Recent Patents on Engineering

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Yu-Dong ZhangDepartment of Informatics
University of Leicester
Leicester
UK

Associate Editor(s)

Zhitao Kang School of Materials Science and Engineering
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
USA

Xingying Li School of Aerospace Engineering
Corning Incorporated
New York, NY
USA

Zeshui Xu Antai School of Economic and Management
Shanghai Jiaotong University
Chengdu
China

Regional Editor(s)

Tounsi Abdelouahed University of Sidi Bel Abbes
Sidi Bel Abbes
Algeria

Asia

Jinde Cao Research Center for Complex Systems and Network Sciences
Southeast University
Nanjing
China

Hongli Dong School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Northeast Petroleum University
Daqing
China

Europe

Evangelos J. Sapountzakis
Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research
School of Civil Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Athens
Greece

North America

John D. Clayton US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Maryland Applied Graduate Engineering Department
University of Maryland
New York, NY
USA

Section Editor(s)

Section: Materials Science and Engineering

Syed S. Akhtar Department of Mechanical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia

Section: Structural Engineering

Anatoly Alekseytsev Department of Reinforced concrete and Stone Structures
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
Moscow
Russia

Section: Electronics & Communication Engineering

Vikrant Bhateja Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC)
Lucknow
India

Section: Civil and Structural Engineering

Roman Fediuk Polytechnic Institute
Far Eastern Federal University
Vladivostok
Russian Federation

Section: Applied Energy

Roberto A.G. Lezcano Department of Architecture and Design
Higher Polytechnic School
CEU San Pablo University
Madrid
Spain

Section: Intelligent Systems

Dimitrios A. Karras Department General, School of Sciences
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)
School of Science
Athens
Greece

Section: Signal Processing

Changqing Shen School of Rail Transit
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Soochow University
Jiangsu
China

Section: Ocean Engineering

Xuebo Zhang College of Physics and Electronic Engineering
Northwest Normal University
Lanzhou
China

Section: Energy Engineering and Power Technology

Kai Zhang College of Urban Construction
Nanjing Tech University
Nanjing
China

Section Editor(s)(Special Issues)

Akbar Hojjati-Najafabadi

School of Materials Science and Physics

China University of Mining and Technology

Xuzhou

China

Oguzhan Kazaz

Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Khalifa University

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

Ibrahim Mahariq Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Gulf University for Science and Technology

Mubarak Al-Abdullah

Kuwait

Mamta Thakur

Department of Basic Science

Prestige Institute of Management & Research Bhopal

Bhopal

India

Hakan İ. Tol
DR TOL Engineering Consultancy Trade and Industry Limited Company
Mersin
Turkey

Editorial Board Member(s)

Praveen Agarwal
Department of Mathematics
Anand International College of Engineering
Jaipur
India

Tofigh Allahviranloo Department of Mathematics, Science and Research
Istinye University
Istanbul
Turkey

Wojciech Budzianowski Renewable Energy Sources - Research and Business
Wroclaw University of Technology
Wroclaw
Poland

Selcuk Cebi Department of Industrial Engineering
Yildiz Technical University
Istanbul
Turkey

Kwok W. Chau Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hunghom
Hong Kong

Chun-Hsien Chen School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Singapore

Wei Chu Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon
Hong Kong

Silvia Comani Department of Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging
University "G. d'Annunzio"
Chieti
Italy

Tereza N. Dantas CCET-Department of Chemistry
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Natal
Brazil

Ioannis E. Dikaros Department of Structural Engineering
School of Civil Engineering NTUA
National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.)
Athens
Greece

Harijono Djojodihardjo Department of Aerospace
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Selangor
Malaysia

John A. Dourakopoulos School of Civil Engineering
National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.)
Athens
Greece

Mojtaba Ejeian

Huawei

Dublin

Ireland

Steven L. Fernandes Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Karunya University
Karnatak
India

Gheorghita Ghinea School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
Brunel University
London
UK

Mohammad Gholami Department of Engineering and Technology
University of Mazandaran
Babolsar
Iran

Vinod K. Gupta Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee
India

Megat A. K. M. HanafiahDepartment of Applied Sciences
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Shah Alam
Malaysia

Wangli He School of Mechanical Engineering
East China of Science and Technology University
Shanghai
China

Raja R. Hussain Civil Engineering Department
King Saud University
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia

Pavolo Hvizdos Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Materials Research
Kosice
Slovakia

Mona Jalilvand

McGill University

Montreal

Canada

Dusanka Janezic Faculty of Mathematics
University of Primorska
Koper
Slovenia

Magdalena Janus Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering
Szczecin University of Technology
Szczecin
Poland

