Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems

Volume 2

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Suresh Chandra Satapathy •

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Arkanti Krishnaiah • George A. TsihrintzisEditors

International Conferenceon Emerging Trendsin Engineering (ICETE)Emerging Trends in Smart Modelling Systemsand Design

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EditorsSuresh Chandra SatapathyKalinga Institute of IndustrialTechnology (KIIT)Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

K. Srujan RajuDepartment of CSECMR Technical CampusHyderabad, Telangana, India

Kumar MolugaramUniversity College of EngineeringOsmania UniversityHyderabad, India

Arkanti KrishnaiahDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringOsmania University,University College of EngineeringHyderabad, India

George A. TsihrintzisDepartment of InformaticsUniversity of PiraeusPiraeus, Greece

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Our Alma Mater & Eminent Professors whotaught us

for their inspiring vision, unwaveringconviction and tireless efforts that haveresulted in nurturing hundreds of eminentglobal citizens and effective human beings.

“Once an Osmanian Always an Osmanian”

University College of Engineering,Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

University College of Engineering (UCE) has the distinction of being the oldest andthe biggest among the engineering colleges of the State of Telangana, India. It wasestablished in the year 1929, eleven years after the formation of OsmaniaUniversity. The college was the sixth engineering college to be established in thewhole of British India. The college moved to its present permanent building in theyear 1947. Today, it is the biggest among the campus colleges of OsmaniaUniversity. The golden jubilee of the college was celebrated in 1979, the diamondjubilee in 1989 and the platinum jubilee in 2004. The college was made autono-mous in 1994. University Grants Commission of India conferred autonomy status tothe college for a period of 6 years (2016–2017 to 2021–2022). The college offersfour-year engineering degree courses leading to the award of Bachelor ofEngineering (B.E.) in biomedical engineering, civil engineering, computer scienceengineering, electrical and electronics engineering, electronics and communi-cations engineering and mechanical engineering. The college also offers graduateprograms and Ph.D. in the various branches of engineering. As of today, there is ayearly intake of 320 undergraduate students (full-time) and 290 postgraduate stu-dents (full-time and part-time). There are 143 teaching staff members, including 40professors.

The UG programs offered have been accredited by the National Board ofAccreditation, New Delhi. Osmania University is accredited by NAAC with “A+”Grade. UCE, OU, is the first engineering college to get ISO 9001 Certification inTelangana State. University College of Engineering was awarded the BestEngineering College by Indian Society for Technical Education (Telangana) in theyear 2010. UCE, OU, was adjudged as the Best Engineering College in the countryfor the academic year 2003–2004 by Indian Society for Technical Education,New Delhi, and by Star News for the years 2010–2011 and 2011–2012.

The college has successfully completed the Technical Education QualityImprovement Programme (TEQIP-I) under the World Bank financial assistance ofRs. 15.48 crores during the period 2003–2008. The outcome of the project hasresulted in: (i) increase in pass percentage of UG/PG students, (ii) enhancement ofresearch publications of staff by threefolds, (iii) introduction of six PG programs in

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niche areas, (iv) introduction of credit-based system and (v) substantial increase ininternal revenue generation.

The college has successfully completed Phase II of TEQIP program with afinancial assistance of Rs. 12.5 crores and additional grant of 5 crores under thebest-performing institution category. Recently, the college has been approved as aminor center under QIP for full-time Ph.D. programs. The college has been selectedfor TEQIP Phase III twinning program with a financial assistance Rs. 7 crores. Thecollege has been granted “Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics and IT” forfull-time Ph.D. program. The GIAN program of MHRD has sanctioned 7 programsin specialized research area to the college. The college has been ranked 80 in NIRFEngineering College Ranking Survey by MHRD Survey, New Delhi, India, for theyear 2017–2018.

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Alumni Association University Collegeof Engineering, Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

Once University College of Engineering was declared autonomous, the idea ofhaving Alumni Association, whose membership would include all past studentsof the college and present or past faculty members of the college, gainedmomentum. Under the dynamic leadership of then Principal, Prof. D. C. Reddy, thefirst get-together was held on Saturday July 3, 1996. After the revival of theAssociation in 2015, the two subsequent Executive Committees under the leader-ship of Er. Rammohan Rao, Er. P. Ram Reddy and Dr. D. Vijay Kumar with thesupport of patrons, fellow members, learned faculty and students have been set outto fulfill the objectives of Alumni Association.

The Association is a not-for-profit organization and works with the staff andstudents of University College of Engineering, and the objectives are:

• Provide a platform for the alumni to connect with each other for the exchange ofinformation and ideas and communicate their accomplishments, interests andconcerns.

• Foster alumni pride and enhance the reputation of the university and OUCE inparticular.

• Enrich the emotional bondage among the students, alumni and faculty.• Extend maximum help to the college in the placement and internship of students

in reputed organizations.• Recognize alumni for their significant contributions to education.• Propose and execute special projects: buildings, technical projects, seminars,

conferences, etc.• Support poor/economically backward students financially by floating

scholarships.• Institute awards for meritorious performance for students.• Institute awards for the alumni for their contribution to the college and the

society.• Inspire and invoke the spirit of innovation among the students leading to finding

technical solutions to the problems of the society leading to patents to studentsand the college.

