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The Effect Of Nanoparticle Concentration On Mql Performance When Machining Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)The main purpose of using cutting fluid during machining processes is to reduce the cutting temperature and friction, and to wash away chips from the cutting zone. However, excessive use of conventional cutting fluid ... -
Thermal Management For Efficient Fast Refill Of Compressed Natural Gas
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)As an alternative fuel, compressed natural gas (CNG) plays an important role fueling transportation. Like driving other types of vehicles, drivers of CNG-powered vehicles prefer to refill on-board CNG tanks in a short time, ... -
Improved Modal Contribution Factors As Response Tracking Mechanisms For Dynamic Systems During Design Optimization
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)As an industrial practice, complex structures are analyzed under a large set of dynamic operating conditions from which design load cases are selected. During design optimization, response tracking mechanisms based on modal ... -
Optimal Charging Of Li-Ion Batteries Based On An Electrolyte Enhanced Single Particle Model
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Lithium ion batteries play important roles as energy storage solutions in electric vehicle, portable devices, and renewable energy systems. There are many issues facing lithium ion batteries. One of them is the long charging ... -
Application Of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor For Strain Measurement At The Notch Tip Under Cyclic Loading
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Notches are inevitable in many components and structures due to design limitations. In addition, they are the locations for stress concentration and are susceptible to fatigue failure. As a result, the cyclic stress/strain ... -
Design Of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) Systems For Car-Trailer Combinations
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)This paper presents the design of an electronic stability control (ESC) system based on trailer differential braking for increasing safety and improving handling performance of car-trailer combinations. Numerical simulations ... -
A Finite Element Model to Study the Effect of Porosity Location on the Elastic Modulus of a Cantilever Beam
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)The effect of the location of porosity concentration on elastic modulus of a cantilever beam is investigated. First, two-dimensional investigation with beam theory, Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko, was performed to estimate ... -
An Experimental And Theoretical Investigation Into Airflow Through Air Box Of A Potato-Rock Separator
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Velocity and pressure distribution in the air duct system and that over the grate of a potato-rock separator of Alan Equipment, PEI was analysed utilizing computational fluid dynamics. COMSOL software using appropriate ... -
Effect of Body Forces Due To Aircraft Acceleration on Ventilation Airflow and Contaminant Dispersion in Passenger Aircraft Cabins
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)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 ... -
Preparing and Coordinating Undergraduate Engineering Design Projects
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Design projects have become common in engineering classrooms. Earlier exposure to and training in the design engineering process hold much value for an enriched experience and an in-depth understanding of engineering design. ... -
A New Three-Layer Model for Horizontal Slurry Flow
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)A modified three-layer model for solid-liquid flow in horizontal pipes is developed, which overcomes the limitations of many previous models. The steady-state model predicts the pressure loss, critical velocity, concentration ... -
Testing Analysis of Freezing Phenomenon in Conventional Carbon Steel Pipes
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Solidification of water in closed piping systems is a common phenomenon in both the industrial and residential sectors. In some cases, the resulting damage may be both costly and dangerous and thus warrants attention. ... -
Thermal management of PQ transformer for a passively cooled power module
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)In this paper we study the thermal performance of a 5 kW rectifier module experimentally and numerically, with the aim of changing the cooling methodology from an active cooled (fan cooled) to a passively cooled system. ... -
Continuous Fiber Polymer Composites for Thermal Applications
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)This paper presents an analytical investigation into the effective thermal conductivity of 3D printed continuous fibre polymer composites (CFPCs) using rule of mixture micro-structural analysis. Two fused deposition modelling ... -
The Design And Validations Of The Ultrasonic Tactile Sensor
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)An ultrasonic tactile sensor that can measure the stiffness of the tissue was developed. By combining analytical and numerical approaches, efficient design methodology was presented. The electrical and mechanical performance ... -
A Two-Stage Conversion Process For Az31B Corrosion
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Permanganate phosphate coating is considered as one of the most promising alternative coatings to chromate conversion coating because of the similarity between permanganate and chromate. However, the permanganate phosphate ... -
A Novel Finite Strain Visco-Hyperelasticity Based Constitutive Model For Elastomers
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)A novel three-dimensional finite strain viscohyperelastic constitutive model is proposed to capture the strain rate dependency of rubber-like materials. The overall material behavior is defined by cumulative description ... -
Finite Element Analysis Of Modified Conebolt Under Static And Dynamic Loadings
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)Axisymmetric finite element models are developed to simulate static pull test and dynamic drop test of MCB33 (modified conebolt with full dedonding) using ABAQUS. Results from the numerical models are in reasonable agreement ... -
Anisotropic Fatigue Modeling Of Wrought Magnesium Alloys
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)The merit of Jahed-Varvani (JV) as an energy-based model and Smith-Watson-Toper (SWT) as a critical plane fatigue model are assessed for three wrought magnesium alloys. The raw data, including the stabilized strain-stress ... -
Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, And Energy-Based Control For Space Tethered System
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)A typical and useful way to derive the dynamics equation of the tethered systems is by means of the Lagrange’s equations and various dynamic models of different tethered missions are established by the Lagrangian formulation. ...