In recent years, natural fibers incorporation in polymeric resin has received huge attention among the research community. The reasons of demand are multiple that includes its light weight, environmental friendly nature; non-toxic, low cost, easy availability, low processing cost and most importantly they possess characteristics which are comparable to conventional material. With this approach, present work comprises of fabrication of new category of natural fiber reinforced composites with polymer as base matrix. Sisal fiber is selected as reinforcing phase with epoxy matrix. Four different combination of composites are prepared with sisal fiber loading varies from 2.5 wt. % to 10 wt. % using well-known hand lay-up method. Sisal fibers were treated with NaOH at varied concentration to observe the effect of surface modification and its concentration on the developed material. Three different concentration of NaOH is used i.e. 2 mole, 4 mole and 6 mole for preparing three sets of composites. One set is prepared with raw sisal fiber to make total of four sets of composites. Mechanical properties under investigation are tensile behaviour, compressive behaviour and flexural behaviour. The experimental results obtained are compared for optimizing the concentration of NaOH. From the analysis it is seen that composite with surface modified sisal fiber yield better results and further fiber treated with 2 mole NaOH concentration is superior among their counterpart. The maximum tensile strength, compressive strength and flexural strength obtained are 31.5 MPa, 72.5 MPa and 37.8 MPa respectively. All these values are obtained for fiber treated with 2 mole NaOH aqueous solution.

To synthesize the surface of the metal bodies, a thermal spray coating is used. There is a great need for this new coating technology in today's progressive world where modification of the substrate material is carried out a great deal. Thermal spray covering, electroplating, powder metallurgy and other metallurgical processes are used very quickly in the field of surface modification. We have presented the summary of all different types of thermal spray coating in this review paper and the advantages of high-speed oxy fuel coating. There is a literature review and an experiment was conducted on behalf of that to demonstrate the effect of coating on mild steel plate. Through Robot, we present a proposed optimization of the spraying process in a thermal power plant. We will explore the thermal spraying and oxidation effect on deposited aluminium and bronze in this research work. We present a detailed assessment of the robot kinematics and optimize the generation of the robot trajectory with a focus on the constant relative scanning speed.The results show that the motion behavior of each axis of robot permits to identify the motion problems in the trajectory. This approach enables the generation of robot trajectories in a limited working envelope to be optimised.

Among all the blends tested B0 blend gives lower smoke emission because of higher calorific value of the B0 blend. Among different nozzles tested 5 hole nozzle gives the lower smoke emission because diameter of nozzle holes decreases so that area of nozzle holes also decreases. This results into fuel consumption and higher thermal efficiency and also lower smoke emission. For 4 hole nozzle the smoke emission increases because the spray pattern of 4 hole nozzle was irregular so that maximum amount of fuel was impinged on the cylinder wall and hence smoke emission increased.

Hydraulic system has benefits over pneumatic or electric systems, especially when heavy loads are involved, or when very smooth and precise position or pressure control is required. Hydraulic actuators have several advantages including the fact that they produce less heat and electrical interference at the machine than do electric actuators. A simulation model of the support was established to determine the dynamic responses of the hydraulic support under dual impacts from its roof and shield beams, and the column and balance jack were replaced using a spring-damper system. Analysis of poses was performed and dynamic support responses were obtained.

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