Shwetank Avikal

Shwetank Avikal
Graphic Era Hill University · Department of Management Studies

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July 2009 - August 2013
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
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  • Researcher
August 2013 - February 2022
Graphic Era Hill University
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (84)
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Integrating sustainable renewable energy sources into electric vehicle (EV) charging is critical to reducing carbon emissions and promoting environmental sustainability. This integration holds tremendous potential for enhancing affordability, sustainability, and grid resilience. By incorporating renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydroe...
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Battery electric vehicles are an evolution in the automobile industry as they also contribute to reducing the harmful effects of vehicles on the environment because of fossil fuels and the release of carbon dioxide. The purchasing decision of the consumer is highly dependent on the specific criteria when it comes to the adoption of Battery electric...
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The chemical fertilizer industry is progressing towards digitalization and implementing value added data driven methodologies to enhance the process control and reliable critical equipment operation. Companies are hiring Predictive maintenance (PDM) vendors to digitalize the real time predictive maintenance of high-speed critical rotating machines....
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This paper focuses on conception of voltage interruption signal in different domains. According to IEEE Standard 1159, Interruption is categorised under short-duration voltage variations in the description of classification of ‘Power quality Disturbances’. Power quality disturbances affect the quality of electric power supplied by utilities to powe...
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Enhancing heat and mass transfer efficiency is crucial for reducing energy consumption and mitigating environmental impact in various industries, including power generation, electronics cooling, and chemical processing. This study explores the impact of solar radiation, bioconvection, micropolar fluid properties, and nanoparticle and chemical react...
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In this study, we conducted numerical simulations to investigate a novel approach for revolutionizing agricultural methods. The focus was on combining sun-powered tractors with Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in the flow of a tetra hybrid nanofluid (TETHNF). The TETHNF consists of Magnetite (Fe3O4), Silver (Ag), carbon nanotubes (CNT) nanoparticles susp...
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Currently, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are gaining traction in the market due to their low or zero carbon footprint. In this study, the power management of a Fuel Cell (FC) and Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) using Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) is investigated. Due to its sensitivity and low power density, the FC is used in parallel with a battery t...
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Hybrid systems combining fuel cells with battery and supercapacitor storage offer a promising solution for efficient and flexible energy management. Fuel cells, which convert chemical energy into electrical energy, provide a clean and sustainable power source but face challenges like slow response times and limited power density. Integrating batter...
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Political researchers and scientists have long sought to forecast the results of upcoming elections in a democratic setup. Prediction approaches have been combined to improve prediction accuracy. In this work, we focus on India, utilizing exit polls spanning the last 8 years to develop machine learning-based prediction models. Exit polls provided b...
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Internet of Things abstracts the ability to remotely associate and observe things or objects over the Internet. When it comes to agriculture, this idea has been incorporated to make agriculture-related tasks smart, secure, and automated. Agriculture is vital for economic growth and also for the survival of humans. Farmers living in rural areas of I...
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Purpose The aim of the present work is to develop a method to find the preventive measures for COVID-19 and their priorities. These preventive measures are prioritized according to the expert opinion. Design/methodology/approach An integrated method using the Kano model and Fuzzy-AHP is used to achieve the study objectives. First, the preventive m...
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The academic performance (scores/credentials) of a student during an educational program is generally linked to his/her employability (including the placement package he/she receives) (Cheong et al., 2018). However, in a program like MBA non-academic performance like extracurricular activities, interpersonal skills, etc., of a student is equally or...
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Energy is vital for techno-socioeconomic development of global transportation sector. A country's energy policy will aim to provide an appropriate mix of resources to meet its energy demand. Biofuels have emerged as an alternative to meet the energy requirements. The contribution of this study is the evaluation of sustainable biofuel energy policie...
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Isolation of two Zn solubilizing microbes from Zn deficient soils and later identified as Aspergillus sp. and Penicillium sp.) two bacterial strains (B. megaterium and B. subtilis.) procured which were tested for their Zn solubilizing abilities both qualitatively and quantitatively along with their acid production ability. In this study, 6 factors:...
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The use of 3D printing for manufacturing has assured to produce parts with complex shapes and designs. Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the type of rapidly growing additive manufacturing technology. Poly (lactic acid) (PLA) or Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) are the mostly used materials in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) machine. Th...
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The present work presents a CFD analysis of an air-curtain to analyze its performance. The supply velocity, supply angle and temperature variation are the important parameters to study the performance of an air-curtain. The supply angle was kept at an angle of 0° and 20° with door height. The supply velocity was considered at 18 m/s and 20 m/s. The...
