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19/09/2025

🔥 Boosting Heat Transfer with Ternary Nanofluids (TNF)

This work investigates how a ternary nanofluid (TiO₂–Al₂O₃–SiO₂ in water) improves heat transmission in mixed convection flow with convective boundary conditions.

🔍 Key Insights:

✅ TNF achieved better thermal conductivity than hybrid nanofluids
✅ Increasing Biot number (Bi) enhanced temperature distribution but lowered velocity
✅ Higher λ (mixed convection parameter) increased temperature fields
✅ Results verified with strong agreement against existing models

The findings highlight TNF as a promising coolant for applications in automotive engines, solar collectors, and electronic cooling.

📖 Full article:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116652/1/116652.pdf

11/09/2025

⚡ Cleaner Engines with Electric Turbocompounding ⚡

This study explores the use of electric turbocompounding (ETC) in a 1.6L CamPro turbocharged engine to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and recover exhaust energy.

🔍 Key Insights:

✅ Dual-stage electric turbocompounding (ETC) lowers brake-specific emissions across NOx, CO₂, CO, and HC
✅ Maximum reductions: 28.8% NOx, 6.9% CO₂, 7.2% CO, 9.9% HC
✅ Best performance seen in mid-range engine speeds (3000–5000 rpm)
✅ Confirms electric turbocompounding (ETC) as a practical short- to mid-term solution for global greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction

This research highlights electric turbocompounding (ETC) as a promising waste heat recovery strategy, paving the way for greener and more fuel-efficient vehicles.

📖 Full article:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116653/1/116653.pdf

04/09/2025

🚘 Optimizing Sedan Front-End Design for Better Aerodynamics 🌬️

This research uses central composite design (CCD) and mathematical modelling to assess how different vehicle front-end profiles influence aerodynamic drag coefficient (Cd).

🔍 Key Insights:

✅Windshield angle and hood edge height strongly affect aerodynamic efficiency
✅Hood length and bumper centre height also influence drag reduction
✅Response surfaces guide design for fuel economy and stability

The findings provide automakers with predictive tools to refine front-end geometry, enabling vehicles with improved aerodynamic efficiency and lower fuel consumption.

📖 Full article:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116654/1/116654.pdf

29/08/2025

⚙️ Smarter CNC Machining with Artificial Neural Networks 🤖

This study applies Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to optimize CNC machining parameters, addressing one of the core challenges of modern manufacturing: consistent surface finish quality.

📌 Highlights:

✅ANN model predicts surface roughness from machining inputs (cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut)
✅Achieved correlation coefficient R = 0.992 and NRMSE = 3.79%
✅Significantly reduces reliance on costly experimental trials
✅Demonstrates ANN as a robust, accurate tool for intelligent manufacturing

The research proves that ANN models can serve as a powerful tool in Industry 4.0 manufacturing, ensuring better surface quality and productivity.

📖 Full article:https://jmeche.uitm.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2.JMECHE-2024-OJS-4981.pdf

22/08/2025

🧠 Body Weight and Lumbar Spine Implants: A Finite Element Study

In this study, researchers analyzed how different body weights affect the biomechanics of the lumbar spine implanted with a Maverick® total disc replacement prosthesis.

🔍 Key Insights:
✅Obesity increases nucleus pulposus pressure and annulus fibrosus stress
✅Segmental motion changes were most pronounced at the L3-L4 adjacent level
✅Excessive loads may accelerate adjacent disc degeneration after TDR surgery

🔍The findings provide valuable biomechanical evidence that weight management is essential to improving outcomes and preventing adjacent disc degeneration in TDR patients.

📖 Full article:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116649/1/116649.pdf

15/08/2025

🛠 Boosting Mild Steel Durability with CoNiFe Coatings & Heat Treatment

In this paper, researchers studied how cobalt alloy (CoNiFe) thin film coatings, combined with annealing and quenching heat treatments, impact the hardness, surface quality, and fatigue life of mild steel.

🔍 Key Highlights:
✅Quenched coatings showed the highest hardness and fatigue resistance
✅Surface roughness improved significantly, reducing wear potential
✅Heat treatment altered microstructure, enhancing coating adhesion
✅Optimized process offers longer service life for structural components

📖 Full article:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116651/1/116651.pdf

08/08/2025

🎧 Tuning Resonator Length for Better Energy Harvesting from Noise ⚡🌆

This study investigates how varying the length of an acoustic resonator affects standing wave behaviour in acoustic energy harvesting systems.

