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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: 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: Autonomous Control of an All-terrain Vehicle using Embedded Systems and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: The need for autonomous vehicles that do not operate on highways and can move off-road is increasing. While there have been significant advancements in autonomous passenger vehicles in the last couple of years, autonomous off-road vehicles have no...

Title: ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL, COMBINED AND 2-STEP VARIATION IN INDUCTION SYSTEM OF AN IC ENGINE TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND FUEL EFFICIENCY
Author: SAWANT, PAURAS
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Naturally aspirated internal combustion (IC) engines with conventional intake assembly are tuned only over a narrow speed range to produce an induction boost by capitalizing the pressure waves arising in the intake manifold. In this research, inta...

Title: HEAVY TRUCK TRAILER SKIDWEAR AS A FUNCTION OF ABS BRAKE CONFIGURATION
Author: Engelbrecht, Jared
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Most commercial heavy-duty truck trailers are equipped with either a two sensor, one modulator (2S1M) or four sensor, two modulator (4S2M) anti-lock braking system (ABS). Previous research has been performed comparing the performance of different ...

Title: Functional Safety Model for E/E Component of an autonomous vehicle
Author: Gosavi, Mukul Anil
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
Description: Currently there is extensive research and investment in safety technologies, such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (\gls{adas}) for enabling road vehicles to become intelligent and safer, thus making them detect and prevent possible accidents...

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: Experimental Measurement of On-Vehicle Rolling Tire Contact Patch Shear Energy Intensity at Various Slip Angles
Author: Chandrashekar, Nagarjun
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: It has long been accepted that tire wear is directly related to the energy generated due to shear at the contact patch. Tire wear at any given point on the contact patch is proportional to the amount of shear energy intensity acting at that point....

Title: A navigation system for low-cost autonomous all-terrain-vehicles
Author: Mhapankar, Shantanu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
Description: In the last decade, there has been significant research work in the field of autonomous on-road vehicle, but, research in automating off-road vehicles has been largely untouched. The main aim of this thesis was to propose a robust framework for an...

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: Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method
Author: Coe, Corbin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: CORBIN COE. Experimental Study for Detection of Thermal Runaway, Explosion, and Fire in Li-Ion Batteries Initiated by Hot Plate Method(Under the direction of DR. NICOLE BRAXTAN)In 2006, Tesla announced the first fully electric lithium-ion battery ...

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: 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: SYSTEM INTEGRATION OVER A CAN BUS FOR A SELF-CONTROLLED, LOW-COST AUTONOMOUS ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE
Author: Erian, Karim
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: This thesis presents research for making an All-terrain Vehicle (ATV) autonomous. The objective of this research is to have a standardized platform for autonomous ATV modules having the basic controllers integrated and working. This research inclu...

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...

Title: STUDY OF SOURCES OF VARIABILITY IN TIRE FORCE AND MOMENT TESTING
Author: Khare, Ajinkya
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Tire Force and Moment Testing is the most important aspect of data-driven tire modeling and characterization. Conventionally, huge tire force and moment testing machines are being used for testing and more recently advanced technologies such as wh...

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: 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...