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The present invention relates to water filtration and harvesting system. The System mainly consists of two components, as Conveyor belt and integrated filter. The conveyor belt is made up of small rings and has blades over it. The filtration system is an assembly of different layers of filter papers and detachable/ replaceable. There is no prior te...
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects are risk prone due to software complexity, budget overruns, long duration, poor project delivery and a broad range of organization transformation processes. Companies are hiring experienced external consultants to achieve successful implementation of ERP system. Proper selection of ERP consultant is chall...
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The world is dealing with unprecedented times with COVID-19 pandemic ravaging one nation after another. Most of the nations which witnessed the pandemic earlier, are on the path of recovery, while the pandemic is discovering new grounds in Africa, South America and Asia. This work proposes a framework to compare the outbreak, spread and decline of...
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Purpose The operational activities of manufacturing organizations are continuously degrading the environment. Circular economy adoption can help industries optimize their resources along with minimal waste generation. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the barriers that hinder the adoption of circular economy (CE) in the manufactu...
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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are prone to risk from the strategic, operational, technical and organizational perspective. The assessment of project risks is a challenging task for project managers and is considered in a class of a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. In this work, an MCDM approach has been presented for ris...
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In today’s life, transportation is the most important, but the use of automobiles nowadays seems to be creating more problems. The major problems are pollution, unavailability of conventional fossil fuels. The usage of bicycles had health benefit, and it is environmentally friendly. Only we required minimum initial investment and no maintenance cos...
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Water pipelines in hilly areas often burst during winter because the water in the pipes freezes due to low temperatures. During the expansion of freeze water, the pressure inside the pipe rises suddenly, and therefore, because of this sudden pressure rise, pipe ruptures. Protecting pipes from breakage, a concept of piping insulation is introduced....
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Composites are widely accepted in design, structural and automotive applications but metal matrix composite have an edge due to its excellent design properties. Various Metal Matrix Composite (MMCs) such as Titanium, Magnesium based, are widely used but, MMCs based on aluminium provide light weight to strength ratio and of course due to this novel...
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This paper presents the numerical analysis of heat transfer characteristics of working fluid in a circular tube with inserted Half-Moon shape roughness. The Half-Moon (HM) shape roughness is specially used to upgrade the heat transfer rate in circular tubes along the length. In the present paper, we have a circular tube of length L = 1500 mm, Inner...
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Metal matrix composite is widely accepted in many new engineering applications due to its superior design properties. Among all, MMC based on aluminium adds an advantage of lightweight to strength ratio. Aluminium hybrid metal matrix composite is used in many structural applications such as aerospace, automobile, space, etc. In AHMMC matrix materia...
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Extraction of various distinct features from speech, Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) have been employed as classifiers. Age estimation performance has been inferred by employing excitation source features (LPCCs). The detected age of a speaker is deemed to belong to any of the 9 age groups of 5–10, 10–15, 15–20, 20–25, 25–30, 30–35, 35–40, 40–45 and...
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In rural areas of India, people face a problem of stable power backup for cell sites. Power failure is a common problem and occurred on frequently basis. Telecom tower companies are dealing with various problems for installation of telecom tower in rural areas like pollution created by diesel generator, reliability of energy source, intermittent po...
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Drag and lift are two important parameters to evaluate the aerodynamic performance of a passenger vehicle. Lesser drag and lesser lift (greater downward force) is required for satisfactory performance of a car. The addition of spoiler at rear part of car is used to achieve the requirements. Lip-type spoiler is frequently used for small car. A small...
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The process of selecting a material among various available materials is a tedious process. Depending upon the applications and the need of the product, the most suitable materials are to be analysed on various parameters before making a decision for the selection of best material. Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approaches have been used...
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Friction stir welding (FSW) has been widely acceptable in various welding applications nowadays due to its versatility like the ease in use and eco-friendly. FSW is a solid-phase joining process. It has the inherent property to weld aluminum and other such metals over conventional or solid/liquid phase joining process. FSW seems to be an efficient...
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The hip joint is one of the most important parts of the body and the fractures of these joints are common nowadays. The reasons for fracture are accidents, age, and diseases. This study was conducted on 35–45-year-old male bone by applying the required materials properties with boundary conditions by varying the loading from 75 N to 200 N with the...
