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Title: A GENERAL THERMAL THICKNESS MODEL AND A HEATING RATE RELATED IGNITION CRITERION FOR COMBUSTIBLE SOLIDS
Author: Tian, Ning
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The objective of this research is to investigate the ignition behavior of combustible solid materials in fire. Three key tasks were conducted for it: (1) a new theoretical temperature profile prediction model, referred as General Thermal Thickness...

Title: A numerical study of tillage tool wear during plowing of sandy soil
Author: GOEL, GAURAV
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Wear of tillage tools during tilling operations leads to increase in power requirements, frequent downtimes for tool replacement, loss of production and an increase in the equipment and operational costs. A large number of variables - such as the ...

Title: COMPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF BULK METALLIC GLASS UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS - COUPLED EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN RATE
Author: Yin, Weihua
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Materials science
Description: Metallic glass was rst reported in 1960 by rapid quenching of Au-Si alloys. But, due to the size limitation, this material did not attract remarkable interest until the development of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with specimen sizes in excess of 1...

Title: INTELLIGENT DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS
Author: Sinha, Maruti
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Power resources
Description: Advent of modern sensing technologies, data processing capabilities and rising cost of energy are driving the implementation of intelligent systems in buildings and houses which constitute 41% of total energy consumption. The primary motivation ha...

Title: INTERLEUKIN-2 IN AQUEOUS AND LIPID ENVIRONMENTS: UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS THAT IMPACT PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT
Author: Vrikkis, Regina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Pharmacy--Research
Description: The continued development of pharmaceutical recombinant proteins as therapeutics necessitates a full understanding of the biomolecular interactions impacting structural and functional protein stability within different environments. Two such envir...

Title: ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND PATCHWISE REPRODUCING POLYNOMIAL PARTICLE METHOD FOR PLATES
Author: Kim, Hyunju
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mathematics
Description: Isogeometric analysis (IGA) is a framework bridging the gap between Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA). So it drastically reduces the error in the representation of the computational domain and the re-meshing by the use ...

Title: Optical surface characterization with the structure function
Author: He, Liangyu
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: It is important to characterize surface and transmitted wavefront errors in terms of the spatial content. The errors are typically analyzed in three spatial domains: figure, ripple (or mid-spatial frequency) and roughness. These errors can affect ...

Title: PLASMONIC NANOLITHOGRAPHY MACHINE (PLM)
Author: Saad, Mohamed
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The Plasmonic Nanolithography Machine (PLM) is a prototype that adopts near field maskless plasmonic nanolithography to achieve 45 nm line widths at 45 nm half pitch. A plasmonic lens floating on a hydrodynamic air bearing rides on a disc with abo...

Title: STUDY OF HYBRID STRATEGIES FOR MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION USING GRADIENT BASED METHODS AND EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS
Author: Paez Bautista, Diego
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mathematics
Description: Most of the optimization problems encountered in engineering have conflicting objectives. In order to solve these problems, genetic algorithms (GAs) and gradient-based methods are widely used. GAs are relatively easy to implement, because these al...

Title: The fundamental application of decision analysis to manufacturing.
Author: Karandikar, Jaydeep
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Industrial engineering
Description: Machining models are available to predict nearly every aspect of machining processes. In milling, for example, models are available to relate stability, part accuracy (from forced vibrations during stable machining), and tool wear to the selected ...