Using finite element modelling, researchers found that:
✅Resonator length directly affects low-frequency wave modes
✅Shorter lengths shift resonance frequency and reduce amplitude
✅Around 40 cm length allows broadband frequency response
✅Potential for urban noise conversion into clean, usable energy

📖 Full article:https://jmeche.uitm.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/3.JMECHE-2024-OJS-2971.pdf

31/07/2025

🌊 Turning Drainage Water into Clean Energy: A Vortex Turbine Solution ⚙️🌱

This paper explores the potential of building drainage systems as a source for renewable energy using gravitational water vortex turbines (GWVT).

🌀 Using ANSYS CFX simulations, the study evaluates various vortex geometries, drainage slopes, and wall textures to optimize energy capture in a typical commercial building scenario.

🔍 Key Takeaways:
✅ Rough-walled, conical chambers improve vortex strength and torque
✅ Simulations based on real rainwater and greywater discharge rates
✅ Offers practical design insights for urban micro-hydro systems

📖 Read the full article:
https://jmeche.uitm.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/9.JMECHE-2024-OJS-3750.pdf

24/07/2025

🛠️ How Fin Design Impacts Rocket Stability Under Crosswinds 🚀

This paper simulate the stability of low-altitude rockets with various fin cant angles and wind speeds to explore optimal aerodynamic configurations. The study shows how fin-induced spin improves gyroscopic stability, especially in windy launch conditions.

Key takeaway:
✅ 3-fin rockets reach higher apogees due to lower drag
✅ 4-fin rockets offer better stability at high wind speeds

📖 Read the full paper:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/116648/1/116648.pdf

17/07/2025

♻️ Plastic Waste into Stronger Concrete? Yes, It’s Possible! 🧱🌍

This study explore how recycled PET flakes commonly found in plastic bottles can be used to enhance the compressive strength of concrete.

💡 What’s exciting?
✅ PET flakes improve concrete’s resistance to cracking
✅ 1% PET content increases compressive strength by up to 47%
✅ A promising step toward sustainable construction using plastic waste

This study proves that innovation in concrete mix design can also help reduce environmental pollution 💪♻️

📖 Read the full article:
https://jmeche.uitm.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/5.JMECHE-2023-0086.pdf

11/07/2025

🎉 Celebrating 20 Years of JMechE Excellence! 🚀

Since 2005, the Journal of Mechanical Engineering (JMechE) has been at the forefront of publishing impactful research and advancing knowledge in mechanical engineering and related fields.

Today, we proudly celebrate 20 years of academic excellence, innovation, and global collaboration. This milestone is a tribute to the dedication of our editors, authors, reviewers, and readers who have shaped JMechE into what it is today, a Scopus-indexed journal with a strong international presence.

🔧 From local beginnings to global recognition
📚 From printed volumes to digital access
🌍 From national outreach to international impact

Here’s to the past two decades and the many more ahead!
Thank you for being part of our journey. 🙌

29/05/2025

🎉 10 Awards, 1 Journal – JMechE on the Rise! 🚀

We’re incredibly proud to share that the Journal of Mechanical Engineering (JMechE) has been recognized with 10 prestigious awards! 💼📚

🏆 Our 2024–2025 Highlights:

1. Most Active Repositored Journal (UiTM Institutional Repository)
2. Special Award Repositored Journal – Most Consistent (1st Place, 796 articles)
3. Best Journal Website (2nd Place)
4. Most Cited Article (2023–2024) – Science, Technology & Engineering
5. Best ACI Journal (Most Cited)
6. High Impact Journal Award (Scopus)
7. Best Journal (with Special Edition) 2024
8. Most Cited Journal (2023–2024) – 1st Place: Science, Technology and Engineering
9. Journal with Most International Co-authors/ Corresponding Authors (2023-2024) (Scopus Journal) - Science, Technology and Engineering
10. Consistently DOIs Users’ Journals Award

All these are made possible through the hard work of our editorial team, reviewers, authors, and readers. Thank you for being part of our journey! 🌍📝

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Shah Alam
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