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Title: Detection and Classification of Defects in Metal Parts Using ATOS Professional 2019
Author: Gorman, Ryan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: When inspecting a manufactured part to determine whether it falls within tolerance, it is often important to distinguish the difference between a defect and geometric variation. A part that exbibits excessive geometric variation will fail to meet ...

Title: Development and analysis of a high-efficiency concentrating solar power tower plant concept
Author: Javanshir, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are one of the main problems of using fossil energy sources such as coal and natural gas. Thus, decarbonization of the energy sector, i.e., the increased use of the lower carbon intensity and carbon-free energy...

Title: Development of a CFD Simulation Framework for Aerothermal Analyses of Electric Vehicle Battery Packs
Author: Jain, Ayushi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely being used in the field of electric vehicles, their high-power density, low resistance, compactness and low self-discharge rate. These make LIBs an ideal choice for use in electric vehicles (EV). To increase ...

Title: Development of a Digital Twin for a Solar Powered Electric Race Vehicle
Author: Baer, James
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: The global and local impacts of climate change have increased the interest in decarbonizing energy economies in general and transportation in particular. Solar EVs represent an intersection of renewable energy generation and EV development, both o...

Title: Development of an Adaptive X-ray Research Facility and a Direct Bonded Silicon Reference Object for Computed Tomography
Author: Thousand, Jeffery
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Our ability to harness the power of X-ray radiation has led to many important scientific discoveries. Two common applications for X-rays are crystallography and imaging through objects (tomography). Facility design is a critical component in optim...

Title: Discrete Element Simulations of Powder Spreading in Additive Manufacturing
Author: Amrapurkar, Parth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Physics
Description: Powder spreading plays a critical role in the quality of parts produced with selective laser sintering (SLS). Some of the important parameters that influence the quality of the powder bed are the powder particle size and distribution, blade speed,...

Title: Displacement Scale Based on Speckles
Author: Farsad, Mahsa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: Speckle patterns are complex intensity distributions, which occur when an optically rough surface is illuminated with a coherent light. The speckle phenomenon was known to be troublesome when the laser was first introduced, but later it was discov...

Title: Distributed Renewable Energy Technologies:Design and Development of Scalable Transmission Systems
Author: Menon, Shruti Mohandas
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Renewable forms of energy are being intensively pursued and investigated in systems connected to the grid as well as in standalone applications. The global energy generation is expected to grow 2.7 times by the year 2035. Today, renewable energy r...

Title: Dynamic Evaluation of Laser Trackers
Author: Welty, Victoria
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: This thesis details the development, performance, and analysis of tests for the dynamic performance evaluation for laser trackers. Laser trackers are large-scale measuring systems that utilize a spherical coordinate system for measurement. These s...

Title: Dynamic behaviour of core-shell structured Si nanoparticles during lithiation/delithiation cycling at dynamic loadings
Author: Xu, Jun, Gao, Xiang, Yuan, Chunhao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials--Dynamic testing, Mechanical engineering
Description: Dynamic behaviours of the core-shell structured (CSS) Si nanoparticles during electrochemical cycling were modelled. A core-shell-structured model that contained Si nanoparticles wrapped with amorphous carbon (a-C) was established. The system was ...

Title: EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS OPTIONS FOR COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS
Author: Ramanujam, Sriram
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources, Thermodynamics
Description: Efficiency improvement of the existing coal-fired power plants has been recognized as a path of no regret. The Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule issued on August 21, 2018, requires a 2.1% to 4.5% reduction in net plant heat rate and 1.5% improvem...

Title: ENGINEERING OXYGEN TRANSPORT FOR IMPROVING CELL PERFORMANCE IN HEPATIC DEVICES
Author: Shi, Gengbei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: The bioartificial liver (BAL) advancing medical technology aims to provide temporary liver substitution for patients in dire need of liver transplants and also for drug development. Yet despite nearly fifty years of development, the approval for t...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING MASS TRANSPORT AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES
Author: Karthik Kumar, Balasubramanian
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: A bioreactor is a large-scale engineered in vitro device that maintains a 3D arrangement of functioning cells for use in various bioengineering applications. The current work is focused on heat and mass transfer issues related to the bioreactor's ...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT WAKE STRUCTURES AND DYNAMIC COUPLING OF TANDEM LIFTING BODIES IN A HYDRODYNAMIC CHANNEL
Author: Hellman, Samuel
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Two experimental studies are carried out on interacting tandem bodies in incompressible, turbulent flow and the design of a hydrodynamic water channel in which the studies are conducted is discussed. The water channel has a 1 m^2 test section, and...

Title: Effective Thermal Conductivity of Porous Materials using Maxwell's Methodology and Image-Based Finite Element Approach
Author: Balutkar, Vrushank Deepak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The steady-state thermal response of solid materials is controlled by their thermal conductivity. For porous materials, the local thermal conductivity is difficult to use in the characterization of the overall thermal response and therefore, often...

Title: Evaluation of curved surfaces with x-ray reflectometry
Author: Cole, Jacob
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Physics
Description: This dissertation presents a body of work developing novel models and methods for surface evaluation with X-ray reflectometry (XRR). At the time of this work, XRR is a highly used tool for the measurement of flat wafers and laminated semiconductor...

Title: Experimental and computational evaluation of a vibratory finishing process
Author: Navare, Jayesh
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Vibratory finishing is among the widely recognized mass finishing techniques which is used for cleaning, deburring, edge rounding, polishing, and creating an isotropic surface finish on metal parts that have undergone previous machining operations...

Title: Experimentally Infused Active System Optimization - Theoretical Framework and Airborne Wind Energy Case Study
Author: Deodhar, Nihar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: This research pioneers formal combined plant and controller optimization (termed ``co-design") schemes for complex systems where accurate but expensive experiments are fused with cheap but less accurate numerical simulations. This fusion of experi...

Title: Exploring high-energy and mechanically robust anode materials based on doped graphene for lithium-ion batteries: a first-principles study
Author: Xu, Jun, Chang, Cheng, Yin, Sha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Lithium ion batteries, Mechanical engineering
Description: In this study, the adsorption of Li atoms on various types of doped graphene with substituents, including boron, nitrogen, sulfur and silicon atoms, has been theoretically investigated by first-principles calculations, based on the density functio...

Title: FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
Author: Benfield, Christopher
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: Accurately modeling the flight path to resemble the actual flight dynamics of a given projectile enables a shooter to engage targets at distances that extend into the transonic and subsonic flight regions. This requires the collection of velocity ...