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Thermally charging capacitor: A new protocol to accurately measure the thermoelectric potential
(2022-12-20)Harvesting energy from waste heat would benefit in creating sustainable systems. Specifically, thermoelectric energy conversion can be used for low-grade waste heat recovery. However, the efficiency of conventional solid-state ... -
Thermo-mechanical Analysis Of A 3D Package In Microelectronics And Cooling Technologies For An IGBT Thermal Tester In Power Electronics
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-07-19)In the past, compact components such as chip scale packages and flip chip packages were the work horses of miniaturization. However emerging applications are now demanding even higher packaging density which has led to the ... -
Thermo-mechanical Analysis Of Nano-imprint Lithography
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-10-22)Nanoimprint Lithography is being explored by the semiconductor industries for future high volume fabrication of silicon chips, memory devices and patterned media. Nanolithography and Microlithography has played pivotal ... -
Thermo-mechanical Design Considerations At The Server And Rack Levels To Achieve Maximum Data Center Energy Efficiency
Continually increasing demand for information technology (IT) applications and services has provided sustained growth and interest in data centers. The large amounts of energy consumed by data center facilities have placed ... -
Thermo-mechanical Feasibility Study Of Copper And Gold Wirebonds In 3D Electronic Package
3 Dimensional (3D) Electronics Packaging has emerged as a revolutionary trend in the micro-electronics industry. It has made possible cost-effective system integration and size scaling while reducing the interconnect delay. ... -
Thermo-mechanical Interaction Within Engineered Tissue During Freezing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Cryopreservation is the preserving of biological tissues at sub zero temperature. There are many useful applications to cryopreservation such as storing donated organs till they are needed rather than letting them go to ... -
Thermo-mechanical Solutions In Electronic Packaging: Component To System Level
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Since the advent of the transistor and integrated circuit, the performance of electronic equipment has increased significantly while footprint of systems at all levels continues to decrease. Recently, the number of transistors ... -
Three-dimensional Indeterminate Impacts In Legged Robotic Locomotion
Legged robotic systems undergo a large number of impacts during walking or running tasks. These impacts occur over the surface of contact between the feet and the ground. If a rigid body assumption is held, these impacts ... -
Topology Optimization For Thin Walled Structures Utilizing SIMP Method By Additive Manufacturing Using Optimized Conditions
The objective of this research is to manufacture topology optimized structure by additive manufacturing. Topology Optimization is a method of structural optimization which gives the optimum material distribution in a design ... -
Topology Optimization Using Hyper Radial Basis Function Network
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Topology optimization has been conventionally used in automobile and aerospace industries to produce lightweight structures for minimum compliance or maximum fundamental frequency. Today, topology optimization finds ... -
Torsional Analysis Of A Composite I-beam
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)A simple methodology for analysis of thin walled composite I-Beam subjected to free torsion and restrained torsion is developed. Classical Lamination Theory is extended from the laminate level to the structural level for ... -
TOTAL TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AT PULSE DETONATION ENGINE EXHAUST
(2016-08-26)Pulse detonation engines (PDEs) are being studied in recent years as a potential means of power production. In PDEs, a supersonically travelling detonation wave traverses through the detonation tube. Total temperature of ... -
TOWARDS ARTIFICIAL PROPRIOCEPTION IN THE MANDIBULAR FULL ARCH FIXED IMPLANT PROSTHESIS
(2017-01-17)Full arch fixed implant prosthesis has been one of the most effective treatment modalities for fully edentulous patients over the last few decades. However, due to lack of proprioception occlusal overload is experienced ... -
Towards the Fabrication of Bioresorbable Constructs with Customized Properties using Additive Manufacturing
(2017-12-08)Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been employed to fabricate medical constructs for over two decades. This dissertation investigates the effects of AM process parameters on raster level geometric features and structural ... -
Trajectory Generation And Constrained Control Of Quadrotors
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-03-10)Unmanned Aerial Systems, although still in early development, are expected to grow in both the military and civil sectors. As part of the UAV sector, the quadrotor helicopter platform has been receiving a lot of interest ... -
Trajectory Optimization Using Collocation And Evolutionary Programming For Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-08-08)Trajectory design and optimization has a broad variety of applications in fields such as aerospace and electrical engineering. The solution of a trajectory that minimizes a cost function subject to nonlinear differential ... -
Trajectory Uncertainty Analysis For The Development Of A Queuing Model For The National Airspace System
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)In this research, we propose to support the development of a queuing model for the National Airspace System (NAS) by providing distributions for the various phases of flight, accounting for the uncertainties in flight ... -
Transient Analysis Of A Pulsed Detonation Combustor Using The Numerical Propulsion System Simulation
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-03-20)The performance of a hybrid mixed flow turbofan (with detonation tubes installed in the bypass duct) is investigated in this study and compared with a baseline model of a mixed flow turbofan with a standard combustion ... -
Transient Flow Analysis Of Filling In Pulse Detonation Engine
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)The Pulse Detonation Engine (PDE) is considered to be a propulsion system of future air vehicles. The objective of the present study is to model an efficient inlet system for filling the detonation tube completely with the ... -
TRUST BASED TIME-VARYING NETWORK TOPOLOGY FOR DISTRIBUTED CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTI-CLASS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
(2018-04-20)With increased levels of autonomy in most of the engineering fields and booms in areas such as swarms, platoons and Internet of Things (IoT), communication and information flow has become a highly researched field. With ...