Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics-VOLUME 51 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2013

 

CONTENTS

Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
Optical properties of PVC-MWCNT nano composites         Estabraq T Abdullah*, Salma M Hasan & Asama N Naje	77
Design and fabrication of aspherical microlenses used for a USB fiber-optic connector         Chuen-Lin Tien*, Yan-Nan Lin, Yu-Chung Chen, Der-Chin Chen, Wen-Shing Sun &Chern-Sheng Lin	81
Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Equation of state for nanomaterials from thermal expansion         R Kumar & Munish Kumar*	87
High pressure equation of state for nano materials         Kuldeep Kholiya	94
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties
Simple method of controlling the resistivity of silver sulphide thin film prepared by chemical conversion technique         P Chattopadhyay* & S Guha Roy	98
Study of molecular interaction between some primary alcohols and anilines using concentration dependent dielectric properties         A N Prajapati, V A Rana* & A D Vyas	104
Electrostatic charge dissipation and electromagnetic interference shielding response of polyaniline based conducting fabrics         Parveen Saini* & Veena Choudhary	112
Neural network-based prediction of effective thermal conductivity of loose multi-phase systems         R S Bhoopal, P K Sharma, Sajjan Kumar, Ramvir Singh* & R S Beniwal	118
High field conduction in thin films of Se100-xPbx glassy alloys*         N Sharma & S Kumar*	125
Magneto-transport and mechanical properties of thermally evaporated Cd chalcogenide films         T M Rajakumar*, V Uma & R Chandramani	131

Authors for correspondence are indicated by (*)

 

Keyword Index

Amorphous semiconductors                        125

Antistatic fabrics                                          112

Artificial neural network                              118

Bruggeman parameter                                  104

Carbon nanotubes                                    77, 94

Chalcogenide glasses                                   125

Chemical conversion technique                      98

Conducting polymers                                   112

Effective thermal conductivity                      118

Elastic stiffness constant                              131

Electrical conductivity                                  112

Electromagnetic interference shielding         112

Electrostatic dissipation                                112

Equation of state                                      87, 94

Excess static dielectric constant                    104

Feedforward backpropagation                     118

Fiber-optic connector                                     81

Fluoro substituted anilines                           104

Hall effect                                                    131

High field conduction                                  125

High pressure                                                94

Hydrogen bonding                                       104

Localized states                                            125

Loose multi-phase systems                          118

Magneto resistance                                      131

Microlens                                                       81

Molecular ineraction                                    104

Multi Wall Carbon Nanotube                         77

Nanomaterial                                                  87

Optical properties                                           77

Optimization design                                       81

Polyaniline                                                   112

Polyvinyl chloride                                          77

Resistivity                                                      98

Space charge limited conduction                  125

Thermal expansion                                         87

Thin film                                                        98

Transverse magneto resistance                     131

Verticle-cavity surface emitting laser             81

Vicker’s hardness number                           131

Yield strength                                              131

International Journal of Vehicle Structures & Systems Volume 4 Issue 3

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Articles

Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures - Issues and Challenges	PDF
Ramesh Sundaram, G.M. Kamath, Nitesh Gupta

Innovative Material Systems for Composite Vehicle Structures	PDF
Prasad Potluri, Dhaval Jetavat , Paul Hogg

Advanced Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites for Mass Transit and Heavy Truck Applications	PDF
U.K. Vaidya, Selvum Brian Pillay, K. Balaji Thattai, Haibin Ning

Aircraft Composite Skin Stacking Sequence Generation using Genetic Algorithms	PDF
K. Sathyanarayana, V. Sandeep, K.R. Pradeep, D. Sujib, K. Ravindra, G.V.V. Ravi Kumar

Propagation of the Fundamental Symmetric Lamb Mode in a Symmetrically Delaminated Composite Laminate	PDF
C. Ramadas, Janardhan Padiyar, Krishnan Balasubramaniam, Makarand Joshi

Computed Tomography based Process Control of Composite Structures for In-service Defects	PDF
G. Ramesh Babu, B.N. Srinivasa Reddy, Krishna Murari

Study on Finite Element Modeling Aspects of Delaminated Honeycomb Sandwich Beams	PDF
K.R. Pradeep, S.M. Srinivasan, B. Nageswara Rao, K. Balasubramaniam

Civil Engineering & Construction Review-February 2013

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ICJ-The Indian Concrete Journal 87-2 February 2013

