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A Comparative Investigation On Mechanical Properties Of Various Fibers Reinforced Concrete, Ahmed Al-Ghaban, Hussein Jaber, Aya Shaher Aug 2026

A Comparative Investigation On Mechanical Properties Of Various Fibers Reinforced Concrete, Ahmed Al-Ghaban, Hussein Jaber, Aya Shaher

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The present work presents an investigation the effect of adding various fiber materials such as (glass, nylon, and carbon) into the concrete mix for inspecting and compare the mechanical properties of different fibers reinforced concrete. Two different fiber length states of (short=3cm and long=10cm) are used in this work. The concrete of ordinary Portland cement of (1:1.5:3), (cement: sand: gravel), were mixed with each of the fiber materials at four different weight percentages (0, 0.4, 0.8, and 1.2) wt% per cement content. Compressive strength and flexural strength were experimentally investigated of different fibers reinforced concrete specimens after curing for 28 …

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Automatic Tool Path Generation For Parametric Surfaces, Tahseen Abbas, Sara Shawi Aug 2026

Automatic Tool Path Generation For Parametric Surfaces, Tahseen Abbas, Sara Shawi

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A tool path generation algorithm has been proposed and implemented in the presented work. The aim of the development of tool path algorithm is to machine parametric surface with a given tolerance and scallop height. The algorithm proposes dividing the desired parametric surface to several linear segments depending on the desired accuracy of the parametric surface. The Bspline technique has been used to generate the required data of the parametric surface. After generating the tool path, the cutter movement has been simulated allowing to reduce the cutting time and cost. The tool path is verified on the C-TEK CNC milling …

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Investigation Of Optimum Helix Angle Of A Wire Rope Subjected To Harmonic Dynamic Loading, Hatem Obeid, Riham Nima Aug 2026

Investigation Of Optimum Helix Angle Of A Wire Rope Subjected To Harmonic Dynamic Loading, Hatem Obeid, Riham Nima

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The current work includes the dynamic structural analysis of wire rope with different helix angle. The main objectives are; estimating the stress and deflection for each helix angle, comparing the results to get the best helix angle suitable for practical applications. This paper falls into two parts: The first part includes modal analysis for the models of wire rope using finite element method with certain boundary conditions that are suitable to obtain the first five frequencies for each helix angle and the second part focuses on harmonic analysis of wire rope to estimate stress and deflection and compares maximum results …

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Investigation Vibration Damping In The Hydraulic Systems By Using An Accumulator, Walaa Hashim, Huda Al-Salihi, Hisham Hoshi Aug 2026

Investigation Vibration Damping In The Hydraulic Systems By Using An Accumulator, Walaa Hashim, Huda Al-Salihi, Hisham Hoshi

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It is generally accepted that the vibration of fluid power systems considered to be one of the major problems that is normally occurred in the hydraulic system, which causes a noise and short life of its components. Accordingly, it should be reduced the efficiency as well as an increase leakage system. Hence, present study pays more attention to investigate a bladder an accumulator which was successfully added to the hydraulic system in order to reduce the vibrations that might be generated by the system and decelerate the actuator at the end stroke. Which variables are measured before relief and directional …

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Robust Multiple Model Adaptive Control For Dynamic Positioning Of Quadrotor Helicopter System, Safanah Raafat, Zainab Mahmoud Aug 2026

Robust Multiple Model Adaptive Control For Dynamic Positioning Of Quadrotor Helicopter System, Safanah Raafat, Zainab Mahmoud

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The quadrotor control has been one of the benchmark control problems. It is considered as an under-actuated, multivariable and high nonlinear system due to its dynamics, having strong coupling between translation and angular motion and affected by external disturbances associated with flight environment. Therefore, there is a need to design a robust control that can keep up with sudden changes and find better tracking performance against modeling error and uncertainties. In this work, an adaptive state feedback control method denoted as Classical Multiple Model Adaptive Control (CMMAC) has been implemented. This method embodies in its structure a bank of filters. …

