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Finite Element Modeling Of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer Composites And Evaluating Its Thermal Conductivities
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)High thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes has motivated us to study and understand the thermal mechanisms in nanocomposites. Though several theoretical models predict a high thermal conductivity for CNT reinforced ... -
FITTING B-SPLINES CURVES TO COARSE DATA CLOUD USING MODIFIED SQUARED DISTANCE MINIMIZATION METHOD
(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 ... -
Fixed Wing Aircraft Collision Avoidance Using Collision Cone Theory
(2022-08-12)This thesis develops the guidance and control components of an aircraft collision avoidance system, using a collision cone-based approach. These guidance and control laws are developed by considering the nonlinear relative ... -
Flexible Microfluidic Circuit With Embedded In-plane Valve
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-09-17)Recent developments in Microfluidic systems have demonstrated many potential applications related to biology, chemistry and medical sciences. Fluidic manipulation with precise volume control is a basic function in these ... -
FLEXIBLE-CONTINUUM ROBOT FOR BLADDER TISSUE DIAGNOSTICS
(2017-09-14)The aim of this thesis is to investigate and develop a robotic system capable of a transurethral palpation of any targeted area on the bladder interior wall tissue to determine the biomechanical properties of the tissue ... -
Flight Data Analysis And Simulation Of Wind Effects During Aerial Refueling
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-08-08)This thesis presents an analysis of data obtained in an automated aerial refueling test flight conducted with a KC-135 as the tanker and a Learjet 25 as the surrogate receiver UAV. The purpose is to identify the wind induced ... -
Flip Chip Back End Design Parameters To Reduce Bump Electromigration
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-09-17)The advancement in flip chip technology has enabled us to meet the requirement of smaller die size along with the increased functionality. Due to this development in flip chip packaging technology along with higher current ... -
Fluid-crack Interaction In Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the major improvements in petroleum engineering in the past few decades. Since then this process has been used progressively and over million wells have been fracked using hydraulic ... -
FORMATION FLIGHT FOR FUEL SAVING IN CORONET MISSIONS OF KC-135R AND F-15C/E
(2016-12-21)The fuel saving benefit of formation flight has been demonstrated through theoretical and computational analyses, simulation, wind tunnel and flight tests. When an aircraft flies in a specific region in the wake of another ... -
Freezing-induced Microstructural Changes Of Collagen Scaffolds
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Understanding the effects of freezing on the functional properties of tissues is critical to cryopreservation of native and artificial tissues, and prognosis after cryotherapies. Although investigations have been performed ... -
Frequency Response Approximation Methods Of The Dissipative Model Of Fluid Transmission Lines
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis introduces an accurate and efficient method of obtaining a linear approximation for a nonlinear model of a complete fluid transmission line system using Matlab® Signal Processing Toolbox and Symbolic Math Toolbox ... -
FREQUENCY TUNING OF VIBRATION ABSORBER USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
(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 ... -
Gaseous Corrosion In Hard Disk Drive: A Computational Study
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)HDD is the largest digitally encoded data storage device. HDD is used to store digital data in data centers, computers and laptops. A typical HDD consists of a casing, an actuator arm, actuator axis, head, platters, power ... -
GENERAL METHODS FOR THE THERMAL DESIGN OF DATA CENTERS BASED ON EVAPORATIVE COOLING
(2018-05-22)With the increasing load on the servers, the cost and energy required to cool a data center has been on the rise. This has kept the researchers to explore more efficient and economical cooling technologies for data centers. ... -
A Generic Methodology For Flight Test And Safety Evaluation At Conceptual Design
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)The current research is dedicated to the application of a simulation suite that emulates flight testing and is applicable to the aircraft conceptual and preliminary design environment. The configuration concept available ... -
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 ... -
Guidance And Control Of Unmanned Airships For Waypoint Navigation In The Presence Of Wind
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)Airships are a specific class of Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) vehicles. These vehicles achieve lift mainly through buoyancy; the usually ellipsoidal shaped hull contains a lifting gas such as helium, which produces the required ... -
GUIDANCE LAWS FOR n-MOBILE AGENTS TO GRIP A MOVING TARGET
(2021-12-20)In this thesis, we consider the problem of n mobile agents carrying a gripper, with the objective of gripping a moving circular target. The target may move with constant velocity, or even maneuver. We develop guidance laws ... -
GUIDANCE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION FOR UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLE USING NI-myRIO
(2016-08-23)This research effort aims at investigating alternative real-time implementation software and hardware for Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) algorithms for an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV). A GNC algorithm was previously ... -
Guidance Of Receiver Aircraft To Rendezvous With Tanker In The Presence Of Wind
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)This thesis work addresses the problem of aircraft rendezvous in the presence of prevailing wind for automated aerial refueling operations. A modified point-parallel rendezvous procedure is defined. The tanker aircraft ...