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In the past four years, the Executive Body set out to execute the above objectivesby taking up many initiatives like conducting global alumni meets, alumni talks,funding student innovation, patent and research, facilitating student Internships,industry interactions and career development programs, supporting student clubsand other activities, facilitating in setting up the technology business incubator, etc.

To further the objectives of the Association to support the faculty and researchscholars, the Association has organized the First International Conference onEmerging Trends in Engineering under its aegis.

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Foreword

Alumni Association is constantly setting up new benchmarks with every passingyear with a lot of good work done toward furthering the Association goals andgiving back to the alma mater. One of the key focus areas has been to bridge theindustry academia gap, thereby promoting cutting-edge skill development andresearch, thereby enabling the university to be a hub of innovation.

This publication is an outcome of the First International Conference onEmerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE). As part of the initiatives of the AlumniAssociation, the conference was organized to enhance the information exchangeof theoretical research and practical advancements at national and international levelsin key fields of engineering and to promote professional interaction among students,scholars, researchers, educators, professionals from industries and other groups toshare latest findings in their respective fields toward sustainable developments.

The entire organizing team has worked hard over the last few months in puttingtogether the complete structure for the event and coordinating with all the eminentspeakers across the globe to ensure that the 2-day conference brings together the bestminds in the industry to come together and share their valuable insights with the entirefraternity. We are honored to have eminent speakers grace the conference this year.

We received 619 papers from about more than 100 institutions/organizations in14 countries. The papers have gone through a rigorous evaluation process, and thebest papers have been selected for presenting on the days of the conference. Only,the presented and approved papers have come for publishing. I want to thank theTechnical Program Committee for bringing together research scholars from diversebackground and working tirelessly in picking the final list and bringing out thispublication.

With a rich history of over 100 years producing world-class students and alumniwho have made a mark all over the world, we aim to continue the tradition by hostingsuch world-class conferences and live up to the expectations of our alma mater.

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Preface

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of theFirst International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE), held atUniversity College of Engineering (Autonomous) and organized by AlumniAssociation, University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad,India, on March 22–23, 2019. The aim of this conference is to enhance theinformation exchange of theoretical research/practical advancements at national andinternational levels in the fields of biomedical engineering, civil engineering,computer science engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communica-tion engineering, mechanical engineering and mining engineering. This encouragesand promotes professional interaction among students, scholars, researchers, edu-cators, professionals from industries and other groups to share latest findings intheir respective fields toward sustainable developments.

The refereed conference proceedings of the ICETE are published in threevolumes covering seven streams, i.e. biomedical engineering, civil engineering,computer science engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, electronicsand communication engineering, mechanical engineering and mining engineering.Out of 619 paper submissions from about 14 countries in seven streams of engi-neering, only 214 papers are being published after reviewing thoroughly; this thirdvolume of “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE)”comprises the comprehensive state-of-the-art technical contributions in the areas ofcivil engineering, mechanical engineering and mining engineering. Major topicsof these research papers include latest findings in the respective fields towardsustainable developments include water resource engineering, structural engineer-ing, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, mining engineering,production and industrial engineering, thermal engineering, design engineering andproduction engineering.

George A. TsihrintzisSuresh Chandra Satapathy

Kumar MolugaramA. KrishnaiahK. Srujan Raju

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Acknowledgements

We thank all the authors for their contributions and timely response. We also thankall the reviewers who read the papers and made valuable suggestions forimprovement.

We would like to thank Prof. S. Ramachandram, Vice-Chancellor, OsmaniaUniversity, and Prof. M. Kumar, Principal, University College of Engineering, forhaving faith in us. Dr. D. Rama Krishna and Prof. K, Shyamala of UCE, OU, forleading from the front; the TPC team, for pulling off a brilliant job; Heads of alldepartments and all learned faculty, for all the support. Also, last but not the least,we convey our thanks to all the research scholars without whose relentless sloggingthis conference and publication would not have seen light.

We thank our sponsors Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd., Defence Researchand Development Organization (DRDO), CCL Products (India) Ltd., The SingareniCollieries Company Ltd., TEQIP-III and all other financial contributors.

We extend our thanks to all the Executive Body members of the AlumniAssociation for their support and Sri. R. V. Rammohan Rao for the support whenneeded.

Finally, we thank the Springer team comprising Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy,Prof. K. Srujan Raju and Dr. M. Ramakrishna Murthy for guiding and helping usthroughout.

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ICETE Organizing Committee

Chief Patron

S. Ramachandram(Vice-chancellor)

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Patrons

Kumar Molugaram(Principal)

University College of Engineering (A),Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

P. Laxminarayana (Dean) Faculty of Engineering, Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

D. C. Reddy(Former Vice-chancellor)

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

D. N. Reddy(Former Vice-chancellor)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University,Hyderabad, India

R. V. Rammohan Rao(Past President)

Alumni Association, University Collegeof Engineering (A), Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

Chairpersons

P. Ram Reddy(President)

Alumni Association, University Collegeof Engineering (A), Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

P. V. N. Prasad Department of Electrical Engineering, UniversityCollege of Engineering (A), OsmaniaUniversity, Hyderabad, India

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Conveners

D. Vijay Kumar(General Secretary)

Alumni Association, University Collegeof Engineering (A), Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

D. Rama Krishna Department of Electronics and CommunicationEngineering, University Collegeof Engineering (A), Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

