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IMPACT OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF LOW LOSS PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS (PCBs) ON RELIABILITY OF WCSP PACKAGES UNDER DROP TEST
(2020-06-08)Reliability of electronic packages is a major concern as different failure modes are induced due to factors such as temperature loads, mechanical stresses, humidity, corrosion and so on. Finite element analysis (FEA) is ... -
Improving Air Cooling Efficiency Of 2OU High-end Web Server By Using Bigger Rack Level Fans And Controlling Flow Using Bimetallic Strips
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-12)Due to the doubling of processing power ever so often, designing an efficient thermal management system for database centers is becoming more and more difficult. Two studies have been done, one on air cooling using bigger ... -
IMPROVING COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF HIGH MODULUS CARBON-FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERIC COMPOSITE WITH VARYING MODULUS FIBERS
(2019-12-06)There has been a strong demand in using high-modulus (HM) carbon-fiber composites potentially enabling lightweight aircraft structures with significant weight savings. However, extremely low fiber-direction compressive ... -
Improving Cooling Efficiency Of Servers By Replacing Smaller Chassis Enclosed Fans With Larger Rack-mount Fans
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-03-12)As a common practice in the data center industry, chassis fans are used to direct air flow independent from neighboring servers. However, these fans are less efficient compared to larger rack level counterparts and also ... -
Improving Ducting To Increase Cooling Performance Of High-end Web Servers Subjected To Signicant Thermal Shadowing -an Experimental And Computational Study
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-12)Ensuring that all the critical components like CPU's receive sufficient amount of flow as per their requirement is an vital importance in implementing air cooling for IT equipments. In addition to that the overall system ... -
Improving Fracture Toughness Of Silicon Carbide Based Ceramics By Microstructure Tailoring
Ceramic materials are one of the most promising materials for wide variety of technical applications such as automotive, aerospace, medical, and other applications. They have very high strengths and high melting points ... -
Improving Receiver Station-keeping In Aerial Refueling By Formulating Tanker Motion As Disturbance
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)During aerial refueling operations, the receiver aircraft should hold position within a “refueling box” to maintain the boom-receptacle connection while the tanker aircraft flies in a racetrack maneuver. Prior research ... -
Improving Scoliosis Rehabilitation
Scoliosis, a disease that mainly affects children, is a deformity of the spinal column in all three dimensions. Treatment for scoliosis aims at straightening the spine with minimal discomfort to the patient. Current ... -
IMPROVING THE IMPINGEMENT COLD PLATE THERMAL DESIGN USING NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACH
(2021-05-15)Conventional cooling methods for an IC chip uses heat spreader to transfer heat from the chip end of the spreader to the opposite end of the spreader which then uses air or water to remove heat and thereby maintaining the ... -
In-situ Observation of Extrusion Process in Thermoplastic Material Extrusion Based Additive Manufacturing
(2022-08-15)In thermoplastic material extrusion-based additive manufacturing, solid polymer filaments are fed into extruders to generate extrudates that are needed to build 3D plastic products. There is a finite gap between the inner ... -
Inducing vibro-tactile sensation at mesoscale
(2018-12-18)Haptics, the feeling of touch, has primarily been used to provide a person a general sensation such as vibration using a joystick or cellphone. But haptics has gradually developed to a stage where it is investigated for ... -
INFLUENCE OF RELATIVE DENSITY AND MICROSTRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY ON THE GLOBAL ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CELLULAR STRUCTURES
(2017-05-05)The favorable strength-to-weight ratio of cellular solids makes them ideal for structural applications. With the advent of additive manufacturing, the fabrication of complex cellular structures is becoming a reality. It ... -
Influence Of Variation In CPU Utilization On The Rack Level Fan Configuration As A Cooling Technique For High End Servers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)The data center industry has experienced significant growth over the past decade with the introduction and explosion of online banking, social networking and entertainment services. As a result, power consumption of such ... -
Infrared and Fluorescent Thermal Imaging and Thermal Transport Characterization of Engineering Devices and Systems
(2022-08-15)Infrared (IR) thermal imaging is widely used for non-contact temperature measurement in engineering. IR camera detects thermal emissions from the target surface in a certain wavelength range, which, using the known surface ... -
Integrated Modeling Approach For Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-based Power Generating System
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems have been recognized as the most advanced power generation system with the highest thermal efficiency with a compatibility with a wide variety of hydrocarbon fuels, synthetic gas from ... -
An Integration Of A Modern Flight Control System Design Technique Into A Conceptual Design Stability And Controls Tool, AeroMech
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-11-01)The aircraft conceptual design (CD) phase is the most abstract, thus challenging phase of the entire aircraft design process. It is the responsibility of the CD engineer to identify and then to explore various aircraft ... -
Integration of a Portfolio-based Approach to Evaluate Aerospace R&D Problem Formulation Into a Parametric Synthesis Tool
(2016-09-15)The focus of this study is to improve R&D effectiveness towards aerospace and defense planning in the early stages of the product development lifecycle. Emphasis is on: correct formulation of a decision problem, with special ... -
Interaction Of Growing Cracks In Hydraulic Fracturing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Recently, hydraulic fracturing has been utilized to extract natural gas and oil from low-permeability shale rocks. This technique has been studied in hundreds of papers. A deep understanding of the fracture network formation ... -
Interactions of Vortices with Differing Creation Mechanisms in the Wake of a Normal Flat Plate-Delta Flat Plate Couple: A Numerical Study.
(2022-08-15)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/13/2024** ABSTRACT: Fluid flow is characterized by the presence of various coherent vortical structures such as vortex tubes, vortex streets, and eddies. When these ... -
Interactive Analysis of General Beam Configurations using Finite Element Methods and JavaScript
(2016-12-07)Advancements in computer technology have contributed to the widespread practice of modelling and solving engineering problems through the use of specialized software. The wide use of engineering software comes with the ...