Browsing by Department "Mechanical Engineering"
Now showing items 21-40 of 2019
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(2020-04-08)Object detection is important for autonomous vehicles. While regular cameras can be easily affected by low light environments or high brightness objects, thermal cameras can still get sharp images in those conditions. In ...
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(2015-11-11)The energy pathways associated with the martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys (SMAs), though the focus of extensive research over the past decades, are still unclear. In this work, we use a first-principles ...
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(2009-05-15)In thiswork we present the development of a method for the prediciton of finite temperature elastic and thermodynamic properties of cubic, non-magnetic unary and binary metals from first principles calculations. Vibrational, ...
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(2013-04-16)Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys FSMAs have diverse application, especially in the aerospace and bio-medical industries. They are a class of active and smart materials exhibiting strains under the influence of an applied ...
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(2013-04-12)Kevlar materials offer excellent tensile and thermal properties but can rapidly degrade under exposure to hot and humid environmental conditions. Currently Kevlar fiber's survival probability comes from a single filament ...
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Accurate Human Motion Estimation Using Inertia Measurement Units for Use in Biomechanical Analysis Vision-based motion capture systems (MCSs) are often used as a way to create full-body virtual models of human beings, for applications ranging from movie Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) to biomechanical analysis of human ...
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(2013-09-19)The brake torque of a direct-injection diesel engine is known to plateau over a range of injection timings. Injection timing affects the engine’s ignition delay and the fractions of fuel which burn in premixed and diffusion ...
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(2012-07-16)The Riverside Energy Efficiency Laboratory at Texas A&M University conducts sound quality testing for the Home Ventilating Institute. When the Home Ventilating Institute initially established their sound quality test, the ...
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(2016-08-09)Microfluidic acoustophoresis is a nonlinear acoustic phenomenon that can induce the motion of microparticles or cells under acoustic excitations in microfluidic devices. Existing acoustophoresis models, which are derived ...
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(1983)This report is a study of the development of an active, adaptive noise control system for a 4" I.D. duct. The study yielded the development of a series of circuits to be incorporated with a microprocessor in a continuous ...
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(2013-08-06)In order to obtain sustainable engineering systems, this research investigates surface and interface properties of metals and active nanostructured coatings. The goal is to develop new approaches in order to improve the ...
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(2017-12-06)In this work, a new concept was explored for the optimization of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. The methods assume that only commonly trended sensor data would be available and that ...
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(2022-07-26)When planning paths for robotic tasks involving interaction with an object, a key piece of information needed is the location of the object within the robot workspace. The process of obtaining the object location (both ...
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(2010-01-16)Recently, active suspension has been applied to many commercial automobiles. To develop the control algorithm for active suspension, a quarter-car test bed was built by using a direct-drive tubular linear brushless ...
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(2009-05-15)A novel active material for controllable, high work density applications was designed, fabricated, analyzed, and tested. This active material uses a lens-shaped element to implement simple shear motion with gas pressure ...
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(2011-08-08)The subject of this thesis is an extension of a two-dimensional, axisymmetric, Timoshenko-beam finite-element rotordynamic code to include a three-dimensional non-axisymmetric solid-element casing model. Axisymmetric beams ...
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(2011-10-21)Disability is seen as a result of an interaction between a person and that person's contextual factors. Viewing disability in the context of the built environment, a better design of this environment helps to reduce the ...
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(2017-05-08)Product family design is a popular approach for designing a group of related products to strategically share common features and components. One method for developing product families is by using a combination of shared ...
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(2022-07-10)Additive manufacturing techniques have shown promising developments over the past few decades, with their technology continuously improving. As such, other industries such as coating manufacturing can benefit from these ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Quality of Service (QoS) in real-time media applications can be defined as the ability to guarantee the delivery of packets from source to destination over best-effort networks within some constraints. These constraints ...