Publication Committee

Suresh Chandra Satapathy(Chair)

School of Computer Engineering, KalingaInstitute of Industrial Technology (KIIT),Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar,Odisha

Kumar Molugaram(Co-chair, Principal)

University College of Engineering,Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana

K. Srujan Raju(Co-chair)

Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus,Hyderabad, Telangana

Sriram Venkatesh Department of Mechanical Engineering,University College of Engineering,Osmania University, Hyderabad

K. Shyamala Department of Computer Science andEngineering, University College ofEngineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad

D. Vijay Kumar(General Secretary)

Alumni Association, University Collegeof Engineering (A), Osmania University,Hyderabad, India

D. Rama Krishna Department of Electronics and CommunicationEngineering, University College ofEngineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad

International Advisory Committee

J. N. Reddy Texas A&M University, USARamulu Mamidala University of Washington, USAChandra Kambhamettu University of Delaware, USAP. Nageswara Rao University of Northern Iowa, USASuman Das Georgia Institute of Technology, USATariq Muneer Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UKRao S. Govindaraju Purdue University, Indiana, USANitin K. Tripathi Asian Institute of Technology, BangkokSrinivasulu Ale The University of Texas, Texas, USA

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Prasad Enjeti Texas A&M University, Texas, USAAkshay K. Rathore Concordia University, CanadaSheldon Williamson University of Ontario, CanadaMalcolm McCulloch University of Oxford, UKBimal K. Bose University of Tennessee, USAManos Varvarigos Monash University, AustraliaVijay Vittal University of Arizona, USASudhakar M. Reddy University of Iowa, USAVishnu Pendyala CISCO Systems, USAShantanu Narayen CEO, Adobe Systems, USA

National Advisory Committee

A. Venugopal Reddy(Vice-chancellor)

JNTUH, Hyderabad

V. M. Pandharipande(Former Vice-chancellor)

BAMU, Aurangabad

Rameshwar Rao(Former Vice-chancellor)

JNTUH, Hyderabad

A. K. Tiwari (Director) CARE Foundation, University of Hyderabad,Hyderabad

K. V. S. Hari IISc, BangaloreSameen Fatima

(Former Principal)UCE, OU

N. K. Kishore IIT KharagpurD. Nagesh Kumar IISc, BangaloreB. G. Fernandes IIT BombayDinesh Bhatia NEHU, Shillong, IndiaG. Rameshwar R

(Chairman)Institute of Engineering, Hyderabad Chapter

A. K. Singh(OS and Director)

DLRL

J. V. R. Sagar (Director) ANURAGJohn D’Souza NITK SurathkalArvind Tiwari GE-GRC, JFWTCB. H. V. S. Narayana Murthy

(OS and Director)RCI

R. Soundara Rajan(Senior Project Manager)

BDL

Bathini Srinivas MathWorks, India

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Finance Committee

Sriram Venkatesh ME, UCE, OUA. Krishnaiah ME, UCE, OUP. Ramesh Babu ME, UCE, OUV. Bhikshma CE, UCE, OUG. Mallesham EE, UCE, OUM. Malini BME, UCE, OUB. Rajendra Naik ECE, UCE, OUV. Uma Maheshwar ME, UCE, OUP. Naveen Kumar ECE, UCE, OUD. N. Prasad

(Advisor (Coal))SCCL

M. Shyam Prasad Reddy(General Secretary)

TREA

T. Venkatesam(SuperintendentEngineer (Retd.))

AA UCE, OU

M. S. Venkatramayya MiningSatish Naik AA UCE, OUR. Thomas AA UCE, OUSyed Basharath Ali AA UCE, OUP. Narotham Reddy AA UCE, OU

Organizing Committee

E. Vidya Sagar(Vice-principal)

UCE, OU

K. Shyamala CSE, UCE, OUP. Chandra Sekhar ECE, OUM. Gopal Naik CE, UCE, OUP. Usha Sri ME, UCE, OUM. Venkateswara Rao BME, UCE, OUM. V. Ramana Rao EED, UCE, OUG. Yesuratnam EED, UCE, OUP. Raja Sekhar CE, UCE, OUB. Mangu EED, UCE, OUM. Chandrashekhar Reddy ME, UCE, OUNarsimhulu Sanke ME, UCE, OUM. A. Hameed CSE, UCE, OUB. Sujatha CSE, UCE, OUL. Nirmala Devi ECE, UCE, OUN. Susheela EED, UCE, OUS. Prasanna CE, UCE, OU

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R. Rajender CE, UCE, OUG. Narender ME, UCE, OUP. Koti Lakshmi ECE, UCE, OUM. Srinivas BME, UCE, OUB. Sirisha EE, UCE, OUB. Ramana Naik AlumnusC. V. Raghava (Chairman) CVR College of Engineering, HyderabadP. Lakshman Rao (President) OUECE AssociationP. Kishore (Secretary) OUECE AssociationK. J. Amarnath MiningJ. V. Dattatreyulu B.E (Mining)Raikoti Anand Srinivas AlumnusK. Praveen Dorna AA, UCE, OUK. Chakradhar AA, UCE, OUPradeep Kumar Nimma AA, UCE, OUA. Thara Singh AlumnusPrasanth Kumar Manchikatla Alumnus

