Afeez A. Salawudeen, Olorunshogo B. Ogundipe, Riliwan A. Adebayo, Joshua B. Ajewole, Olutosin A. Ogunleye, Abosede J. Awolope & Samuel B. Adeleye·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2026
Piping systems are used to transport fluids in power generation, the oil and gas sector, chemical processing and manufacturing industries, and water-delivery facilities. The design of these systems has a substantial influence on the safety and efficiency of industrial operations....
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i91995
Metallic bipolar plates (BPPs) enable thin, lightweight, and high-throughput proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) stacks, but their industrial value depends on joining two formed foils without sacrificing gas tightness, dimensional accuracy, electrical performance, or corro...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i91994
End-to-end encryption protocols such as TLS 1.3 and QUIC strengthen user privacy but reduce the visibility available to conventional payload-based network-security inspection. This study presents a privacy-preserving Temporal-Structural Transformer (TST) framework for zero-day ma...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i91993
Adeyemi Adebukunola Ishekwene, Odunayo Sekinat Sobowale, Moses Abuobelye Akeke, Akinde Michael Ogunmolu & Busola Motunrayo Olawale·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2026
Transportation agencies are being asked to sustain ageing road, bridge and rail networks under tightening budgets, rising traffic loads and a changing climate, and artificial intelligence is increasingly presented as the mechanism through which asset management will become predic...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81992
Recycling aluminium can scrap is often accompanied by dross formation and non-metallic inclusions that may reduce the quality of recovered metal. This study investigated the effect of MnO₂–carbon particle treatment on the microstructure, fractal characteristics, and phase composi...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81991
The integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems with electric vehicle (EV) charging requires high-gain DC–DC converters that can handle low and variable PV voltages while maintaining efficiency and battery safety. This paper presents the modelling and performance analysis of a solar...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81989
Abidat Olayemi Fasasi-Aleshinloye, Suleiman Makka Aliyu, Adedeji Yusuff Fasasi, Abolarin, Oluwatunmise Peter, Victor Ojo Thomas & Tolulope Adelola Akintunde·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2026
Access to safe drinking water remains a critical challenge in many Nigerian communities, where reliance on untreated surface, well and borehole water increases exposure to microbiological and physicochemical contaminants. This study evaluated the phytochemical composition, antiba...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81990
Road crack detection is a central computer-vision task in pavement inspection because cracks are visually sparse, geometrically elongated, highly variable in width and topology, and easily confused with shadows, joints, stains and road markings. The You Only Look Once (YOLO) fami...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81988
Nigeria’s electricity system continues to experience reliability challenges arising from transmission and distribution faults, protection coordination difficulties, voltage and frequency deviations, ageing assets, and uneven network observability. Machine learning (ML) is increas...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81987
Adeyemi Adebukunola Ishekwene, Christopher Ugbong Akeke, Akinde Michael Ogunmolu, Busola Motunrayo Olawale & Cornelia Ifeoma Ejoh·Journal of Engineering Research and Reports·2026
Critical infrastructure operators increasingly deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to detect degradation, predict failures, optimise maintenance, identify cyber anomalies and support operational decisions. These capabilities create a plausible route to higher availability, reliab...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81986