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Title: A finite element approach for analysis of damping properties of polymer composites.
Author: Shukla, Satyam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Mechanical vibrations are a part of several industrial equipment,machinery, systems and vehicles being used in our day to day life. Damping of such unwanted vibrations have been of utmost importance for several industrial operations.Polymer compos...

Title: CHARACTERIZING WATER QUALITY AND HYDROLOGY IN FLOW FROM OUTLETS
Author: Thergaonkar, Pranay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: During a storm event, stormwater runoff is generated, and some discharge enters outlet pipes that lead to flow in outlet channels. With the increase in flow of discharge, the volume of stormwater entering the channel increases. These discharges fr...

Title: Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics
Description: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...

Title: Cluster-based Composite Pavement Deterioration Modeling: A Framework for Incorporating Flooding
Author: Neema, Ishan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Pavement networks are among the most valuable highway assets for a nation asbillions of dollars have been invested every year in construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. These networks undergo deterioration over time due to traffic loading, ...

Title: Coordinated optimal control of smart buildings and PV systems in active distribution networks
Author: Kodanda Pani, Naveen Kumar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: Driven by economic and environmental policies, there is an increase in distributed energy resources (DER) penetration, such as wind farms and rooftop solar panels in the electrical grid system. With advancement in smart technology such as smart me...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: DEVELOPMENT, VERIFICATION, AND VALIDATION OF AN APPLIED ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR GLASS LITE FRACTURE, FRAGMENTATION, AND DEBRIS FIELD PREDICTION
Author: Moss, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: In the aftermath of an explosive event, forensic investigators are presented the challenge of characterizing the properties of the explosive device, including the charge size and epicenter of the detonation. Although surrounding infrastructure dam...

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: Design for Metrology of Freeform Optics
Author: Venditti, Kristen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: Freeform optics offer significant advantages over the conventional aspheric optics, but pose new challenges in metrology and manufacturing. The spatial frequencies of an optical surface that must be measured have changed due to the progression of ...

Title: Discrete Element Simulations of Powder Spreading in Additive Manufacturing
Author: Amrapurkar, Parth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Physics
Description: Powder spreading plays a critical role in the quality of parts produced with selective laser sintering (SLS). Some of the important parameters that influence the quality of the powder bed are the powder particle size and distribution, blade speed,...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: Intelligent network management for heterogeneous services in mobile edge computing
Author: Liu, Qiang
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: The proliferation of connected devices creates various use cases and heterogeneous services, e.g., augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicle-to-everything (V2X), and mobile artificial intelligence.These services and use cases have diverse network...

Title: OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION USING GEOMETRIC PHASE ELEMENTS
Author: Light, Alyson
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
Description: Traditional optical instrumentation typically requires a controlled, stable environment, and this limits systems to a laboratory setting. For in-situ metrology applications and outdoor measurements, novel methods that are compact and stable are re...

Title: THE USE OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT IN SHORT-TERM LOAD FORECASTING
Author: Dharmapal, Deeksha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Economic and demographic variables are important indicators that define the growth, decline or stationarity of a region. The daily load curve of small economies displays a different pattern than that of large economies, implying the economic condi...

Title: The Exploration of BIM and Visual Data for Owner Benefits
Author: Mallard, Jesse
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Operations research
Description: ABSTRACTJESSE M. MALLARD. Exploration of how Building Information Modeling (BIM) and visual data is used within the Architectural Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry currently to assist in closing the knowledge gaps between Owners and Desi...