Technical Committee

K. Shyamala CSE, UCE, OUP. V. Sudha CSE, UCE, OUM. Manjula EED, UCE, OUB. Mangu EED, UCE, OUP. Satish Kumar EED, UCE, OUJ. Upendar EED, UCE, OUM. Malini BME, UCE, OUD. Suman BME, UCE, OUK. L. Radhika CE, UCE, OUK. Shashikanth CE, UCE, OUL. Siva Rama Krishna ME, UCE, OUE. Madhusudan Raju ME, UCE, OUR. Hemalatha ECE, UCE, OUM. Shyamsunder ECE, UCE, OU

Supported and Strengthened By

J. Suman (Research Scholar) CSED. Sai Kumar

(Research Scholar)CSE

P. Raveendra Babu(Research Scholar)

ECE

G. Shyam Kishore(Research Scholar)

ECE

Jaya Prakash(Research Scholar)

EEE

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Contents

An Empirical Based Porous Flow Approach to ModellingHeterogeneous Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Seelam Srikanth

Effect of Different Aggregates on Alkali Silica Reactionof Geopolymer Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9D. Annapurna, Ravande Kishore, and K. Anil

Assessment of Aquifer Vulnerability of Nizamabad District,Telangana State, India Using GIS and Drastic Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18B. Ramakrishna, P. Rajasekhar, and Shaik Vaheed

Effect of Baffle Wall Parameters on the Modal Responsesof Elevated Rectangular Water Tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Meghana Minnekanti and Mallika Alapati

Bearing Capacity of Strip Footing on Reinforced FoundationBeds with Inclined Reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39P. Rajashekar Reddy, G. V. Narasimha Reddy, and E. Saibaba Reddy

Precise Survey Assistance for Civil Structures Using Survey Assist . . . . 47K. Surya Prakash, Kone Srimannarayana, Pradeep Kumar Kaatnam,and Abhinav Dayal

Ground Improvement Using Band Drains at Onshore Gas TerminalNear Kakinada (AP), India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53D. Babu Rao and D. Nageswara Rao

New Light Weight Mortar for Structural Application:Assessment of Porosity, Strength and Morphology Properties . . . . . . . . 59Paul Awoyera, Ravindran Gobinath, Sandela Haripriya,and Poongodi Kulandaisami

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Computing Redistribution Moments of Concrete Membersin the Plastic Stage Using Linear Analysis: Short Review . . . . . . . . . . . 66Paul Awoyera, Ravindran Gobinath, Chinyere Nwankwo,Palanisamy Murthi, and Annabathina Sivakrishna

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73A. A. Waghmare and U. R. Kawade

Evaluation of Coir Geotextile Mats to Enhance the Poor SubgradeUnder Repeated Load for Low-Volume Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80D. Harinder and S. Shankar

Estimation of Maximum Magnitude (mmax) Considering DifferentSeismic Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Mohammad Muzzaffar Khan, Teja Munaga,and Gonavaram Kalyan Kumar

Necessity of New Look for Equitable Water Sharing Among BasinStates - Krishna Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96S. Narasimha Rao, K. Venkata Narayana, and N. Ravishankar

A Comparative Study on the Performance of ANN, MLR and MNRin the Assessment of Slope Stability for Kalla - Coonoor Hill RoadStretch of Nilgiris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Balendra Mouli Marrapu and Ravi Sankar Jakka

Hydrologic Modeling with Transfer Function Based Approach:A Comparative Study over Godavari River Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Chaitanya Lakeshri and Kaustubh Salvi

Study on Interaction of Reinforcing Strips Embedded in CementModified Marginal Backfill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Pandu Kurre, Vineeth Reddy Karnati, and Heeralal Mudavath

Experimental Study on Interfacial Frictional Propertiesof Geogrid Reinforced Pond Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Mogili Sudhakar, M. Heeralal, G. Kalyan Kumar, and Pandu Kurre

Resilient Modulus of Unsaturated Soil – A Comprehensive Review . . . . 141A. G. Sharanya, M. Heera Lal, and Pandu Kurre

Effect of Eccentric Load on Footing Resting on PlanarGeosynthetic Reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Pandu Kurre, M. Heeralal, and T. S. D. Venkatesh

Strength Investigation of Fly Ash Based Concrete Waste Steel Fibreand Polypropylene Fibre as Reinforcing Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155G. Swamy Yadav, N. Prabhanjan, G. Sahithi, G. Sangeetha, A. Srinivas,and A. Siva Krishna

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Application of Statistics to the Analysis of Corrosion Datafor Rebar in Metakaolin Concrete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162U. Raghu Babu and B. Kondraivendhan

Earthquake Analysis of High-Rise Building with Floating Column . . . . 170Mohasinkhan N. Bargir and Ajim G. Mujawar

A Review on the Recent Development of Ambient CuredGeopolymer Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Mayank Gupta and N. H. Kulkarni

A Case Study on Structural Assessment of Dudhgaon GrampanchayatBuilding by Using Non Destructive Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189Rohit Kukade and Santosh Mohite

Analysis and Design of High-Rise Building Using DiagridStructural System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Ahmad Muslim Rujhan and Ravande Kishore

Engineered Cementitious Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Yogesh Biyani, L. G. Patil, and C. N. Kurhe

