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Development Of An Activated Carbon+ HFC 134a Adsorption Refrigeration System
(2009-04-01)
The demands facing the refrigeration industry are minimal usage of conventional energy sources for compression and avoidance of ozone depleting substances. One of the approaches to combat these issues is the use of thermally ...
Contact Mechanics Of Layered Structures
(2009-06-30)
Contact mechanical study of layered structures is useful to various fields of
engineering, such as - mechanical engineering, civil engineering, materials engineering and biomechanics. Thin hard film coating on a compliant ...
Analytical, Numerical, And Experimental Studies Of Fluid Damping In MEMS Devices
(2009-09-11)
Fluid damping arising from squeeze film flow of air or some inert gas trapped between an oscillating micro mechanical structure, such as a beam or a plate, and a fixed substrate often dominates the other energy dissipation ...
Towards Measurement And Simulation Of Elasto-Plastic Deformation
(2009-03-09)
The stretch forming process is frequently used in the automotive industry (outer pan-
els, inner panels, stiffeners etc.), the packaging industry and household appliances
sector, to manufacture complicated shapes and ...
A Unified Constitutive Model For Large Elasto-plastic Deformation
(2009-07-23)
Rapid development and stiff competition in material related industries such as the automotive, demand very high precision in end products in very quick time. The transformation of raw material into an intricate-shaped final ...
Modular Kinematic Analysis Of Planar Linkages
(2009-04-24)
This thesis has developed an efficient methodology for automatic kinematic analysis of planar linkages using the concept of modular kinematics. Unlike conventional general purpose kinematic analysis packages where each joint ...
Cooling Of Electronics With Phase Change Materials Under Constant Power And Cyclic Heat Loads
(2009-12-14)
The trend in the electronic and electrical equipment industry towards denser and more powerful product requires a higher level of performance from cooling devices. In this context, passive cooling techniques such as latent ...
Experimental And Finite Element Study Of Elastic-Plastic Indentation Of Rough Surfaces
(2009-06-24)
Most of the surfaces have roughness down to atomic scales. When two surfaces come into contact, the nature of the roughness determines the properties like friction and wear. Analysis of the rough surface contacts is always ...
Design And Manufacturing Of Impact Resisting Structures (Aluminium Foam)
(2009-09-02)
Metal foams have found increasing applications in a wide range of structural and functional products, due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, acoustic and electrical properties and offer great potential for lightweight ...
A New Insight Into Recursive Forward Dynamics Algorithm And Simulation Studies Of Closed Loop Systems
(2009-04-02)
Rigid multibody systems have been studied extensivley due to its direct application in design and analysis of various mechanical systems such as robots and spacecraft structures. The dynamics of multibody system is governed ...