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DUCTILE MACHINING OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH VARIABLE RAKE SINGLE POINT DIAMOND MACHINING
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Author
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Griffin, Adam
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Materials science
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Description
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The effect of a variable rake machining process such as Fast Tool Servo (FTS) on optical IR crystalline materials isn’t well understood and can be difficult to test. This thesis proposes and develops the concept of using a 'starburst' cut geometry...
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DYNAMICS SENSITIVITY STUDY OF STOCK CAR SHIFTER COMPONENTS
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Author
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DesRocher, Samuel
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
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Description
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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...
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Design for Metrology of Freeform Optics
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Author
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Venditti, Kristen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
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Description
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Freeform optics offer significant advantages over the conventional aspheric optics, but pose new challenges in metrology and manufacturing. The spatial frequencies of an optical surface that must be measured have changed due to the progression of ...
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PRECISION POLISHING DYNAMICS: THE INFLUENCE OF PROCESS VIBRATIONS ON POLISHING RESULTS
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Author
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Mainuddin, Mohammad
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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The optical pitch polishing process has been used over 300 years to obtain high quality optical surface finish with little subsurface damage. A pitch tool consists of a metal platen coated with a layer of polishing pitch whereby pitch is a highly ...
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Period-n Bifurcations in Milling
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Author
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Honeycutt, Andrew
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Period-n bifurcations in milling operations are studied in this dissertation. Period-n bifurcations represent a special type of unstable dynamic behavior because they have a response period that is an integer multiple (n) of the forcing period. Th...
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SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THIN PLATE DYNAMICS
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Author
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Menezes, Joyson
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering
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Description
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Productivity when milling thin, monolithic components is often limited by regenerative chatter. The vibrations are partially controlled by the use of stability lobe diagrams, which enable the selection of spindle speed/axial depth combinations to ...
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Sub-scale Machining of Large Components
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Author
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Anderson, Paul
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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This research examines the feasibility of machining components with precise tolerances using machines smaller than the completed part. This can conceptually be achieved in two ways. 1.) move a part around a machine, machining a portion of the part...
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Title
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Variable Shearing Holography
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Author
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Shanmugam, Prithiviraj
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics
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Description
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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 ...
