Browsing Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Author "Taylor, Robert M."
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A Comparison of Discrete Damage Modeling Methods: the Effect of Stacking Sequence on Progressive Failure of the Skin Laminate in a Composite Pi-joint Subject to Pull-off Load
Novak, Joseph Keith; 0000-0001-5832-3935 (2019-05-07)Discrete damage modeling of composite failure mechanisms including delamination, matrix cracking, and their interactions was performed for the skin laminate in a composite pi-joint test specimen subject to a pull-off load. ... -
A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR CONTINUOUS FIBER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING USING ADVANCED COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES
Venter, Nicholas; 0000-0003-4285-3119 (2018-01-19)A design methodology for Continuous Carbon Fiber Additive Manufacturing (CCFAM) developed using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) techniques takes advantage of both the mechanical strength of composite materials and the ... -
A Methodology for Topology and Lattice Structure Optimization of a Cargo Drone Motor Mount
Sripada, Nagadurga Srinivas (2018-01-12)This work discusses a CAE driven methodology for designing a lightweight component by performing structural configuration on a given package space, creating a closed surface along this configuration using an interactive ... -
A study of effect of bond length on bond strength using transient heat transfer analysis
Baig, Junaid Mohamed; 0000-0001-5873-0573 (2018-08-17)It is important to understand the mechanical properties of the bonding between the adjacent layers of 3D printed parts build by fused deposition modeling. The bonding process is highly nonlinear and depends on various ... -
AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS METHOD FOR FATIGUE CONSTRAINED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A 3D PRINTED STRUCTURE
Pokharel, Ashish; 0000-0002-1541-4041 (2018-12-06)A design of experiments approach has been used to analytically determine a low cycle fatigue (LCF) constraint for use in design optimization of 3D printed structures. In context of metal additive manufacturing, the process ... -
AN INVESTIGATION OF TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION FOR COUPLED THERMO-STRUCTURAL LOADING FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Gaikwad, Vaibhav Shankar (2018-01-12)This work investigates the ability of topology optimization methods to design multifunctional components with coupled thermo-structural loading for fabrication with additive manufacturing technologies. Topology Optimization ... -
AUTOMATED LATTICE OPTIMIZATION OF HINGE FITTING WITH DISPLACEMENT CONSTRAINT
Dakshnamoorthy, Vignesh (2016-11-29)Additive manufacturing enables fabrication of complex lattice cell structures that are not manufacturable using conventional methods. In order to exploit this lattice capability in structural designs, the effect on ... -
COMPOSITE PLATE OPTIMIZATION WITH STRUCTURAL AND MANUFACTURING CONSTRAINTS
Polaki, Deepak; 0000-0002-7701-4473 (2017-05-12)This is a design optimization study that focuses on the value of free size optimization technology on composite structures which incorporates realistic structural requirements and practical manufacturing limitations to ... -
Design and Optimization of Additively Manufactured Heat Sink and Heat Spreader for Microelectronics Cooling
Ganesh Ram, Aditya Krishna (2019-08-08)High performance cooling is a critical requirement for modern microprocessors that generate large amounts of non-uniformly distributed heat. Metal heat spreaders and heat sinks have been traditionally used for thermal ... -
DESIGN AND STIFFNESS OPTIMIZATION OF QUADRI-DIRECTIONAL COMPOSITE GRID LATTICE STRUCTURES
Gangadara, Gajendra Devanga (2016-05-11)Composite grid structures are rib stiffeners connected to each other rigidly in a pattern or a lattice such that the whole grid pattern has certain smeared stiffness property and has a certain structural behavior. The main ... -
Design Optimization of Race Car Steering Knuckle for Additive Manufacturing
Martinez, Yobani; 0000-0001-7861-3956 (2017-05-19)Additive manufacturing enables increased geometric complexity in structural configuration compared with conventional manufacturing methods. A Physics-first Computer Aided engineering (CAE) process beginning with structural ... -
EFFECT OF MANUFACTURING-INDUCED DEFECTS AND ORIENTATION ON THE FAILURE AND FRACTURE MECHANISM OF 3D PRINTED STRUCTURES
Khatri, Amit (2016-12-20)Additive manufacturing is a rapidly growing cutting edge technology. Number of experimental studies have shown that strength of product manufactured by additive Fused Deposition Method (FDM) is influenced by different ... -
Enhancing Tensile Strength of FDM parts using Thermal Annealing and Uniaxial Pressure
Rane, Rhugdhrivya (2019-01-15)Additive manufacturing has been a revolutionary and disruptive technological development in the field of design and manufacturing with Fused deposition modelling (FDM) being at the forefront of this technology. But it is ... -
FITTING B-SPLINES CURVES TO COARSE DATA CLOUD USING MODIFIED SQUARED DISTANCE MINIMIZATION METHOD
Mhala, Vinay Vivek (2016-08-22)Additive manufacturing has made us realize that we can fabricate complex shapes that were difficult to manufacture with subtractive processes. Topology optimizations results have complex shapes and have rough surfaces which ... -
FREQUENCY TUNING OF VIBRATION ABSORBER USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
Harel, Swapnil Subhash (2017-05-08)A tuned mass absorber is a system for reducing the amplitude in one oscillator by coupling it to a second oscillator. If tuned correctly, the maximum amplitude of the first oscillator in response to a periodic driver will ... -
Material Characterization and Fracture Prediction of FDM Printed Parts
Sheth, Sanchita; 0000-0002-0303-1684 (2019-11-18)In order to take advantage of the design freedom that Additive Manufacturing offers, most applications require reliable material characterization. This can ensure that a design performs within its environment and life ... -
Prediction and Validation of Continuous Fiber Stiffened Plates Manufactured With Continuous Fiber Fabrication
Khan, Nabeel Ahmed; 0000-0003-2777-3305 (2020-06-03)The purpose of this thesis was to develop an analytical method for predicting the structural properties of continuous fiber stiffened plates, which was then validated both experimentally and via finite element analysis. ... -
PREDICTION OF PROCESS-INDUCED DEFECTS BY PLY-DROPS IN THE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A COMPLEX COMPOSITE LAMINATE
Pandya, Sitanshu; 0000-0002-4164-6479 (2017-08-28)The objective of this work is to characterize manufacturing process-induced warping defects due to ply drops in composite laminates to guide composite laminate design. Composite laminate optimization seeks weight ... -
Process Calibration for Elastically Scaled 3D Printed Models using Fused Deposition Modeling
Mares, Edgar Bernardo; 0000-0002-5816-3828 (2018-12-18)With the increase in additive manufacturing capabilities the use of 3D printed models characterize a critical point for evaluating aerodynamic and aeroelastic properties on aircraft configuration. An experimental and ... -
SLICING ALGORITHM FOR COMPLEX CONTOUR GENERATION FROM COARSE MESHED ISO-SURFACE DATA
Shukla, Divya Hareshkumar (2016-12-20)Finite element based topology optimization is used to develop complex geometric configurations for additive manufacturing. Complex coarse-meshed Iso-surface data is extracted from topology optimization results and smooth ...