTThis research work was carried out to study the effects of seawater, 0.5M hydrochloric acid and wet steam corrosive media on the fatigue strength and microstructure of welded austenitic stainless steel. The immersion time in the corrosive media was 30 days to simulate the effect on stainl...

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📄 96 pages | 🧠 8317 words | 📚 5 chapters

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PROPERTIES OF CORN COB ASH CONCRETE

ABSTRACTThis thesis studied the behavior Corn Cob Ash (CCA) concrete. The study also investigated the effect of Corn Cob Ash on cement and as a partial replacement for cement. The behavior of Corn Cob Ash concrete in aggressive chemical media was then investigated. Chemical analysis of the CCA to...

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📄 89 pages | 🧠 6641 words | 📚 5 chapters

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INVESTIGATION OF THE STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF LATECRETE MATERIALS

ABSTRACTA laboratory Investigation of the Strength Characteristics of Latecrete materials was carried out. The laterite used falls under AASHTO soil classification A-7-6 (10) with low plasticity clay (CL) according to the Unified soil classification system. This laterite is within zone four grada...

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📄 83 pages | 🧠 7469 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CARBONATOR FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE USING LOCALLY PRODUCED LIME

ABSTRACTThe work seeks to address environmental issue through the design and development of a carbonator for CO2 capture. A fixed bed carbonator with height 1.7 m and diameter 0.9 m for CO2 capture was successfully designed and fabricated at a flow rate 7.9g/hr of carbon dioxide using 2kV househo...

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📄 86 pages | 🧠 6698 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING OF A CHARCOAL FIRED CRUCIBLE FURNACE FOR MELTING OF 10KG OF ALUMINIUM

ABSTRACTThis research work presents the design concept, construction and performance evaluation of a 10kg capacity portable crucible furnace which uses charcoal as fuel. The 10kg crucible furnace was designed, constructed using locally available engineering materials mild steel sheet of 3 mm, mil...

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📄 98 pages | 🧠 10894 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SELF-HEALING CAR PAINT USING CHITOSAN

ABSTRACTCar surfaces are vulnerable to scratches from environmental conditions, thereby prompting car users to visit car workshop for re-spray. This process does not usually bring permanent solution to scratches on car surfaces since they are often re-spray with non-self-healing paint. The aim of...

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📄 99 pages | 🧠 8957 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF PILOT-SCALE REACTOR FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE FROM ALUM DERIVED FROM KANKARA KAOLIN FOR ZEOLITE Y SYNTHESIS

ABSTRACTThis work wasaimed at the design and fabrication of a pilot scale reactor for the production of aluminium hydroxide from aluminium sulphate obtained from Kankara kaolin for use in Zeolite Y synthesis. XRD, XRF and BET analyses were carried out on the aluminium hydroxide first prepared at ...

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📄 96 pages | 🧠 6693 words | 📚 5 chapters

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED INTEGRATED ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORK WITH CONGESTION CONTROL USING PRE-EMPTIVE DATA EVICTION

ABSTRACTThe opportunistic network is one of the most interesting evolution of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET).In an opportunistic network,information about the context in which users communicate is notavailable as there is no dedicated complete path from a source to a destination. This makes the de...

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📄 94 pages | 🧠 12269 words | 📚 5 chapters

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EXERGY AND ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE (PEM) FUEL CELL SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS

ABSTRACTOne of the major problems facing commercialization of fuel cell systems, especially polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell systems is cost. Various researchers have reported different system configurations which perform differently in terms of energy utilization and cost. It is ther...

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📄 97 pages | 🧠 6493 words | 📚 5 chapters

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FAILURE ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH WEAR RESISTANT LOCALLY- MANUFACTURED GOLD - MILL GRINDING PLATES

ABSTRACTThe research work is centered on the failure analysis of the as-received locally produced grinding plates, development of high wear resistant grinding plates capable of grinding gold-bearing mineral deposit in Bagega village of Zamfara State. The work was carried out by evaluating the che...

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📄 87 pages | 🧠 10699 words | 📚 5 chapters

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IMPROVED DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SIMILAR POLE RATIO DUAL STATOR WINDINGS FOR SIX PHASE INDUCTION MACHINES

ABSTRACTThe desirability for new induction machines that possess the combined advantages of the well-established wound-rotor and squirrel-cage induction machines have motivated considerable research interests in the development of dual-stator induction machines. Although extensive literature surv...

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📄 92 pages | 🧠 7153 words | 📚 5 chapters

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