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Thermal Modeling and Management of Storage Systems
(2014-06-24)
Energy consumption of data storage systems has increased significantly for the past decades. There is an urgent need to build energy-efficient data storage systems. Computing cost of IT facilities and cooling cost of air ...
Thermal Modeling and Simulation of Metals Additive Manufacturing
(2019-12-05)
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables a layer-wise approach to near-net shape fabrication of three-dimensional computer aided designs. In powder-metal-based AM processes, such as directed energy deposition (DED) and laser-powder ...
Thermal Modeling of the Laser-Powder Bed Fusion Process
(2018-07-24)
Parts fabricated using laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) methods, such as laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) receive very high, localized heat fluxes from a laser within a purged, shielding gas (i.e. argon) environment ...
Thermal Performance of Ball Grid Arrays and Thin Interface Materials
(2005-08-15)
Current electronic packages exhibit very high and ever increasing power densities. That trend mandates the need for enhanced thermal performance. This study introduces a state of the art apparatus to measure thermal ...
Thermal Segregation: Causes and Effects on In-Place Density and Fatigue Performance of Asphalt Mixtures
(2012-04-17)
Previous research has demonstrated that an excessive loss of mix temperature during hauling and paving operations can cause significant reductions in the mix consistency and therefore, in its ability to be compacted ...
Thermal Stability of Tagatose
(2009-07-06)
Tagatose is a minimally absorbed monosaccharide that has prebiotic properties. To achieve this prebiotic benefit, tagatose in foods and beverages must not be lost during processing. However, data on the thermal stability ...
Thermal-Aware File and Resource Allocation in Data Centers
(2017-12-04)
After addressing the issue of reducing power consumption by computing nodes in data centers, in recent years, computer scientists are focusing on reducing cooling cost of the data centers, thereby making the data centers ...
Thermal-aware Resource Management in Energy Efficient Clusters
(2018-07-25)
There is a pressing need for thermal management in most electronic devices today, ranging from portables to high-performance servers, and it poses barriers to the safe operations of data centers. The goal of thermal ...
Thermal-Mechanical Characterization and Microstructural Evolution of Lead Free Solder Alloys in Harsh Environment Applications
(2021-04-27)
With the emergence of the modern electronic packaging technology over the last few decades, lead free solder alloys have been the primary interconnects material used in electronic packaging industry due to their relatively ...
Thermo-mechanical Reliability Models for Life Prediction of Area Array Electronics in Extreme Environments
(2006-05-15)
The increasing functionality in modern microelectronics requires more complexity in less space and more reliability at lower cost. Demands on miniaturization have lead to the evolution of several types of area array packages ...
Thermo-mechanical reliability models for life prediction of ball grid arrays on Cu-core PCBS in extreme environments
(2007-08-15)
In this work, thermo-mechanical models for reliability prediction of BGA packages mounted on Cu-core printed circuit assemblies in harsh environments have been developed. The models have been developed based on thermo-mechanical ...
Thermodynamic Model and Initial Experimental Investigation of Air Dehumidification through Electrically Charged Vapor Capturing Electrostatic Droplets
(2022-04-18)
The removal of water vapor from the air to reduce relative humidity is a well known indoor environmental comfort requirement. Common dehumidification approaches require a substantial amount of energy and usually involve ...
Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites
(2016-11-09)
This thesis describes the use of non-covalent functionalization of nanomaterials and pre-processing methods for improving thermal and mechanical properties of melt processed thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites. The effects ...
Thermosetting Polymers from Renewable Resources
(2016-08-26)
Polymer science was born as an answer to the need to produce and to understand materials such as plastics, rubber, adhesives, fibers, and paints. It has been recognize as an interdisciplinary field, combining theoretical ...
Thermotolerance in Gossypium hirsutum
(2006-12-15)
Heat and drought are major factors that affect the annual cotton yield. Cotton farmers are always looking for plants that are more thermotolerant and drought tolerant to increase the yield. These characteristics can be ...
Thermotolerance of Hemlock (Tsuga spp.) and Investigation of a Foliar Disorder in Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica ×fauriei)
(2010-07-19)
Foliar thermotolerance of six Tsuga species to direct heat injury was evaluated using electrolyte leakage. Species evaluated included: T. canadensis, T. caroliniana, T. chinensis, T. diversifolia, T. heterophylla, and T. ...
Theromdynamics of Steroid Estrogen Sorption to Activated Sludge
(2008-12-15)
Sorption is an important mechanism for removal of 17a-ethinylestradiol (EE2) in biological wastewater treatment. In an effort to deepen our understanding of this process, this work investigated the underlying thermodynamic ...
Thick Film Packaging Techniques for 300°C Operation
(2011-08-11)
Geothermal well logging and instrumentation applications require electronics capable of 300°C operation. SiC device technology enables the design and fabrication of analog circuits that can operate at these temperatures. ...
Thin Film Multichip Packaging for High Temperature Geothermal Application
(2015-07-28)
A DOE sponsored study by MIT concluded that geothermal energy could provide 100,000 MWe or more in 50 years by using advanced technology knowns as Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). In EGS, the measurement-while-drilling ...
Thin-Type Dense Sets and Related Properties
(2010-04-07)
Dense sets in topological spaces may be thought of as those which are ubiquitous. We discuss dense sets in product spaces which also have a thin-type property, making them in some sense rare or spread out. Thin-type ...