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Mechanical Properties Modeling And Optimization For Polymeric Matrix Hybrid Bio Composite For Scaffolds Application, Jenan Kashan, Marwan Arbilei Aug 2026

Mechanical Properties Modeling And Optimization For Polymeric Matrix Hybrid Bio Composite For Scaffolds Application, Jenan Kashan, Marwan Arbilei

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TiO2 / Polypropylene composite considers very promising biomaterials in bone replacement and repair application, but mechanical properties still out of load bearing scaffolds application. In this work, two approaches were suggested to produce enhanced polymeric matrix bio composite for scaffolds application, 1st one was by using Nano TiO2 particles to produce bio composite with good mechanical properties. while the 2nd approach applied by the addition of Al2O3 Nano particles. Different processing conditions have been used like different compounding pressures, compounding temperatures, and chemical composition. This work aimed to investigate the effect of these additions and processing factors on mechanical and …

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Investigation Of The Effect Of Loading Paths In The Tube Hydroforming Process, Adil. Jaber Aug 2026

Investigation Of The Effect Of Loading Paths In The Tube Hydroforming Process, Adil. Jaber

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The control accurately of internal pressure, axial feeding and paths of loading which have important influences on the final tube quality. In this research an impact of loading path of the tube hydroforming process and final part requirements ( i.e. thickness specification and shape conformation) were studied numerically. Small bulge shape tube hydroforming parts were utilized in the finite element analyses to get several guidelines on the effect of the relation between the internal pressure and axial compressive feeding programs. Two dimension model of bulge shape tube (50 mm) bulge width has been developed from cylindrical tube with thickness (2mm) …

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Comparison Between Deterministic And Stochastic Interpolation Methods For Predicting Ground Water Level In Baghdad, Muammar Ali, Aqeel Al-Adili, Nagaratnam Sivakugan Aug 2026

Comparison Between Deterministic And Stochastic Interpolation Methods For Predicting Ground Water Level In Baghdad, Muammar Ali, Aqeel Al-Adili, Nagaratnam Sivakugan

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Surface interpolation techniques are usually used to create continuous data (i.e. raster data) from distributed set of point data over a geographical region. There are deterministic and stochastic (geostatistical) interpolation techniques can be used to create spatial raster surface. In this paper, the comparison between the Inverse Distance Weight (IDW) interpolation method as deterministic method and the Kriging interpolation method as stochastic method is done to determine the best performance for measuring levels of ground water in Baghdad Governorate. Spatial raster surface surfaces as ground water prediction maps are generated from each method by using average ground water level measured …

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Developing An Approach To Redesign Freeform Surfaces Using B-Spline Technique, Amjad Adulghafour, Ahmed Hassan Aug 2026

Developing An Approach To Redesign Freeform Surfaces Using B-Spline Technique, Amjad Adulghafour, Ahmed Hassan

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In product design process trends currently tend to use sculpture surface (freeform surface) that modeling by using (NURBS, B-spline, Bezier) technique to suit aesthetic, functional and manufacturability requirements. The B-Spline technique is one of the most important tools in computer aided geometric design (CAGD). This paper reported a new approach to design 3D freeform CAD model and then represented this model mathematically by using B-Spline technique. This mathematical represent consider one of the important aims that useful in manufacturing process through its geometric data which defines by this represent. The approach has three major steps: design 3D CAD solid contain …

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Fault Diagnosis In Wind Power System Based On Intelligent Techniques, Kanaan Jalal, Lubna Abd Alameer Aug 2026

Fault Diagnosis In Wind Power System Based On Intelligent Techniques, Kanaan Jalal, Lubna Abd Alameer

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Wind energy is one of the most important sources as well as being environmentally friendly and sustainable. In this paper, different types of faults of Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) have been studied based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Field Programmable Gate Array. To simulate the wind generators model MATLAB/Simulink program has been used. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained for detection the faults and (PSO) technique is used to get the best weights. After the training process, the network was transformed into a Simulink program and then converted into the Very High Speed Description Language …

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New Accurate Wattmeter Based On Logarithmic Amplifiers, Azzad Saeed Aug 2026

