Table of Contents

Volume III

Section V (Applied Mechanics)

Title/Author	Page
NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION OF ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANKS M. Thavasi Muthu, John Pumwa and Lave Michael	1
MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF KNITTED TEXTILE COMPOSITES Omar Anwar Khondker	7
BENDING ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES A. Nosier and F. F. Rajabzadeh	13
PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF MONOHULL HIGH-SPEED FERRIES – A MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION APPROACH Mahiuddin Chowdhury , Prabhat Kumar Pal and Dugald Peacock	19
APPLICATION OF SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC GRINDING BY LOW POWER ROBOT Mohammad Jashim Uddin and Yasuo Nasu	25
PREDICTION OF FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR IN AN ALUMINIUM ALLOY UNDER SPECTRTUM LOADING G. Krishnasamy, Paul Vizhian. S and P. Vijaya Kumar P.K. Dash	33
ADAPTIVE RESEARCH AND IMPACT STUDY OF THE BRRI DEVELOPED AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY IN BANGLADESH M. A. Baqui	39
EFFECT OF PALM OIL METHYL ESTER AND ITS EMULSIONS ON ENGINE WEAR AND LUBRICANT DEGRADATION M. A. Kalam, H. H. Masjuki and M. A. Maleque	45
EVALUATION OF VSA TOLERANCE ANALYASIS SOFTWARE PACKAGE AS A FUNCTIONAL DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING TOOL SUITABLE FOR A CONCURRENT ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT M. N. Islam	49
DEVELOPMENT OF A GRINDING DYNAMOMETER FOR AN INDUSTRIAL MODEL T. P. Bhowmick N. R. Dhar and J. Rana	57
MODELING OF WEAR AND FRICTION UNDER BOUNDARY LUBRICATED CONTACT – ROLE OF PALM OIL METHYL ESTER (POME) M. A. Maleque and H. H. Masjuki	63
EFFECT OF FLYASH AND CENOSPHERE WITH LM6 ON WEAR AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES M. C. Krishna Murthy, S. N. Sridhara S. Seetharamu and R. K. Kumar	69
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LOCALLY MANUFACTURED PVC PIPE Md. Ashraf Hossain Ashok Kumar Ray Mohonta and Amalesh Chandra Mandal	77

SEMI MAGNETIC ABRASIVE MACHINING P. Jayakumar	81
REVIEW OF JUTE REINFORCEMENT FOR FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL A. A. Shaikh and S. A. Channiwala	87
A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF ULTRASONIC IMMERSION TESTING FIXTURE R. Basak and M. Bhattacharya	91
STUDY OF DRY SLIDING WEAR OF ALUMINUM FLYASH METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE K. V. Mahendra and K. Radhakrisna	97
SIMULATION OF SOLIDIFICATION BEHAVIOR OF CYLINDRICAL HOLLOW CASTING BY USING FEM TECHNIQUE Suneel Kumar N. Kulkarni and K. Radhakrishna	103
KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF PLANAR WHOLE ARM MANIPULATOR S. C. Pilli and T. S. Mruthyunjaya	109
AN INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOCALLY PRODUCED WOOD Mohammad Kamruzzaman and Amalesh Chandra Mandal	115
BAUZIA SEED-FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR – A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY READY FOR COMMERCIAL USE A. T. M. Ziauddin and Ferdous Hussain Khan	117
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON HARD CHROMIUM COATING OF TESTING MANDRELS FOR CONTRACEPTIVES (A CASE STUDY) K.C. Raipurkar and S.G. Kulkarni	123
A STUDY OF EFFECT OF GROOVE ANGLE ON ANGULAR DISTORTION AND IMPACT STRENGTH IN BUTT WELDS N.S.Rajkumar, K.Ravi Varma, Shweta Gupta and T. Srihari	127
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLIFIED DESIGN PROGRM FOR SHEET METAL DENTING D. W. Jung and Y. Lee	131
DEVELOPMENT OF BOUNDARY ELEMENT SOFTWARE FOR CONTACT STRESS PROBLEMS - INTERFERENCE PIN WITH FRICTIONAL INTERFACE IN ORTHOTROPIC PLATE AND SUBJECTED TO PLATE LOAD T.M. Murthi, A. C. B. Naidu, H.K. Rangavittal and G.Giridhar	135
STUDIES OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF WELDED HIGH MARTENSITE DUAL PHASE STEELS FOR STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS U. N. Kempaiah, N. Venkateswara Prasad, B. K. Muralidhara and Asim Bag	141
STATIC PERFORMANCE OF MISALIGNED HOLE-ENTRY HYBRID JOURNAL BEARING INCLUDING SURFACE ROUGHNESS EFFECTS T. Nagaraju, Satish C. Sharma and S. C. Jain	147
FLUID FILM BEHAVIOUR IN A CYLINDRICAL BORE JOURNAL BEARING Dewan Mohammad Nuruzzaman	155
ADAPTATION OF RING SPINNING IN THE FLYER SPINNING MACHINE FOR PRODUCTION OF FINE JUTE YARN Md. Osman Ghani Miazi, Latifa Binte Lutfar and M. A. Rashid Sarkar	161
STEEL COLUMN DESIGN WITH ‘C^++’ PROGRAMME Md. Serajul Mawla, Ejajujzaman and Abu Rayhan Md. Ali	167
FINITE DIFFERENCE SOLUTION OF MIXED BOUNDARY-VALUE ELASTIC PROBLEMS S. Reaz Ahmed, Noor Al Quddus and M. Wahhaj Uddin	171
EFFECTS OF DYNAMIC LOAD ON INITIAL TIGHTENING TORQUE OF NUTS AND BOLTS Ishraq Shabib and M. M. Helali	177
FATIGUE FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS OF A FIBRE REINFORCED PLASTIC S. M. Nazrul Islam and M. M. Helali	181
UNIQUE BEHAVIORS OF THE SUPERELASTIC SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY UNDER TENSILE AND COMPRESSIVE LOADING Muhammad Ashiqur Rahman, Junji Tani and Jinhao Qiu	185
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SHIP HULL FAIRING USING SPLINE AND BEZIER FUNCTIONS M. M. Rahaman and M. R. H. Khondoker	189
OPTIMIZING MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION FOR PRESCRIBED APPARENT FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IN FGM COATINGS Ali Mohammad Afsar and Hideki Sekine	197