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Fall 2022

Wang, Yicong

The flow structure in turbulent Taylor vortex flow (TTV) was investigated in Newtonian and shear-thinning fluids. The radius ratio of the investigated case is η=0.76, and the aspect ratio of the experimental setup is 10.32. First, detailed velocity measurements of the time-averaged azimuthal and...

Fall 2022

Skinner, Miles A

High-velocity and long-lifetime operating conditions of modern high-speed energy storage flywheel rotors may create the necessary conditions for failure modes not included in current quasi-static failure analyses. The central hypothesis for this thesis research is that (i) viscoelastic effects...

Fall 2022

Raoufi, Abdolreza

In many industrial heat exchangers, it is desirable to improve the rate of heat transfer from a pipe wall to the fluid flow. This improvement is commonly made by adding some form of roughness to the pipe surface. However, the added roughness often leads to an increase in the pressure drop of the...

Spring 2022

Ahmad,Nusrat

Owing to a large number of applications, starting from pharmaceutical packaging to advancement in nanotechnology and microfluidic devices, wetting characteristics has always been regarded as an essential prerequisite for many phenomenal processes. In the present time, the term ‘wetting’ is not...

Spring 2022

Jaramillo Chavez, Renzo Wilfredo

The purpose of this research is to investigate alternatives for the integration of management systems standards requirements into a single management system (MS) for university research laboratories and compare the resulting MSs after standardization and integration against the initial MSs....

Spring 2022

Priyanka Arora

Maintenance decisions impact company's costs and profits in various ways. These decisions can be incurred as a part of everyday repairs or heavy replacements or as an investment in future asset or technology. Large corporations with physical assets have maintenance practices to ensure proper...

Spring 2022

Kawakami, Haroldo

The present work developed an automated ball-on-plate abrasive wear tester and examined the material abrasion wear resistance by volume loss and their acoustic emission characteristics. The performance of three types of materials with varying material properties, including aluminum,...

Spring 2022

Cui, Xinrui

Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is one of the most popular additive manufacturing (AM) methods, FDM can produce complex shapes at low cost in a short time, Polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) is a popular FDM material which has increasingly been used due to its ease for printing, good...

Spring 2022

Li,Xiuhui

This thesis reports fabrication, mechanical characterization, finite element modeling, and geometric analysis of lattice structures. A net-shaped 316L stainless steel lattice structure composed of diamond unit cells was fabricated by selective laser melting (SLM). The cavities in the lattice...

Fall 2022

Remesz, Ross

Cranial sutures are a network of vasculature, extracellular matrix, and fibers that join the bones in the skull of most vertebrates. Not only do sutures play an important mechanical role in the skull, but they are also vital for growth and development. Sutures respond to mechanical stimuli,...