New Accurate Wattmeter Based On Logarithmic Amplifiers, Azzad Saeed

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Analog Computers can realize most of mathematical equations; these equations can be solved using difference, adder, logarithmic, anti-logarithmic, integrator, and differentiator amplifiers. The logarithmic and anti-logarithmic amplifiers are the main components of the analog computers, whereas, they can convert the multiplication and division operations to addition and subtraction ones, and they can convert the exponential functions to multiplication relationships. These amplifiers depend on the non-linearity of the relation between forward current and applied voltage of the diode. All of previous types of wattmeters, measure the consumed power of a specific load or resistor by multiplying the difference voltage of that …

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Applying Modern Optimization Techniques For Prediction Reaction Kinetics Of Iraqi Heavy Naphtha Hydrodesulferization, Zaidoon Shakor, Anfal Sadeiq Aug 2026

Applying Modern Optimization Techniques For Prediction Reaction Kinetics Of Iraqi Heavy Naphtha Hydrodesulferization, Zaidoon Shakor, Anfal Sadeiq

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In this study, a powerful modern optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Artificial neural network (ANN) were applied to estimate the optimal reaction kinetic parameters for Heavy naphtha Hydrodesulferization (HDS), the hydrodesulferization unit located in AL-Daura refinery-Baghdad/Iraq. The reactions was carried out in a fixed-bed reactor packed with Co-Mo/γ-Al2O3 catalyst and the operating was 315-400 °C temperature 35 bar Pressure and 0.5-2.1 hr-1 liquid hourly space velocity. The result showed that hydrodesulferization of heavy naphtha follows the pseudo-first order reaction kinetics. This study signifies that the reaction kinetic parameters calculated by Genetic Algorithm was …

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Effect Of V-Shape Twisted Jaw Turbulators On Thermal Performance Of Tube Heat Exchanger: An Experimental Study, Akram Abed, Nassr Hussein, Abdulmunem Abdulmunem Aug 2026

Effect Of V-Shape Twisted Jaw Turbulators On Thermal Performance Of Tube Heat Exchanger: An Experimental Study, Akram Abed, Nassr Hussein, Abdulmunem Abdulmunem

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The main purpose of the present investigation is enhancing heat transfer rate in a tube heat exchanger by using V-shape twisted Jaws. The air is used as a working fluid and pumped through the test section with different values of Reynolds number (6000 - 19500), while the heat flux has been selected as a constant boundary condition around the tube section. In this study, two type of twisted jaw turbulators are used with two twisted ratio (TR= 2 & 4) as well as, the effect of using different numbers of turbulators (N= 6, 8 and 10) inside test section with …

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Maximizing The Value Of Decay Rate For A Vibrated Beam, Sherko Ibrahem, Tahseen Othman Aug 2026

Maximizing The Value Of Decay Rate For A Vibrated Beam, Sherko Ibrahem, Tahseen Othman

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This paper presents design controllers by using control strategies and (LMI) in order to attenuate the vibrations of a beam. An Aluminum beam with fixed-fixed configuration was chosen as an application example of (AVC) of structure. Six conditions had been taken for (AVC) of the beam. In each condition the beam was the same, the changes was in the actuator and in the disturbance according to the location and the kind of the force applied. The attenuation in vibrations of this beam is in maximizing the decay rate (increasing the damping) and limiting the amplitude of the Beam. In this …

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Full State Feedback ���� And H-Infinity Controllers Design For A Two Wheeled Inverted Pendulum System, Hazem Ali, Zain. Shareef Aug 2026

Full State Feedback ���� And H-Infinity Controllers Design For A Two Wheeled Inverted Pendulum System, Hazem Ali, Zain. Shareef

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In this work, two robust controllers, which are full state feedback, ��2 and full state feedback ��∞ controllers are proposed for the two wheeled inverted pendulum system. The nonlinear equations for the two wheeled inverted pendulum system are developed using Euler – Lagrange equation. The system parameters changes are considered to show the effectiveness of the proposed robust controllers. These controllers are proposed not only to stabilize the pendulum in upright position but also to drive the position to track a given reference input. The results show that more desirable robustness and time response specifications can be achieved using the …

