Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Fang, Alex"
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Kim, Jun-Hyeok (2013-06-25)This research investigates the tribological performance of crystalline and amorphous powders of boron as additives in lubricants: grease and mineral oil for potential applications of wind turbine. This research is focused ...
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Fan, Ge-Yi (2014-07-17)Due to the fast growth of biodiesel production capacity, the amount of glycerol has increased rapidly. Furthermore, the supply of glycerol has exceeded the demand needs in the market. In addition, there is a great demand ...
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Reeks, John Mason (2016-05-09)Adults suffering from lower back pain often find that the cause of pain is degenerative disc disease. While non-surgical treatment is preferred, spinal fusion and total disc replacement remain surgical options for the ...
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Chakraborty, Sayak (2019-12-02)In the last decade, 3D printing has revolutionized the design and manufacturing industry. Stereolithography (SLA), the most accurate commercially-available form of 3D printing, and the third most commonly used 3D printing ...
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Paluri, Rajeshwari S. Lakshmi (2012-10-19)Friction, wear, and lubrication have direct influence on performance, reliability, and service life of mechanical systems with moving components. The useful life of these systems and their efficiency can be improved by ...
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Harmeet Kaur (2012-02-14)Polymer composites are engineered materials widely being used and yet not completely understood for their dynamic response. It is important to fully characterize material properties before using them for applications in ...
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Kamath, Aravind Miyar (2012-07-16)Metallic glasses can be considered for many commercial applications because of the higher mechanical strength, corrosion and wear resistance when compared to crystalline materials. To consider them for novel applications, ...
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Ozaydin, Mehmet Fevzi (2016-10-24)Integrated fabrication techniques in order to develop novel multi-functional hybrid materials for potential applications in energy conversion and sustainability were investigated. There are three major areas of investigation ...
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Williams, Nathan Douglas (2014-11-14)Rail tunnel linings are currently visually inspected and hammer sounded on all structural elements at random locations or where visual inspection shows the need for it. These methods are good; however, there will not always ...
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Shin, Yountae (2014-08-08)This research explores new approaches in design and fabrication of novel composite materials in order to increase corrosion and wear resistance. By mimicking nature, nacreous particles from seashells were used as reinforcement ...
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Feng, Zhujian (2013-01-10)Sheet metal surfaces with pin-fin features have potential fluid and thermal applications. Extrusion forging process and extrusion rolling process can be used to create such surface features on sheet metals. Extrusion ...
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Porter, Quinton James (2022-08-17)Powder bed fusion (PBF) and binder jetting (BJ) are two closely aligned processes that belong to powder-bed additive manufacturing (PBAM). The research shared in this dissertation presents technical advancements surrounding ...
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Tsai, Yi-Te (2010-10-12)Bridges play an important role in society, especially during the post-earthquake period that enables emergency vehicles and traffic for safe egress and ingress to minimize the loss of property and life. However, some past ...
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Sambath, Srivaths (2012-07-16)This thesis seeks to investigate the adsorption capabilities of activated carbon and carbon nanotubes. The adsorption of methanol on both of these substances was tested for their application in a solar based refrigeration ...
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Kwon, Hungjoo (2019-11-20)A frequency-domain synthetic aperture focusing technique for orthotropic media (FD-ORTHO-SAFT) is developed for the in-situ inspection of wood products. The developed algorithm uses the fast Fourier transform to manipulate ...
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Mao, Xu (2018-11-28)A comprehensive thermo-elasto-plastodynamic model of the laser-material interaction in polycrystalline metals in response to ultrafast laser heating is formulated. Lacking a fundamental understanding for the non-ablation ...