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Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
Title
Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
Author
Ni, Kang
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering
Description
Gears are critical mechanical components in power transmission systems, used across a board spectrum of industries such as automobile, aerospace and renewable energy. Given the advancement of design and manufacture of gears in the past decades, th...
Optical surface characterization with the structure function
Title
Optical surface characterization with the structure function
Author
He, Liangyu
Date Created
2013
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description
It is important to characterize surface and transmitted wavefront errors in terms of the spatial content. The errors are typically analyzed in three spatial domains: figure, ripple (or mid-spatial frequency) and roughness. These errors can affect ...
Symmetry and Constraints in Hydrodynamics and Mechanical Locomotion
Title
Symmetry and Constraints in Hydrodynamics and Mechanical Locomotion
Author
Fairchild, Michael
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Robotics, Mathematics
Description
This dissertation introduces new models for the locomotion and control of mechanical and hydrodynamic systems that exhibit symmetry, constraints, and control. I introduce the class of unbalanced Chaplygin control systems and analyze the dynamics a...