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Analysis And Simulation Of Unmanned Aircraft Propeller Motor Using Psim, Ahmed Yousif, Ammar Mohammed Aug 2026

Analysis And Simulation Of Unmanned Aircraft Propeller Motor Using Psim, Ahmed Yousif, Ammar Mohammed

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The study and simulation of a PI speed controller for small UAV or quadcopter motor is discussed in this research. The motor under consideration is MAXON 2260 215, which is a brushless DC motor that has permanent magnets on the rotating part and the stationary windings are connected so that the back electromotive force is trapezoidal. The motor utilizes a PI controller, which dominate the duty cycle of the PWM pulses applied on the switches of the inverter so that the motor can run at the required speed. A Chopper is used as a power converter and a proportional–integral as …

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Influence Of Saw Welding Parameters On Microhardness Of Steel A516-Gr60, Sadeq Bakhy, Samir Amin, Fouad Abdullah Aug 2026

Influence Of Saw Welding Parameters On Microhardness Of Steel A516-Gr60, Sadeq Bakhy, Samir Amin, Fouad Abdullah

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Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) process is generally used for industries, such as petroleum storage tanks, pressure vessels, and structural components.Good mechanical properties of welded joint lead to crack-free strong joints. In this research, included angle, current, welding travel speed and arc voltage were utilized as welding parameters to weld ASTM A516 Grade 60 (low carbon steel). The experiments were carried out according to a design matrix that established by DOE (Version10) with RSM technique. Microhardness of welded samples was measured by a Digital Microhardness Tester, and then RSM technique was used to model and optimize the microhardness based on the …

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Biosorption Technique For Naphthalene Removal From Aqueous Solution By Chara Sp., Algae, Talib Albayati, Khairi Kalash Aug 2026

Biosorption Technique For Naphthalene Removal From Aqueous Solution By Chara Sp., Algae, Talib Albayati, Khairi Kalash

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Grasping Force Controlling By Slip Detection For Specific Artificial Hand (Ottobock 8e37), Mofaq Twfeq, Ihsan Baqer, Asaad Abdulsahib Aug 2026

Grasping Force Controlling By Slip Detection For Specific Artificial Hand (Ottobock 8e37), Mofaq Twfeq, Ihsan Baqer, Asaad Abdulsahib

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This paper presents a theoretical and experimental study to control grasping force of specific artificial hand (Otto Bock 8E37), which it uses by amputees. The hand has two rigid fingers actuated by a DC motor through a multi-gears system. The aim of this work is to give the amputees a feeling of slipping while the hand grasping an object. The mathematical model has been derived to simulate the hand mechanism and analyze the generated signal of contact force between fingertip and the grasped object through a slippage phenomenon. The experimental work consisted of modifying the artificial hand design to aid …

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A Proposed Method For The Sound Recognition Process, Azad Kareem, Marwa Jassim, Mustafa Ali Aug 2026

A Proposed Method For The Sound Recognition Process, Azad Kareem, Marwa Jassim, Mustafa Ali

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One of the most important issues in the signal-processing world is the issue of sounds differentiations. It has many applications in identifying the sources of the sounds, and many researches nowadays serves in this field and all of them looking for the best way to have a high accuracy implementation of the discrimination process. Sounds can be recognized under suitable recording conditions by converting the sound signal from time to frequency domain (because Sound signal of a source differs from other sources by the frequency contents. This property serves to differentiate between sounds, and differences become visually apparent when the …

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Performance Study Of Solar Air Heater With Thermally Conducted Multi V Shaped Baffles And Ribs, Jalal Jalil, Ghaydaa Salih, Yosif Madh Aug 2026

Performance Study Of Solar Air Heater With Thermally Conducted Multi V Shaped Baffles And Ribs, Jalal Jalil, Ghaydaa Salih, Yosif Madh

