Advances in materials and systems technologies III : selected, peer reviewed papers from the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Research and Development : Advances in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICERD2010), September 7-9 2010, Benin City, Nigeria / edited by A.O. Akii Ibhadode.

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Advances in Materials and Systems Technologies III; Preface, Organising Committee and Sponsors; Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Construction and Structures; Lateritic Soil Stabilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement as Flexible Highway Pavement Materials; Strength-Based Appropriateness of Sawdust Concrete for Rigid Pavement; Effect of Oil Contamination on Particle Size Distribution and Plasticity Characteristics of Lateritic Soil; The Effect of Compactive Efforts on the Hydraulic Conductivity Behaviour of Oil Contaminated Lateritic Soils.

Cost Effectiveness of Scheffe's Optimized Five-Component-Concrete with Mound Soil as a Mix ComponentPerformance of Cement Kiln Dust in Stabilizing Lateritic Soil Contaminated with Organic Chemicals; An Investigation on the Behaviour of Concrete with Waste Tyre Rubber Fibres as a Partial Replacement of Coarse Aggregate; Feasibility Study of Low Cost Concrete Products as an Appropriate Alternative Construction Material in the Rwandan Construction Industry; Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Tropical Clay Treated with Rice Husk Ash; Chapter 2: Electrical and Electronic Technology.

Optimal Two-Way Conductor Design Using Computable Convex Functions ApproachTwo Layered Embedded Encryption for Multiple Frequency RFID Tags; Simulink Implementation of Direct Torque Control Drive for Induction Machines; Power Distribution in Lagos Metropolis: Assessment of 132kv Network Capacity; Rural Electrification in Oyo State of Nigeria: Assessement of Existing 33kv Feeder Network Capacity; Modeling Distribution Component Deterioration: An Application to Transformer Insulation; Linear Conditioning of an NTC Thermistor Using Nonlinear Operational Amplifier Circuits.

Artificial Neural Network Approach for Solving Power Flow Problem: A Case Study of Ayede 132 KV Power System, NigeriaReliability Assessment of 4.2 MW Single Shaft Typhoon Gas Fired Turbine Power Generation Station (2003 -- 2008); Outage Analysis and System Integrity of an 11kV Distribution System; Investigating the Quality of Power Supply to a Large Commercial Installation; Computer Simulation of Lightning Strikes to a Horizontally Buried Earth-Electrode: A Parametric Analysis; Chapter 3: Information and Communication Technology.

Performance Evaluation of GSM Service Providers around Igbinedion University CampusesOn the Generation of Random Numbers for Symmetric Cryptography Utilizing Astronomical Data; Predicting Telephone Traffic Congestion Using Multi Layer Feedforward Neural Networks; Analysis of a Weaver, Hartley and Saw-Filter Based, Image Reject Architectures for Radio Receiver Design; Comparative Analysis of Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying and Binary Differential Phase Shift Keying Signalling Schemes with Maximal Ratio Combiner over Rayleigh Environment; Rural Mobile Telephony: A VSAT (Satellite) Based Approach.

This issue of Advanced Materials Research having the title, Advances in Materials and Systems Technologies III, is a collection of peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 2010 International Conference on Engineering Research and Development: Advances in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICERD2010) held at the University of Benin, Nigeria on September 7-9th, 2010. The papers are divided into the chapters: Construction and Structures; Electrical and Electronic Technology; Information and Communication Technology; Manufacturing Systems; Materials Processing; Oil and Gas, Rene.

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