Globally, large concrete companies have the common purpose of reducing the dependence on additives used in high performance concrete due to the high costs they represent. This study a basic characterization of currently commercial additives is performed upon this characterization substitutes additives locally available are selected and use in the formulation of ready mix concrete evaluating per...

This paper presents an all pass voltage mode filter based on recently proposed active building block namely differential voltage current conveyor transconductance amplifier (DVCCTA). The proposed configuration uses single active and two grounded passive components which makes it suitable for IC implementation. Its input impedance is high and output impedance is low, hence suitable for cascading...

According to the nullor-mirror descriptions of OTA, the NAM expansion method for three different types of KHN filters employing OTAs is considered. The type-A filters employing five OTAs have 32 different forms, the type-B filters employing four OTAs have 32 different forms, and the type-C filters employing three OTAs have eight different forms. At last a total of 72 circuits are received. Havi...

Abstract Although a large number of single current feedback op-amp (CFOA)-based sinusoidal oscillator circuits have been proposed in the literature, to the best knowledge of the authors, no single-CFOA oscillator configuration has been reported earlier which can absorb all the parasitic impedances of the CFOA in the various external passive elements employed. The major intention of this paper i...

New Voltage Differencing Differential Input Buffered Amplifier (VD-DIBA) based lossless grounded and floating inductance simulation circuits have been proposed. The proposed grounded simulated inductance circuit employs a single VD-DIBA, one floating resistance and one grounded capacitor. The floating simulated inductance (FI) circuits employ two VD-DIBAs with two passive components (one floati...

A variety of cast pyrometR 718 alloy microstructures result from processing of different diameters of industrial scale ingots for producing superalloy forgings used in aircraft turbine engine applications. The hot workability of these cast alloys will significantly depend on the cast microstructure. The current study is focussed on understanding the evolution of the cast microstructure during V...

A novel current-mode active-only single-input and four-output (SIFO) universal filter using four plus-type second-generation current-controlled conveyors (CCCIIs), one operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and two operational amplifiers (OAs) is presented. The circuit is fully programmable and implements simultaneously lowpass (LP), bandpass (BP), highpass (HP) and Notch (BS) functions w...

Cellulose ethers are polymers frequently introduced into mortar formulations in order to improve water retention capacity and workability of the freshly mixed materials. Cellulose derivatives can induce excellent water retention thanks to the possible superposition of two phenomena. Mortar rheology can impact water retention, increasing media viscosity. Other specific effects provided by cellul...

Addition of sugar surfactants, sucrose fatty acid esters and alkylpolyglucosides to a calcium phosphate cement, designed for bone reconstruction, is described. Thanks to their adsorption at the surface of the calcium phosphate particles, the sugar surfactants allowed a full injectability and brought a very good workability. Injectability was measured by monitoring force-distance curves. With so...

The paper presents a new voltage-mode universal filter using a differential voltage current conveyor transconductance amplifier (DVCCTA). It has three inputs and single output. The proposed circuit can simultaneously realize low-pass, band-pass, and high pass, band reject and all pass filter functions without changing the circuit topology and passive elements. The circuit exhibits a good freque...