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Modelling Thermal Conductivity Of Porous Thermal Barrier Coatings For High-Temperature Aero Engines Using Five Phase Model
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBC) are used to shield hot sections of gas turbine engines, helping to prevent the melting of metallic surfaces. This paper proposes a Five-phase model to calculate the effective thermal conductivity ... -
Meso-Scale Computational Modeling Of Hypervelocity Impact Damage In Advanced Materials
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Modeling of hypervelocity impact (HVI) on materials and structures is often associated with high computational expenses, especially when inhomogeneous materials are involved. To reduce computational cost, complex materials ... -
Thermal Management of Electrical and Electronic Systems Using PCM
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The present experimental research investigates transient thermal performance of a PCM-based thermal management system for cooling electronics components. The proposed system consists of a heatsink that is submerged into ... -
Advanced Exergy Analysis Of Licl-H2O Absorption Air Conditioning System
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Increasing energy demand for air conditioning due to climate change is posing a continuous threat to the environment. Absorption air-conditioning systems driven by solar thermal or waste heat energy are an alternative for ... -
Experimental Measurements Of Far Field Cough Airflows Produced By Healthy And Influenza-Infected Subjects
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)An experimental study of cough airflow fields produced by subjects who had influenza-like illness was conducted. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) and hot wire anemometry (HWA) measurements were taken in the far-field ... -
Sensor Filtering And Position Tracking Of A Simulated Planar Bipedal Robot
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The development of a humanoid robot is a very prevalent area of research today. Legged robots have many advantages over wheeled robots on rough or uneven terrains, and are more suitable for an everyday household setting, ... -
Inter-Laminar Strain Energy Continuity In Orthotropic Face Sandwich And Composite Plate Analysis Using Improved Higher-Order Theory
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The main goal of this paper is, to suggest improved higher order refined theory to the analysis of perfectly bonded stack sandwich and composite laminates with usual type lamination configurations. The analysis incorporates ... -
Simulating Layup Defects During Tow Steering In Automated Fiber Placement
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) offers valuable advantages which make this technology a suitable candidate for producing high-quality parts in the aerospace industry. However, there are limitations: number of defects may ... -
Energy Transfer Mechanisms In The Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube (RHVT) is a small tube without any moving parts receiving compressed air from a tangential inlet and exhausting cold air from a small hole at one end of the tube while exhausting hot air from ... -
Constrained Topology Optimization For Additive Manufacturing Of Structural Components In Ansys®
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Topology Optimization is currently the main technique to optimize an objects structural design. This method commonly produces parts that have exceedingly complex geometry. Additive manufacturing (AM) is the main manufacturing ... -
The Spanwise Variation Of Roof-Level Turbulence In A Street Canyon Flow
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The effect of upstream roughness on turbulent street canyon flow is presented. Horizontal measurements were conducted at near roof level of a street canyon using particle image velocimetry in a wind tunnel. Three upstream ... -
The Design Of Infrared Mirror Coatings For The Enhanced Performance Of Incandescent Lighting
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Herein we present the design of infrared mirror coatings for the enhanced performance of incandescent lighting. We consider single and stacked dielectric mirrors comprised of alternating layers of TCO and SiO2 nanoparticle ... -
Characterization Of The Electrodes Of DEP-Based Micro-Separator
(May-18)In recent years, advances in lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices has led to separation, sorting and manipulation of cells and particles on miniaturized devices. Among the different mechanisms that have been used in this regard, ... -
Discrete 2D Fourier Transform In Polar Coordinates
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)The discrete Fourier transform in Cartesian coordinates has proved to be invaluable in many disciplines. However, less theory has been developed for functions that are best described in polar coordinates. In this paper, a ... -
Effect of Body Forces Due To Aircraft Acceleration on Ventilation Airflow and Contaminant Dispersion in Passenger Aircraft Cabins
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)Numerical simulations for the effect of body forces due to aircraft acceleration on the airflow and contaminant dispersion in a model for a passenger aircraft cabin are performed in this study. It was found that those body ... -
Modeling The Effect Of Produced Water On Asphaltene Deposition In A Production Tubing Using Population Balance
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)An engineering model evaluates the effect of produced water in a production tubing on the reduction of asphaltene deposition on the tube (pipe) wall. We rely on an industrial hypothesis that droplets colliding with the ... -
Design And Simulation Of The First Joint For A Prospective 5 Degrees Of Freedom Manipulator With Mr Actuators
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)This paper presents the mechanical design and mathematical modeling for the first joint of a five degrees of freedom collaborative manipulator. The robot is actuated using Magneto-Rheological (MR) clutches in order to ... -
Modeling Of Magneto-Mechanical Response Of Magnetorhological Elastomers Having Different Arrangement Of Magnetic Particles
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)A model describing the magneto-mechanical properties of magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) under an external magnetic field and a mechanical shear deformation is presented. The main purpose of the present study is to ... -
Application Of FBG Optical Sensors To In-Situ Monitoring The Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour Of Cold Spray Coated Samples
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)In this research, a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor is employed for monitoring thermal and mechanical strain induced by severe plastic deformation during high thermal and mechanical strain rate of cold spray technique. ... -
Gust Response Of A Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Wing
(CSME-SCGM, May-18)In this paper, the equations of motion for a twodimensional (2-D) wing encountering a gust are presented. The wing has two degrees of freedom, i.e. pitch and plunge, and its motion is restrained by nonlinear translational ...