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Fall 2023
This thesis explores vibration monitoring of infrastructure or machinery through an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) also commonly referred to as a drone. The vibration signature of an object may be used to assess the health of that object. This thesis looks at the means of acquiring this vibration...
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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Hydrocyclone Performance and the Influence of Underflow Pumping Effect
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Centrifugal separators have many applications in industry. Comprehensive information based on performance and energy consumption for a detailed comparison between different types of centrifugal separators is essential to allow design optimization and is the focus of this work. Equivalent...
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The Application of Life-Cycle Assessment within a Public Policy Framework - Theory and Reality
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Public policy plays a major role in defining societal programs and frameworks, including issues related to environmental protection. Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers a tool to provide comprehensive environmental impact information that can be applied within the public policy development...
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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...
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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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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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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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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 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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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,...