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Fall 2019
Active control over the spreading of a liquid can be the avenue of endless opportunities. This spreading is dictated by the surface energy of a solid surface in which the wetting of a given liquid is quantified by the Young's contact angle. This quantification is the outcome of the interactions...
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Fall 2023
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems are increasingly being utilized in public airspaces, necessitating a high level of reliability to minimize risks to the general public. This research focuses on optimizing the probability of mission success by effectively analyzing and managing risks during...
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Dynamics and Control of Multibody Cable-Driven Mechanisms with Application in Rehabilitation Robotics
DownloadFall 2012
With increasing demand for physical therapy in recent years, robotic systems have been proved to have great potential in improving the level of the delivered rehabilitation services both in quality and quantity and also providing huge savings in labor costs of. In this project a new cable-driven...
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Dynamics and Morphological Evolution of Ferrofluid Droplet under the Influence of Magnetic Field
DownloadSpring 2018
Owing to the spectacular adaptability and unique but non-intuitive shape evolution ability, ferrofluid is leveraged as an alternative for many applications ranging from sealing in bearing to manufacturing and droplet based microfluidics. However, there are numerous unanswered questions and...
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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 2019
Gear systems, which are one of the most widely adopted mechanical parts, receive lots of research attention. The dynamic modeling of gear systems under deterministic excitations has been widely investigated in existing studies. However, due to the diversity in both manufacturing processes and...
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Fall 2018
Biofouling refers to the undesirable accumulation and growth of biological substances on a artificial surface with time. Biofilm on the surfaces occurs due to bacterial aggregation and extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) that acts as the construction material of biofilm. EPS consists of...