The financial cost of downtime can be very significant, especially in manufacturing industries. As a result, no business wants to experience downtime. In this study, the reliability of two identical machines code named GDA and GDB used in a cement manufacturing industry was asses...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v7i216965
The microstructure of a weldment can be maintained by ensuring a steady state homogenous melting profile of the welding operation, which includes the deposition of optimum volumes of melted filler wire and substantial part of the heat affected zones of the parent metal to form th...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v5i116918
The focus of this study was to investigate the impact of corrosion attack in carbon steel C-1040 marine piping system using weight loss method. Two carbon steel specimens (coupons) of cylindrical shape were selected and weighed before they were exposed to two different test solut...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2019/v4i116892
About 80% interruptions of cellular network availability occur due to power outage on BTS stations and reliability analysis of these systems is yet to receive exhaustive studies. Most network providers solely depend on generating power on their BTS sites using diesel generators s...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2018/v2i416705
In this study, the influence of three submerged arc welding process parameters, namely welding current, welding voltage and travel speed on weld hardness of AISI 1020 mild steel plates has been studied by the application of Taguchi method and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The exp...
This research was undertaken to comparatively determine the effects of corrosion in cast steel C-1030 and copper C-642 used as selected materials in marine heat exchanger design. Cast steel C-1030 immersed in freshwater at 0.0003M after twenty one (21) days (0.0567yr) gave corros...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2019/45822