Engineering Essays

Practical Applications of Electrostatics
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: The practical application of electrostatics is represented by such devices as lightning rods and electrostatic precipitators and by such processes as xerography and the painting of automobiles. Scientific devices based on the principles of electrostatics include electrostatic generators, the field-ion microscope, and ion-drive rocket engines....

The Three Stage Process of Spot Welding
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Sep 2021
Introduction: Spot welding is a process in which contacting metal surface are joined by the heat obtained from resistance to electric current flow. Work-pieces are held together under pressure exerted by electrode. Typically the sheet are in the 0.5 to 3 mm thickness range....

Aluminium Wings v Composite and Future Wing Materials
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Sep 2021
Introduction: This report will look at the Boeing 737, which features aluminium wings, and the Boeing 787 dreamliner, which incorporates composite wings, and refer to them for the comparison of the different properties and structures of the two wing types....

Hazards of Sulphuric Acid and Caustic Soda
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: A factory will be extended and it will consist of sulphuric acid and caustic soda and these two substances are hazardous substances which will be stored with propane which is a flammable substance and storage of these chemicals can pose various hazards to people and properties both on site and off site but theses hazards can be prevented or reduced as low as reasonably practical....

What is Digital Modulation?
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Aug 2021
Introduction: Digital modulation schemes transform digital signals like the one shown below into waveforms that are compatible with the nature of the communications channel. There are two major categories of digital modulation. One category uses a constant amplitude carrier and the other carries the information in phase or frequency variations (FSK, PSK)....

The Gear Reduction Starter
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: A starter motor is a high-torque motor for tuning the gear on the engine flywheel. Starter motor is also known as starting motor or a starter. The function of starter is to reduce the starting current by initially high resistance....

Traffic Light Controller Using 8085 Microprocessor
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Aug 2021
Introduction: The main aim of this project is to design a Traffic light controller using 8085 microprocessor, interfacing with peripheral device 8085, and program implementing the process....

Investigation into the Causes of Premature Failure of the Road Network of Bahria Town
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: Bahria town ltd started its development works in 1996 as a joint partner with Bahria foundation initially British Columbia were the consultants on the project....

Investigation of Masonry Arch Bridges Under Earthquake Loading
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Aug 2021
Introduction: This paper will evaluate the effects of in-plane and out-of-plane dynamic loading on various masonry arch bridge models under plane strain modelling. A constitutive model based on damage-plasticity will be adopted to represent the masonry elements based on historical values for strength, as well as plastic and elastic strain measures....

Evaluation of Discontinuities using Automatic Flaw Detectors
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Aug 2021
Introduction: In the lab manual experiment 5 and experiment 6 were displayed as separate experiments. In experiment 5, the setup of the equipment with programming the device and calibrating the setup for the GE Inspection technologies Portable Ultrasonic Flaw Detectors USM 35X, USN 58L, and USN60....

Use of blast furnaces
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: The use of blast furnaces dates back as far as early as fifth century B.C. In China. However, it wasn’t until 1828 that the efficiency of blast furnaces was revolutionized by preheating them using hot stoves in conjunction with the process, an innovation created by James Beaumont Nielson...

Mechatronics Case Study: Lunar Rover Sensors and Actuators
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: The aim is to design a lunar rover to explore the surface of the Moon and send back useful data for a period of a year. Different sensors and actuators are to be applied to the rover to receive useful information about the rover’s exploration....

Distributed Control System for Microgrid
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: This paper deals with how to implement a distributed control and monitoring system based on the Ethernet network in the microgrid. The paper describes a control strategy to implement both grid connected and islanded operation modes of the microgrid....

The Gear Basic Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: A gear is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with another toothed part in order to transmit torque. Two or more gears working in tandem are called a transmission and can produce a mechanical advantage through a gear ratio and thus may be considered a simple machine....

The Reciprocating Pump And Fluid Mechanics
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: A pump is a mechanical device which helps to move fluids including liquids or gases. It is basically a hydraulic machine which converts the mechanical energy to the hydraulic energy. The hydraulic energy is been present in form of the pressure energy. There are various types of pumps such as positive displacement pumps, velocity pumps, Buoyancy pumps, Impulse pumps. ...

Analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: The duty of the engineer is to react to people need by building or creating something along an appropriate set of guidelines. Importantly, that device, plan or creation should perform its function without any failure. Everything, nonetheless, must eventually fail to perform its given function with a sought after level of performance...

Advantages of RTL, DTL and TTL Logic Gates
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: A logic gate performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. The logic normally performed is Boolean logic and is most commonly found in digital circuits. ...

Sulfonation Of Petroleum Base Oils With Development Of The Emulsifiers
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: Sulfonation of Aromatic hydrocarbons , petroleum oil and vegetable oil has great importance in industry , in which useful surfactants material could be produced . Such surfactants could be used as detergent , emulsifying agent , softening agents , de-emulsifying agents etc ...

Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS)
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: This project will be using the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) based turbulence models in ANSYS FLUENT to simulate the high swirling confined turbulent flows in two different test cases and the results validated with experimental data....

The Application of Air-Coupled Impact-Echo Method to Detect Concrete Structure
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: The impact-echo method is a technique used for detecting cracks inside structures. This method is based on monitoring the surface motion due to a short-duration mechanical impact. ...

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Architecture
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) architecture allows multiple vehicles to communicate with the road’s infrastructure. This is then directed towards a central tower that allows multiple vehicles to operate on the same bandwidth. This helps all servers maintain the acceleration and position of all vehicles on streets and roads....

Recycling Model for Waste Reduction
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2021
Introduction: This project illustrates various metal objects to be recycled using the Waste Reduction Model that is being used in EPA’s....

Assembler Directives of 8086 Microprocessor
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Jul 2021
Introduction: Assembly languages are low-level languages for programming computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other IC. They implement a symbolic representation of the numeric machine Codes and other constants needed to program a particular CPU architecture....

Overview of Building Information Modelling and Its Use in Project Management
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2021
Introduction: Technological limitations and growth in computer software technology gave rise to “Building Information Modelling”....

Minimising Driver Startles from Autonomous Vehicle Take-over Requests
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2021
Introduction: The primary purpose of the research in this paper is oriented to study psychophysical states of the driver by applying various physiological data streams to two common TOR modalities (visual-auditory and generic auditory)....