Conference Themes
Research articles, with equal emphasis on experimental, computational, and analytical studies, that address the challenges in global sustainable development from the following disciplines of engineering will be considered for presentation at the conference after a thorough peer-review process: Civil, Mechanical, Marine, Aeronautical, Automation, Aerospace, Production, Automobile, Electrical, Electronics, Communication, and Computer Science. Research papers from the following list of topics are invited:
Structural Engineering and Environmental Engineering
- Construction materials – binders, aggregates, road construction materials, materials for energy efficiency
- Green building
- Alternate civil construction methods (Prefabrication)
- Building information modelling
- Construction and demolition waste recycling
- Health and wellbeing of construction workers
- Digital and smart civil construction
- Indoor environmental quality in buildings
- Mitigation of dust across the lifecycle of buildings
- Smart cities
- Solar heating and cooling
- Solar buildings
- Desiccant dehumidification and moisture control in the built environment
- Wastewater treatment
- Solid waste management
- Biogas and biomass byproducts from waste disposal
- Landfill gas, digestor gas, and solid waste
- Treatment of landfill gas to remove siloxane compounds
- Activated carbon to remove siloxanes from landfill gas
- Graphite-based activated carbon
- Coconut shell-based activated carbon
- Landfill emissions – nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter
Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
- Matrix and/or reinforcement for composite materials
- Materials for catalysis
- Materials for energy systems
- Plastic materials
- Packaging materials
- Binary metal alloys
- Heat storage materials
- Sustainable manufacturing quality systems
Thermal Sciences and Energy Engineering
- Hydropower
- Marine and ocean energy
- Wind energy
- Solar desalination
- Solar photovoltaics
- Biomass energy systems
- Geothermal energy
- Nuclear energy
- Combined heat and power systems
- Waste heat utilization
- Fuel cell technology
- Decentralized energy production systems
- Air pollution
- Greenhouse gas
- Numerical modeling and simulation of particulate flows
- CO2-enhanced oil recovery
- Computational fluid dynamics-based simulations of processes related to energy storage devices and energy conversion devices
- Stochastic optimization in energy systems
- Heat transfer through electronic components
- Gas turbines
- Small-scale turbomachinery
- Micro gas turbine (MGT) technology
- Exhaust gas recuperators
- Box type and annular type recuperators
- Energy efficient design of tiny radial compressors and turbines for micro gas turbines
- Heat pumps
- Organic Rankine cycles
- Agro-energy complexes
- Catalytic combustion
- Constant exhaust gas temperature running condition of MGT for optimum efficiency and emissions.
- Variable speed operation of MGT to optimize efficiency and emissions at part load
- Bypass valve control for variable heat output
- Gas safety monitor
- Gas boost compressor for MGT
- Sliding vane and scroll types of compressors
- Sliding vane wear
- Cogeneration system consisting of MGT integrated with waste heat recovery boiler
- Fuel nozzle design in a biogas fired MGT
- Combustion chamber design for a biogas fired MGT
Electricity Generation Engineering
- High-speed permanent magnet alternators
- Solid-state power electronics
- Distributed electricity generation
- Micro-turbine generator
- Power conditioning electronics units
- Fuel cell
- Auxiliary power units for aerospace applications
- Core assembly and winding, magnet provision and bonding, sleeve construction and pre-stressing for high-speed turbo alternator
- Finite element studies of synchronous permanent magnet drum-type configurations and high-speed alternator
- Modelling of electrical system performance of high-speed alternator
- Rotor power loss in high-speed alternator
- Micro-structure examination of material sections of high-speed alternator
- Power density and efficiency of high-speed alternator
- Heteropolar drum-type rare-earth permanent magnet alternator topology
- Electro-magnetic stator-rotor interaction across the radial gap in PM Drum type Heteropolar
- Optimum design speed of drum type of PM machine with the consideration of internal mechanical stress due to centrifugal force and system dynamics
- Design of alternator for single shaft arrangement with power turbine
- Design of alternator for dual shaft arrangement with free power turbine
- Permanent magnet disc-type alternator topology
- Carbon-fiber technology for retaining the sleeve of magnets in the PM alternator
- Inconel and titanium retaining sleeves for magnets in the PM alternator
- Thermal design and cooling of the stator core of the PM alternator
- Design software for PM alternator
- Power conditioners for stand-alone (island) mode and utility-connected mode
- Microprocessor-based power controller system
- Total harmonic distortion
- EN 500081-1 standard for domestic conducted emission levels
- Island mode protection – dc offset control and current limiting to optimize transformer energization and motor start capability
- Utility mode protection – over and under voltage, over and under frequency, incorrect phasing, and loss of supply