Current Issue
	313. Permissible temperature in fast breeder reactor vault concrete S. Divya Rani, Manu Santhanam, V. Venkatachalapathy and C. Sivathanu Pillai Factors affecting priority of maintenance for bridges Sanjay Wakchaure, Vishnu Jayan and Kumar Neeraj Jha Nonlinear elastodynamics of concrete water tanks with shaft-type staging Mamta R. Sharma, Arbind K. Singh and Gurmail S. Benipal 1
EDITORIAL NEWS & EVENTS Aircraft Hangar Flooring: Floor design of MRO hangar J.D. Buch Discussion Forum: Study of cracks in reinforced concrete members
Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste Recycling  The Central Public Works Department and Indian Concrete Institute are jointly organising the ICI - CPWD workshop on Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste Recycling during 28th February to March 1, 2013 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Geotechnical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering  The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar is conducting a short course on “Geotechnical Aspects of Earthquake Engineering” during 04 – 08 March, 2013 at campus. Innovative Materials and Construction  The Department of Civil Engineering, Adhiparasakthi Engineering College,  in association with the Indian Society for Technical Education and Indian Concrete Institute are organising and international conference on  "Innovative Materials and Construction" (ICIMC'13) during 8th and 9th April, 2013 at Melmaruvathur, Tamil Nadu. bauma 2013  bauma, the International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment will be held from 15 to 21 April 2013 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Germany. Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction  The ongoing economic challenges in many parts of the industrialized world are drivers of a paradigm shift: governments, companies and individuals are all becoming aware that although sustainable development incurs costs, it also offers considerable economic potential. This topic: “Economy of Sustainable Construction” is the focus of the 4th International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, to be held in Mumbai, India, from April 11 to April 13, 2013. Project Qatar 2013  The 10th International Trade Exhibition for Construction Technology and Equipment, Building Technology, Energy and Environmental Technologies will be held during 6-9th May 2013 at Doha, Qatar. Big 5 Construct India 2013  The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) along with the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India in cooperation with dmg events, UAE, is organising Big 5 Construct India during 02 - 04 September, 2013 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. Construction Technology / Trenchless Engineering  The Construction Industry Development Council along with the Mewar University  is offering a Ph.D Programme and M.Tech-Ph.D Integrated Programme for the Session 2013-14 in Construction Technology and Management and Trenchless Engineering. The UKIERI Concrete Congress    The UKIERI Concrete Congress titled "Innovations in Concrete Construction" will be held at Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab) during 5 - 8 March 2013. For detailed programme, logon to their website – www.ukiericoncretecongress.com. Vishwakarma Awards – Call for nominations  The fifth Annual CIDC Vishwakarma Awards will be held on 7th March 2013, at the Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. National Convention on Ferrocement  The Ferrocement Society (a trust formed by the engineers to promote ferrocement technology), Pune is organising a National Convention on Ferrocement titled ‘FS 2013’ at Pune during June 15-16, 2013 at Pune. Concreting at great heights in high rise buildings  The India Chapter of American Concrete Institute is organising a national seminar on "Concreting at great heights in high rise buildings" during 8th and 9th February 2013 at The Institution of Engineers (India), Maharashtra State Centre, 15, Haji Ali Park, K. Khadye Marg, Mahalakshmi, Mumbai. bC India 2013  The International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles — bC India 2012 — will be held during 5 - 8 February 2013 at Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Ecobuild India 2013  Ecobuild in UK commands the leading and most influential position as the world’s largest expo dedicated to sustainable building designs and eco-friendly construction. Building on the success, UBM Built Environment is delighted to launch Ecobuild India from 16-18 April 2013 at Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC), Mumbai. Conferences by IIT Madras  Rehabilitation and restoration of structures, February 13-16, 2013. Advances in building sciences, February 13-16, 2013. 2013 fib Symposium  The 2013 fib Symposium with the theme, "Engineering a Concrete Future: Technology, Modelling and Construction", will be held during April 22-24, 2013 at Tel-Aviv, Israel. Concrete Sustainability  The International Conference on Concrete Sustainability ICCS13 to be held during at Tokyo, Japan, from May 27 to 29, 2013, is organized by the Japan Concrete Institute (JCI) and jointly organized by fib, ACI, and RILEM, and will be the first international conference co-organized by the world’s leading academic concrete societies in which there are active committees on the sustainability of concrete. Call for Papers: 2nd UKIERI Concrete Congress  Whilst the response to the Congress to date has been excellent, the Congress Organising Committee would be pleased to further receive offers of original papers by the closing date of 31 March 2012 and would like to hear from potential authors with 250 words abstracts of their proposed papers in any of the six conferences of the Congress listed below together with their subject themes. In submitting abstracts, the authors are requested to indicate the Conference and the Theme under which they would like their papers to be considered.  Engineering a concrete future  The International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) will be organising an fib symposium on the theme 'Engineering a concrete future: Technology, modelling and construction', during April 22 to 24, 2013 at Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics VOLUME 51 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 2013

