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ACTIVE TORQUE VECTORING FOR ALL WHEEL DRIVE FSAE ELECTRIC CAR
(2016-09-16)UTA Racing is known for building well-engineered FSAE racecars. This year team is building, its first electric car by using AWD in-wheel motor concept car E-16. All wheel drive electric vehicles has an ability to apply ... -
Adaptation Of Digital DATCOM Into A Conceptual Design Process
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-04-11)As implied with open-ended `design decision-making' there are multiple prospective conventional and unconventional aircraft solution concepts able to satisfy a given mission specification. The task of defining, assessing ... -
Additive Manufacturing and Stress Analysis of Naturally and Artificially Optimized Celullar Structures
(2015-12-08)The main objective of our research is to manufacture topology optimized cellular structures using 3D printing and polymer infusion and obtain their structural response. First, we have obtained topology optimized cellular ... -
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHODOLOGIES FOR MULTI PROCESS AND MULTI MATERIAL SCENARIOS
(2015-12-21)Additive Manufacturing processes have been developing and continuously improving but are primarily constrained to single materials, albeit some commercial multi extrusion 3D printers do exist where by it is possible to ... -
Additive Manufacturing Process Investigation for the Fabrication of Composite Scaffolds for Soft Tissue Application
(2018-05-09)Additive manufacturing has been investigated and employed in the bio-medical domain for the fabrication of various devices and scaffolds. In various soft tissue engineering applications, multi-functional multi-material ... -
Advancement of an Inhouse Aerospace Vehicle Design Synthesis System through the Introduction of a Novel Database-Knowledgebase System and by Improving the Geometry and Aerothermodynamic Disciplinary Processes
(2023-05-19)Throughout the years of aerospace vehicle design, the process in which a vehicle is designed has drastically improved from being primarily developed through trial and error, to using sophisticated synthesis systems. While ... -
Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Of 3D Gas Turbine Blade Using Differerential Evolution Method
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)This paper outlines the aerodynamics shape optimization process of a 3D VKI gas turbine blade using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and differential evolution optimization method. The main objective of this work is to ... -
Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Of A Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-07-14)The purpose of this study is to introduce and demonstrate a fully automated process for optimizing the airfoil cross-section of a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). The objective is to maximize the torque while enforcing ... -
Air Flow Pattern and Path Flow Simulation of Airborne Particulate Contaminants in a Cold-Aisle Containment High-Density Data Center Utilizing Airside Economization
(2018-05-17)The energy used by Information Technology Equipment (ITE) and the supporting data center equipment keeps rising as data center expansion continues worldwide. To contain the rising operation costs, data center administrators ... -
Air Jet Impingement For Levitation
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Traditional part acquisition methods such as vacuum cups and robotic grippers do not meet the handling needs of truly fragile materials, because both of these methods require surface contact. An alternative to these ... -
Airflow Path and Flow Pattern Analysis of Sub-Micron Particulate Contaminants in a Data Center with Hot Aisle Containment System Utilizing Direct Air Cooling
(2018-05-22)The percentage of the energy used by data centers for cooling their equipment has been on the rise. With it has been the necessity for exploring new and more efficient methods, both from an engineering as well as business ... -
Airfoil-shaped Extension-twist-coupled Composite Star-beams For Rotor Blade Tip Applications
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-10-11)Rotorcraft blade tips provide the most effective region for aerodynamic control. Rotor blade airloads are proportional to dynamic pressure and as a consequence are typically the highest in the distal blade tip region. ... -
Airy Stress Function For Two Dimensional Inclusion Problems
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis addresses a problem of finding the elastic fields in a two-dimensional body containing an inhomogeneous inclusion using the Airy stress function which is determined so that the prescribed boundary condition at ... -
Algebraic Solution To The Planar Rigid Body Impact Problem
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-07-14)For systems of rigid bodies that undergo impacts, a series of closed-form equations are developed to solve for post-impact velocities which simulate a real-world (energy-consistent) interaction. The analysis is based in ... -
Algorithm Developement For Adaptive Grid Generation Using Galerkin Finite Element Method
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)The adaptive grid concept is developed in order to achieve more accurate and stable results for the numerical simulations of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). There are two main types of strategies used for adaptive ... -
Alternative Cooling Technologies For Telecommunication Data Centers: Air Cooling And Rear Door Heat Exchangers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Telecommunication industry is currently emphasizing to a miniaturization and convergence. The need for smaller, smarter and faster devices is leading drastic increment in power density and accordingly, thermal management ... -
AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS METHOD FOR FATIGUE CONSTRAINED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A 3D PRINTED STRUCTURE
(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 EXPLORATORY STUDY ON CONTINUOUS WAVE LASER AND HIGH-SPEED CAMERA COMBINATION IN PLANAR PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY FOR LOW SPEED FLOWS
(2019-09-06)This study investigates the feasibility of using continuous wave lasers and high-speed CMOS cameras together in 2D particle image velocimetry (PIV) which is a widely-used non-intrusive method in experimental aerodynamics. ... -
An improved method for measurement of radial thermal conductivity of cylindrical bodies
(2017-05-10)Li-ion cells are ubiquitously found in day to day electronic devices due to their high power density storage capacity. These batteries are known to exhibit sharp reduction in performance at high temperature. Due to this, ... -
An Integrated Design Tool for Tow-steered Composite Laminate in Abaqus
(2023-01-02)The material of choice for contemporary aircraft and its component design over the past few decades has shifted more and more toward fiber-reinforced composites. This is mainly due to the improved strength, lightweight, ...