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Title: Vehicle Velocity Trajectory Optimization in Non-deterministic Environments
Author: Borek, John
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Optimally modulating a vehicle's speed profile through highway, urban, and suburban environments can result in pronounced fuel savings, particularly with heavy-duty vehicles. However, existing strategies for speed profile optimization traditionall...

Title: Variable Shearing Holography
Author: Shanmugam, Prithiviraj
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: From the perspective of manufacturing, it is not always ideal to use conventional methods of surface and optical metrology. Many optical metrology systems like interferometry use a stable temperature-controlled environment in a laboratory setting ...

Title: Towards Explainable Robots: Developing Consensus Reaching Mechanisms for Co-Robots in Haptic Shared Control Paradigms
Author: Izadi, Vahid
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Human-automation teaming (HAT) is gaining importance in military and commercial applications with autonomous vehicles because it promises to improve performance, reduce operating and designing platforms' costs, and increase adaptability to new sit...

Title: Time Domain Simulation with Applications in Compliant Workpiece Milling
Author: Rubeo, Mark
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: High performance application fields, such as the defense, power, and aerospace industries, benefit from the enhanced product quality and reduced cost associated with machining thin-walled, metallic structures over traditional fabrication and assem...

Title: Time Domain Approach to Stability in Machining Operations
Author: Berglind, Luke
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Machine tool chatter is a common occurrence in machining environments which can lead to undesirable part outcomes and can even cause damage to the machine. Chatter is a result of regenerative dynamic forces inherent in the machining process which ...

Title: Thermomechanical Modeling and Analysis of Precision Glass Molding Process
Author: Bobba, Dhanooj
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The tremendous development in digital technology in the last few decades has increased the demand for ultra-precision optical components with enhanced optical performance, such as aspherical or freeform lenses. Typically, lenses made of polymers h...

Title: Thermo-Fluid and Mechanical Design and Optimization Of An Advanced Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger For Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles
Author: Khalesi, Javad
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: A supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton power cycle is considered as one of the promising energy conversion systems for a number of applications such as advanced nuclear reactors, advanced fossil, and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants du...

Title: Thermal Management and Electromechanical Noise Suppression in a Portable Josephson Junction Voltage Standard.
Author: Singh, Namit
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: A self-contained, fully portable, Josephson junction voltage reference standard system has been designed, developed and tested. The system relies on an active, closed-cycle refrigerator (CCR) cryocooler system and completely eliminates the relianc...

Title: The mechanics and control of robotic systems exploiting viscous phenomena for planar locomotion
Author: Hassing, Peter
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Viscous phenomena can be used to aid in the locomotion and control of robotic systems. With the aid of Lagrangian reduction techniques, it is shown that dissipation can be used to model nonholonomic, holonomic, and kinematically constrained system...

Title: The fundamental application of decision analysis to manufacturing.
Author: Karandikar, Jaydeep
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Industrial engineering
Description: Machining models are available to predict nearly every aspect of machining processes. In milling, for example, models are available to relate stability, part accuracy (from forced vibrations during stable machining), and tool wear to the selected ...

Title: The Effects of Inlet Temperature and Turbulence Characteristics on the Flow Development Inside a Gas Turbine Exhaust Diffuser
Author: Bomela, Christian
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources
Description: The overall industrial gas turbine efficiency is known to be influenced by the pressurerecovery in the exhaust system. The design and, subsequently, the performanceof an industrial gas turbine exhaust diffuser largely depend on its inflow conditio...

Title: The Determination of Temperature-dependent CPA Diffusion Properties in Feline Testicular Tissue
Author: Kirkland, Kaitlyn
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biomedical engineering
Description: Fertility preservation would benefit young males who must undergo treatments that can result in sterilization, such as radiation treatments for cancer. This can be achieved by removing some testicular tissue before treatment and putting it into fr...

Title: Test uncertainty ratio (TUR) and test uncertainty
Author: Khanam, Samira
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Measurement uncertainty is a natural parameter that can be used to characterize any measure¬ment process. Continually increasing demands of higher and higher dimensional accuracy in manufactured components places similar demands on the field of di...

Title: Task-Specific Uncertainty for Industrial Measurements
Author: Valdez, Mario
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The purpose of measurement is to provide information about a quantity of interest – a measurand. Since no measurands are exactly known, measurement uncertainty is estimated for common measuring tasks in order to quantify the result of a measuring ...

Title: THERMAL AND MECHANICAL RESPONSES OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITES UNDER ONE-SIDED FIRE EXPOSURE
Author: YU, ZIQING
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research investigated the thermal and mechanical responses of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in fire. The research focused on thermal decomposition and heat transfer, deformation, delamination, and structural integrity of FRP compo...

Title: THE TURBULENT REACTING RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY: A NEW CANONICAL PROBLEM IN NON-PREMIXED COMBUSTION
Author: Varshochi, Hilda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: We describe detailed high-resolution numerical simulations of a class of shock-induced reactive turbulent mixing layers, where the scalar mixing, flow dynamics and combustion properties are driven by the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability. The 3D ...

Title: Surface Integrity in Diamond Machining Germanium For Infrared Optics
Author: Sizemore, Nicholas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Ultra-precision manufacturing is a deterministic method of producing optical-grade components. Continuous and interrupted machining operations are the main focus of this research with the goal of improving the manufacturing community’s knowledge. ...

Title: Study of Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Graphene-Like Two Dimensional Material
Author: Elapolu, Mohan Surya Raja
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Graphene is a layer of covalently bonded carbon atoms with a honeycomb lattice structure. It has exceptional properties, due to which it became prominent in a wide range of applications. The enormous success of graphene raised curtains to a new cl...

Title: Stress Wave Propagation and Tunability in 1D Granular Systems
Author: Zhang, Wen
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Mechanical stress wave propagation in granular materials has attracted much attention for exploring new physical phenomena due to versatile engineering applications. One-dimensional (1D) granular systems, a type of artificially designed granular m...

Title: Science of Multiphysics Behavior of Si/C Composite Active Particles in Anodes
Author: Gao, Xiang
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The rapidly growing demands on energy storage technologies over the last decade have imposed further requirements for the high energy/power density, safety, and durability of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Si/C composite materials have attracted en...