 

CONTENTS

Nuclear Physics
Cyclotron production of 94mTc via 94Mo (p, n) 94mTc reaction         Tayeb Kakavand*, M Aref , S Rajabifar & R Razavi	7
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Characterization of WO3-doped borophosphate glasses by optical, IR and ESR spectroscopic techniques before and after subjecting to gamma irradiation         M A Ouis, H A El-Batal*, M A Azooz & A M Abdelghany	11
Spectroscopic and radiative properties of Nd3+ ions doped zinc bismuth borate glasses             I Pal*, A Agarwal, S Sanghi, Sanjay & M P Aggarwal	18
Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics
Detection of the distribution of size of the desert aerosols by multispectral method LIDAR (UV to IR) by using genetic algorithms, compared with Longtin's model         Zeghbib Samir*, Bouzid Samia, Chaabi Abdelhafid & Latrous Mohamed Redha	26
Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Effect of exposure to electron beam irradiation in biopolymer papain and their electrical behaviour         S Muthulakshmi, P Chithra lekha, M Balaji, Ganesh Sanjeev & D Pathinettam Padiyan*	33
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties
Investigation of strain effect in InGaN/GaN multi-quantum wells         Ya-Fen Wu	39
Preparation and characterization of hot-pressed Na+ ion conducting nano-composite polymer electrolytes         Angesh Chandra*, Archana Chandra & K Thakur	44
Dielectric properties of different materials         V Kumar*, A K Shrivastava, Anita Sinha & Vijeta Jha	49
Comparative study of mechanical, dielectric and electrical properties of solution grown semi-organic NLO crystal glycine with additives-ammonium oxalate, potassium and barium nitrate         M N Ravishankar*, MA Ahlam, R Chandramani & A P Gnana Prakash	55
Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology
Design and implementation of quantum cellular automata based novel parity generator and checker circuits with minimum complexity and cell count         M Mustafa & M R Beigh*	60

Authors for correspondence are indicated by (*)

Author Index

Abdelghany A M                                           11

Abdelhafid Chaabi                                         26

Agarwal A                                                     18

Aggarwal M P                                               18

Ahlam M A                                                   55

Aref M                                                             7

Azooz M A                                                    11

Balaji M                                                         33

Beigh M R                                                     60

Chandra Angesh                                            44

Chandra Archana                                           44

Chandramani R                                              55

Chithralekha P                                               33

El-Batal H A                                                  11

Jha Vijeta                                                       49

Kakavand Tayeb                                              7

Kumar V                                                        49

Mustafa M                                                     60

Muthulakshmi S                                            33

Ouis M A                                                      11

Padiyan D Pathinettam                                   33

Pal I                                                               18

Prakash A P Gnana                                       55

Rajabifar S                                                       7

Ravishankar M N                                          55

Razavi R                                                          7

Redha Latrous Mohamed                               26

Samia Bouzid                                                 26

Samir Zeghbib                                               26

Sanghi S                                                        18

Sanjay                                                            18

Sanjeev Ganesh                                             33

Shrivastava A K                                             49

Sinha Anita                                                    49

Thakur K                                                        44

Wu Ya-Fen                                                    39

Keyword Index

⁹⁴Mo (p, 7n) ^94mTc reaction                              7

II-VI, III-V and I-VII materials                     49

ac Impedance                                                 33

Borophosphate glass                                      11

Conductivity                                                  33

Crystal growth                                               55

Desert aerosols                                              26

Dielectric properties                                 49, 55

DSC                                                               44

Electrical properties                                        55

Electroluminescence                                       39

Electron beam irradiation                               33

Energy gaps                                                   49

ESR                                                               11

FTIR                                                        11, 44

FTIR spectra                                                  18

Gamma irradiation                                         11

Genetic algorithms                                         26

Glasses                                                          18

High-resolution X-ray diffraction                  39

HPGE                                                              7

Internal strain                                                 39

Isotopic impurities                                           7

Klett inversion                                                26

LIDAR                                                          26

LIDAR (taking by impaction)                        26

Longtin desert model                                     26

Majority logic                                                60

Mechanical properties                                    55

Mie theory                                                     26

Morphology                                                   33

Nano-composite polymer electrolytes            44

Nanoelectronics                                             60

Optical materials                                            18

Optical properties                                           18

Organic compound                                        55

Papain                                                            33

Parity checker                                                60

Plasmons in bulk materials                            49

Production yield                                               7

QCA designer                                                60

Quantum cellular automata                             60

Quantum-confined-Stark effect                      39

SEM                                                              44

TGA                                                              44

Tungsten                                                        11

UV-visible                                                     11