Karthick Loganathan

Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Aluminium Alloy based Metal Matrix Composites (AAMMCs) has widely used in defense, aircraft and automobile applications because of their enhanced engineering properties with light weight metals. Nano sized silicon nitride (80 μm) is used as a reinforcement in this study, whereas aluminium alloy 8011 is selected as the matrix material. Using the sti...

This study aims to examine the mechanical, thermal, and water absorption properties of Si₃N₄-reinforced vinyl ester rebars integrated with silane-treated chopped pineapple fiber for use in the construction sector. The development of FRP rebar building material using bio-extracted fiber and filler particle promotes innovation in infrastructural sect...

This research explores the synergistic impacts of grape stalk–derived lignin biopolymer and Celosia cristata microfiber reinforcement in polymer composites, examining their effects on mechanical, wear, thermal conductivity, and flammability properties. The stir-casting method is employed during the fabrication process to amalgamate the biopolymer a...

This research delves into the development and characterization of polymer composites reinforced with grape stalk extracted lignin biopolymer (GSLB) and Celosia cristata stem fibers (CCS). The primary objective of this research is to develop a biocomposite using biodegradable fibre and fillers derived from biomass wastes as well as to characterize t...

Enhancing health monitoring for diabetes patients requires routine surveillance. Integrating IoT, embedded software, data analytics, intelligent systems, and smart devices can alleviate healthcare costs. Improved communication technologies enable remote exercise therapies. An intelligent healthcare infrastructure and expanded network packages are c...

Modern technology has improved to the level that robots are possible to interact like human beings. Therefore, human-robot interaction has gradually become a part of human society. At the same time, technology is still in the process of refinement for better interaction with humans. Therefore, AI for content detection and dialogue AI has developed...

The healthcare system, viewed as an organization, demands robust security and privacy measures. These encompass safeguarding patient medical data, ensuring prescription drug safety, establishing secure connections with vehicles like ambulances, and deploying intelligent e-health monitoring systems. Blockchain technology has emerged as an innovative...

Over the past two decades, multiple robot deployments aimed at assisting elderly individuals in their homes have been tested. However, most concepts remain in the prototype phase, yet to be implemented practically. This research aims to explore the field's evolution, identifying barriers hindering robots from becoming household helpers and focusing...

Academia has recently focused on taxi demand prediction, seeing its potential in intellectual transference systems. Older methodologies often overlooked nuanced journey conditions, mainly forecasting from origin locations. This approach lacks efficiency, disregarding demand dynamics between origins and destinations. The research introduces taxi ori...

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) with autonomous vehicles has sparked a wave of innovation in the logistics and transportation sectors. This chapter delves into developing and deploying a cutting-edge AI-powered driverless delivery solution poised to revolutionize last-mile logistics. Drawing from past experiences in vehicle technology, the...

The necessity of appropriated energies like thermal and electrical is utilized to conduct the demanding thermal processes like heating, cooling, and cleaning used in the dairy fabrication industries. There are some complex issues to choose along with incorporation of the equipment utilized for the solar processing system including the extensive com...

The growing popularity of 6G-enabled internet of things (IoT) is addressing persistent challenges in long-term applications. Large-scale knowledge analytics requires real-time, accurate data analysis from AI. When utilizing artificial intelligence for in-depth data analysis, challenges emerge in safety, confidentiality, teaching data, and integrate...

In today's competitive industrial landscape, accurate data collection and analysis are paramount for business growth and daily operations. Business intelligence (BI) facilitates quicker and more effective functioning across various sectors, including human resources (HR), finance, marketing, and manufacturing. Integrating BI systems empowers organi...

Renewable energy has grown rapidly in recent decades as a result of the environmental issues associated with utilizing fossil fuels and the limitations in the sources of these types of fuels. Systems using renewable energy may be used to produce clean energy in many different industries. The use of renewable energies in the medical and dentistry fi...

