A Method for Solving Fuzzy Transportation Problem
The most important and successful applications in the optimization refers to transportation problem. The main aspect of this paper is to find the least transportation cost of some commodities through a capacitated network when supply and demand of nodes and capacity and cost of edges are represented as fuzzy numbers. Here, we are solving the transportation problem using the Robust ranking technique, where fuzzy demand and supply are in the form of trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The fuzzification of the cost of the transportation problem is discussed with the help of a numerical example.
Reliability Measures of Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)
This study deals with the analysis of availability and reliability of hybrid electric vehicles (System 1) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (System 2). The purpose of this study is to find out the opinion of consumers who can afford their own hybrid car. The distribution of failure and repair rates is assumed to be exponential. A method of linear differential equations (LDE) is used to estimate reliability metrics such as average system failure and steady-state availability. Some special cases were evaluated using different values of the failure rates. In addition, we examined how the failure rate affected the system performance measures and we demonstrated the basic involved concept by comparing the results of both systems. The results are also presented graphically using MATLAB software.
Measurement of Nutritional Electric Parameter (NEP) of Apple (Malus domestica) Fruit During Storage at Room Temperature.
Nutritional Electric Parameter (NEP) has been measured to understand the Biophysical and Biochemical changes in Apple fruit. First time these changes, manifested in the form of varying NEP have been reported with the help of self-designed Digital Bimetallic Potentio-Meter (DBPM). The NEP reveals transportation of electric charges in the form of cluster of ionic minerals, and other chemical compositions available with sufficient abundance in Apple. Ten numbers of Apples as samples for study, kept at room temperature for continuously 7 days, observed to became more soft, squeezed texture and showed increased mobility of ionic cluster of abundant minerals from 4 to 6 times with enhanced NEP up to 37.6 %.
