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Title: A discrete element approach to predicting the uniaxial compressive response of plain concrete
Author: Tannu, Nakul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Discrete element method (DEM) has become the method of choice for modeling the mechanical response of materials with granular structure. The method consists of representing the material as a collection of particles that interact with each other by...

Title: A finite element approach for calculating the wave attenuation characteristics of epoxy polymer matrix composites
Author: Ghag, Pratik Prashant
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The macroscopic properties of a polymer composite are significantly affected by the properties of the inclusions, size, shape, and distribution. Finite element (FE) modeling provides a viable approach for investigating the effects of the inclusion...

Title: Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
Author: Ni, Kang
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Gears are critical mechanical components in power transmission systems, used across a board spectrum of industries such as automobile, aerospace and renewable energy. Given the advancement of design and manufacture of gears in the past decades, th...

Title: COMPENSATION OF FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS BY INVERSE RCSA
Author: Satyanarayana, Harsha
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The stability lobe diagram is a graphical device used to select stable cutting conditions in machining. The generation of the stability lobe diagram requires the tool-holder-spindle-machine frequency response function (FRF). Therefore, the accurac...

Title: Computational investigations on the aerodynamics of a generic car model in proximity to a side wall
Author: Mallapragada, Srivatsa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics, Physics
Description: A moving road vehicle is subjected to many fluid interferences caused by a number of external agents apart from the vehicle itself. Vehicles moving in proximity to a side wall is an interesting aspect that has been little investigated in the liter...

Title: DATA MODELS TO SUPPORT METROLOGY
Author: Heysiattalab, Saeed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: The Quality Information Framework (QIF) is a project initiated in 2010 by the Dimensional Metrology Standards Consortium (DMSC is an American Standards Developing Organization) to address metrology interoperability. Specifically, the QIF supports ...

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: Design Analysis of Tesla Turbine
Author: Kausik, Galab
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This thesis discusses the "Design Analysis of the Tesla Turbine" or so called "Flat Disc Turbine" using "Compressed Air" as the working fluid. Nikola Tesla invented the turbine in 1906 and received the patent in 1913. Using the word "Turbine", it ...

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: Development of injectable bioceramic drug delivery system for solid tumor treatment
Author: Haig, James
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: According to the national cancer institute "In 2016, an estimated 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 people will die from the disease" and "The number of people living beyond a cancer diagnosis reached...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLID-LIQUID PHASE CHANGE IN VIBRATED GRANULAR MEDIA AND COMPARISON WITH THEORETICALLY PREDICTED PHASE CHANGE IN HARD SPHERE SYSTEMS
Author: Gaur, Kapil
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Statistical physics
Description: Hard sphere systems, for years, have been studied through computer simulations. In the 1950s the work on modern computing was on the rise and computers were being researched for use in every field. Statistical Mechanics was no alien to this and th...

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: Finite Element Modeling and Simulations of Tractor-Trailer Impacts on Highway Median Barriers
Author: Gutowski, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Roadside safety hardware systems play a vital role in reducing both the number and severity of multi-vehicular collisions by preventing errant vehicles from traversing through an open median into oncoming traffic. The safety hardware used to preve...

Title: HEAVY TRUCK TRAILER SKIDWEAR AS A FUNCTION OF ABS BRAKE CONFIGURATION
Author: Engelbrecht, Jared
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles--Design and construction
Description: Most commercial heavy-duty truck trailers are equipped with either a two sensor, one modulator (2S1M) or four sensor, two modulator (4S2M) anti-lock braking system (ABS). Previous research has been performed comparing the performance of different ...

Title: HYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF EJECTA PRODUCTION FROM SHOCKED METALLIC SURFACES
Author: Karkhanis, Varad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Aerospace engineering
Description: The phenomenon of mass ejection into vacuum from a shocked metallic free surfaces can have a deleterious effect on the implosion phase of the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) process. Often, the ejecta take the form of a cloud of particles that a...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF HIGH SULFUR CONTENT ON THE OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A TIER 4 INTERIM ULS DIESEL ENGINE
Author: Stinson, Kile
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This thesis focuses on how high sulfur content diesel fuel impacts the operation of a Tier 4 Interim diesel engine designed to run on Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD). This was explored because U.S. nuclear power plants have these engines as their s...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENCE IN GRANULAR FLOW
Author: Abdelrahman, Mohamed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Engineering
Description: Granular flow poses interesting questions in terms of both theoretical and applied mechanics. The increased utilization of vibrational finishing processes in the manufacturing of high precision components has resulted in an increased need to under...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF WEATHERING EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE OF INTUMESCENT COATINGS USED IN FIRE PROTECTION OF WOOD STRUCTURES
Author: Hemmati, Vahid
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Intumescent coating is one of many passive methods to protect wood structures in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) from fire. \iffalse The mechanism of such coating can be explained in three stages. First, acid release reaction is triggered by th...

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...