Archives-December 

Fatigue cracking and rutting contribute significantly to the failure of asphalt pavement. In the design of asphalt pavement, it is necessary to investigate these critical strains and design against them. In Nigeria, the only developed design method for asphalt pavement is the California Bearing Ratio (CBR) method. Most of the roads designed using the CBR method failed soon after construction by fatigue cracking and rutting deformation. This study was conducted to develop a modified Nigeria CBR procedure for low volume asphalt pavement adopting the layered elastic analysis procedure which involves selection of materials and layer thickness for specific traffic conditions such that fatigue cracking and rutting deformations are minimized. Analysis were performed for hypothetical asphalt pavement sections using the layered elastic analysis program EVERSTRESS. Regression equations were developed for predicting pavement thickness in cement-stabilized base, low-volume asphalt pavement. The result was validated by comparing calculated maximum fatigue and rutting strains developed using the modified procedure and measured strain data from the Kansa Accelerated Testing Laboratory (K-ATL). The calculated and measured fatigue and rutting strain were calibrated and compared using linear regression analysis. The calibration of calculated and measured fatigue and rutting strains resulted in R2 of 0.999 and 0.994 respectively for subgrade modulus of 31MPa, 0.997 and 0.997 respectively for subgrade modulus of 41MPa, 0.996 and 0.999 respectively for subgrade modulus of 62MPa, 0.992 and 0.995 respectively for subgrade modulus of 72MPa, 0.999 and 0.998 respectively for subgrade modulus of 93MPa, and 0.999 and 0.999 respectively for subgrade modulus of 103MPa indicating that the coefficients of determination were found to be very good.

We are very happy to announce that from 19th April 2013, Mr. Ajay B. Gadicha has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Computer Science and Engineering. Mr. Ajay B. Gadicha is currently working as Assistant Professor at P.R.Pote(Patil) College of Engineering, Amravati. The appointment of Mr. Ajay B. Gadicha as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 1st July 2013, Mr. Gurudatt Anil Kulkarni has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering. Mr. Gurudatt Anil Kulkarni is currently working as Lecturer in Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Marathwada Mitra Mandal's Polytechnic, Pune. The appointment of Mr. Gurudatt Anil Kulkarni as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 20th November 2013, Mr. Zehraa Najim Abdul-Ameer has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Physics. Mr. Zehraa Najim Abdul-Ameer is currently in Department of Physics, College of Science, Al Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq. The appointment of Mr. Zehraa Najim Abdul-Ameer as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 22nd October 2013, Mr.Rab Nawaz Lodhi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Management. Mr.Rab Nawaz Lodhi is currently working as Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal Campus, Pakistan. The appointment of Mr.Rab Nawaz Lodhi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

We are very happy to announce that from 15th August 2012, Ms. Nadia Asghar has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Economics. Ms. Nadia Asghar is currently associated with Department of Economics, Preston University Islamabad. The appointment of Ms. Nadia Asghar as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to chiefeditor@elixirjournal.org. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

An unmagnetized dusty plasma consisting of static negatively charged dust fluid, nonthermal distributed electrons, and adiabatic ion fluid has been considered. Basic properties of the dust-ion-acoustic shock waves have been made by the reductive perturbation method to derive the Burgers’ equation for nonplanar geometry. The solution of modified Burgers’ equation in nonplanar geometry is numerically analyzed and it has been found that, the nonplanar geometry effects have a very vital role in the development of shock waves. We also discovered that; the inclusion of the nonthermal electron distribution significantly modifies the shock wave profile. The change of the DIASW structure due to the effect of ion temperature and dust density is studied.

Life Insurance is important for everyone to protect family incase of their demise the insured money will save their family. Our objective of this paper to find out the peak age of people interested to take insurance policy and when they mostly use the benefits in their policy period. It has been classified into six benefitst. To study this problem, they divided and defined four types of matrices. Now we use this model to study of the people interested to take insurance policy and when they mostly use the benefits in their policy period.

This paper investigates the development of Al6061/Si3N4 metal matrix composites using stir casting technique and optimize the process parameters in turning based on Genetic Algorithm. In this metal matrix composites Al 6061 alloy reinforced with 3% and 5% weight by volume of Si3N4 particles of mean diameter 75µm was used. Experiments were performed in the CNC lathe by using CNMG inserts at various cutting conditions and parameters such as cutting speed, feed and depth of cut and surface roughness was found at different levels. The optimization of machining parameters was done by using Genetic Algorithm.

Air conditioning system is highly required device for getting comfort to human being also in industry application. But this device is hungry of lager amount of electricity. The ever increasing energy requirement puts a great burden on the further economical development as India is poor in energy resources. How to reduce the energy consumption by using new energy saving technologies and equipment is an important task now days. A study was carried out to investigate the effect of Earth Heat Exchanger ( Heat Pipe) , Peltier Module with and without combination with vapour compression air conditioning system with return air. The results show that the coefficient of performance of the system can be improved and the energy required by the compressor can be reduced when Peltier Module and Earth Heat Exchanger is used before cooling coil and provide supplementary cooling air to evaporator coil. On the basis of this study, it is recommended that HVAC systems should be installed with Earth (heat pipe) heat exchangers and peltier module for dehumidification enhancement.