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Spring 2024
This thesis as a part of the University of Alberta Energy Management and Sustainable Operations (EMSO) program aims to design an intelligent management tool for the University of Alberta fleet vehicles to achieve the fuel consumption reduction, and driver behavior improvement. To achieve this...
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Spring 2013
Removal of a drop from its substrate may be gradually (e.g. evaporation) or all at once (e.g. shedding). In this thesis, drop adhesion force as a base for understanding the all at once removal of a drop from its substrate, and drop evaporation in room temperature as one of the gradual removal...
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Fall 2018
The phenomena of droplet spreading and imbibition has widespread application in membrane science. It is widely believed that the membrane flux increases with greater hydrophilicity. In porous membranes, the spreading and permeation occur at the same time, and these separate but competitive...
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Dual-phase-lag heat conduction and thermally induced vibration in beams and shells of different sizes
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The conventional form of heat conduction, Fourier’s law, has broad and successful applications in the thermal systems which have a large spatial dimension with the focus of its long time behavior. However, for problems involving high temperature gradient, materials with porosity or multiple...
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Fall 2018
Elastic metamaterials have received growing attention from the research community due to their unique properties and attractive engineering applications. The unusual elastic wave manipulation ability of the elastic metamaterials mainly comes from the delicately designed structural configuration....
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Dynamic behaviour of piezoelectric sensors and their application in crack identification for SHM
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The health monitoring of critical structures plays a crucial role in locating damage positions timely and preventing catastrophic failures. Much attention has been devoted to exploiting piezoelectric sensors/actuators to develop techniques of recording elastic wave signals to realize structural...
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Fall 2009
The performance of smart structures depends on the dynamic electromechanical behavior of piezoelectric sensors/actuators and the bonding condition along the interface. This thesis contents a theoretical study of the coupled electromechanical characteristics of a surface-bonded piezoelectric...