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Title: PENETRATION RESISTANCE OF 4340 STEEL/POLYUREA LAMINATE
Author: Pajjuri, Vishnu Vardhan Kumar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Military art and science, Chemistry, Polymers
Description: Enhancement of the penetration resistance of materials used in the defense industry is of great interest since such improvements can save human life and can reduce the loss of resources caused by high velocity projectiles penetrating through the w...

Title: DEMONSTRATION OF A CLOSED LOOP DIGITALLY ENABLED MANUFACTURING PROCESS USING ADVANCED METROLOGY TECHNIQUES
Author: Erickson, Michael
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This thesis details the use of advanced coordinate metrology techniques to digitally enable manufacturing through the demonstration of predictive shimming in the assembly of a power plant generator Frame and Stator Core. A process was developed to...

Title: A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description: In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...

Title: Generation Milling of Cylindrical Involute Gears
Author: Groover, Jesse
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: In the past, gears have largely been manufactured by means of dedicated gear manufacturing machines and tools. These are difficult and expensive to manufacture and maintain, and offer low flexibility and an inability to make anything other than ge...

Title: Manufacture of Infrared Optics in Brittle Materials
Author: Owen, Joseph
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Infrared optics are manufactured for many different applications including: thermal imaging, surveillance, night vision, medical, laser machining, laser surgery, etc. Most infrared transparent materials are hard, brittle, or both. Unless special c...

Title: Cutting Mechanics and Manufacture of Optics for Imaging Applications
Author: Troutman, John
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: Ultraprecision diamond machining enables physical realization of freeform surfaces of nearly arbitrary complexity through turning and milling processes. Achievable form accuracies make diamond machining a viable alternative to conventional techniq...

Title: FINITE ELEMENT STUDIES OF ORTHOGONAL MACHINING OF ALUMINUM ALLOY A2024-T351
Author: Patel, Jaimeen
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics
Description: In this work, a new machining model using the commercial finite element software ABAQUS is developed. The model regards material separation, chip serration and breakage as ductile fracture processes where energy is required to form new surfaces. T...

Title: FRICTION MEASUREMENT DURING FREE VIBRATION
Author: Kossack, Christoph
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Friction is a key consideration in the behavior of many dynamic systems. However, modeling friction behavior accurately remains an engineering challenge. Current friction measurement approaches are limited to application specific tests that attemp...

Title: A THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE STUDY OF AN EXTERNAL CAVITY FIBER FABRY- PEROT INTERFEROMETER FOR DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT
Author: Arumugam, Kumar
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Meteorology
Description: The objective of this research is to explore a mathematical model developed by Wilkinson and Pratt for the external cavity fiber-based Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) and to create a Michelson interferometer setup to validate a frequency modulat...

Title: Characterization and In-Process Metrology of a Laser Powder Fusion Additive Manufacturing Machine
Author: Land, William
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Meteorology
Description: Laser powder bed fusion is one of the most commonly used processes by which metal parts are produced through an additive manufacturing approach, and it is currently the topic of extensive research. This paper describes the study of two aspects of ...

Title: Understanding and Development of Cost-Effective Industrial Aluminum Back Surface Field (Al-BSF) Silicon Solar Cells
Author: Chen, Nian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: For the long-term strategy of gradual decarbonization of the world’s energy supply, high penetration of PV electricity is critical in the future world energy landscape. In order to achieve this, solar electricity with competitive cost to fossil fu...

Title: Time Domain Approach to Stability in Machining Operations
Author: Berglind, Luke
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Machine tool chatter is a common occurrence in machining environments which can lead to undesirable part outcomes and can even cause damage to the machine. Chatter is a result of regenerative dynamic forces inherent in the machining process which ...

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING FIRE-THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACTS ON HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Unsur, Veysel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a quick and efficient way of responding to the scarcity of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution. For the last two decades, photovoltaic technology has been the fastest growing industry among the renewable energy sour...

Title: Instrumentation, techniques, and evaluation of ePTV for particle manipulation studies using micro-scale oscillators
Author: Kafashi, Sajad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics
Description: A need for dynamic micro-particle manipulation is the ability to position fragile particles without damaging them, for instance biological particles like blood cells, stem cells, neurons, pancreatic β cells, DNA, chromosomes, for repeated measurem...