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Title: A Cut-Cell Based Ghost Fluid Method for Multi-Component Compressible Flows
Author: Liu, Chen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics
Description: Multi-material compressible flows are observed in several applications of practical relevance including combustion, cavitation and shock lithotripsy. To solve such flows numerically with improved efficiency and accuracy, the use of the Ghost Fluid...

Title: A NUMERICAL STUDY OF INTERFACIAL INSTABILITIES IN SHOCKED MATERIALS WITH SURFACE TENSION
Author: Bigdelou, Pedram
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics
Description: Shock-driven multi-material flows occur in several applications including shock wave lithotripsy, underwater explosions, droplet combustion, propeller cavitation and ejection of material from surfaces subject to blast loading. Such flows are highl...

Title: A Scalable deep learning framework for autonomous road asset classification
Author: Nouri Gooshki, Sadegh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: The focus of this thesis is on automation in road asset inspection using deep neural networks. Even though some progress has been made in automation of data collection and condition assessment, the amount of manual operation and the cost of road i...

Title: A finite element approach for analysis of damping properties of polymer composites.
Author: Shukla, Satyam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Mechanical vibrations are a part of several industrial equipment,machinery, systems and vehicles being used in our day to day life. Damping of such unwanted vibrations have been of utmost importance for several industrial operations.Polymer compos...

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: Analysis of Baseball Pitching: An Investigation of Shoulder Rotational Properties, Biomechanics, and Injury
Author: Stokes, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biomechanics
Description: Throwing arm injuries are common because of the demand on the shoulder. Shoulder exams and pitching mechanics are regularly monitored by team physicians. Excessive instability and joint loading in baseball pitching are risk factors for throwing ar...

Title: BORON CARBIDE NANOWIRES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Author: Guan, Zhe
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: Bulk boron carbide has been widely used in ballistic armored vest and the property characterization has been heavily focused on mechanical properties. Even though boron carbides have also been projected as a promising class of high temperature the...

Title: Bioactive ceramic coating on orthopedic implants for enhanced bone tissue integration
Author: Aniket, .
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering
Description: Tissue integration between bone and orthopedic implant is essential for implant fixation and longevity. An immunological response leads to fibrous encapsulation of metallic implants leading to implant instability and failure. Bioactive ceramics ha...

Title: CFD BASED ANALYSES OF THE EFFECTS OF 2017 NASCAR XFINITY RACING SERIES AERODYNAMIC RULE CHANGES
Author: Olkhovskyi, Nazarii
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Xfinity racing series is an American stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. Forthe 2017 racing season, NASCAR introduced new regulations for this series in order todecrease aerodynamic influence on vehicle performance. Using only open-source...

Title: COMPENSATION OF FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS BY INVERSE RCSA
Author: Satyanarayana, Harsha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The stability lobe diagram is a graphical device used to select stable cutting conditions in machining. The generation of the stability lobe diagram requires the tool-holder-spindle-machine frequency response function (FRF). Therefore, the accurac...

Title: CONTROLLED GROWTH AND PROPERTY STUDY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED NANOSTRUCTURES OF MOLYBDENUM OXIDE
Author: Razmyar, Soheil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) is a versatile semiconductor material with a wide range of potential applications in photocatalysis, electrochromism/photochromism, sensing, and energy storage. Its highly anisotropic layered structure with weak van der ...

Title: Coupling of peridynamics and the finite element method and Study of the damping property of polymer composites
Author: Kulkarni, Shank
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanics
Description: Part - I: Coupling of peridynamics and the finite element method and modeling of creepOne of the important modes of unpredicted failure for large complex structures such as power stations, turbines, processing plants, refineries is a failure due t...

Title: DUAL PROJECTION FRINGE PROJECTION PROFILOMETRY
Author: Venkatesh, Bhanu teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Three-dimensional modeling
Description: Fringe-pattern projection (FPP) techniques are widely used for surface-shape measurement in a wide range of applications like object and scene modeling, part inspection, and reverse engineering. This thesis presents a way to increase the accuracy ...

Title: Design and Evaluation of a Direct Drive Dual Axis Counter Rotating Hydrokinetic Darrieus Turbine System
Author: Crooks, John
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The proposed work aims to design and develop a novel direct drive parallel stream counter-rotating Darrieus turbine system capable of producing power at low velocities (less than 2.0 m/s) for scientific and industrial applications along an interco...

Title: Development of CFD Simulation Frameworks For High Fidelity Predictions of Quadcopter Aerodynamics
Author: Madabushi, Karthik Srinivas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Aerospace engineering
Description: External aerodynamic simulation of a rotor system is far more challenging compared to simulations involving fixed wing aircraft. This is because the surrounding flow field itself is far more complex. The rotating blades of the rotor system encount...

Title: Development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature laser interferometer for integration into a compact thermal actuator
Author: Hastings, DJ
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: D.J. HASTINGS. Development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature laser interferometer for integration into a compact thermal actuator(Under the direction of DR. STUART T. SMITH)This thesis presents the development of an all-fiber homodyne quadrature...

Title: Development of injectable bioceramic drug delivery system for solid tumor treatment
Author: Haig, James
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: According to the national cancer institute "In 2016, an estimated 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 people will die from the disease" and "The number of people living beyond a cancer diagnosis reached...

Title: EFFECT OF BIOCERAMIC FUNCTIONAL GROUPS ON DRUG BINDING AND RELEASE KINETICS
Author: Trujillo, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: Bioceramics have been studied extensively as drug delivery systems (DDS). Those studies have aimed to tailor the drug binding and release kinetics to successfully treat infections and other diseases. This research suggests that the drug binding an...

Title: ENGINEERING BIOCERAMIC MICROSTRUCTURE FOR CUSTOMIZED DRUG DELIVERY
Author: Pacheco, Hernando
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: One of the most efficient approaches to treat cancer and infection is to use biomaterials as a drug delivery system (DDS). The goal is for the material to provide a sustained release of therapeutic drug dose locally to target the ill tissue withou...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE IN VIBRATED GRANULAR MEDIA AND COMPARISON WITH THEORETICALLY PREDICTED PHASE CHANGE IN HARD SPHERE SYSTEMS
Author: Gaur, Kapil
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Statistical physics
Description: Hard sphere systems, for years, have been studied through computer simulations. In the 1950s the work on modern computing was on the rise and computers were being researched for use in every field. Statistical Mechanics was no alien to this and th...