Shear strength is the essential engineering property of soil required to analyze and design foundations, retaining walls, bridges, embankment, and related infrastructure. The laboratory equipment and field instruments are not sufficient in developing countries to obtain soil engi...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i417291
The present study assessed water quality parameters and attempts to compare four different Water Quality Indexes (WQIs) for consistency, similarity and reliability in assessing the water quality of river Benue -an inland river- under wet and dry seasons. The results demonstrate t...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i417290
This study aims to address the problem of machine saturation and low capacity at package singulation, caused by increasing product loading and new devices that requires frequent machine setups and conversions. With this evaluation, the process and equipment engineering group coll...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317289
Osuagwu Andrew Chima, Nkeleme Emmanuel Ifeanyichukwu, Amafili Tochukwu Nnamdi, Ike Goodluck Chukwuemeka & Nzeneri Oluchukwu Precious-favour·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2021
The maintenance of public building is evasive without a conscious practice of building surveying as it avails the maintenance personal insight that informs the building maintenance this The research evaluates the practice of building \surveying in South-East Nigeria and its im...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317288
This study focuses on eliminating the lead pullback problem in an automotive quad flat no lead (QFN) package in order to meet the non-negotiable requirement to have a solder wettable or solderable lead sidewall. It involves using a non-traditional approach of Monte Carlo toleranc...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317287
Advanced packaging at the back-end semiconductor manufacturing characterizes various equipment capabilities per device requirement. High resolution imaging for inspection system during die attach process has gained its interest to feature automated selections during in-line proce...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317286
Wirebonding is one of the most challenging assembly manufacturing processes in semiconductor packaging industry. This paper discussed the wirebonding challenge and the solution to mitigate misplaced ball issues and prevent pattern recognition alignment errors. Parameter optimizat...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317283
The optimum mercerization parameters for treatment of corn husk using NaOH were analyzed by response surface methodology (RSM). The surface morphology and chemical structures of the raw and NaOH-treated fibers were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffracti...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317284
Die crack is one of the problems in stacked die semiconductor packages. As silicon dies become thinner in such packages due to miniaturization requirement, the tendency to have die crack increases. This study presents the investigation done on a die crack issue in a stacked die p...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317285
In the leadframe package assembly process, silicon die is attached to the leadframe using a die attach adhesive material and the bonded strip is then cured. However, excessive strip warpage after the die attach cure process is a challenging problem that also affects the succeedin...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v20i317281