Although designers and manufacturers continue to strengthen the links between design, manufacturing and performance, failures still occur and will continue to occur for one reason or another. In view of this, the cause ...

Bearings constitute a majority of the components found in rotating machines. Though inexpensive, their failure can result in unnecessary downtime, losses in production, and propagation of failure to other critical ...

Foreign construction firms have increasingly dominated the Kenyan construction industry over the last couple of years. The main reason for the continued foreign dominance in the local construction industry has been attributed ...

Groundwater systems are composed of complex set of interactions between physical environment such as soils, geology, precipitation, vegetation and topography and social economic activities exerting pressure on the physical ...

Groundwater accounts for the largest fresh water resources in the world. However, there has been limited exploitation of this vital resource in many areas. Where groundwater resources have been exploited, there has been ...

This study analyses the effect of number of slits on a diverging conical ring insert when symmetrically cut out on the curved surface to generate multi longitudinal vortices in an incompressible fluid flow on a cylindrical ...

In the recent past, the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has revolutionized tremendously and has been adopted widely in various todays’ applications due to the increasing demand for smart technology and increase ...

In the present study, a hydromagnetic Couette flow between two vertical semi-infinite permeable plates with uniform injection/suction while considering Joule heating has been investigated. The plate where injection takes ...

The increasing demand for energy and the need for reduction of greenhouse gases has necessitated the development of renewable sources such as biodiesel fuel. Methyl ester fuel burns more efficiently and has lower emissions ...

midland zone 1 (UM1) also referred to as tea zone. Kavutiri area in Embu County is composed of mainly small-scale farmers. Small-scale farmers often leave their land fallow when they became very unproductive. Kavutiri ...