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Fall 2021
Wind energy is a popular electricity resource across the world in the last few decades and is becoming increasingly important. In wind farm constructions, wake effect is an inevitable problem to be addressed. The wake generated by the upstream wind turbines may decrease the wind speed and reduce...
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Fall 2016
Industrial organizations rely on the safe and efficient operation of their assets to manufacture products and provide services with high quality. As a result of widespread mechanization, maintenance costs have increased significantly over the years. Maintenance is essential to keeping engineering...
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Spring 2014
Due to the advent of complex engineering systems in the last few decades, reliability and maintenance issues are gaining more attention than ever. Maintenance is important to keep a system running and ensure that it performs its functions satisfactorily. Often, there are limited resources to...
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Self-Healable, Reprocessable, and 3D Printable Plant Oil-Based Elastomers and Facile Fabrication of Graphene Oxide Reinforced Copolymer Nanocomposites
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Prolonging service-life and durability of polymer-based products can help to reduce severe landfill/marine pollution caused by polymeric materials (i.e., elastomers and thermosets). Self-healing polymers are a class of polymers that are capable of healing cracks or mechanical damage inflicted...
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Semi-Empirical Analytical Determination of the Transient Thermal Evolution within a Substrate during Low-Pressure Cold Spraying
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Hard-faced coatings are used to protect surfaces against wear, corrosion, and thermal degradation. Cold-gas dynamic spraying is a coating fabrication process in which a supersonic gas flow is produced to propel un-molten metal or alloy powder particles to deposit, with high impact forces, upon a...
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Sensitivity of Ambient NO2 Concentration to Upstream Oil and Gas and Transportation Emissions in Alberta
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Ambient exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) is associated with severe health problems and health-related economic burdens. The levels of NO2 concentration in the province of Alberta show that they will exceed the updated Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) in Edmonton and...
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Fall 2021
The application of hernia meshes is amongst the most popular techniques used to treat and repair hernias worldwide. While there is no gold standard at this point, the conventional technique involves repositioning of the displaced tissue back into the desired location followed by the application...
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Shape Memory Polymers and Their Composites: Towards Field Applications via Production, Characterization and Modelling
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Garces Arguello, Irina Tatiana
Shape Memory Polymers (SMP) and Shape Memory Polymer Composites (SMPCs) can be used in field applications to replace mechanical actuators. They offer lightweight, ease of part manufacturing, reduced energy losses due to elimination of friction between components and a wide range of mobility. The...
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Fall 2022
The current study investigates the effect of shear thinning rheology characteristics of high viscosity non-Newtonian biopolymers on the flow regime characterizations in Taylor Couette flow. The rheology measurements were carried out to investigate the viscoelastic properties of the biopolymers...
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Fall 2011
High efficiency and low NOx emissions make Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) promising for use in internal combustion engines. Combining HCCI with Spark Ignition (SI) allows for extension of the engine’s operating range. A Physics-based Mode Switch Model (PMSM) of SI-HCCI mode...