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3-D Fracture Study Of The BEoL Cu/Low-k Stack To Assess And Mitigate The CPI Risk During The Reflow Process
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-03-12)As scaling of components continues, using SiO2 as a dielectric in the Back-End-Of-Line (BEoL) is no longer a viable option and can be replaced with low-k and ultralow-k (ULK) dielectric materials for advanced integrated ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF WCSP ASSEMBLY DUE TO DIFFERENCE IN PCBS’ LAYER THICKNESS
(2016-05-10)The reliability of Chip Scale Package assembly is of great concern for the electronic industry. Due to multiple function integration of the present devices there is a high demand of ultra-miniaturization of the integrated ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOODEN AND COMPOSITE CROSSARM OF AN ELECTRIC UTILITY POLE
(2017-05-12)Currently, most of the crossarms existing in the nation are made of wood. However, wood has a set of negative features like shorter life span due to environmental cracking, damages by insects and birds. Secondly, an ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOODEN AND HYRBID COMPOSITE CROSSARMS OF AN ELECTRIC UTILITY POLE
(2018-01-08)Most of the cross arms in the country are made from wood. Wood, although easily accessible, has its own defects. Environmental effects which includes the expansion and contraction of wood over the years which will disrupt ... -
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
(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
(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 mesh based boom to stop oil spread
(2016-05-10)In this work, we develop a new boom to separate oil and water. In a commonly used boom, a membrane that has no pores is normally used to block oil spread. Since this membrane also blocks water flow, high pressure is easy ... -
A Methodology for Topology and Lattice Structure Optimization of a Cargo Drone Motor Mount
(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 METHODOLOGY TO DEVELOP A CONTROL SYSTEM APP FOR DATA CENTER COOLING
(2016-12-19)DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management), are tools that are available in the industry to serve the purpose of controlling different parameters in the data center. But their cost is significantly high. The idea of ... -
A MODEL ANALYSIS OF SAND INSERTION IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURES
(2015-12-02)Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is a well-stimulation technology to create large volume of fracture formation in rocks for gas and/or oil extraction. This technology has been applied to commercially exploit natural gas in ... -
A NOVEL STRESS ANALYSIS METHOD FOR LAMINATED COMPOSITE STIFFENER WITH ASYMMETRIC Z-SECTION UNDER MECHANICAL AND THERMAL LOADING CONDITIONS
(2016-08-26)Composites structures are being used as load carrying members in latest aircrafts and performance automobiles, the design validation for such structures can be a time consuming and expensive process, if done by testing. ... -
A PARAMETRIC STUDY ON THERMAL MIXING OF AMBIENT AIR AND RETURN AIR STREAMS IN A MIXING CHAMBER OF A DATA CENTER COOLING
(2017-05-18)Thermal Mixing of ambient air and return air streams in a mixing chamber for data center cooling Keywords: Data center cooling, Air side economization, Mixing chamber geometry Pavan Kaulgud, Dr. Dereje Agonafer Air ... -
A ROBOTIC DEVICE TO ASSIST WITH IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT OF HUMAN PELVIC ORGAN TISSUE PROPERTIES
(2018-08-13)Measurement of the biomechanical properties of human pelvic organ tissue without undergoing minimally invasive surgery is desired for diagnostics purposes and take precautionary actions if needed. The biomechanical properties ... -
A ROBUST CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR A TAILLESS UAV WITH EFFECTIVE CONTROL ALLOCATION
(2019-12-06)Attempts to completely remove the tails from aircraft can be dated back to the early days of modern aviation. A number of stability and control problems arising from the unique characteristics of the configuration resulted ... -
A study of effect of bond length on bond strength using transient heat transfer analysis
(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 ... -
A STUDY OF ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYER AT AN ALUMINUM SURFACE IN AN AUTOMOTIVE COOLING SYSTEM
(2016-05-10)Electrolytic corrosion is identified as a major problem which adversely affects the performance of a cooling system and hence compromises the performance of automobile with it. Electrolysis corrosion is a chemical reaction ... -
A Study of Electrical Double Layer Structure over a Corroding Steel Surface in Sea Water
(2016-05-10)Corrosion is a natural deterioration phenomenon that throws profound adverse effects on the performance of structural steel in marine applications. Seawater consists of various corrosive components such as chlorine ions, ... -
A Study on Evaporative Cooling for data centers & Artificial Neural Network Modeling
(2015-12-07)This study mainly aims at exploring how, one of the best “Green” solutions for IT equipment cooling aka Evaporative Cooling, can be optimized for better future deployment. Also, this study focuses on ways to deploy Artificial ... -
Accelerated Performance Degradation of Single-Phase Cold Plates for Direct-to-chip Liquid Cooled Data Centers
(2021-12-21)Expanding demands for cloud-based computing and storage, the Internet of Things, and AI-based applications have escalated thermal loads in high-density data centers which necessitated the utilization of more efficient ... -
Accelerated Thermal Cycling of Printed Circuit Board for Single Phase Immersion Cooling systems
(2018-05-24)The adoption of immersion cooling of data center over conventional air-cooling is one among the more up to date advances that individuals have begun embracing to. Acknowledgement of Single phase Liquid Immersion cooling ...