Andreas E. Kampitsis School of Civil Engineering NTUA
National Technical University, Zografou Campus
Athens
Greece

Fuat Kara Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Duzce University
Duzce
Turkey

Manoj Khandelwal School of Science, Engineering and Information Technology
Federation University Australia
Ballarat
Australia

Maatouk KhoukhiArchitectural Engineering Department
United Arab Emirates University
Al Ain
UAE

Rajneesh Kumar

Department of Mechatronics Engineering

Chitkara University

Rajpura

India

Andrew Leung Department of Electrical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong

Qiusheng Li Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong

Peng-Cheng Ma The Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Beijing
China

Zarrelli Mauro Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry

National Research Council
Pozzuoli
Italy

Francesco Micelli Department of Innovation Engineering
University of Salento
Lecce
Italy

Constantine E. Michailides Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics
Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol
Cyprus

Matteo A.D. Nobile University of Foggia
Foggia
Italy

Anjali Pal Department of Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
India

Deepak Pathania Department of Environmental Sciences
Central University of Jammu
Jammu
India

Rui Peng School of Economics & Management
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China

Aurora A. Pisano
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria

Reggio Calabria

Italy

Tatiana Portnova

Department of Landscape Architecture

Russian State Agrarian University

Moscow

Russia

Juan Pou Applied Physics Department
University of Vigo
Vigo
Spain

Fei Qi College of Environmental Science and Engineering
Beijing Forestry University
Beijing
China

Ling Qin Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
China

Qingan QiuBeijing Institute of Technology
Beijing
China

Vishnu Ravindran

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Okinawa

Japan

Sangram Redkar The Polytechnic School
Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus
Mesa, AZ
USA

Eric Rosenberg Computer Information Systems Program
Georgian Court University
Lakewood, NJ
USA

Mohammad M. Sarafraz School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Adelaide
Adelaide
Australia

Anil K. Sarma Chemical Conversion Division
Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable Energy
University of Tezpur
Tezpur
India

Raffaele Savino Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Napoli Federico
Tecchio
Napoli
Italy

Barış Sevim Department of Civil Engineering
Yildiz Technical University
Istanbul
Turkey

Shalima Shawuti
Koc University
Istanbul
Turkey

Alexandros-Dimitrios G. Tsonos Department of Civil Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Greece

Aysegul Uçar Firat University
Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Elazig
Turkey

Harinadh Vemanaboina

Department of Mechanical Engineering

VEMU Institute of Technology

Chittoor

India

Giovanni Vozzi Department of Information Engineering
University of Pisa
Pisa
Italy

Guiwu Wei School of Economics and Management
Institute of Decision Sciences
Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences
Chengdu
China

Chunchuan Xu Underground System, Inc
Armonk, NY
USA

Shuo XuSchool of Economics and Management
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing
China

Kwanho You

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sungkyunkwan University

Seoul

South Korea

Der L. L. F. Young Department of Civil Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei
Taiwan

Guoliang Zhang State Key Lab Base of Green Chemical Synthesis Technology
Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Zhejiang University of Technology
Hangzhou
China

Jie Zhang School of Mechatronic Engineering
Southwest Petroleum University
Sichuan
China

Zhao W. Zhong School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technology University
Nanyang
Singapore

Jesse Zhu Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
The University of Western Ontario
Ontario
Canada

Anastasios I. Zouboulis Division of Chemical Technology
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki
Greece

Associate Editorial Board Member(s)

Seongah Chin College of Engineering
Sungkyul University
Anyang City
South Korea

Zine Ghemari

Electrical Engineering Department

Mohamed Boudiaf University of M’sila

M’sila

Algeria

Yanan Camaraza-Medina

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Mexico

Saad Motahhir National School of Applied Sciences
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University
Fez
Morocco

Jinqiang Ning Mechanical Engineering, Department Member
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
USA

Mohd Natashah Norizan
Faculty of Electronic Engineering & Technology
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
Kangar
Malaysia

Ahmed H. Osman Department of Information Systems
King Abdelaziz University
Rabigh
Saudi Arabia

Huahao Shou College of Science
Zhejiang University of Technology
Hangzhou
China

Xiao-Guang Yue Rattanakosin International College of Creative Entrepreneurship
Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon
Salaya
Thailand

Executive Guest Editor

Waled M. El-Senousy Environmental Research Division and Food-Borne Viruses Group
Water Pollution Research Department
National Research Center
Cairo
Egypt