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Fall 2010
Slurry transport is a key material handling technology in a number of industries. In oilsands ore transport, slurry pipelining also promotes conditioning to release and aerate bitumen prior to separation. Reliability of slurry transport pipelines is a major ongoing problem for operating companies...
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Fall 2009
This thesis focuses on the use of computer simulation for modeling risk of a multi-state repairable component. In production processes, maintenance decisions are often made based on uncertain assessment of risk, not only in the probability when a process component goes into a state of failure...
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Spring 2012
Discrete-event simulation (DES) is a method of mimicking the behavior of a real system and has the ability to model complex systems and phenomena. In this study a DES model of a real production system was developed. The model provides an accurate representation of the real system and insight into...
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Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Ultrasonic Leakage Detection (ULD) as a maintenance and condition monitoring technique for freight rail airbrakes in cold weather conditions
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Freight rail airbrakes need improvement in reliability to reduce failures, which can lead to harm to the environment, loss of human life, and a negative impact on the economy. This research focuses on identifying the failures of airbrakes using a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) framework,...
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Spring 2020
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) can be integrated as part of environmental characterization campaigns in difficult terrains, such as oil sands tailings ponds. The feasibility of using such systems and designing sampling tool payloads which can deliver sufficient performance and reliability to...
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Fall 2014
Advances in sensor technology and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have created the opportunity for low cost aerial monitoring. As much of this development is not tailored for remote sensing applications, a custom built UAS was used to test the feasibility of inexpensive monitoring over forested...
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Spring 2014
Static and dynamic characterization was performed on a prototype piezoresistive silicon MEMS strain sensor. Static tests showed the MEMS sensor’s gauge factor ranged from 10-13, which is higher than a foil gauge’s gauge factor. Power measurements at -20 C, 24 C, and 80 C showed that the average...
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Spring 2022
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...
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Synthesis, kinematic modeling, parameter identification and control of a rehabilitation cable-driven robot
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The proposed mechanism in this study is a multi-body cable driven robot. The robot has 6 DOF. The thesis first presents the required concepts and definitions. Then a solution to the kinematic synthesis problem is reviewed. This solution includes an algorithm that finds all the sets of design...
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Fall 2013
Businesses, regardless of size, require the best information available to them in order to optimize their technological plans for the future. Currently, however, large, multi-national enterprises (MNEs), along with nations, are availing themselves of a set of tools that are not being used by...