Influence of Metakaolin on Stone Waste Aggregate Concrete . . . . . . . . 215Sakevalla Vinay Babu, U. Raghu Babu, N. Venkata Ramana,and P. Pavithra

Rapid Hardening on the Strength Gain Admixture on Behaviorof Concrete with Replacement of Binary Cementitious Materials . . . . . . 222R. Kiranmai, A. Rohita Susheela, S. Rajkumar, G. Asheesh,and V. M. Sounthararajan

Evaluation of Pullout Resistance of Reinforcing Strips Embeddedin Cement Modified Marginal Backfill of Mechanically StabilizedEarth (MSE) Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234Pandu Kurre and Gannavaram Venkat Praveen

Identification of Artificial Recharge Zones Using GIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248K. A. Patil, Noopur D. Khatik, and Shriman N. Jirapure

Seismic Analysis and Design of Mass and Stiffness Irregular R.C.Building Frames with Different Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258Nishant C. Chandanshive and Santosh S. Mohite

Assessment of Spatial Interpolation Techniqueson Groundwater Contamination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262G. Shyamala, B. Arun Kumar, S. Manvitha, and T. Vinay Raj

Sustainability Concepts in the Design of Tall Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . 270Prashant Sunagar, Aravind Bhashyam, B. R. Neel,and Abhishek Kumar Chaurasiya

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Spontaneous Combustion of Coal and Correlation with Its IntrinsicProperties Using Adiabatic Oxidation Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Ravi Varma Rambha

Extraction of Electricity from Blast Induced Ground VibrationWaves – Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Raghu Chandra Garimella and Rama Sastry Vedala

Evolution of the Probability Distribution Functionof Shovel – Dumper Combination in Opencast Coal MineUsing ANN and RWB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293N. S. Harish Kumar, R. P. Choudhary, and Ch. S. N. Murthy

Temperature Measurement During Rotary Drillingof Rocks - A Statistical Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Vijay Kumar Shankar, B. M. Kunar, and Ch. S. N. Murthy

Safety in Coal Mines in India-Its Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310K. Srihari and A. Sandeep Kumar

Reliability Analysis of LHD Machine - A Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318J. BalaRaju, M. Govinda Raj, and Ch. S. N. Murthy

Emerging Mining Trends: Preparing Future Mining Professionals . . . . 327Laxminarayana Chikatamarla and Devulapalli Narasimha Prasad

Prediction of Energy Efficiency of Main Transportation SystemUsed in Underground Coal Mines – A Statistical Approach . . . . . . . . . 337N. V. Sarathbabu Goriparti, Ch. S. N. Murthy, and M. Aruna

Shortcomings of Vibrating Screen and Corrective Measures:A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345S. Bharath Kumar, Harsha Vardhan, M. Govinda Raj, Marutiram Kaza,Rameshwar Sah, and H. Harish

Quantification of Rock Strength Using the MechanicalDrilling Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352C. R. Lakshminarayana, Anup K. Tripathi, and Samir K. Pal

Evaluation of Whole Body Vibration of Heavy Earth MovingMachinery Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362Jeripotula Sandeep Kumar, Mangalpady Aruna, and Mandela Govinda Raj

Assessment and Prediction of Specific Energy Using Rock Brittlenessin Rock Cutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374Vijaya Raghavan and Ch. S. N. Murthy

Numerical Investigation on Factors Affecting the Performanceof Roof Bolts for Continuous Miner Working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383K. M. Tejeswaran, Ch. S. N. Murthy, and B. M. Kunar

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Modelling of Biogas Fueled HCCI Engine for VariousInlet Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394Nihal Mishra, Shubham Mitra, Abhishek Thapliyal, Aniket Mahajan,and M. Feroskhan

Studies on Pitting Corrosion of Pulsed ElectrodepositedNanocomposite Coating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404Chitrada Prasad, K. Srinivasa Rao, and K. Ramji

Effect of Condenser Coil Profile and Subcooling on Performanceof Vapour Compression Refrigeration System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413Sreedhar Vullloju, K. Krishna Reddy, and Madhu Kumar Patil

Criteria for Drop-in Replacement of Existing Refrigerantwith an Alternative Refrigerant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424Srinivas Pendyala and R. Prattipati

Analysis of Characteristics of Launcher Missile Systemand Its Optimization to Reduce Tip-Off Effect During Launch . . . . . . . 432P. Ravinder Reddy, A. Dhanalaxmi, M. Rakesh, and G. Chandramouli

Performance Analysis of a Horizontal Axis WindLens Wind Turbine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440P. Usha Sri and Chirla Jeevesh

Experimental Investigation and Optimization of ElectrochemicalMicro Machining Process Parameters for Al 7075 T6 Alloy . . . . . . . . . 449K. Samson Praveen Kumar and G. Jaya Chandra Reddy

Galactic Cosmic Energy - A Novel Mode of Energy Harvesting . . . . . . 458Uma Maheshwar Vanamala and Laasya Priya Nidamarty

Infrared Heating - A New Green Technology for ProcessIntensification in Drying of Purslane Leaves to Reducethe Thermal Losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466D. Kodandaram Reddy, Kavita Waghray, and S. V. Sathyanarayana

Grey Relational Analysis of EDM Process Parametersfor Incoloy-800 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476M. JagadeeswaraRao, Riyaaz Uddien Shaik, and K. Buschaiah