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Now days, manufacturing of new products using composite materials is in trend. In the present work alkali treated walnut shell powder is consider as a reinforcement material which is reinforce in epoxy matrix composite. Walnut shell powder (5%, 10%, 15% and 20%) by weight is added as a particulate matrix to prepare test samples. Test samples were p...
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The computational model of rectangular solar air heater is analyzed by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In this work, we investigate the heat transfer, friction factor, and fluid flow characteristics in the SAH channel with mounted fan and arc shape roughness along the total length (L = 1200 mm), and these results are carried out from the...
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Increasing energy demands and various environmental stringent laws are the factors which give thrust area to the scientist to develop clean and green energy for future and sustainable developments. Biofuel (Biodiesel) seems like an alternative that can meet several energy requirements. Biodiesel from Non-edible vegetable oil is getting more attenti...
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Increasing energy demands and various environmental stringent laws are the factors which give thrust area to the scientist to develop clean and green energy for future and sustainable developments. Biofuel (Biodiesel) seems like an alternative that can meet several energy requirements. Biodiesel from Non-edible vegetable oil is getting more attenti...
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Purpose In today's era of a digital world, mobile phones have now become an essential part in everyday life. The selection of the best mobile phone among the available alternatives is a complex decision making it a problem for the customers. Mobile phone manufactures are facing a lot of problems for launching/introducing a mobile phone according to...
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Installation of telecom towers in remote areas especially in developing countries like India is a major problem for telecom industries because of the unavailability of reliable power supply. The grid supply is not regular in these countries and up to some extent, they are dependent on diesel generators for power supply. But these diesel generators...
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The inception, of COVID-19, has turned into pandemic and as a consequence infected cases and human deaths are increasing continuously day by day all around the globe. COVID-19 virus spreads directly from people to people. A lot, of remedial activities, identified by the WHO and other authorities have been suggested to the people to perform as prese...
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Front axle beam is a very important component of a vehicle, it carries about 35–40 per cent of the total load on the vehicle. It experiences fatigue loading due various factors such as engine vibrations, bumps on the road, etc. therefore it becomes very crucial to design and analyse the axle for its fatigue life. In this work, Siemens NX is used to...
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Multi lobe bearing have been widely used to support high speed rotating machinery because of their superior durability and load carrying capacity. Therefore, the bearings are important machine elements for enhancing the quality of the rotating machinery. The performance of rotor bearings is mainly depending upon two factors pressure and oil film th...
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Material selection plays a vital role in process of mechanical and structural design. Various Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques have been employed to ease the material selection process. In presented work, Fuzzy AHP and M − TOPSIS based approach has been employed to select composite material on the basis of various material propertie...
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Skin stiffened constructions are common in aircraft structural components that are subjected to compressive loads. The skin is so thin that it provides very little resistance to buckling against in-plane compressive loads. The objective of the design optimization is to obtain the minimum structural weight of the stiffened panel. The MSC/NASTRAN is...
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Biomechanics deals with the study of the mechanical aspects of the biological objects. The humerus bone is the longest bone of the upper body. In this study, we apply different loads on the humerus bone fixing the proximal (upper end) and applying varying loads on the distal side (lower end) and note down the displacement and maximum stress occurri...
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The Hip joint is the main joint of our body which connects the upper portion of femur to pelvic which is responsible for the movement of the body. Hip fracture depends upon the strength of bone as well as the impact forces applied From past studies we got to know that the percentage of hip fractures are more in old persons and it is also a main cau...
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The aesthetic appearance and features of a product are the most censorious elements for the accomplishment of a product in the industry. An aesthetic is the quality element which adds value to the product design. Product design is a basic need of every manufacturing company in which visual aspects play an important role to enhance the customer sati...
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This paper proposes a method of weight optimization of a composite hat stiffened panel of a transport aircraft wing meeting the strength and buckling design constraints for different stringer spacings. The final configuration of stiffened panel drives the optimum stringer spacing and the minimum weight. The YSFI criterion is used for strength where...
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This paper analyses on structural strength of the rear bulkhead of a transport aircraft.
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In this study,many researchersstudied flat bulkhead, but Dome-shaped bulkhead is more preferable as it withstands pressure loads. Wemodeled a rear pressure bulkhead of a typical transport aircraft using CATIAV5modeling software. Finite element analyses were carried out by the rear pressure bulkhead subjected to the boundary conditions (Fuselage is...