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In this study, solar air heater with thermally conducted multi V shaped baffles and with same baffles and ribs are investigated experimentally and numerically to improve the performance of conventional air heaters. Numerically, steady state 3D forced convection turbulent model is used to solve Navier Stokes and energy equations of airflow inside rectangular duct of solar air heater. The code was validated by comparing the numerical result with experimental results and the agreement seems acceptable. The numerical studies were extended to study the cases of flat plate and straight baffles solar air heater. From experimental and numerical studies, it was …

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Design Of Speed-Controller For Brushless Dc-Motor Based On Grey Predictor-Pid Controller, Mohammed Ezzaldean Aug 2026

Design Of Speed-Controller For Brushless Dc-Motor Based On Grey Predictor-Pid Controller, Mohammed Ezzaldean

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Brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is a permanent-magnet synchronous motor but the commutator and the brushes are replaced by electronic commutation system. This motor is characterized by many advantages compared with other motors and it being used in a wide range of applications. In BLDC motor, speed control plays an essential role; the speed-controller has to respond rapidly to command changes and to offer enough robustness against the variations of the mechanical load. In this paper, the design of Grey-PID controller is proposed as speed controller of BLDC motor where a new adaptation algorithm is suggested to update the parameters …

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Design Of Compact Multiband Microstrip Bpf Based On Fractal Open-Ring Configuration, Hayder Ahmed, Hussain Hammas, Mohammed Hussan Aug 2026

Design Of Compact Multiband Microstrip Bpf Based On Fractal Open-Ring Configuration, Hayder Ahmed, Hussain Hammas, Mohammed Hussan

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Multiband bandpass filters (BPFs) are one of the core elements in the multi-services wireless communication systems. For this purpose, this paper presents a design of a compact multiband microstrip BPF design based on fractal open loop configuration. The proposed filter structure is composed of an array of equal side length open-loop resonators; each with different fractal iteration level. More specifically, the modified Minkowski fractal geometry has been adopted to be applied to the conventional open-loop rectangular resonator. The resulting filter configuration has an array of different open-loop structures corresponding to various iteration levels. The simulation of the presented filter is …

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Experimental Design Electromechanical Machine To Produce Electricity By Vertical Dynamic Load, Hosham Anead, Muhannad Khalefa, Esraa Abd Ul–Rzaq Aug 2026

Experimental Design Electromechanical Machine To Produce Electricity By Vertical Dynamic Load, Hosham Anead, Muhannad Khalefa, Esraa Abd Ul–Rzaq

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In This Paper is designed electromechanical machine and runningdown the industrial bump untapp..ed so kinetic energy of the vehicle as itpasses on the bump, this mechanism working principle of vertical movement ofthe descent of bump shift about 12 cm certified so the springs and gears group(rack and pinion gear), which kills it for circulation ( Large Sprocket), whichin turn will rotate (Small Sprocket) with a chain and then rotating the Dynamoand will in turn charges the battery. Practical experiments have been anachieved on the mechanism in the road, used vehicle is kind SAIBA success ofmechanism has been proved in bearing …

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Developing Of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Methodology In Second Power Plant Of South Baghdad, Amjad Abdulghafour, Ammar Abdulwahed Aug 2026

Developing Of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Methodology In Second Power Plant Of South Baghdad, Amjad Abdulghafour, Ammar Abdulwahed

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Electric equipments of power station must be operated in the state of high reliability with its responsibility in the seamless power supply. Maintenance is one of the important and most costly phases in the lifecycle of any power generation systems, to improve maintenance management and system reliability and maintain the continuity of work of the system. Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) is one of the most recent maintenance techniques. In this research, an enhanced RCM methodology based on quantitative relationships implemented at system component level and the overall system reliability was applied to identify the distribution components that are critical to system …

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Multiple Access Chua Chaotic Communication System Using Real Orthogonal Matrix Approach, Ali Radhi Aug 2026

Multiple Access Chua Chaotic Communication System Using Real Orthogonal Matrix Approach, Ali Radhi

