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Title: A STUDY OF PARAMETERS INFLUENCING THE VEHICLE WHEEL ALIGNMENT MEASUREMENTS.
Author: Patel, Harsh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research effort includes hundreds of passenger vehicle wheel alignment measurements and a design of experiments that works to capture the various factorsinfluencing wheel alignment measurements. Of the many things that influence theaccuracy a...

Title: A study of operational variable influencing wheel balancing measurements
Author: Nabar, Aneesh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Mathematics
Description: The aim of this research is to analyze various operational parameters that may affect the wheel balancing measurement. Therefore, wheel balancing measurements were taken iteratively on different low profile wheel/tire assemblies for different cond...

Title: Aspects of Turbulence and Stochastic Processes in Fluid Mechanics
Author: Dahlberg, Jerry
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: Three experimental studies are executed to examine aspects of turbulence and stochastic processes in fluid mechanics. Each experimental study is conducted in a different medium; water, wind and vibrated grain piles. Each study requires upgrades to...

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 A PROCEDURE FOR EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF SHEAR ENERGY INTENSITY IN TIRE CONTACT PATCH
Author: Gulve, Piyush
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Energy dissipated in the contact patch of a rolling tire is related to material abrasion and tire wear. In this study, we calculate the shear energy intensity as the product of the sliding distance and the shear stresses as measured in the tread b...

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: 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: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT WAKE STRUCTURES AND DYNAMIC COUPLING OF TANDEM LIFTING BODIES IN A HYDRODYNAMIC CHANNEL
Author: Hellman, Samuel
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Two experimental studies are carried out on interacting tandem bodies in incompressible, turbulent flow and the design of a hydrodynamic water channel in which the studies are conducted is discussed. The water channel has a 1 m^2 test section, and...

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: 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: Identifying Load Magnitude and Load Position Influences on Road Vehicle Wheel Alignment Variability
Author: Tatla, Juttenbir
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: A vehicle’s suspension can experience slight variations in geometry due to a myriad of different conditions. The fluidity of a vehicle’s suspension has led to the experimentation of what causes wheel alignment variability and how those changes aff...

Title: Improvement of Optical and Pressure sensing capabilities of the UNC Charlotte Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: White, Michael
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering
Description: The UNC Charlotte hypersonic wind tunnel was designed and made by a team of engineering students in 2019. The wind tunnel is capable of holding 1500 PSI and sending air through a test chamber with viewing windows at Mach 3 and 5. The construction ...

Title: Investigation into the capabilities and characteristics of tomographic particle image velocimetry measurement techniques
Author: Bisel, Tucker
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Literature describing measurement results obtained using tomographic particle image velocimetry (TomoPIV) systems has become increasingly common, but details on the processes used to obtain those results and reasons for selecting specified analysi...

Title: NESTED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR FUSING ITERATIVE PLANT OPTIMIZATION WITH CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER OPTIMIZATION
Author: Deese, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization process by adjusting controller parameters during an experiment while plant parame...

Title: Optimization of Tire Test Protocol Using LabVIEW/PLC
Author: Nair, Harish
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Tires are one of the main components for the vehicle ground interaction. In orderto accurately evaluate and determine the dynamic behavior of vehicles, various tiremodels are widely recognized. These tire models are generated through rigorous test...

Title: STUDY OF SOURCES OF VARIABILITY IN TIRE FORCE AND MOMENT TESTING
Author: Khare, Ajinkya
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Tire Force and Moment Testing is the most important aspect of data-driven tire modeling and characterization. Conventionally, huge tire force and moment testing machines are being used for testing and more recently advanced technologies such as wh...

Title: The Design, Calibration, and Commissioning of a Benchmark Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: Solomon, Jason
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: In 2020, the United States Department of Defense requested $3.2 billion to fund research and development in hypersonic defense programs for the fiscal year of 2021. The demand for funding in hypersonic research directly responds to the increasing ...

Title: VARIATION OF WHEEL ALIGNMENT UNDER DIFFERENT LOAD CONDITIONS WITH A COMPARISON TO KINEMATICS AND COMPLIANCE TEST DATA
Author: Paradkar, Sagar
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Passenger car suspension and wheel angles have a strong influence on ride, handling, and tire wear. These angles are affected by both static vehicle alignment (as done at a wheel alignment shop) and by changes due to vehicle loading while driving....