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Title: A Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for The Prediction of Thermal-Expansion of Spherical Shells
Author: Bumgarner, Kolby
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Machine Learning (ML) applications in material science is an active area of research due to its accurate predictive capabilities while also being generalizable. Experimentation where a physical model of the problem is constructed has been widely u...

Title: Analysis of a Low Enriched Uranium Centrifugal Gas Core Reactor
Author: Leer, Darrin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics, Radiation, Nuclear physics
Description: With the new NASA directive of returning to the Moon in 2024 as a stepping stone to missions to Mars and beyond, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) to reduce trip times. This thesis will focus on the analysis o...

Title: COMPARISON OF TAYLOR’S THEORY OF SPHERICAL BLAST TO A KNOWN NUMERICAL SOLUTION
Author: ROYADHIKARI, SANDIPKUMAR
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Taylor’s blast wave theory was the first of its kind and focused on the dynamics and thermodynamics of spherical blast waves. Taylor’s model was stated as a similarity solution and determined the time-dependent blast radius, as well as the radiall...

Title: Computational Studies of the Effect of Moisture on Powder Bed Quality in Metal Additive Manufacturing
Author: Chakraborty, Arghajit
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Metal additive manufacturing techniques such as SLM, and DMLS, based on the powder bed fusion (PBF) process, rely on a high-quality powder bed to minimize the formation of defects in the manufactured part. Various parameters like blade velocity, t...

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: DEVELOPMENT OF DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND CALIBRATION PROTOCOL FOR TIRE CORNERING FORCE AND MOMENT TESTING MACHINE
Author: Dwivedi, Amol
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Tires provide the only point of contact between the car and the road. The safety of the driver, passenger depends on the contact patch between the tire and the road, a mere 81 2"x10" size of rubber is in contact with the road which lets us control...

Title: DYNAMIC WATER SORPTION IN TREHALOSE-SALT MIXTURES: EFFECT OF COMPOSITION ON RETENTION OF THE AMORPHOUS STATE
Author: Bagheri, Babak
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics
Description: The disaccharide trehalose has received considerable attention in the bio-preservation field due to its outstanding properties as a glass former, and it is widely used in the pharmaceutical and food industries to stabilize dried products. In part,...

Title: Design, Analysis and Development of Brackets Exhibiting Snap Through Buckling Behavior
Author: Nukala, Surya Phani Krishna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Support structures act as the back bone to the effective functionality of any system. Strength, stiffness and durability are the main contributing factors for a robust structure. But, sometimes it is important for a support structure to exhibit su...

Title: EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS OPTIONS FOR COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS
Author: Ramanujam, Sriram
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources, Thermodynamics
Description: Efficiency improvement of the existing coal-fired power plants has been recognized as a path of no regret. The Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule issued on August 21, 2018, requires a 2.1% to 4.5% reduction in net plant heat rate and 1.5% improvem...

Title: Evaluation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Level Walking Biomechanics in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients
Author: Callahan, Christina
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biomechanics
Description: iiiABSTRACT CHRISTINA AVERY CALLAHAN. An Evaluation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and Level Walking Biomechanics in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients. (Under the direction of DR. NIGEL ZHENG) Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is frequently used ...

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: Experimental and computational evaluation of a vibratory finishing process
Author: Navare, Jayesh
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Vibratory finishing is among the widely recognized mass finishing techniques which is used for cleaning, deburring, edge rounding, polishing, and creating an isotropic surface finish on metal parts that have undergone previous machining operations...

Title: Force and Moment Tire Data Modelling and Test Report Generation
Author: Agalgaonkar, Sudeep
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: For optimizing the performance of vehicles, tire force and moment data generated by a tire testing machine is crucial to automotive manufacturers. The data representation should involve more than the transmittal of raw data. Conceivable representa...

Title: IMPROVED VEHICLE SUSPENSION CONTROL ARM MODEL USING EXPERIMENTAL DEFLECTION MEASUREMENTS
Author: Doshi, Gaurav
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The suspension system plays an important role in automobile performance, safety and noise level reduction. In a suspension system, a control arm is a crucial component. The control arms have different shapes depending upon the model and the purpos...

Title: Insights Derived From Studies on the Interaction of Wall Jets With an Elevated Hump Wake
Author: Sehman, Sean
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Physics, Fluid mechanics
Description: ABSTRACTSEAN M. SEHMAN. Insights Derived from Studies on the Interaction of Wall Jets with an Elevated Hump Wake (Under the Direction of DR. MESBAH UDDIN) Underneath a travelling road vehicle, a channel flow develops between the road and the under...

Title: NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF PARAMETERS INFLUENCING THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE OF A STABLE HYDRAULIC JUMP
Author: Willats, Ethan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Hydraulic engineering
Description: Simulations were undertaken with a commercial Finite Volume ComputationalFluid Mechanics code, Star-CCM+, in order to predict macroscopic and internalflow features of a steady hydraulic jump at a Froude number Fr =5.8. This workwas carried out usi...

Title: PREDICTION OF DIFFRACTION FORCES ON A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER USING BEM AND CFD APPROACH
Author: Subramanian, Akshith
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Alternative energy sources address concerns about fossil fuels such as environmental degradation, public health, and ﬁnite energy source. Compared to wind and solar powers, wave power has a higher energy density and is easier to forecast. However,...

Title: PREDICTION OF DISC WING AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Author: Honeycutt, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering
Description: The primary goal of the work presented in this thesis is to assess the effectiveness of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools in predicting flow fields around golf discs. The quantities of interest involve aerodynamic force and moment coefficie...

Title: Photovoltaic and Concentrated Solar Power Generation and Water Desalination in Arid Desert Regions
Author: Alsarraf, Faisal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: To evaluate the feasibility of solar power plants for both power generation and water desalination in arid desert locations, A Photovoltaic power plant was compared to a Concentrated Solar Power plant at different design capacities in the selected...

Title: Self-Propelling Robotic Hydrofoil Arrays: Mechanics, Efficiency, and Optimization
Author: Bhansali, Rakshit
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Robotics
Description: Mathematical models for the self-propulsion of articulated bodies in fluids at low Reynolds number can be interpreted geometrically in terms of connections in principal bundles. Visualization of the local curvature of a connection in this context ...