Computation of Kinematic Redundancy and Its Workspacein RRRR Planar Kinematic Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483Shravan Anand Komakula

Physio-Mechanical Properties and Thermal Analysis of FurcreoFoetedo Mediopicta (ffm) Fibers: Its Potential Applicationas Reinforcement in Making of Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492Pathan Yasin, M. Venkataramana, and Shashidhar K. Kudari

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Computational Analysis of Cavitation Structureson a Ship Propeller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501C. Syamsundar and P. Usha Sri

Heat Transfer in Food Crop Dryer Using Halogen Lamp . . . . . . . . . . . 508Sowjanya Madireddi, V. Siddharth, Mohd Amaan, and M. Adithya

Progressive Damage Analysis of Laminated Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . 517Yashasvi Achanta, P. Ramesh Babu, and D. Sandeep

Optimization of Pecking Order Layout with Job Shop Schedulingas Constraint: An Approach of Metaheuristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526K. Mallikarjuna, V. Veeranna, and K. Hemachandrareddy

Experimental and Simulation Study in Deep Drawing of CircularCups for Determination of LDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533A. C. Sekhara Reddy, S. Rajesham, and T. Mahender

Free Vibration Analysis of Pre-stressed Membrane Using ElementFree Galerkin Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542K. R. Unnikrishnan, I. R. Praveen Krishna, and C. O. Arun

Xylitol Based Phase Change Material with Graphene Nano Plateletsas Fillers for Thermal Energy Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551Praveen Kumar Varadaraj, Sandeep D., Ravi Kiran N., Balaji Padya,and P. K. Jain

Orbital Volume Analysis of Midfacial Fractures Using AdditiveManufacturing Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559L. Siva Rama Krishna, Shiva Dharshan Vanapalli, Sriram Venkatesh,and Abhinand Potturi

Parametric Optimization During Wire EDM Taper Cutting on AISID2 Steel Using Desirability Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568K. L. Uday Kiran, Sanar Zuhair Abbas, K. Saraswathamma,G. Chandra Mohan Reddy, and A. M. K. Prasad

Extraction of Coordinate Points for the Numerical Simulationof Single Point Incremental Forming Using Microsoft Excel . . . . . . . . . 577Zeradam Yeshiwas and Arkanti Krishnaiah

A Review on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) FabricatedComponents of Ti6AL4V and Steels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587P. Satish Kumar, L. Suvarna Raju, and L. Siva Rama Krishna

Towards Modeling of Polymer Injection MoldingProcess – Approaches for Evaluation of the Processing Conditions,Control Factors and Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601Vishnuprasad Pattali, P. Govindan, and M. P. Vipindas

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Design of Sequential Electro-Pneumatic System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610Nagashiva Mutyam, T. S. S. Siva Saikumar, and Bhanumurthy Soppari

Factors Influencing Hydrodynamic Entry Length in Helical Coils . . . . . 616R. Prattipati, N. Koganti, and Srinivas Pendyala

Formability Analysis on the Gas Formed Aluminum CoatedMagnesium Alloys in Conical Dies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624J. Kandasamy and M. Ranjith Kumar

Investigation of Back Rake Angle on Machining of Al 6061and Development of Regression Model for Resultant Force . . . . . . . . . . 635B. Suresh Kumar Reddy, A. Krishnaiah, and S. Gajanana

Machining Characteristics of Electro Discharge Machiningon NIMONIC 80A by Response Surface Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645G. Vishnu Pramod Teja, K. Saraswathamma, and T. S. R. V. Padmalatha

Laser Machining of Polymer Materials – ExperimentalInvestigations - Process Challenges and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653R. K. Vishnulal, P. Govindan, and M. P. Vipindas

Assessment of Dimensional Accuracy of Reproducibility of CadaverSkull by FDM Additive Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662L. Siva Rama Krishna, Uday Kumar Balasany, Sri Ram Venkatesh,and Abhinand Potturi

Evaluation of Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of FrictionWelded AISI 4140 Grade Steel Pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673S. K. Abdul Khadeer, P. Ramesh Babu, K. Surender Rao,and A. Seshu Kumar

Effect of Aluminum Powder Suspended Dielectric and Silver CoatedCopper Electrode on Electrical Discharge Machining Characteristicsof Inconel 718 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682N. Hima Varsha and K. Saraswathamma

Investigation of the Process Parameters on Hot Rolling of Al 7178-SiCMetal Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690M. Nagarjuna, S. Gajanana, and A. Krishnaiah

Sensitivity Study of the Parameters Affecting Pressure Recoveryin a Two Stage Jet Pipe Electro Hydraulic Servo Valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697Madhusudhan Raju, I. R. Shivakumar, L. Siva Rama Krishna,and D. Sandeep

Computational Modeling and Analysis of Intake Taper Manifoldof an Internal Combustion Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703T. Sreedhar, B. Nageswara Rao, K. Mourya Balaji,K. Jagan Mohan Reddy, and K. V. Surya Harshith

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Evaluation of Wear Rate of Different Liner Materials Used in Bunkersand Silos Using Dry Abrasion Wear Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712D. Venkateshwarlu, Sriram Venkatesh, K. Saraswathamma,Swetha Bhagirathi Sanganabhatla, and Shiva Dharshan Vanapalli

