Engineering Research: Perspectives on Recent Advances Vol. 1

This book covers key areas of engineering research. The contributions by the authors include stainless steel AISI 316, post weld heat treatment, arc welding, duplex stainless steel, slurry trench procedure, soil – bentonite mix, Dalaman-Akköprü dam, soil improvement, shear strength, blended portland cement concrete, artificial neural networks, genetic programming, multiphase 4-switch DC-DC converter, ripple reduction, dual-mode operation, interleaved DC-DC converter designs, zero-voltage-transition cell, quantitative feedback theory, robust control, coaxial micro-helicopter, dynamic analysis, UAV multirotors, single rotor drones, Kalman criterion, artificial neural networks, multilayer feed-forward neural networks, heat transferring baffle inserted tubes, programmable logic controller, working conditions, loco pilots, mental workload, psychosocial work environment, affordable oxygen concentrators, pressure swing adsorption, pneumatic tubes pipes, pressure swing adsorption technology, oxygen therapy, Spearman’s correlation coefficient, applied thermodynamics, engineering mathematics courses, academic performance. This book contains various materials suitable for students, researchers, and academicians in the fields of engineering research.