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Assessing drought characteristics of Melaka basin using joint meteorological and streamflow indices
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2019-06)In this study, drought occurrence in the Melaka basin has been assessed using the meteorological and hydrological drought indices. A continuous rainfall and streamflow data of 40 years were used for drought analysis. Results ... -
Assessment of railway safety in Southeast Asia region
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2021)This paper reports on the railway safety in Southeast Asia based on rail accidents and incidents trends. Rail transportation has many benefits, it includes fixed routes, cost-effective, safe and large capacity. It is also ... -
Assessment of the turbulence models for modelling of bubble column
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2009-12)This paper presents an Eulerian two-fluid modelling of the gas-liquid flow in a bubble column. The influence of the bubble size, turbulence models and the grid size on the gas hold-up and the axial liquid velocity were ... -
Automatic face recognition system
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2008-06)The paper presents the implementation of algorithms to develop an automatic face recognition system. The system extracts the human face and then recognizing that face for a match of the desired people from face database. ... -
Automatic identification of light verb constructions: a review
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2022)Light verb constructions (LVC) are complex predicates that are present in many languages. They belong to the Multiword Expression (MWE) category known as verbal MWEs and has the canonical form of verb+noun. Examples of ... -
Bed load transport model for field conditions – Using characteristic diameter approach
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2005-03)A deterministic bed load transport model based on mixed-size (non-uniform) bed material (MBB) has been developed using characteristic particle diameter and published laboratory and field data from the North American and ... -
Biaxial behaviour of thin concrete walls with rocking base connections
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2007-12)Monolithic fixed-based wall panel experienced moderate/severe damage during ground motion. Thus, an alternative wall such as rocking wall system will provide safer structures with minimal damage. This paper will focus on ... -
Bifurcation behaviour of the buck converter
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2014-06)The bifurcation and chaos phenomena appeared in power system have become a focus subject at present. It has become apparent about a decade ago that power converters exhibit various types of non-linear behaviour which ... -
Capabilities and services offered by Malaysian learning centres in assisting manufacturing enterprises in their digital transformation journey
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2022)Industry 4.0 encompasses a plethora of notions and technologies aimed at assisting manufacturing entities, particularly small and medium-sized firms, in gaining a competitive edge. Hence, an effective implementation of ... -
Capacitive interdigitated electrodes sensor for the field device to measure moisture content in the Nitrile gloves manufacturing industry
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2022)This paper investigates the impedance spectroscopy technique in determining moisture content in Nitrile gloves. Interdigitated electrode was designed and fabricated, then evaluated on LCR Impedance meter subjected to ... -
Carrier position third and fifth order IMDs of a radio-over-fibre system laser
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2008-12)The third order intermodulation distortion (IMD3), instead of the fifth order intermodulation distortion (IMD5), is often thought to limit the performance of the radio-over-fibre system as it tends to fall in-band. A ... -
A CFD analysis on the effect of vortex finder and cylindrical length on cyclone hydrodynamics and centrifugal forces
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2009-06)The article presents a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculation to predict and to evaluate the flow field and centrifugal forces of gas cyclones. The numerical solutions were carried out using commercial CFD code ... -
CFD investigation of fluid flow and turbulence field characteristics in a four-stroke automotive direct injection engine
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2008-03)The CFD simulation to investigate the effect of piston crown inside the combustion chamber of a 4-stroke direct injection automotive engine under the motoring condition is presented. The analyses are dedicated to investigate ... -
Characteristics of earthing systems under lightning surges
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2007-06)Overvoltage protective devices such as surge arresters and protective gaps are used to divert high lightning surges from line to earth through an earth electrode. An effective design of earthing systems is therefore ... -
Characteristics of optical silicone tactile sensor
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2015-07)The main objective of this research work is to analyze the characteristics of a newly developed optical tactile sensor for sensing surface hardness. Many optical tactile sensors are bulky in size and lack of dexterity for ... -
CNTs/SnO2 and CNTs/MNo2 nanocomposites for the fabrication of the electrodes for supercapacitors
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2012-09)The development of next generation high-energy and high-power aqueous supercapacitors is vital in an era when power demand has peaked. In terms of engineering related issues at the micro level, the major area urgently ... -
Coded space-time-frequency OFDM over IEEE 802.11 fading channels
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2007-03)This paper will present a 4-transmit and 1-receive (4Tx:1Rx) antenna system of coded space-time-frequency in conjunction with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (Coded STF-OFDM). STF block code is concatenated ... -
Combined flash-vaporisation and solar evacuated tube heat-driven absorption air conditioning system for the tropic
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2007-06)A theoretical study based on the thermodynamic consideration has been conducted for a combined flash-vaporisation and solar evacuated tube, heat-driven air conditioning system for cooling of buildings under the tropic ... -
Comparison of artificial intelligence (AI) based models for sediment transport prediction using swot and statistical analyses
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM), 2022)The dynamics involved in sediment scour are complicated. Hence, it is a challenging task to create a general empirical optimisation algorithm for reliable sediment load estimation. This study aims to analyse the architectures ... -
A comparison of mobile node’s handoff between mobile IPV6 and fast handover protocol
(The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, 2008-06)Mobile IP is standard protocol to support mobility for today and future networks, although it suffers from handoff delay when a mobile node changes its point of attachment in the network. This delay might cause packet loss ...