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- 1Chandra, Sanjeev (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto)
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- 1Nychka, John (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Application of Thermally-Sprayed Coatings as Heat Tracers for Carbon Steel Pipes to Mitigate the Effect of Ice Accumulation and Freezing Damage
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The bursting of pipes due to freezing of contained liquid is considerably costly in industrial applications, resulting in over $4 billion in damage over the last decade alone in the United States. This doctoral research program attempted to study the root cause of the failure of pipes due to...
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Changing Landscape Coatings for Bioactive Bone Fixation Implants via Flame Spray Deposition
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Owing to the bio-inert nature of load-bearing alloys and the brittle nature of bioactive materials there is a need to develop a composite bioactive material suitable for load-bearing applications. To fulfill this need, a new composite coating of a load-bearing alloy and a resorbable bioactive...
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Spring 2021
Membrane desalination processes have attracted much attention in the last few decades with regards to water purification. While some methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) are demonstrated at the commercial scale, some such as membrane distillation (MD) have not been deployed, mainly due to issues...
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Spring 2023
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a new class of advanced metallic materials that have received significant attention in recent years due to their stable microstructures and promising properties. They are characterized by their peculiar mixing of five or more principal elements in equimolar...
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Fabrication of WC-based Metal Matrix Composite Coatings via Low-pressure Cold Spraying for Enhanced Surface Properties
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A low-cost, low-pressure cold spray unit was used to fabricate tungsten carbide (WC)-based metal matrix composite (MMC) coatings. A variety of coatings were fabricated and characterized. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), coupled with image analysis, Vickers micro-hardness, and X-ray diffraction...
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Spring 2013
The temperature distribution of a flame-sprayed metallic layer on glass fiber-reinforced epoxy flat plates was determined experimentally, analytically, and numerically. The composite samples consisted of flat composite glass fiber-epoxy plates fabricated by filament winding, a layer of garnet...
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Localized Surface Modification of High Strength Aluminum Alloys using Cold Spraying and Friction Stir Processing
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Dimensional restoration and repair methodologies for cold-worked aluminum (Al) alloys are very limited due to strength degradation that occurs during heat application in the process. For example, friction stir processing (FSP) is a well-documented repair methodology for various alloys, but it...
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On the Mechanical Properties and Failure of Low-Pressure Cold-Sprayed Tungsten Carbide-Nickel Metal Matrix Composite Coatings
DownloadFall 2019
Tungsten carbide-Nickel (WC-Ni) metal matrix coatings (MMC) were fabricated using a low-pressure cold spray unit. The coatings were designed according to 50, 71, and 92 weight percentages of WC in the feedstock powder. These coatings were subsequently prepared for uni-axial quasi-static tensile...
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Quantification of Performance of Wildfire Chemicals using a Custom-Built Sensible Enthalpy Rise Calorimeter
DownloadSpring 2018
A simple and effective laboratory experiment was developed to investigate the relationship between coverage level, fuel load, and fire intensity for different vegetative fuels. The experiment consisted of a fuel bed consisting of known quantities of fuel load and applied coverage, and an...
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Spring 2016
A robust heat flux sensor was developed in order to quantify the energy release from high heat load scenarios, such as wildland fires. In order to reduce the high errors in the heat flux data, the sensor was modified to measure the differential temperature so as to mitigate the propagation of...