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AISI 1045, AISI 1053 and AISI 4140 are the mostly used material for axle shaft of a vehicle. The comparative study of these materials definitely will help in selection of appropriate material for required condition. AISI 4140 has shown greater Young's modulus, yield strength and tensile strength, but moderate ductility is observed. The lesser ducti...
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Bio-mechanics is most difficult to carry out on the bone due to the modeling difficulty and complex forces acting on the bones. In this study, we consider human femur bone for modeling analysis. The modal analysis is also important as that of static analysis. We can predict the place at which the fracture occurs. The modal analysis for three differ...
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In today’s era, there are many fastest growing industries in this world and Tourism is one of them. Tourism plays a crucial role for the economic growth and advance development of a Nation. India is one of the most well-liked tourist destinations in Asia. Tourism is one of the major sources of foreign exchange. It helps in development of internatio...
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In today’s era, there are many fastest growing industries in this world and automobile industry is one of them. Today’s automobile industry plays an important role in consumer life. Consumer search for a car that packs together best feature at a reasonable/affordable cost. Every year, various models with latest technology and excellent features are...
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Welded joints could be seen in major uses in structures, automobiles, metal fabrication industries etc, thus the strength of these joints is an important parameter. Applying various heat treatments to these joints can improve significant amount of mechanical properties. In this presented work a Grey based Taguchi optimization method has been propos...
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India has always been an attraction seeker to tourist from all over the world. India indeed stands through its tittle “INCREDIBLE INDIA” because of its diversity in culture and religion. Tourism in India is economically important and is growing rapidly. About 22.57 million tourist arrived in India in 2014, compared to 19.80 million in 2013. In term...
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As we all know that, in this era everyone wants to buy a car that may be mid price ranged or may be a high price range car. People want that in their car should carry feature according to them. It has been seen in the past decades that the sale of automobile in India is increasing rapidly and a number of car manufactures have joined Indian car mark...
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Disassembly lines have become one of the most suitable ways for the disassembly of large products or small products in large quantities for efficient working of disassembly line; its design and balancing is prudent. In disassembly lines, task assignment in appropriate schedule is necessary for designing and balancing the line. In this paper, a heur...
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Disassembly of outdated and previously consumed product takes place in field of remanufacturing, recycling, reusing and disposal. The disassembly lines have become the first choice for disassembly of the product that has been consumed previously. Disassembly line should be designed and balanced properly so that it can work as efficiently as possibl...
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In this competitive era, success of any car model is depends upon its aesthetics attribute. Any improvement on a car model will directly or indirectly has an effect in our daily life. Hence it is important to know for manufacturer that what consumers want, what are their needs and what aesthetics they want on their own car. Aesthetic aspects have a...
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Nowadays, new products have been introduced in the market at an ever increasing pace due to rapid technology advancement. Consequently, products are becoming outdated and discarded faster than ever before. Since the demand for new solutions to economically deal with such outdated products begun to rise, the disassembly line has emerged as a viable...
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Disassembly of discarded products takes place in the process of remanufacturing, recycling, and disposal. The disas-sembly lines have been taken as available choice for automated disassembly; therefore, it has become essential that it be designed and balanced to work efficiently. The multi-objective disassembly line balancing problem seeks to find...
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Assembly line balancing (ALB) aims at distributing those work required to assemble a product in mass or series production among a set of workstations in an assembly line. Heuristics approaches, in corporation with computer simulation, have demonstrated a number of advantages in practice. In this paper a technique has been presented for the hybridiz...
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Disassembly operations are inevitable in product recovery. Now days, disassembly lines have been a viable option for automated disassembly of returned product. The balancing of disassembly is therefore prudent for product recovery operations. It is very difficult to find the optimal balance of a disassembly line because of its N-P hard nature. In t...
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Disassembly activities take place in various recovery operations such as remanufacturing, recycling and disposal. Disassembly of used product is necessary because of their malign effects on environment. The problem of sequence generation in disassembly is complex and is difficult to solve. The optimal balance of a disassembly line is thorny because...
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Disassembly operations are inevitable elements of product recovery with the disassembly line as the best choice to carry out the same. The product recovery operations are fully based on disassembly line balancing and because of this, disassembly lines have become the chaise of automated disassembly of returned product. It is difficult to find the o...
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The assignment of tasks to work stations in an assembly environment has been the matter of concern to researchers so that the efficiency of the system can be enhanced. An assembly line may be define a flow-oriented production system where the productive units performing the operations, referred to as stations, are aligned in a serial and sequential...

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