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Inverse Problems in Free Vibration Analysis of Rotating and Non-Rotating Beams and its Application to Random Eigenvalue Characterization
(2018-02-19)
Rotating and non-rotating beams are widely used to model important engineering struc-tures. Hence, the vibration analyses of these beams are an important problem from a structural dynamics point of view. Depending on the ...
Studies on the Effects of Carbon Nanotubes on Mechanical Properties of Bisphenol E Cyanate Ester/Epoxy Based Resin Systems and CFRP Composites
(2018-02-28)
The search and research for high performance materials for aerospace applications is a continuous evolving process. Among several fibre reinforced polymers, carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) is well known for its high ...
Design and Development of Piezoelectric Stack Actuated Trailing Edge Flap for Helicopter Vibration Reduction
(2018-01-09)
This research investigates on-blade partial span active plain trailing edge flaps (TEFs)with an aim to alleviate the helicopter vibrations. Among all the available smart materials, piezoelectric stack actuator(PEA)has shown ...
A Study of the Characteristics of Gas-On-Liquid Impinging Injectors
(2018-02-18)
The work presented here pertains to investigations on gas-on-liquid type of impinging injectors with a generic approach with prospective applications in several areas, and at places with particular emphasis on cryogenic ...
Investigation of Plug Nozzle Flow Field
(2018-03-21)
Plug nozzle, a passive altitude adaptive nozzle, for futuristic SSTO applications, exhibits greater efficiency as compared to conventional nozzles over a wide range of altitudes. The plug nozzle comprises of a primary nozzle ...
On Three Dimensional High Lift Flow Computations
(2018-02-18)
Computing 3D high lift flows has been a challenge to the CFD community because of three important reasons: complex physics, complex geometries and large computational requirements. In the recent years, considerable progress ...
Experimental Investigations on Hypersonic Waverider
(2018-02-28)
In the flying field of space transportation domain, the increased efforts involving design and development of hypersonic flight for space missions is on toe to provide the optimum aerothermodynamic design data to satisfy ...
Effective Property Estimation of Carbon Composites using Micromechanical Modeling
(2018-02-28)
In recent times, composite materials have gained mainstay acceptance as a structural material of choice due to their tailorability and improved thermal, specific strength/stiffness and durability performance. Carbon-Carbon ...
Some Experimental and Numerical Studies on Evaluation of Adhesive Bond Integrity of Composites Lap Shear Joints
(2018-03-02)
Adhesive bonding which has been in use for long as a traditional joining method has gained ground in the last couple of decades due to the introduction of advanced composite materials into the aerospace industry. Bonded ...
Vision-based Strategies for Landing of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(2018-05-14)
Vision-based conventional landing of a fixed wing UAV is addressed in this thesis. The work includes mathematical modeling, interface to a software for rendering the outside scenery, image processing techniques, control law ...