Division of Mechanical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Structural Modeling And Analysis Of Insect Scale Flapping Wing
(2013-06-04)Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are defined as a class of vehicles with their larger dimension not exceeding 15 cm and weighing 100 gm. The three main approaches for providing lift for such vehicles are through fixed, rotating ... -
Role Of Boron On The Evolution Of Microstructure And Texture In Ti-6AL-4V-0.1B Alloy
(2013-06-04)Titanium and its alloys constitute an important class of materials for aerospace, biomedical, and chemical industries, primarily due to their high specific strength and fracture toughness with good corrosion resistance. ... -
Differential Evolution Based Interceptor Guidance Law
(2013-05-29)Kinematics based guidance laws like the proportional navigation (PN) and many other linear optimal guidance laws perform well in near-collision course conditions. These have been studied thoroughly in the literature from ... -
Effect Of Cross-sectional Nonlinearities On Anisotropic Strip-based Mechanisms
(2013-05-28)The goal of this work is to develop and demonstrate a comprehensive analysis of single and multi-body composite strip-beam systems using an asymptotically-correct geometrically nonlinear theory. The comprehensiveness ... -
Numerical Simulations Of Two-Phase Reacting Flow In A Cavity Combustor
(2013-05-28)In the present work, two phase reacting flow in a single cavity Trapped Vortex Combustor (TVC) is studied at atmospheric conditions. KIVA-3V, numerical program for simulating three dimensional compressible reacting flows ... -
Strength Prediction And Fatigue De-Bond Growth In Bonded Joints In Metallic And Composite Structures
(2013-05-23)Large scale structures such as those in aerospace flight vehicles are made in parts and assembled. Joints are inevitable in these systems and they are potential threats to the structural integrity of the flight vehicles. ... -
Modeling Of Transport Phenomena In Arteries
(2013-05-23)Atherosclerosis is an arterial disease that occurs due to the build-up of lipids, cholesterol and other substances in the arterial wall, collectively called plaque, leading to narrowing of the vessel lumen and, in time, ... -
A Study Of Crystallographic Texture, Residual Stresses And Mechanical Property Anisotropy In Aluminium Alloys For Space Applications
(2013-05-21)Aluminium alloys, which are the most widely used materials in the aircraft and aerospace industries, find their applications due to high strength–to-density ratio, resistance to catastrophic fracture, high degree of ... -
Advanced Simulation Methodologies For Crashworthiness And Occupant Safety Assessment Of An Indian Railways Passenger Coach
(2013-05-21)Accidents involving passenger trains happen regularly in India. The reasons for such accidents could be many; such as weather and flooding, faulty tracks, bridge collapse, collisions caused by signaling errors, mechanical ... -
Study Of The Effect Of Elasticity Of The Added Mass In Mass Sensing Using Resonant Peak Shift Technique
(2013-05-21)Micromachined biosensors are used in chemical and biological applications. A biosensor which uses mass based transduction is called a mass sensor. Mass sensors are used to detect extremely small mass of biomolecules such ... -
Some Critical Issues Pertaining To Deformation Texture In Close-Packed Metals And Alloys : The Effect Of Grain Size, Strain Rate And Second Phase
(2013-05-20)Crystallographic texture in polycrystalline materials are known to play an important role in tailoring suitable properties for various technological applications. In addition, the evolution of texture provides a profound ... -
Reliability And Response Uncertainty Analyses Of Piping And Shutdown Systems Of Nuclear Power Plants Under Seismic Loading
(2013-05-20)Earthquake safety engineering of nuclear power plant structures poses several challenges to the analyst and designer. These problems are characterized by highly transient and dynamic nature of earthquake induced excitations, ... -
Fracture Energy And Process Zone In Plain Concrete Beams (An Experimental Study Including Acoustic Emission Technique)
(2013-05-20)Concrete, which was hitherto considered as a brittle material, has shown much better softening behavior after the post peak load than anticipated. This behavior of concrete did put the researchers in a quandary, whether ... -
Defluoridation Of Drinking Water Using Activated Alumina
(2013-05-20)Excess fluoride (F-) in drinking water poses a health threat to millions of people around the world. In the present work, activated alumina (AA) has been used as an adsorbent. Data obtained from batch experiments were ... -
Novel Finite Element Formulations For Dynamics Of Acoustic Fluids
(2013-05-02)Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) as the name suggests, is the study of dynamic interaction of both fluid and structure motions. Fluid-structure interaction exists in almost all engineering and science fields. Moreover, ... -
Tribology Of An Etched Near-Eutectic Aluminium-Silicon Alloy Sliding Against A Steel Counterface
(2013-05-01)Lightweight aluminium-silicon alloy is an attractive material for making engine cylinders in automobiles. It imparts good power to weight ratio to the engine. High silicon containing aluminium alloys are used in current ... -
A Continuous Optimization Approach To Protein Design With Structural And Functional Constraints
(2013-04-30)We have developed a novel computational approach to functional de novo protein design using gradient based continuous optimization techniques. Motivated by many engineering applications in which a cost function is optimized ... -
Capacity Spectrum Method : Energy Based Approach
(2013-04-29)The capacity spectrum method is a very popular tool in the performance based earthquake resistant design of structures. Though it involves nonlinear static analysis, it can be used to predict the dynamic behaviour of the ... -
System Identification And Control Of Helicopter Using Neural Networks
(2013-04-29)The present work focuses on the two areas of investigation: system identification of helicopter and design of controller for the helicopter. Helicopter system identification, the first subject of investigation in this ... -
Assessment Of Seismic Hazard With Local Site Effects : Deterministic And Probabilistic Approaches
(2013-04-26)Many researchers have pointed out that the accumulation of strain energy in the Penninsular Indian Shield region may lead to earthquakes of significant magnitude(Srinivasan and Sreenivas, 1977; Valdiya, 1998; Purnachandra ...