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INTERNAL PRESSURE RESPONSE OF A HUMAN HEAD SURROGATE MODEL SUBJECT TO VARIABLE IMPACT LOADING WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
(2021-12-21)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) from blunt impacts to the head is a major cause of brain disease and dysfunction for thousands of people every year. Each year in the United States approximately 1 million TBI cases occur causing ... -
Inverse Analysis of Heat Generating Body for Safety Applications
Inverse thermal analysis and its applications have been applied to numerous fields of science and engineering. Historically during the 1950's and early 1960's, space programs played a significant role in the advancement ... -
Inverse Design Of Airfoils Using A Flexible Membrane Method
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-03-03)The Modified Garabedian Mc-Fadden (MGM) method is used to inversely design airfoils. The Finite Difference Method (FDM) for Non-Uniform Grids was developed to discretize the MGM equation for numerical solving. The Finite ... -
INVESTIGATING A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL UPDATING METHODOLOGY FOR CHARACTERIZING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF NCF COMPOSITES
(2021-08-03)Composite materials have been a key breakthrough in developing aircraft structures. Their superior strength and stiffness-to-density ratio, which are unmatched by no other materials, allow engineers to create high strength ... -
Investigation of Additive Manufacturing Using Industrial Robots
(2016-05-10)Conventional additive manufacturing platforms are controlled using G-code, a numerical control language used to define the process parameters and move- ment of the print head. First, a digital model of the desired shape ... -
Investigation of Exothermic Reaction Dynamics via Computational Fluid Dynamics Coupled with a Feedback Controller
(2016-08-29)The control of reaction temperature under continuous flow conditions is important in a variety of chemical manufacturing industries. For many reactions, operating at off-design temperatures can result in the production of ... -
INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OF DOUBLE PIPE COUNTER-FLOW HEAT PIPE USING THREE FLUIDS WATER, DOWTHERM, AND WATER-BASED NANOFLUID
(2021-12-14)Heat pipes are two-phase devices, capable of converting a significant amount of energy with low losses. They have been used in several applications such as systems thermal control and cooling. The purpose of the present ... -
Investigation Of Instabilities Affecting Detonations: Improving The Resolution Using Block-structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)The unstable nature of detonation waves is a result of the critical relationship between the hydrodynamic shock and the chemical reactions sustaining the shock. A perturbative analysis of the critical point is quite ... -
Investigation Of Minimum Response For Damage Assessment
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Assessment of structural damage based on changes in vibratory response characteristics has been researched for many years, with much attention directed toward the use of modal parameters. Modal responses contribute to ... -
Investigation Of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer With Nanofluids
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This investigation conducts pool boiling experiments under saturated conditions (Tsat=60°C) using nanofluids as coolants. Four different nanofluids were tested including zinc oxide (ZnO)-water, aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-water, ... -
Investigation Of Side Wall Effects On An Inward Scramjet Inlet At Mach Number 8.6
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-10-22)Experimental and computational studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of a scramjet inlet as the side cowl length is changed. A slender inward turning inlet with a total length of 304.8 mm, a span of 50.8 mm ... -
Investigation of the Impact of Material Models on Reliability Assessment of Electronic Packages
(2020-08-13)Drop testing, thermal cycling, power cycling, etc. are some of the tests used to assess the reliability of new electronic products. However, performing experimental study of every new design is costly and time consuming. ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE MICROSTRUCTURAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SELECTIVELY LASER MELTED IN718 OVERHANGS FABRICATED WITHOUT SUPPORT STRUCTURES
(2021-05-07)Additive manufacturing is a new manufacturing technology that allows for extreme design freedom as well as the simultaneous production of many parts with high complexities. IN718 is a high-strength, corrosion-resistant ... -
Investigation of Thermal Performance Enhancement and Thermo-mechanical Assessment of ITE using Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Technology
(2023-08-25)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2024** The use of air-cooling as a thermal management technique in data centers has consistently maintained its importance, however its efficacy is limited to CPUs ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM OF MOLTEN SALT NANO-EUTECTIC VIA NANOSTRUCTURAL CHANGE AND POLYALPHAOLEFIN NANOFLUID VIA IN SITU FORMATION OF SUPERSTRUCTURES
(2018-08-10)For many years, scientists enhanced the specific heat capacity of molten salt nanofluids by dispersing only minute concentrations of different nanoparticles (e.g., 1 wt.%). While the specific heat capacity for molten salts ... -
Investigation Of Wetting States On Microstructures After Liquid Drops Contact Groove Base
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-09-17)Wetting properties of roughness surfaces have attracted a considerable attention because of both the scientific insight and the practical applications. One of the most intriguing topics of wetting is the so-called Cassie-Baxter ... -
INVESTIGATION ON EFFECTIVE MODULUS AND STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTOR OF 3D REINFORCED COMPOSITE BY FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS METHOD
(2018-05-24)Micromechanics of Composites aims to analyze the localized stresses inside any given constituents of the composite structure. This Thesis is focused on Calculating the effective modulus and the Stress concentration factor ... -
Investigation on Metal-Composite Hybrid Flywheels using Finite Element Method
(2018-01-08)This research is aimed to investigate the kinetic energy storage of a hybrid metal-composite flywheel rotating at high speeds. The upper limit of energy, which flywheel can supply, is restricted by the strength of material ... -
INVESTIGATION ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POROUS STRUCTURES PROCESSED BY LASER POWDER BED FUSION
(2021-05-07)Inconel 718 (i.e., IN718) is a prominent nickel-based, precipitation-hardening superalloy which exhibits exceptionally stable mechanical and corrosion resistant properties, even at temperature range of 650ºC to 700ºC, ... -
Issues On Finite Element Modeling Of Laminated Composite Structures
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Composite structures have been used widely in aviation industries and civil construction field because of their high specific stiffness, high specific strength and directional dependent properties. When using finite element ...