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High Temperature Vibration Fatigue Life Prediction and High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free Solders
(2013-01-03)
Current trends in the automotive industry warrant a variety of electronics for improved control, safety, efficiency and entertainment. Many of these electronic systems like engine control units, variable valve sensor, ...
A comprehensive tool to prioritize multiple engineering R & D projects
(2009-02-23)
When trying to allocate funds to different projects, people encounter many situations where they need a methodology that can address the issues that arise and provide a quick solution. In the case study described in this ...
Some Techniques in the Control of Dynamic Systems with Periodically Varying Coefficients
(2009-02-23)
The goal of this dissertation is to develop control system design methods for dynamic systems with time periodic coefficients. These systems arise naturally in many branches of science and engineering. As a rule, time ...
Investigation of Lateral Performance of an ATV Tire on Natural, Deformable Surfaces
(2009-02-23)
A study is undertaken to discover links between soil-rubber interface strength,
camber, pressure and lateral performance of a front ATV tire. New tire and soil test rigs
are also designed and fabricated for the support ...
A Machine Vision and Sensing System for Braid Defect Detection, Diagnosis and Prevention During Manufacture
(2009-02-23)
The mechanical properties of braids are often quite convenient for achieving the high performance levels expected of composite materials. A favorable attribute of a braided structure is the ability for the design engineer ...
Modeling Simulation and Preliminary Experimentation on Towed Tether System
(2009-02-23)
Aero-dynamic drag forces and their effect on the path taken by a cable in a towed system are studied with the aid of an advanced computational software packages. A piece of rope (tether) is towed at the top end in a ...
Studies of the Off-Resonant Nonlinear Optical Properties of an Organic Molecular Crystal and Specific Nonconjugated Conductive Polymers
(2009-02-23)
In this dissertation, the second order nonlinear optical properties of an organic molecular crystal and the third order off-resonant nonlinear optical properties of specific nonconjugated conductive polymers have been ...
Area-Array Package Reliability Models for No-Core PCB Assemblies in Extreme Thermo-Mechanical Environments
(2009-02-23)
The trends in the electronic packaging industry are to design smaller packages that have higher complexity, and to improve package reliability while reducing costs. These needs in the packaging industry have lead to a ...
Effect of the chain on thermal conductivity and thermal boundary conductance of long chain n-alkanes using molecular dynamics and transient plane source techniques
(2014-07-02)
The effect of the length of the long chain n-alkane molecules on the nanoscale thermal transport within various phases of n-alkanes is investigated. The thermal conductivity of the n-alkanes is determined using both molecular ...
Molecular-Level Modeling of Thermal Transport Mechanisms within Carbon Nanotube/Graphene-based Nanostructure-enhanced Phase Change Materials
(2014-07-29)
The mechanisms of nanoscale thermal transport within nanoparticle suspensions (nanofluids) and nanostructure-enhanced phase change materials (NePCM) are investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
To begin, ...