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Title: A study of operational variable influencing wheel balancing measurements
Author: Nabar, Aneesh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Mathematics
Description: The aim of this research is to analyze various operational parameters that may affect the wheel balancing measurement. Therefore, wheel balancing measurements were taken iteratively on different low profile wheel/tire assemblies for different cond...

Title: DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HUB CALIBRATION OF TIRE FORCE AND MOMENT TESTING MACHINE
Author: Muthyala, Dhiraj Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Tire cornering force and moment data from an indoor tire testing machine is very important to auto-makers and tire researchers with respect to the performance of vehicles. As such, the quality of the tire data is also crucial and it is dependent o...

Title: DYNAMICS SENSITIVITY STUDY OF STOCK CAR SHIFTER COMPONENTS
Author: DesRocher, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Previous experience in race situations has shown that components in the shifter section of the stock car drivetrain are subject to failure. As the engine operates in a specific rotational speed band throughout a race event due to gearing rules, th...

Title: Identifying Load Magnitude and Load Position Influences on Road Vehicle Wheel Alignment Variability
Author: Tatla, Juttenbir
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: A vehicle’s suspension can experience slight variations in geometry due to a myriad of different conditions. The fluidity of a vehicle’s suspension has led to the experimentation of what causes wheel alignment variability and how those changes aff...

Title: Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Author: Henry, Maxwell
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: This thesis focuses upon using a high-order finite-difference method on a structured overset grid to study flow features around a generic simplified car model adjusting mesh refinements, rear slant angles, solvers, and turbulence models. These pro...

Title: Methods for obtaining improvements to the steady-state, pure side-slip Pacejka tire model in capturing conventional and unconventional tire behavior.
Author: Popat, Jugal
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Modified codes have been developed to improve semi-empirical tire modeling using the 2002 and MF6.1.2(2012) versions of the steady-state, pure side-slip Pacejka model. The 2012 version, in its pure form, is not suitable to model unconventional tir...

Title: NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE AERODYNAMICS OF GROUND VEHICLES IN PLATOON USING THE FASTBACK DRIVAER MODEL
Author: Rajasekar, Sudhan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Aerospace engineering
Description: Work concerning aerodynamic optimization of isolated vehicle shapes is available in abundance in existing literature, unlike vehicle interaction studies. Due to its simplicity, all previous studies aimed at understanding the aerodynamic interferen...

Title: Numerical Simulation Based Analysis Of Road Vehicle Aerodynamic Flows
Author: Zhang, Chunhui
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is currently viewed as one of the major tools for investigating aerodynamics of road vehicles. In spite of its well-documented limitations in predicting flows involving complex geometries and flow separations, th...

Title: Optimization of Tire Test Protocol Using LabVIEW/PLC
Author: Nair, Harish
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Tires are one of the main components for the vehicle ground interaction. In orderto accurately evaluate and determine the dynamic behavior of vehicles, various tiremodels are widely recognized. These tire models are generated through rigorous test...

Title: Performance tuning of IC engine with variable exhaust system using a one-D simulation tool
Author: Gajula, Vineeth
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: The exhaust system has a significant effect on the breathing capability of an IC engine, which when increased, increases the volumetric efficiency. Due to the sudden opening of the exhaust valve, the highly pressurized gases in the combustion cham...

Title: Reduced Order Aerodynamic Model Development of Road/Race Vehicles
Author: Halterman, Jaclynn
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Aerospace engineering
Description: This research systematically develops a real-time capable reduced order aerodynamic model of a race vehicle to predict the aerodynamic characterization of a transient vehicle. The aerodynamic model modularly combines the quasi steady state aerodyn...