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Analysis Of Tapered Laminated Composite Tubes Under Tension And Torsion
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Closed form expressions for determining the displacement and twisting angle of tapered composite tubes are developed. The analytical expressions are developed based on the modified laminated plate theory which includes the ...
Optimization Of The Tool Path In A Robotic Environment
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
The rising costs and demand coupled with shrinking energy generating resources has triggered the need for optimum use of energy resources, minimizing the overhead costs and maximizing the profits. Robots have been long ...
Structural Optimization Using Femlab And Smooth Support Vector Regression
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
In recent years support vector machine (SVM) has been emerging as a popular tool for function approximation. Application of SVM for approximation of mathematical functions and complex engineering analysis has been represented ...
Spacecraft Formation Flight: Analysis Of The Perturbed J2-modified Hill-Clohessy-Wiltshire Equations
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)
With the recent technological gains made in satellite design and manufacturing, there has been great interest in utilizing a cluster of satellites to perform the same tasks performed by larger satellites. Historically, ...
An Experimental Investigation Of Ionization Of Supersonic Air By A Corona Discharge
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)
A technique is developed to ionize supersonic air flow in a shock tube by a weak corona discharge. The driven section of the tube is open to the atmosphere. The shock propagates in the driven section at about 1 km/s by ...
Design And Optimization Of Heat Spreaders And Selection Of Fan In Laptop
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Technical advancements lead to the need for faster processors and reduced sizes in electronic systems. The urge for faster and compact systems leads to two major problems. Firstly over heating of chips which degrade the ...
Effect Of CRAC Location On A Fixed Rack Layout Of A Data Center
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
Microprocessor driven escalation of thermal management needs has resulted in significant cooling challenges at the data center facility level, which can house thousands and tens of thousands of heat producing processors. ...
A Generic Stability And Control Tool For Flight Vehicle Conceptual Design: Aeromech Software Development
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)
During the conceptual design (CD) phase, various solution concepts must, and should, be explored to select the best flight vehicle size and configuration in order to meet the mission requirements. As the aerospace industry ...
An Approximate Solution To Buckling Of Plates By The Galerkin Method
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
This thesis presents a semi-analytical method to solve the governing differential equation of plates using the Galerkin method. Symbolic algebra software is extensively used to perform necessary calculations. In this thesis, ...
Complete Stress Analysis For Two Dimensional Inclusion Problem Using Complex Variables
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
This thesis addresses the problem of finding stresses and displacements in an infinite plate with a two dimensional circular inclusion with different material properties using complex variable method with biaxial loading ...