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- 3Zhao, Qing (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Zhao, Qing (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Apel, Derek (Mining Engineering)
- 1Bayat, Alireza (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Chen, Tongwen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Cheng, J.J. Roger (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2017
Pipelines form an integral component of the distribution network of oil and gas products, which have to be transported from production sites to markets far off where there is need for them. Pipelines thus have to traverse long distances and as any other structure are susceptible to damages with...
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Spring 2017
Adaptive approaches for model-based fault detection, diagnosis and control are the focus of this research. Both analytical and data-driven model-based techniques are studied along with the investigation of their practical applications. This thesis is organized in two parts. In Part I, adaptive...
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An investigation of the strain field and inter-fragmentary movement of a broken hemi-pelvis
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Pelvic fracture is considered a common and sometimes fatal injury. There are still developments in novel pelvic fixations. In order to investigate the performance of these fixations, a specialized testing set-up is required. Typically, the strains of a few selected points and the changes in the...
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Cervid Prion Protein Polymorphisms Modulate the Diversity of Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Strains
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious prion disease spreading and emerging in wild and captive Cervidae species worldwide. Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders occurring in various mammalian species including deer, elk, sheep, cattle and humans. Central to prion...
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Spring 2021
Monitoring systems are indispensable parts of industries that are responsible to guarantee the safe and proficient operation of plants. As a part of monitoring systems, alarm management systems are deployed to prevent damage to components, and improve safety and quality of products. The main...
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Spring 2013
Tire failure in mining operations can hazardous, resulting in financial and productivity losses. There are opportunities to improve tire monitoring systems by safely and remotely providing full-field measurements of tire properties. An optical fault detection system has been developed to...
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Spring 2016
Vibration analysis has been widely used to detect gear tooth fault inside a planetary gearbox. However, the vibration characteristics of a planetary gearbox are very complicated. Inside a planetary gearbox, there are multiple vibration sources as several sun-planet gear pairs and several...
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Spring 2013
This thesis develops fault detection characterization, design, and reliability analysis within a real-time, multilayered fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) framework proposed according to fault tolerant control systems (FTCS). With the development of sophisticated control and monitoring systems,...
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Spring 2012
This thesis is concerned with fault detection of sampled data systems with special emphasis on the time varying characteristics of the system. A discretization method based on the norm invariant transformation is proposed for time invariant systems with aperiodic sampler and time varying systems...
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Spring 2010
As the demand for oil and gas resources increases pipeline construction pushes further into the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Consequently, these buried pipelines suffer much harsh environmental and complex loading conditions. Moreover, to increase the transporting efficiency, larger size pipes...