Experimental Investigation on Maraging Steel Metal DepositionUsing DMLS Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721D. Apparao and M. V. Jagannadha Raju

Intra-ply Damage Modeling of Low-Velocity Impacton Composite Laminates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731Y. Sharath Chandra Mouli, C. S. Upadhyay, and P. M. Mohite

Static and Fatigue Analysis of Leaf Spring with EPDM RubberSandwiched Between the Steel Leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739R. Naresh, V. B. S. Rajendra Prasad, and G. Venkata Rao

Modelling of Surface Roughness and Tool Wear Rate During Turningof AISI 202 Stainless Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748Nagaveni Thallapalli, Vinay Kumar Goud Balne,and T. S. R. V. Padmalatha

Estimation of the Grain Size Number and MicrostructureAnalysis of AA6061 Alloy Flow Formed Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757G. Venkateshwarlu, K. Ramesh Kumar, G. Gopi,and T. A. Janardhan Reddy

Production of Biodiesel from Jatropha Oil Usinga Heterogeneous Catalyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767Santosh Kumar Dash

Effect of Compression Ratio and Injection Timing on the Performanceof a B20 Biodiesel Blend Fueled Diesel Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774Santosh Kumar Dash, Pradip Lingfa, and Dharmeswar Dash

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

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About the Editors

George A. Tsihrintzis is Full Professor in the University of Piraeus, Head of itsDepartment of Informatics and Director of Graduate Studies in “AdvancedComputing and Informatics Systems.” He received the diploma of ElectricalEngineer from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (with honors),and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from NortheasternUniversity, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His current research interests includepattern recognition, machine learning, decision theory, and statistical signal pro-cessing and their applications in multimedia interactive services, user modeling,knowledge-based software systems, human–computer interaction and informationretrieval. He has authored or co-authored over 300 research publications in theseareas, including 6 monographs and 17 edited volumes, which have received over2500 third-party citations.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational IntelligenceStudies (Inderscience) and the Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal (IOSPress) and Member of the editorial boards of 9 additional journals. He is FoundingCo-Editor and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the new book series on Learning andAnalytics in Intelligent Systems (Springer). He has chaired over 20 internationalconferences.

He has supervised 10 doctoral students who have received their doctoral degreesand is currently supervising an additional 5 students.

He has guest co-edited 8 special issues of international journals.He won the Best Poster Paper Award of the 5th International Conference on

Information Technology: New Generations, Las Vegas, USA, April 7–9, 2008, forco-authoring a paper titled: “Evaluation of a Middleware System for AccessingDigital Music Libraries in Mobile Services.”

He also won one of the Best Applications Papers Award of the 29th AnnualInternational Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group onArtificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, December 15–17, 2009, for co-authoring a

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paper titled: “On Assisting a Visual-Facial Affect Recognition System withKeyboard-Stroke Pattern Information.”

He also won one of the Best Paper Awards of the 5th IEEE InternationalConference on Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications forco-authoring a paper titled: “Genetic-AIRS: A Hybrid Classification Method basedon Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Immune Systems.”

He was Keynote Speaker on Software Personalization Using Machine Learningwith Imbalanced Samples at the IEEE International Conference on Computing,Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON2018), Greater Noida, UttarPradesh, India, September 28–29, 2018.

He was Keynote Speaker on Machine Learning Methodologies in AutomatedRecommendation at the 12th Joint Conference on Knowledge-based SoftwareEngineering (JCKBSE2018), Corfu, Greece, August 27–30, 2018.

He was Keynote Speaker on Classification with Significant Class Imbalance andApplications in Software Personalization at the 29th International Conference onTools withArtificial Intelligence (ICTAI2017), Boston,MA,USA,November 6–8,2017.

He was Keynote Speaker onOne Class Classification Problems – Applicationsin Recommender Systems at the Multitheme Conference on Smart DigitalFutures (AMSTA, IDT, IIMSS&STET), Chania, Crete, Greece, June 18–20, 2014.

Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as a Professor, School ofComputer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. Heobtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabadand M.Tech. in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 27 years ofteaching experience. His research interests are data mining, machine intelligence,and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many internationalconferences and edited over 25 volumes of proceedings from Springer series fromLNCS, AISC, LNNS, LNEE, SIST, etc. He is also in the Editorial board of fewinternational Journals and has over 130 research publications in Internationaljournals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Kumar Molugaram obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering fromOsmania University, Hyderabad; master’s degree in civil engineering from JNTU,Hyderabad; and doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Hepublished over 100 research papers in various international and national journals andconferences. He supervised 78 M.E. dissertations and 5 Ph.D. theses and 8 Ph.D.students. He received “Best Teacher State Award” by the Government ofTelangana on September 05, 2018. He also received prestigious award “Engineerof the year 2018” from the Institution of Engineers, India, and Government ofTelangana on September 15, 2018 on the occasion of Engineers Day. He receivedthe “National Integration Award-2019”, Health Care International, Hyderabad,Telangana State, India, on January 26, 2019. He completed two research projects