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An alternative to traditional Pseudo-Noise (PN)-Sequences, one-dimension (1D) orthogonal chaotic map sequences, and three dimensional (3D) continuous chaotic systems (x,y,z) are generated by orthonormal Gram-Schmidt process. A new Orthogonal Chua Chaotic Sequences OCCSs-based Direct-Sequence/Spread-Spectrum-Code Division Multiple Access (DS/SS-CDMA) system is proposed. The proposed system combines the 3D Chua chaotic system with Real Orthogonal Matrix Approach (ROMA). Comparing to previous sequences, the OCCSs inherit all beneficial features of Chua's Circuit and ROMA scheme, such as the best correlation properties, higher capacity, Low Probability Interception (LPI), reliable security and good orthogonality. The three analytical Bit Error Rates (BERs) expressions for each orthogonal …

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Multiple Performance Optimization Of Carburized Steel Using Taguchi Based Moora Approach, Abbas Hussein, Laith Abbas, Asraa Hameed Aug 2026

Multiple Performance Optimization Of Carburized Steel Using Taguchi Based Moora Approach, Abbas Hussein, Laith Abbas, Asraa Hameed

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In this research, a multi-response optimization based on Taguchi method-based MOORA (Multi-response optimization based on ratio analysis) is proposed for carburization process of low carbon steel. Experiments were designed using (Taguchi’s) method with six input carburization factors (carburization temperature, carburization time, tempering temperature, tempering time, activator wt.%, and quench media). Depth case and wear rate were considered as the most response measures in this study. Results of the analysis shows that the carburization temperature is the most significant variables for the optimum outcome results. The desired response measures and mathematical model were achieved and used as optimum condition tool. The …

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Sliding Mode Controller Design For Flexible Joint Robot, Ivan Gorial Aug 2026

Sliding Mode Controller Design For Flexible Joint Robot, Ivan Gorial

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This paper suggests a flexible joint robot operated by brushed Direct Current (DC) motor model. Due to complex high-order, nonlinear dynamical system which operating under parameter’s uncertainty, sliding mode control (SMC) used to solve this problem of control the flexible joint robot. The SMC method is identified as one of the effective method to design robust control for the flexible joint robot, which based on t using a Low Pass Filter (LPF) with suitable time constant. The mathematical model is presented clearly and the simulations together with their analysis are done using MATLAB software. Simulation results display the efficacy of …

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High Rate Data Processing System Of 6x6 Mimo_Ofdm Using Fpga Technique With Spatial Algorithm, Muthna Fadhil Aug 2026

High Rate Data Processing System Of 6x6 Mimo_Ofdm Using Fpga Technique With Spatial Algorithm, Muthna Fadhil

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OFDM has high spectral Performance and pliability in multipath channel effects while MIMO use another strategy for saving power of transmitter by using multi in multi out antennas to make throughput processing in high efficiency. The transceiver MIMO OFDM implemented on an FPGA typeSpartan3 XC3S200 with proper algorithm, Invoke method and QPSK modulation. The project prospective to improve the transceiver operations in terms of data transmission in high speed and saving power for wireless communication system take in consideration the cost of implementation hardware. In the result registered throughput data rate 425 Mbps using spatial algorithm (ICA with SD algorithm) …

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Effect Of Current And Duty Factor For Different Electrode Shapes On Material Removal Rate In Edm, Shukry Aghdeab, Nagham Ghazy Aug 2026

Effect Of Current And Duty Factor For Different Electrode Shapes On Material Removal Rate In Edm, Shukry Aghdeab, Nagham Ghazy

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This paper discusses the performance of Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) process by changing the bottom shape of the electrode, including two stages: designing the electrodes by turning process then the resulted electrodes were used to machine the workpiece by EDM. The effect of electrode shape on material removal rate (MRR) has been investigated for material of CK 60 carbon steel for workpiece and material of brass for electrode. The shapes of the electrode bottom were flat, conical (with 90º apex angle) and round (with 8 mm radius) of constant diameter electrode of 16 mm. Experiments were repeated for three current …

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