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Title: A Novel Fluorescence Based Method of Assessing Subsurface Damage in Optical Materials
Author: Williams, Wesley
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science, Optics
Description: Lapping and polishing are loose abrasive finishing processes that have been used to achieve critical surface parameters in optical materials for centuries. These processes remove material from the surface through a variety of mechanical and chemic...

Title: BUCKLING LOAD PREDICTIONS IN PRESSURE VESSELS UTILIZING MONTE CARLO METHOD
Author: Brar, Gurinder
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: In practice, large diameter, thin wall shells of revolution are never fabricated with constant diameters and thicknesses over the entire length of the assembly. These initial geometric imperfections have significant effect on the load carrying cap...

Title: MICROSTRUCTURAL MODELING DURING MULTI-PASS ROLLING OF A NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOY
Author: Subramanian, Kannan
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Microstructure present at the end of rolling and cooling operations controls the product properties. Therefore, control of grain size is an important characteristic in any hot-working. The narrow temperature range for hot working of Alloy 718 make...

Title: Modeling the Creep behavior of Torsional Springs
Author: Ramesh, Ajith
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTAJITH RAMESH: Modeling the creep behavior of torsional springs This dissertation presents a detailed model of the `overall' behavior of Torsional springs. Torsional springs (also called `Clock' springs) are a kind of spiral springs which a...

Title: Modeling the durability of structural components in aerospace and medical industries
Author: Shaik, Sameer
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents applications of the finite element method in studying the durability of components used in aerospace (composites) and medical (hip implants) industries. In the first part of the dissertation the response of a fiber-reinf...

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...