Smart materials are materials by which their properties are able to be altered due to external stimuli such as temperature, pressure and magnetic field. Magnetorheological Elastomer (MRE) is a type of smart composite ...

Social robots are being considered to be a part of the therapy for children with autism due to the reported efficacy such technology in improving the outcomes. How ever, children diagnosed with autism exhibit challenging ...

Automobile industry have grown a lot since the last century and caused a serious issue of emission releases to the atmosphere regardless of how useful it is to human beings. Compression ignition diesel engines in particular ...

The challenge associated with the use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic pipelines is to improve their structural integrity without increasing their cost. Currently, PVC pipelines are the most cost-effective method ...

Most common cause of materials and equipment failure in the oil and gas industry is corrosion. According to one survey, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the total downtime in plants is due to deleterious effects of corrosion. It is, ...

Extreme weather conditions in the Arabian Gulf such as Qatar tends to be humid and high in temperature mostly throughout the year and this affects the performance of the vehicles engines negatively, especially diesel ...

This thesis describes the synthesis of HA/rGO/Pd and HA/rGO/Pt nanocomposite thin film coatings on stainless steel 304 and pure zirconium applied via an electrodeposition method. The corrosion and biocompatibility ...

In this thesis, a literature review was conducted to cover the assessment techniques for Oil and Gas (O&G) pipework that includes Small Bore Pipes (SBP). The various methods that were studied are the most commonly found ...

Hydraulic fracture is a well stimulation process that involves injecting pressurized liquid at high velocity to initiate and propagate a fracture in the deep rock formations through which hydrocarbons are extracted ...