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from UGC and Government of India. He played a key role in start of M.E. trans-portation engineering course in civil engineering department, OU. He is a member inseveral committees of Government. of Telangana, AP, and Government of India. Hewas awarded for best paper in 2010 (national level) and 2014 (international level).He served as Additional Controller of Examinations, Exam Branch, OU; Chairman,Board of Studies in Civil Engineering (local and global), OU; Nodal Officer,TEQIP-I, UCE; Director of Evaluation, Exam Cell, UCE; Director Infrastructure,OU; Head of Civil Engineering Department, OU; and Vice-Principal, UCE, OU. Heis a coordinator (STA), PMGSY, NRRDA, Government of India. He is a member ofPEC, NRRDA, Government. of India; he is a life member of several research andtechnical organizations such as FIE, IRC, IUT, CTRG, IIBE, WCTR, TRG and SRS.He visited many international cities such as London (2005), Sydney (2006),Singapore (2006), San Francisco and Chicago (2007), Rome and Capri (2009),Melbourne (2011), Hong Kong (2011), Toronto (2013), Washington D.C. and NewYork (2013), Bangkok (2010 and 2014), Beijing and Shanghai (2014), Germany,Switzerland, Paris, Netherlands and Belgium (2014), Tokyo-Japan(2015) and HoChi Min City—Vietnam (2017) to present his research papers in internationalconferences/seminars. He delivered 20 keynote lectures at various national andinternational platforms. He chaired sessions at various international and nationalconferences. He was Conference Chair for the International Conference on“Innovations in structural Engineering” held in the year 2015 at Katriya hotel byCivil Engineering Department first time in 85 years of history. He organized anational conference on “Civil Engineering Systems—2006” and another nationalconference on “Recent Research Advances in Civil Engineering—2014”, fiveworkshops and one training program. He delivered more than 300 expert lectures inthe areas of transportation engineering, optimization techniques and engineeringresearch methodology on various national-/state-level platforms in India. He is theauthor of three conference proceedings and two books (one in Elsevier publicationsinternational). He has over 23 years of teaching, research, consultancy and industryexperience. He was Controller of Examinations (centenary year of OU), OsmaniaUniversity, for two-year period. He initiated many technology-based reforms inExam Branch, OU, during his tenure. Presently, He is Principal of UniversityCollege of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, and Convener, PGECET—2019, Telangana State.e-mail: kumartrans@gmail.com

Prof. Arkanti Krishnaiah obtained his bachelor’s degree (1994) in mechanicalengineering from University College of Engineering, Osmania University,Hyderabad; master’s degree in mechanical engineering (1997) with specilizationin production engineering from University College of University Engineering,Osmania University, Hyderabad; doctorate degree (2006) from Indian Instituteof Madras, Chennai; and postdoctoral fellowship (2007–2008) from ChungnamNational University, South Korea. He received Sudharshan Bhat MemorialPrize for the best Ph.D. thesis in metallurgical and materials engineering for theyear 2006 from IIT Madras, Chennai. He published more than 85 research papers in

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various international and national journals and international and national confer-ences. He is Visitor’s nominee to Pondicherry University, Puducherry. He is alsoa member in several selection committees of DRDO, Government of Telangana andAP. He served as Additional Controller of Examinations, Exam Branch, OU,during 2013–2015; Chairman, Board of Studies in Mechanical Engineering (localand global), OU; Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UniversityCollege of Engineering (Autonomous), OU, during 2015–2017; and JointSecretary, Osmania University Teachers’ Association (OUTA). He is Life Memberof Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Society of MechanicalEngineers (ISME) and Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(ISTAM). He visited many countries for technical paper presentations such as USA(2005), Canada (2006), South Korea (2007–2008 for PDF), Australia (2010),Thailand (2014), China (2014), France (2014) and Switzerland (2014). He wasChairperson for the International Conference on Advances in Materials andManufacturing (ICAMM-2016) held during December 8–10, 2016, at LeoniaConvention Centre, Hyderabad, jointly organized by Department of MechanicalEngineering, UCE, OU, and DRDL, Hyderabad. Also, he organized nationalconferences, seminars and workshops in the Department of MechanicalEngineering. He has 22 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience.Presently, he is Director, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Osmania University.e-mail: kris_arakanti@yahoo.com

Dr. K. Srujan Raju is currently working as Dean Student Welfare and HeadingDepartment of Computer Science & Engineering at CMR Technical Campus.He obtained his Doctorate in Computer Science in the area of Network Security. Hehas more than 20 years of experience in academics and research. His researchinterest areas include Computer Networks, Information Security, Data Mining,Cognitive Radio Networks and Image Processing and other ProgrammingLanguages. Dr. Raju is presently working on 2 projects funded by Government ofIndia, has filed 7 patents and 1 copyright at Indian Patent Office, edited more than10 book proceedings published by Springer publications - AISC series, LAIS andother which are indexed by Scopus also authored 4 books, contributed chapters invarious books and published more than 30 papers at reputed and peer-reviewedJournals and International Conference. Dr. Raju was invited as Session Chair, Keynote Speaker, TPC and reviewer for many National and International conferences.His involvement with students is very conducive for solving their day to dayproblems. He has guided various student clubs for activities ranging fromphotography to Hackathon. He mentored more than 100 students for incubatingcutting edge solutions. He has organized many conferences, FDPs, Workshops andSymposiums. He has established the Centre of Excellence in IoT, Data Analytics.Professor Raju has acted as reviewer and Technical Member for many conferencesand is editorial member for few journals. Raju received Significant Contributor andActive Member awards by Computer Society of India - Hyderabad Chapter.

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