INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

US Dixit, IIT Guwahati, India R Ganesh Narayanan, IIT Guwahati, India K. Narasimhan, IIT Bombay, India Kailas, S. V., IISc Bangalore, India Karan S. Surana, KU, USA Hsi-Hsin Chien, CHU, Taiwan Rahman, M., NUS, Singapore PS Robi, IIT Guwahati , India S Prashanth, Air Bus, UK D Chakraborty, IIT Guwahati , India C Subramanian, CTS, Muscat Oman Banabic D, UCN, Romania A Srinivasan, IIT Guwahati , India Kung-Jeng Ma, CHU, Taiwan Anugrah Singh, IIT Guwahati, India AVSSKS Gupta, JNTU Hyderbad, India Amaresh Dalal, IIT Guwahati, India Narayanan Menon Komerath, GIT, USA K Ganesh, McKensey, India AMK Prasad, OU Hyderabad, India D Bandopadhya, IIT Guwahati , India SV Raghu Rama Rao, IISc Bangalore, India Bale Reddy, UOIT, Oshawa, Ontario Sachin D. Kore, IIT Guwahati , India Sreekumar M, IIITDM Kanchipuram, India NVS Raju, JNTU Jagityal, India Davies, B.J., Putnoe, UK KSR Krishna Murthy, IIT Guwahati, India Srinivasa Prakash R, BITS Hyderabad, India N Venkata Reddy, IIT Hyderabad, India M. Ravi Sankar, IIT Guwahati , India P Laxminarayana, OU Hyderabad, India Niranjan Sahoo, IIT Guwahati , India NVS Naidu, GITAM Hyderabad, India G Saravana Kumar, IIT Madras, India P Biswas, IIT Guwahati , India CSP Rao, NIT Warangal, India P. Muthukumar, IIT Guwahati , India KV Narasimha Rao, JK Tyres, India Rajiv Tiwari, IIT Guwahati , India KV Chary, NIT Warangal, India SK. Dwivedy, IIT Guwahati , India S Kanagaraj, IIT Guwahati , India CP Padhy, GITAM Hyderabad, India S Senthilvelan, IIT Guwahati , India V V Rao, SNIST Hyderabad, India Swarup Bag, IIT Guwahati, India TKK Reddy, JNTU Hyderabad, India V Kulkarni, IIT Guwahati , India Perumal A, IIT Guwahati, India M Venu, GITAM Hyderabad, India C. Mallikarjuna, IIT Guwahati, India S N Joshi, IIT Guwahati , India Sriram Venkatesh, OU Hyderabad, India AR James, DMRL, DRDO Hyderabad, India A K Singh, IIT Guwahati, India PVR Ravindra Reddy, CBIT, India Nanda Kishore, IIT Guwahati, India Jain, VK., IIT Kanpur, India Narayan Rao, MIDHANI Hyderabad, India Gunasekera, JS., Ohio University, USA Vijayaraghavan, L., IIT Madras, India D Ravi Kumar, IIT Delhi, India Pham, DT., Cardiff University, UK Davim, PJ., UA, Portugal K Singh, BHEL, R&D Hyderabad, India K Dutta, BHEL, R&D Hyderabad, India T Srinivas, VIT, Vellore Shankar Kalyanasundaram, Australian National University, Australia DV Ravishanker, TKR Hyderbad, India GCM Reddy, MGIT, India C Rajendran, IIT Madras, India B Suresh, ARCI, Hyderabad, India V Kamala, TKR, Hyderabad, India AK Sharma, IIT Roorke, India J Ramkumar, IIT Kanpur, India RVSSN Ravi Kumar, NU Guntur, India Sridhar S. Condoor, SLU, USA AYC Nee, NU Singapore KV Rajulapati, HCU Hyderabad, India M Eswaran, BARC, Mumbai, India Jai Kumar, IGCAR, Kalpakkam,. India SK Singh, GRIET, Hyderabad, India Ratnakar Das, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India K Srinivas, ASL, DRDO Hyderabad, India

PROCEEDINGS AND SOUVENIR

The proceedings of the conference made available in print and CD forms. The conference souvenir , with abstracts of all papers, will include advertisements also. Tariff for advertisement in the souvenir: Outside back cover : Rs.50000/- (Indian) USD 1500 (Overseas) Inside cover page : Rs.40000/- (Indian) USD 1200 (Overseas) Full page : Rs.30000/- (Indian), USD 1000 (Overseas) Half page : Rs.15000/- (Indian) USD 500 (Overseas) Please note that organizing committee may refuse to publish an advertisement, if it is felt that it is not in the public interest.

1st International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Sciences

(iCAMS) 2014
Januar y 9-11, 2014

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION The registration fee will be Rs.7500/- (Rs. 5000/- for student) for Indian and USD 500 for foreign delegates. At least one author of the accepted paper has to register for presentation. The participants have to arrange for accommodation and food on their own. A special conference dinner will be arranged for the participants. About 200 rooms will be available in both girls and boys hostels. Please visit for more information and updates http://www.icams2014.com/

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full paper: Intimation about acceptance: Submission of reviewed full paper: Late date for registration: SEPTEMBER 20 2013 OCTOBER 30 2013 NOVEMBER 20 2013 NOVEMBER 25 2013

For information, contact Dr. Perumalla Janaki Ramulu Phone: +91-9494581470 e-mail: icams2014@vardhaman.org

SPONSORSHIP Organizations are requested to sponsor this conference by contributing Rs.20000/-and above. The contribution will be acknowledged at suitable places.

Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering Vardhaman College of Engineering Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India 501218 http://www.vardhaman.org
Tel: 555 555 5555

VARDHAMAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Chief Patron
Dr. T. Vijender Reddy, Chairman

ABOUT THE COLLEGE

Vardhaman College of Engineering (VCE), established in 1999, with an endeavor to impart high quality Technical Education and innovative research in the fields of Engineering Technologies, with emphasis on industry oriented programs for development of students as well as faculty. VCE is affiliated to JNT University, Hyderabad, AP, India and is approved by the AICTE, New Delhi. Today there are 10 departments and B.Tech program is offered in 7 branches. In addition, institute offers MBA, MCA and M.Tech programmes. All the seven branches are accredited by NBA (AICTE). In the course of continued development towards excellence the VCE was credited with the status of an Autonomous College by JNTU, Hyderabad in 2011. Careers 360 magazine placed VCE as one of the leading colleges with AA++ Rating in 2013.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The organizing committee invites papers from academicians and scientists. Both review and research articles

Patrons
Mr. T. Upender Reddy, Secretary Mr. M. Rajasekhar Reddy, Vice-Chairman Mr. E. Prabhakar Reddy, Treasurer

are welcome. A full paper of six pages, including figures and tables, of an A4 size sheet should be sent by email to icams2014@vardhaman.org. The status (selected/not selected) of the paper will be intimated to corresponding author after peer review. The full papers thus submitted will be included either for oral presentation or poster presentation at the discretion of the selection panel. All the selected papers will get a DOI number and will be published in International Journal
of Current Engineering (INPRESSCO). and Technology

Organizing Secretary
Dr. Perumalla Janaki Ramulu Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, VCE

Joint Organizing Secretaries

Dr. P. Srinivasa Rao Dr. S. Deva Prasad Prof. N. Srinivasa Reddy Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, VCE

Treasurer
Dr. B. Venkatesh Dr. VSV Prabhakar Mr. Deepak Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, VCE

The scope of the conference include all the following areas but not limited to:
Advanced VLSI Fabrication Aerodynamics Aerospace Systems and Technology Alternative energy Biomechanics Composite Materials Concurrent Engineering Applications of AI Techniques in Design and Manufacturing Applied Mechanics and Design Automation CAD/CAM/CAE Cellular automata Computational Fluid Dynamics Computations for materials and manufacturing Condition Monitoring Finite element analysis Heat exchangers Design and Manufacturing Energies Expert systems Energy Management Fluid Dynamics Fuels and Combustion Fuzzy logic Genetic algorithm Green Manufacturing Heat and Mass Transfer HVAC Industrial Engineering Industrial Tribology Instrumentation and Control Internal Combustion Engines Machine Design Machinery Dynamics Manufacturing Materials Preparation and Processing Materials Engineering Materials Science Micro and Nanomaterials Mechanical, Automotive and MEMS Micro-Machining Modeling & Simulation of manufacturing processes Modeling of Processes Nano-Technology NEMS Neural networks Noise and Vibration analysis Numerical analysis and prediction Optimization of Systems Process modeling and simulation Rapid Prototyping Refrigeration and air conditioning Reverse Engineering Mechatronics Renewable and Non-Renewable Reverse Engineering Robotics Solid and Fracture Mechanics

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Mechanical Engineering Department is established in the year 2006. The department is equipped with well qualified, experienced faculty members, and well established laboratories. The department is continuously striving to achieve excellence in education, academic and industry oriented research as well as consultancy work aiming service to the society. The department already handled the DST, AICTE, CSIR and DRDO collaborated project and few more are under process.

ORGANIZING MEMBERS
Prof Shobha Rani Dr Hari Shankar Jain Dr J V R Ravindra Prof Y Pandurangaiah Dr P Sarah Dr K Hari Krishna Mr. T V Sheshaiah Naidu Mr D V Ramana Reddy Mr. V Sreedhar Mr. E Manoj Kumar Ms. K Mani Kumari Mr. M Suresh Kumar Mr CH Chandra Mouli Mr. M. Vishnu Vardhan Mr. TCS Rao Mr. MD Asif Mr. K Madhusudhan Reddy Mr R Madana Mohana Mr SK Prashanth Mr. P Krupakar Mr S Naresh Kumar Mr. Ravi Chandra Mr. M Govinda Reddy Ms P. Poornima Reddy Mr. V Mahidar Reddy Mr. K Sai Ram Mr. CH Subba Rao Mr. A Bhargav Mr. H Jeevan Rao Mr. V Raghavender Mr. G Shiva Krishna Ms. A Amala Mr. M.Rambabu Mr.V Anil Kumar Mr. K Sandeep Kumar, Mr. B Ramu

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

In the present era, Mechanical Sciences are the backbone of the economy of a nation. There is a strong motivation for optimizing the design and manufacturing process using experiments with high precision equipments and computational techniques for modeling the processes. The present conference focuses on the advances in the field of Mechanical Sciences applied to design, thermal, manufacturing etc. In addition to contributory papers, the conference aims at inviting renowned experts for delivering keynote addresses/