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Title: DYNAMICS SENSITIVITY STUDY OF STOCK CAR SHIFTER COMPONENTS
Author: DesRocher, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Previous experience in race situations has shown that components in the shifter section of the stock car drivetrain are subject to failure. As the engine operates in a specific rotational speed band throughout a race event due to gearing rules, th...

Title: An Experimental and Computational Study of the Effect of Bioceramic Porosity on Drug Release Kinetics
Author: Upadhyay, Rahul
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Porous bioceramics have been explored for drug delivery applications. The goal is to design a material that can provide controlled release of therapeutic doses of the drug for a duration long enough to cause complete healing. For drug carriers, th...

Title: A Multi Criteria Decision Framework for “smart” Product Introduction in Bearing Industry that uses Internet Of Things
Author: Eferdinger, Markus
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Management
Description: The digitalization changes products in almost every industry. Therefore, it is not surprising, that companies face challenges due to these new technological changes caused by Internet of Things (IoT). Especially for large corporations it could hav...

Title: Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
Author: Attal, Nitesh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...

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: A comparison of two analytical milling stability analyses with time-domain simulation
Author: Landge, Saurabh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: In the previous three decades, technologies involved in machine tools and machiningoperations have experienced remarkable changes. Despite these advances, unstablecutting conditions, referred to as chatter, remains an obstacle to high material rem...

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: 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: CFD simulation of an overtaking maneuver using simplified vehicle bodies
Author: Chellaram, Arune
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: When two vehicle bodies are involved in a passing maneuver, interesting and intricate aerodynamic interactions occur between them. This has been an area of active interest in Motorsports for quite some time. The existing literature shows only few ...

Title: SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THIN PLATE DYNAMICS
Author: Menezes, Joyson
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Aerospace engineering
Description: Productivity when milling thin, monolithic components is often limited by regenerative chatter. The vibrations are partially controlled by the use of stability lobe diagrams, which enable the selection of spindle speed/axial depth combinations to ...

Title: Time Domain Simulation with Applications in Compliant Workpiece Milling
Author: Rubeo, Mark
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: High performance application fields, such as the defense, power, and aerospace industries, benefit from the enhanced product quality and reduced cost associated with machining thin-walled, metallic structures over traditional fabrication and assem...

Title: Robust Interpolation and Iterative Learning Strategies for Modulated Tool Path Planning
Author: DiMarco, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Artificial intelligence
Description: During single-point metal turning processes, a long, razor-sharp chip nest is often formed that can be a hazard to both operators and the part being machined. To combat this, a process called Modulated Tool Path (MTP) machining was developed by Ba...

Title: THE TURBULENT REACTING RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY: A NEW CANONICAL PROBLEM IN NON-PREMIXED COMBUSTION
Author: Varshochi, Hilda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: We describe detailed high-resolution numerical simulations of a class of shock-induced reactive turbulent mixing layers, where the scalar mixing, flow dynamics and combustion properties are driven by the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability. The 3D ...

Title: Insight Derived From High Order Structured Finite Difference CFD Simulations of Flow Past Generic Simplified Car Models
Author: Henry, Maxwell
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: This thesis focuses upon using a high-order finite-difference method on a structured overset grid to study flow features around a generic simplified car model adjusting mesh refinements, rear slant angles, solvers, and turbulence models. These pro...