Browsing by Subject "Major aerospace engineering"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The quasi-analytical approach is developed and applied to the three-dimensional full potential equation to compute wing aerodynamic sensitivity coefficients in the transonic regime. Symbolic manipulation is used to reduce ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Autonomous star sensing and pattern recognition for attitude determination provides many technological challenges to modern spacecraft optical sensor design. This is mostly due to the relatively high accuracy requirements ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)An experimental investigation, at a Reynolds number of 100,000, was conducted to determine the flow field and heat transfer characteristics of a model composed of three cylinders of different diameter. A wide range of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This dissertation presents a family of computationally efficient methods for the simulation of large, flexible multibody systems. Non-recursive order N formulations for the transient dynamic analysis of multibody systems ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)A general m ethod for deriving constitutive equations for damage and plasticity in m etal and ceramic m atrix composites has been presented. The discussion is intended to introduce constitutive m odeling to beginning ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The results of the thermodynamic approach to fracture for the cases of a sharp crack without and with a cohesive zone are reviewed and discussed in detail. Particular care is devoted to the crack tip singularity analysis ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1970)Solution procedures are developed and evaluated for the analysis of nonlinear structural problems. The principle of virtual work is first developed in undeformed, Lagrangian coordinated for the case of large strains. The ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)A viscous shock layer analysis method has been developed which includes the effects of chemical nonequilibrium, multi-temperature effects, viscous effects, and radiative gasdynamic coupling. This flowfield analysis has ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this research is to investigate the dynamics of a tethered satellite system in which the flexibility of the tether is considered and to design control laws for the deployment and retrieval of the tethered ...
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The effects of spray entrainment on the mean wind profile and the overall load on marine structures (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Influence of wing sweep on juncture flow has been investigated using three component laser Doppler velocimetry and body-surface pressure measurements. Configurations with forward and back sweep angles of 7.5 degrees, 15 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)The objective of this dissertation is to develop a solution algorithm capable of predicting transient thermal/structural response of viscoplastic metallic thin plates exposed to hostile thermal loads. In the second chapter ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)A general constitutive framework based on continuum damage mechanics with constraints imposed by thermodynamics for composite laminates is presented. Several methods for the calculation of matrix crack and delamination ...
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An investigation of the aerodynamic characteristics of planar and non-planar outboard wing planforms (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The outboard planforms of wings have been found to be of prime importance in studies of induced drag reduction. This conclusion is based on an experimental and theoretical study of the aerodynamic characteristics of planar ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The behavior of a wing boundary layer immersed in a propeller slipstream has been studied experimentally in wind tunnel tests and in flight. Airfoil surface static pressure measurements were made for time-averaged effects, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)The application of numerical lifting surface theory to the calculation of rotor hover performance is presented. Special techniques are developed to combine the lifting surface method with a conventional strip analysis to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The research begins with a definition of the thermoelastic-plastic-creep continuum and the phenomena which must be predicted in order to obtain a usable theory for modelling the response of this type of medium. Next, several ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)An experimental study was conducted using a plate test bed having a turbulent boundary layer to determine the momentum transfer to the faces of step/cavity excrecences on the plate. Tested configurations include an isolated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)An extension of the Linear Quadratic Regulator, and Linear Quadratic Gaussian methodology is proposed to design a robust controller from the viewpoint of eigenvalue sensitivity. The resulting system is optimal under the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The effect of different cool-down rates from processing temperature on the residual stress evolution in the representative volume element (RVE) of a periodic continuous fiber metal matrix composite monolayer is analyzed ...