- Island mode operation and utility mode operation
- Export mode operation to meet current harmonic limits defined in IEEE 519
- Load following mode
- Peak shaving mode
- Dual mode switching
- Solid-state power converter assembly
- Power filter
- Power controller
- Management of utility interaction
- Pulse width modulating switching technique
- Advanced materials for power filters to minimize power loss
- Programmable Logic Controller for Micro Gas Turbine
- Structured Query Language database for control system of micro gas turbine
Design Engineering
- Product design for sustainability
- Integrated mechanical design and optimization
- Product design for disassembly, reuse, recovery, recycling, remanufacturing
- Product functionality, serviceability, maintainability, upgradability
- Zero- and near-zero landfill designs for manufacture
- Dynamics of structures
- Structural vibrations
- Wave propagation in structures
- Structural dynamic testing and control
- Pedestrian-structure interaction
- Machine design
- Mechanical vibration
- Finite element modelling
- Applied mechanics
- Computational mechanics
- Computational solid mechanics
- Non-linear and multi-body dynamics
- Rotor dynamics
- Rotor dynamics of turbomachinery
- Dynamics of rail vehicle
- Semiactive control of rail vehicles in high-speed
- Vibration mitigation
- Metamaterials in vibration mitigation
- Machinery health monitoring
- Vibrations and noise in machinery
- Fault diagnosis of rolling element bearings
- Hydrodynamic, rolling element, and magnetic bearings
- Gas lubrication and bearings
- Air bearing design and fabrication
- Analysis, design, and testing of fluid film bearings, gas bearings, and seals for oil-free turbomachinery
- Design, analysis, and development of high-speed air foil bearings
- Passive magnetic bearings
- Thermoelastic instability in the bearings
- Non-Newtonian Rheology
- Power law model and cubic law model
- Couple stress fluid model
- Micropolar fluid model
- Electrorheological fluid model
- Synthesis and application of smart magnetorheological fluids
- Elastomer shock isolators
- Vibration isolation by shape-memory alloys
- Nonlinear energy sink absorbers
- Tribology
- Hydrodynamic/hydrostatic lubrication
- Hydrodynamic/hydrostatic thrust/journal bearings
- Surface topography
- Surface texturing
- Signature analysis
- Pinhole defect
- Mass sensitivity diagnosis analysis
Electrified Transportation Engineering
- Autonomous, connected, and electric mobility
- Product design, innovation, and integration for chip-to-car supply chain
- Digital twins and simulation-powered designs
- 5G Connectivity
- Artificial intelligence
- Cloud computing technology
- Automation technology
- Drag coefficient reduction
- Battery management system
- Internet of things
- Semiconductors technology
- Electronic safety and reliability
- Decarbonization and sustainability
- Autonomous driving safety analysis by vehicle simulation
- Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)
- Battery electric vehicles (BEV)
- Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV)
- Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV)
- Fuel efficiency regulations
- Carbon neutral (CN) fuel, carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)
- CO2 in life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Well-to-tank (WtT) emissions of CO2
- Tank-to-wheel (TtW) emissions of CO2
- Electric mileage per charge
- Charging time and infrastructure
- Electric vehicle price and battery cost
- Materials for battery
- Battery cooling technology
- Battery deterioration control
- Charging technology
- Battery recycling and reuse
- Electric drive modules: inverter, electric motor, transaxle, and motor-generator
- Power semiconductor modules
- eAxle technology
- Thermal management of battery
- Advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS)
- Rumble and booming noise in electric vehicle drive train
- Electric vehicle battery development
- Automotive engineering systems
- Data science in battery management
- Smart manufacturing and management of electrical batteries
- Software-defined vehicles
- Internet protocol (IP) technology to automotive
- Telematics control unit
- Non terrestrial network
- Sensing and vision technology
- Chiplet for scalability
- Chiplet memory bandwidth and power efficiency
- Automotive visualization platform
- Embedded Si-bridge RDL interposer and RDL interposer
- Multi-physics analyses for heterogeneous integration of chiplets
- Signal and power integrity analyses of coupled chip-package design
- Dynamic voltage drop analysis of chiplet
- Wafer/panel/MIP/package warpage, delamination and crack in chiplets
- Thermal proofing and thermos-mechanical stress analyses of multi-die chip packages and interconnects
- Universal chiplet interconnect express for automotives
- Three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DIC)
- Fifth-generation electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture for automotive
- Vehicle centralized or cross-domain, zonal, and central compute units
- Scalable processor platforms
- Reusable software and internet protocols
- Reconfigurable processors for artificial intelligence processing
- Virtual development and fast prototyping
- Highly automated driving solutions
- Machine learning