In this research, the main aim is to focus the enhancement of aluminium-based metal matrix composites for improving the attributes of light weight metals, aerospace structures and other tailor blank material properties. By this way, the friction stir processing (FSP) was the suited alternate technique to enhancing the mechanical attributes and supe...

This paper examined the performance of an integrated wastewater treatment system, namely an Electro-Fenton (EF) with Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactor (ASBR), for textile dyeing wastewater. Laboratory-scale feasibility studies on electro-Fenton processes using a novel steel flake used as a catalyst were carried out to investigate the color and che...

In this chapter, nano-fluids are a type of fluid with suspended nano-sized particles that are useful in various fields, such as manufacturing, medical, 3D printing, tissue engineering, and fluid effects. Nano-fluids can be used as coolants and lubricants to improve machining accuracy and reduce tool wear, as well as additives in coatings and adhesi...

In friction stir welding, tool shoulder diameter and its rotational speed are the major in uencing parameters than others. A simple novel correlation is proposed to select the optimum range of tool shoulder diameter with respect to the chosen rotational speed and vice versa. e conditions to apply derived correlation were de ned through process heat...

In friction stir welding, tool shoulder diameter and its rotational speed are the major in uencing parameters than others. A simple novel correlation is proposed to select the optimum range of tool shoulder diameter with respect to the chosen rotational speed and vice versa. e conditions to apply derived correlation were de ned through process heat...

Natural-based composite’s progress as carriers has revealed many benefits in biomedicine, notably in the construction field, synthetic biology, and genetic engineering. Compared to analogous composites without nanoparticles, incorporating nanoparticles into polymeric materials improved architectural performance, physiological connections, and ecolo...

An integrated power and cooling cycle is planned, which is theoretically analyzed with various working fluids to evaluate the performance, and also the environmental impact of the selected fluids is discussed. The proposed cycle has the cooling system as Vapour compression refrigeration and power cycle as Organic Rankine Cycle. Both the cycles are...

Nowadays, most of the cars have air conditioning as a standard feature, which improves comfort and safety. Automatic temperature control, incorporated cooling, warming, de-misting and de-frosting, air filtration, humidity management, and safety are all characteristics of modern systems. The interior cabin temperature has the greatest impact on pass...

In this work, SolidWorks and ANSYS is used to create and analyses a 3D solid model of a two-wheeler crankshaft. The crankshaft materials EN8 and AISI 4130 are chosen, and their performance is examined and compared. The stress fluctuation on the surface of the component was determined using FE Analysis. ANSYS software is used to apply the force and...

The safety system is the most essential while driving the two-wheeler. There are many types of safety systems and security systems are available like a two-wheeler automatic side stand, locking system etc. Even though many modernizations have been made in two-wheeler vehicles, there are still some problems arriving in the safety system, many improv...

Natural fibers are plentiful and offer a significant cost savings over fully manufactured composite materials. The usage of natural fibres is widespread in many technological applications requiring great strength and stiffness with little weight. Banana fibre has high mechanical properties and minimal deformation during testing. Comparison of glass...

In this paper, the performance and economic analysis of a heat pump water heater assisted regenerative solar still using latent heat storage was experimentally studied. The heat released during condensation of water vapour inside the solar still was regenerated using a heat pump to pre-heat the saline water before entering the basin and producing h...

In this work, design and analysis of spur gear tooth modification to increase the performance by using fool proofing technology. A modification has made in the tooth gear to analyse slippage, efficiency and misalignment. The CATIA software is used to create the 3D model of spur gear and ANSYS is used for numerical simulation. A fool proofing techno...

The objective of the present work is to develop and analyze a two-wheeler crankshaft 3D model using solid works and ANSYS. EN8 and Forged steel are selected as crankshaft materials and their performance is evaluated and compared. Finite Element Analysis was used to determine the stress variation on the crankshaft’s surface. The load and boundary co...

An assembly unit was in need of decreasing labour and increasing productivity, especially in the motor fitting section of its industry. A semi-automatic retractable scissor lift was designed and fabricated in order to speed up the fitting of electric motor and reduce the waiting time of dispensers in the queue. With this semi-automation, production...