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Improving Scoliosis Rehabilitation
Scoliosis, a disease that mainly affects children, is a deformity of the spinal column in all three dimensions. Treatment for scoliosis aims at straightening the spine with minimal discomfort to the patient. Current ... -
IMPROVING THE IMPINGEMENT COLD PLATE THERMAL DESIGN USING NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL APPROACH
(2021-05-15)Conventional cooling methods for an IC chip uses heat spreader to transfer heat from the chip end of the spreader to the opposite end of the spreader which then uses air or water to remove heat and thereby maintaining the ... -
Inducing vibro-tactile sensation at mesoscale
(2018-12-18)Haptics, the feeling of touch, has primarily been used to provide a person a general sensation such as vibration using a joystick or cellphone. But haptics has gradually developed to a stage where it is investigated for ... -
INFLUENCE OF RELATIVE DENSITY AND MICROSTRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY ON THE GLOBAL ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF CELLULAR STRUCTURES
(2017-05-05)The favorable strength-to-weight ratio of cellular solids makes them ideal for structural applications. With the advent of additive manufacturing, the fabrication of complex cellular structures is becoming a reality. It ... -
Influence Of Variation In CPU Utilization On The Rack Level Fan Configuration As A Cooling Technique For High End Servers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)The data center industry has experienced significant growth over the past decade with the introduction and explosion of online banking, social networking and entertainment services. As a result, power consumption of such ... -
An Integration Of A Modern Flight Control System Design Technique Into A Conceptual Design Stability And Controls Tool, AeroMech
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-11-01)The aircraft conceptual design (CD) phase is the most abstract, thus challenging phase of the entire aircraft design process. It is the responsibility of the CD engineer to identify and then to explore various aircraft ... -
Interaction Of Growing Cracks In Hydraulic Fracturing
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Recently, hydraulic fracturing has been utilized to extract natural gas and oil from low-permeability shale rocks. This technique has been studied in hundreds of papers. A deep understanding of the fracture network formation ... -
Interactive Analysis of General Beam Configurations using Finite Element Methods and JavaScript
(2016-12-07)Advancements in computer technology have contributed to the widespread practice of modelling and solving engineering problems through the use of specialized software. The wide use of engineering software comes with the ... -
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 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 ... -
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 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 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 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 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 ... -
Kinematic Analysis Of A Quadruped Robot Capable Of Working As A Machining Tool
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Parallel robots have been proposed for some time now due to their potential advantages over serial robots in high load bearing, acceleration, stiffness and with lower moving mass. Mobile parallel configurations, i.e. ...