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Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERFORMANCE OF A FLUX CONCENTRATION MAGNETIC GEARBOX AND MAGNETICALLY GEARED MOTORS
Author: Som, Debarupa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: In today’s world, renewable energy sources like wind and ocean energy have come more into prominence as a source of sustainable energy. The energy conversion devices used in these cases, utilize mechanical gearboxes to match the speed of the input...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

Title: AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED GROUND-AERIAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM FOR AREAS WITH AN UNDERDEVELOPED SECURITY INFRASTRUSTURE
Author: Padgett, Steven
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Events held in areas without a well-developed security infrastructure, such as the Tour de France and temporary military bases, can be difficult to secure and survey. In these situations, an unmanned aerial system (UAS) can prove useful to get sur...

Title: An Investigation Into the Torque Density Capabilities of Flux-Focusing Magnetic Gearboxes
Author: Uppalapati, Krishna Kiran
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Electromagnetism
Description: Wind and many rotary based ocean energy conversion devices rely on a mechanical gearbox to increase their speed so as to match the requirements of the electromagnetic generator. However, mechanical gearboxes have a number of disadvantages such as ...

Title: Autonomous Navigation of an Electric All-Terrain Vehicle Along Waypoint-Defined Trails
Author: Daniel, Jacob
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Description: Previous research attempted to autonomously control an internal combustion all-terrain vehicle platform but was unsuccessful due to the inability to reliably control speed. To address this, an electric motor conversion is performed on the platform...

Title: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Along a Predetermined Vector
Author: Pfeifer, Elijah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations rely on civilian volunteers to provide mandatory manpower when covering large areas of land. These SaR operations are typically conducted in remote environments where conditions can be hazardous and GPS signal in...

Title: Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
Author: Cui, Zhiguang
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...

Title: Design and Development of a Traveling Wave Ferro-Microfluidic Device and Multi-Physics Model for Potential Cell Separation and Sorting in Water Based Ferrofluids
Author: Edwards, Maegan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: MAEGAN EDWARDS. Design and Development of a Traveling Wave Ferro-Microfluidic Device and Multi-Physics Model for Potential Cell Separation and Sorting in Water Based Ferrofluids (Under the direction of DR. RODWARD L. HEWLIN, JR.)This thesis presen...

Title: Design and Development of an Experimental Apparatus for Hardware-In-Loop Testing of Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Systems
Author: van Arnold, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: Growing concerns related to the environmental impacts of rising global energy consumption compel the continued development of low-emission technologies for the building sector. In the United States, space conditioning and domestic hot water genera...

Title: Development and Implementation of Snowmelt Simulations in an Augmented Reality Sandbox
Author: Ainsworth, Tyler
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics
Description: In cold climates snowmelt runoff prediction is an important factor in the prediction of seasonal flooding and springtime water availability. Engineers study snowmelt and its effects on the environment, such as changes in stream flow, for this purp...

Title: ELECTRICITY PRICE FORECASTING USING ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES
Author: Sardana, Bhav
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: Electricity Price Forecasts have been a very important part of the energy industry for a long time. Traditionally, it was used by utilities, but after the liberalization of electricity markets around the world, they are of prime importance not onl...

Title: Electromagnetic and vibration energy harvesting utilizing a piezoelectric device
Author: Vo, Misa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: The main goal of this research is to design an energy harvesting device that produces enough power to supply a voltage sensor deployed on a power line. Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is one of the promising methods of powering the ...

Title: Extrapolation of Test Performance for Air-to-Air Rotary Energy Exchangers
Author: Jamal Alhariry, Alaa
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Air-to-air energy exchangers are used in building HVAC systems to transfer energy between the exhaust air and the outdoor air. Because of its potential to reduce the energy consumption for conditioning ventilation air and to downsize the cooling a...

Title: FIBER BASED TOOLS FOR POLISHING OPTICAL MATERIALS
Author: Shahinian, Hossein
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: In this dissertation, the development of alternative fiber based polishing tools for the finishing of precision freeform and aspherical optics is introduced. Freeform and aspherical optics, i.e. optics with varying radius of curvatures (ROC), are ...

Title: FRACTAL-INSPIRED SUBWAVELENGTH GEOMETRIC INCLUSIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES
Author: Smith, Kathryn
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This dissertation presents research results demonstrating the efficacy of fractal-inspired subwavelength geometric inclusions for improvement of high-frequency electromagnetic devices. It begins with a review of the open literature in the area of ...

Title: Freeform Optical Surface Form Metrology with Serial Data Acquisition
Author: Noste, Todd
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Physics
Description: Freeform optics, or optics with no axis of rotational invariance, provide optical designers more degrees of freedom, flexibility, and opportunity for innovation increasing optical performance and system integration while decreasing the form factor...

Title: Improved Fidelity of Triangulation Sensor Measurements in Optical Inspection
Author: Hosseinpour, Milad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: With the evolution of gear design requirements for new applications, classical gear inspection based on a time-consuming line-oriented tactile measurement must be replaced with a more rapid, areal inspection that can capture complex modern gear mo...

Title: Interaction of femtosecond laser beam with atmospheric low temperature plasmas and electric fields
Author: Davda, Kirtan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Power resources
Description: In this work, the influence of electric fields and atmospheric plasma on the behavior of an ultrafast femtosecond laser beam is being studied. A femtosecond laser pulse has an ability to self-focus in air and produce confined narrow channels of hi...

Title: LIFE CYCLE COST OPTIMIZATION OF A SOLAR COMBISYSTEM IN NEPAL
Author: Thapa, Bishan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Nepal has a huge potential for solar energy utilization to meet the growing energy demand. Solar thermal systems have been used in Nepal since the 1960s. In the past two decades, much work was done with a focus on improving design, fabrication, an...

Title: Novel Methodology for Spatial Risk Analysis of Overhead Transmission Lines Subject to Wildfires
Author: de Sousa Berredo, Alessandro Cesar
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Geographic information systems, Geodesy
Description: Wildfires are one of the main threats to overhead power lines worldwide, causing permanent damages and interruptions. Wildfires represent the second leading cause of outages in the Brazilian Interconnected Grid and the fourth leading cause in the ...